Revised Final Video

Revised Final

Great animations consist of,...

Animation has a always been a huge part of my life, due to the fact that I grew up watching animation programs as a child of course. I was always interested in watching cartoons from the 20's, 30's, 40's you name it. Till this day I enjoy watching classics, and they never get old (no pun intended.) If I as a child would have know that some of those cartoons had historical content I would be so impressed much more than I would now.


Having John Canemaker screen his shorts and talk about it afterwards was such a great experience. Some things that I was able to relate to what we had spoken about in class, was the editing of the shorts, as well as the continuity of the audio and visuals.The way Canemaker combined both audio and visuals in Confessions of a star-dreamer was well done. He had a combination of of various forms of media in making the animations; however, the media blended well with each other. Another thing that was mentioned that had shown I was able to comprehend because it was discussed in lecture was the pauses and breaks with in the short.


This brings me to the other short The Moon and The Son, and how the editing was also very important to the piece in both being able to follow the story, and telling the story successfully. The transitions between the stock footage, and archived videos incorporated into the animation was wonderfully done that it is barely noticeable. the combination of both audio and visual was so well put that that short has a left an imprint in my mind, the sound effects and the correlation of shapes to the words was just amazing.


I was finally able to understand why and how our projects were supposed to work. The combination of both documentary, and narrative it a difficult task, because one goes in not knowing anything about filming. or editing, or putting together a story well, It inspired me, and definitely got me more interested in Animation.

Note For Next Time,...

I would like to start off by saying this was the most interesting project I've ever worked on. With that being said I would have to say that I had up as well as downs in the process of making this project. When I initially started the project I was not too thrilled about it. I thought it was going to be the same concept as 150, but to my surprise It was nothing like 150 at all. Since I was not too intrigued by the project I lacked in organizing myself, and I had a lot of difficulty in creating a storyboard whether it was drawn or written. I also learned that something might not go as you planned.


When I first interviewed Angie My intention with the interview was to go in a completely different direction than I intended. the questions that I had originally written down got lost in the abyss of books and papers in my room. I had to improvise, and pretty soon that interview became more of a conversation between friends and where I was getting to know her more in depth, and my subject had changed without me realizing.


When it came time to editing I had to turn a 13 minute interview to something short, simple, and to the point, but keep as interesting as possible. Once I felt comfortable working with final cut it made life so much easier in putting the story together, and before I know it I was infatuated with editing and further creating and visualizing the story. The time seemed to fly by, and I felt like it would never get done in time.


Having to search for online content, and have a restriction on what I could shoot and where was a challenge, but it made me bring out more of my improvisational creative skills (to say the least.) I had done things in this project that I have never done nor would have done if it was not for this project.

Against The Status Quo Final

The theme of my video would have to be going against the norms that society puts on us to be our own person. enjoy!