Atrocity Exhibition: Production Diary 19-25 March

Monoprints

This week I have compiled a looping animated texture with the abstract movement of mono printed textures. In mono print, the printed outcomes would have grains reminds me of the TV static. I could imagine the mono print aesthetic will work well with the overarching theme of media saturation.

Some samples of the prints:

stencil samples

animated textures

circle from scraping

wheels print from scraping

grains and scratches

pool water from scraping

Atrocity Exhibition: Production Diary 12-18 March

We did some experiment with the materials we have found so far before starting production. Some experimentations which I have tried this week include editing video montage and rotoscoping on found footages. Overall, I am not pleased with the outcome of the different experiments because I still could not find a way to connect these unrelated moving images to my interpretation of the book content.

Aside of looking for a better way to incorporate found footages, I am going to incorporate the film scratching techniques - which I have learnt from a direct-on-film animation workshop from my COP 3- for the texture library. Textures are based on the impression of driving a car; and conveys the sensation of speed. During the process, I accidentally melted the film reel by putting it on top of my radiator at home. Therefore, the film reel were stuck together and when pulled out, parts of the film are ripped and damaged. Thankfully the damage is not that big of a deal and I can still use parts of the film which are still in good condition after being pulled apart.

Film Textures

Film Textures

YCN Brief: Art Fund - Submission

Pitch summary

• social media video campaign with a dark comedic twist
• narrative takes inspiration from the humble daily struggle of drawing
• tagline: 'Just £5 with more felines to watch'
• Low-budget medium: ink, collage and paper cutouts
• Gibberish sounds enhance the attention-grabbing surreal aesthetic
• Postcard designs to be given out to university students during freshers week from individual frames of our cat illustrations.

Password to access video: feline

ArtFund: So Much Feline, So Little Time from Brenda Christie Muliawan on Vimeo.

Screenshot of our YCN submission

Strength:
Galuh and I are able to stay passionate throughout the process due to our approach to this brief is to work loosely based on themes proposed by ArtFund instead of being too fixated with the brief. We successfully took a simple concept, and achieved a unique and more polished aesthetic in the animation. I feel that this is the strongest collaboration piece I have done so far.

Weakness:
Advertising message could be more clearly presented: The parodic scene in the end is jarring.

Atrocity Exhibition: Artbook Illustrations

Tom and I set ourselves to do 5-pages illustrations each for the screen-printed zines. Below is our rationale:

• to explore key themes
• to set the style - consider composition of the illustrations and experimenting with different media for the animation
• to collect collage materials - scans of old postcards, magazines and collectibles from Tom's dad and archiving free copyright images from the internet

My illustrations:

Landscape, posture and geometry

(double page) political figure as sex icon

Landscape, car and sexual psychopathology

advertising billboard and saigon execution

Screenprinted outcome:

Atrocity Exhibition: Key Themes for Music

We hasn't set a style for the animation yet as we just started making the zine illustrations. However, we've got our rough idea for the music which will be a bed of industrial ambient music to with overlap of sound from newsreels, documentaries and instructional videos we found from archive.org within the themes of:

• 1960s celebrity culture and politicians 
• sexual fetish
• machines
• landscapes
• auto-disasters
• war
• space race 

Tom has kept in touch with Walter from LCOM whom we met last Monday. He said he is keen to compose our music because he enjoyed making experimental tracks. We agreed to send Walter some samples of the sound from footages we have been collating to make his work easier.