This week we studied different experimental animation landmarks and discussed the practices which breaks traditional narrative and alternative practices.
Conceptual Abstraction
This term relates to the abstraction of narrative structures or storytelling tools, traditional cannons, and communicative vehicles. This term relates to the abstraction and juxtaposition of narrative structures or storytelling tools, traditional cannons, and communicative vehicles.
Interpreting Abstraction
There is an integral link between conceptual application and technological advancement in the innovation of film and in particular, animation.
•Categorisation; Genre & Sub-genre what is the works background / setting, mood / tone, theme or topic?
•Form and Function; interpreting meaning and relating it to the format, or presentational mode
•Process; The techniques, materials and technologies applied within the work and the relationships between message and medium.
•Formal Elements; Use of space/composition, Light & colour, movement, rhythm, timing, pacing, transition and audio relationships.