Wednesday 11th – Friday 13th October 2023

For our group project, we chose the approach of dividing the sound into 4 sections of about 5 seconds, and then planning our own 5 seconds of animation separately. While it was clear that this will lead to a somewhat incohesive piece with a variety of different styles, I don’t think that’s a bad thing. The image we’re creating is of a sort of pond that has various things coming in and out of it, and I think it works to have all those things look and feel different from each other. It creates a kind of magical, fantasy feel to the piece, which is fun to do in stop motion, because you make things happen with real objects that you can’t in live action.

My 5-second section is not dissimilar to what I did on Monday, with a shape going in and out of the water, but this time it’s 3-dimensional. I didn’t intend for that to happen at the start, but it’s always interesting to build on previous ideas and see where else you can take them.