Study Task 5A- Soundtracks

Shahaf Ram- Separation:

• spoken word over a piano piece
• spoken word pace ebbs and flows with the animation and the feel of whats being talked about, manic in places, silent in others
• the music builds up to manic, quick, and tense in the middle then thins out towards the end
• very effective- emotive and raw, simple music used that highlights exactly what you should be feeling and when 

Separation || פרידה (Spoken word by Arik Eber) from Shahaf Ram on Vimeo.



Malcolm Sutherland- Umbra:

• pan pipes make up minimal soundtrack
• also foley sound used- walking footsteps in sand, wind, crackling
• minimal sound echoes the feeling of wide open space and vastness in the video
• the animation is expressive enough so doesn't need lots of sound of speech
• very effective- general melancholy feel, pan pipes sound quite sorrowful and the sounds of wind and static make it feel a little eerie

Umbra (HD - 2010) from Malcolm Sutherland on Vimeo.

Possible Voice Clips

I found this interview with Angela Carter today on youtube, in it she mentions a lot about the writings of her books along with her inspirations and relations between the bloody chamber and the Marquis De Sade. There are a few bits I think might work well in my sting:

• 6:43- "Well, no. Um I mean I don't mind being regarded as the reservoir of ethical truth. But I would like to think it was because of me, not because of my gender. And I would also like to think that people took seriously what I said"
• 4:03- "One of the great dehoteny of western thinking is that you know, mothers are nurturing. So that we still have this horrid shock of surprise when the earth, when mother nature, shows its natural indifference to us"

Study Task 4- Stings

Lilli Carre:

• fuzzy, mono print style
• ambiguous so grabs attention
• like the ambient music and minimal sound effects
• use of type
• evocative 

Like A Lantern by Lilli Carré from Marilyn Zornado on Vimeo.


Grace Nayoon Rhee:

• Short but so effective
• use of limited colour and blue colour palette is evocative
• great simple sound effects- contrast, crackling fire and children playing
• flickery 2 frame animation reflects flickering of flame

Playground on fire from Grace Nayoon Rhee on Vimeo.


Lawrence Becker:

• simple limited colour palette again
• can see how it would be relatively easy to make, long animated image
• not much going on in each frame but they use up all the space so effectively 
• good simple but thoughtful soundtrack used

More: A Stop Motion Short from Lawrence Becker on Vimeo.

Moving Pictures- Proposal

I intend to produce:

• A small sting to advertise a documentary on Carter and her work

The content I will be focusing on:

• Carters bloody chamber writings and imagery
• her own opinions in life
• how the two merge
• a sense of her as a person

I will be aiming to communicate:

• a sense of her and how she was as a person
• her own struggles
• her unintentionally feminist opinions
• something evocative and immediate

The audience will be:

• followers and fans of Carter and her work
• people who enjoy and follow animation
• women/people who enjoy strong characters