Experimental Film Tutorial 1

Prior to the tutorial I had spoken to Peter and Poppy (the other members of my group) who had told me they would prefer to do sound design and camera/edit respectively. This works out great because we can all take on the roles we wanted to do!

In the tutorial Dom told us to have fun with ideas - basically do whatever we liked, and spend time forming an idea. He suggested using animation for part of or all of our film, which gave me an idea...

While I was at art college I spent a long time finding that particular "style" or "technique" that I was really good at, and on my very last project I must have found it because I achieved an A grade rather than the Cs and Ds I'd picked up on all the other projects. It was a technique based on the work of Rob Ryan (examples below):

I used his work as an inspiration for my own, which is shown in pieces I made (these are based on his pieces, which you can probably tell):

My own work developed on from this, more into intricacy and away from cartoons:

I want to try and incorporate this technique with stop motion for film (I wanted to do something like it before but I never got round to it). I'm going to try this out with a simple papercut of a leaf/branch. I plan to stick it to a window pane and use my camcorder as a test run - I will roll it up, frame by frame, and then reverse the shots so it looks as if it is growing. I think this will take a while though so I might do it this weekend - I also might play with stop motion with simple objects to find out what I can achieve and how long it will take.