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 If I as a child would have know that some of those cartoons had historical content I would be so impressed much more than I would now.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.
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