Atrocity Exhibition: WE ARE SO DONE!

We have finished all the scenes and have done all the necessary post-production for the film. I am really pleased seeing everything comes together nicely!

Tom and I have a brilliant idea of having a mini exhibition for the animation at Hyde Park Book Club, LS6 cafe or any other exhibition space in LS6 area. Hopefully we could find a space to have an exhibition for our animation. After all, it is an art to be celebrated and incite discussion.

Atrocity Exhibition: Production Diary 30 April-6 May

Climax scene:

• War landscapes (Vietnam, cuba): 'new alphabet of sensation and violence'
• Black and white brutal contrast
• Ending: loops back to the beginning cloud scene

Crit 3:

• sound rupture for climax; audio visual assault, make B&W and colour image blinks slightly out of sync
• get the frames to be printed on 16mm film and played on film projector for exhibition? costly and needs to be outsourced! (http://www.videofilmsolutions.com/digital-intermediates--printing)

we've thought about a more lengthy, cheaper, but feasible alternative: Project film with a HQ projector, record it with film camera (Tom's got a film reel and he is thinking of buying a Bolex, around £50 on eBay), process the film.

Atrocity Exhibition: Production Diary 23-29 April

Doomsday machine:

• swift action sequence about chemicals, scientific procedures and vehicles assemblage
• transition from car crashes into WW3 conspiracy
• media: acrylic paint on film reel with digital editing
• found out that acrylic paint sets on the film surface
• The painted films are scanned using a negative scanner

learning points:

• visually communication through montage editing
• manipulate transition between frames (read a bit of analysis of Dziga Vertov's The Man with the Movie Camera)
• criss crossing between shapes of the moving images.
• effective pacing: straightforward shots > quicker; more detailed shots > longer

Process: painting on film

sexual fetish: stroking pelvis / operating a machinery

setting the scene for car chase scene

setting up the act for a car chase

(race)car chase

Launch: jumpcut transition to Tom's moon-landing scene

Audio & Exhibition Plan

Tom has created the audio for crit 2, and it is well received by the class. Ben complimented the audio for giving coherence to the animation and suggested that we should really think of how we are going to exhibit the animation as well. We had a thought about setting up a CRT TV set which will play the animation on loop in a secluded room.