final project response

After today's critique, I am going to combine idea #1 (random thoughts when I play Chopin) with #2 (go into a dream world of myself.) I am going to use hand drawing like style to create this video similar to the "My First Crush" video we watched ...swifting colors and line weight to give a more rough/loose look.

The next step: I will need to figure out how exactly this video is going to flow and create storyboard based on that.

Final Proposal

1) Random thoughts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY4Epc2XSGc
I really like their idea to have some weird yet very interesting animation matching the voice over. I want to build a video similar to that but the theme will be on some of my random thoughts when I play/listen/talk about Chopin's music. Aesthetically, it'll be created with some strange and loose graphics and I also want to use a few different pieces of Chopin to represent the mood of my thoughts.

2) Gone into the dream world
http://www.pixelnitrate.com/movie.php?movie=papiroflexia

I watched the above video on origami... really like the aesthetics (textures and flat characters) and the flow of the video..
So I want to build a video of a female character in her bedroom, drinking coffee.. she looked down on the stream of the coffee and that brought her into the dream world of Chopin (music notes and maybe dance with him etc)


3) A flower's journey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S4hNMqDhoo
THis video is very well done. I like the similar black and white line drawing quality so maybe I'll create a video that shows the bloom of a flower via line drawing, matching the speed of one of Chopin's piece.

Assignment 4

I followed the instructions to create a list of words related to my research topic and then using those words to create some really odd sentences. I feel that these sentences are barriers because they are kind of strange. I chose the colors pink (romance), blue (night time and sky), etc to match the meaning of the sentences (if any) and tried to use the mini-animation to replicate them.

I think I am a bit stuck and didn't do very well for this assignment... I am a bit confused -- am I supposed to use images to do the animation or just text? Regardless I finished the assignments...

Assignment 4 b

Feeling Sad in the evening vanish into the melody
Curly children dance delicate reabsorbed into a broken pearl
Writer's passion missing the poet
Purple sound concretes the past
Lonely love evokes harmony unassured

Assignment 4

night
sad
purple
flower
blue
evening
classical
romantic
soft
technique
piano
pianissimo
petal
glass
concrete
music
Poland
mazuka
nocture
ballard
ppianist
sick ill
tuberculosis
warsaw
sonta
poloniass
artist
poet
prodigy
lizst
weak
admire
george
sand
writer
curly wavy
pleyel
dance
childhood
lonely
solitude
delicate
autumn
October
past
old time
traditional
flow
sound
hesitate
measures
unassured
harmony
evoke
feelings
soul
pearl
broken
pure beauty
innocent
inspirtation
passion
love
sad
missing
bears
children
dance
silent
hide and seek
vanish
melody
delight
ample
splendid
simple
reduction
black
feminine
sentimental
famous
negative
rabbit
cruel
reality
enjoyment

Assignment 3

I experiment different type effects and fonts in this assignment. I attempt to use different colors to deliver the same meaning as the words (yellow = happy, purple = seduction, etc.) I enjoyed using the text animator more than the path text effect since it gives me more control.

Brainstorm

I am considering to use a soft, cursive script fonts to describe Chopin's music because his music is soft and music is a very personal matter (hand writting font.) It'll be only black and white staying the same color scheme with the piano keys. I am going to pull out some of the critics and comments on his music from the books I borrowed from the library.

Artist Essay

I think I am going to write my essay on Katsumi Asaba mainly because he is asian and did some work on Chinese characters. Also I have seen his advertising work on Seibu and not to mention I am a big fan of Nissan's food!

Assignment 2 v 2

I added some more music notes in the begining per suggestions and changed the design of the gear a little bit in attempt to make the mechanical machinework better. Also edited the way Chopin animates... he kind of dance like Michale Jackson now.. lol.