On Monday we finished our frame sequences and I have attached my results below.
We then looked at ‘materiality’ and explored the physical properties of paper to create animated effects. We looked back at other experimental pieces and not much stood out to me other than materials creating interesting textures. It is not something I am considering looking too in depth into. However I also don’t want to actively remove materiality. As I have been looking into scans and photocopies as a medium, I would like to take advantage of textures caused by chance when using paper.
We spent Wednesday doing tests based on everything we had done so far. To be honest I got quite frustrated as I was struggling for ideas and the few things I did try were not working out. I printed out some scans I made as I had not been able to collect many scraps from the printers at university. First I took pictures of pages I liked in series, and looked for patterns to follow, but everything felt disjointed and it wasn’t inspiring anything for me.
Then I looked at the waves created by the negative space in the scans and thought that could animate well.
I decided to cut the pages up up to make the images even more abstract and I noticed several prints had sweeping black lines that crossed the pages like brushstrokes. I started taping the pieces together to make waves out of those patterns and tried photographing them in sequence but it still wasn’t animating the way I wanted.
Unfortuntely, these photographed more like a live action, frame-y film, rather than distonct frames that animated.
On Friday we started off looking at sound in experimental animation. I missed the beginning of the class, however when watching Stuart Hilton’s Six Weeks in June, I started thinking about analog audio manipulation, inspired by the lines and shapes I was focusing on during my tests on Wednesday. I wanted to record audio on a cassette and then physically scratch lines onto the tape. We then went out to record a minute each of ‘ambient sound’sounds of silence’.
I recorded from the inside of a locker on the underground floor of the media building. I really liked the echo-y ambient noise.
After that we spent the session doing some housekeeping and making sure our tests so far have been put together, and I also wrote this post.