motion|sound

Finally finished! (although I plan to revisit this and fix it up at a later date)

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My idea for this piece centered around the spontaneity of daydreams, and monotony of a scheduled routine. The idea of monotony seemed very relevant considering the project was to be based on a loop; although there are many exceptions, a loop by nature suggests the repetition of the same thing over and over again.

My biggest fixation is dreaming. I’m an avid dreamer, and i found that the contrast between the routine of my normal schedule and the exciting & unexpected breaks that come when i begin to daydream was good material to talk about in this project. On a larger sense, I wanted to talk about the importance of dreaming, especially to fellow creatives. We usually come up with our best ideas while asleep, and so it’s a shame that we’re not really taught how to dream, or how to make the most of our dreams.

The various shades of grey used in my rotoscoping helped to keep the loop consistent, and also provided greater contrast when the colourful drawings were added on top. I chose to begin the loop with seemingly “boring”, yet indescript sounds so the viewer could experience the emotion, without being told what is literally happening in the frame. A happier melody accompanies the playful drawings in the second part of the loop which i thinks works well to give the viewer a sense of easy-goingness.

Although I’ve had copious amounts of trouble with practically every stage of this project, i’m fairly happy with the way it turned out…especially the rotoscoped movie. I think the pride i feel when looking at the raw rotoscoped file is well worth the effort it took to produce it (in retrospect of course!)

more about “Project 3, Loop » Dreaming is Better“, posted with vodpod

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♥ md