Won’t be updated till early July.

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Yup… I know I’ve written empty promises (not by choice, I must add) but if what I think is going to happen, happens… this site will fully be updated with a bunch of sketches and all the animations I’ve done this year at on or before July 7th…

If it isn’t updated by that time, well… chances of this blog being updated is almost never going to happen unfortunately.

Animatic Final(?)

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vN7E2WE23cp3zWrSvLC-Jr6OTbeJimmA/view?usp=sharing

Okay, like I mentioned, the irl event that happened in the last month made this really difficult to work with… if I had the chance (and time) I would’ve scrapped this and worked on another piece but that wasn’t feasible so I had to make do with this.

I don’t know what to say about this other than I am not happy about it… heck, I dont think I’ve been happy with my animatics so far… I think the only one that made me happy and think ‘YES, I DID THIS!’ was my very first animatic back in year one… I dunno, I felt so proud when I did that…

I wish to recapture that feeling again, maybe in future animatics.

‘Uncle’s wife’ costume idea

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WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IMAGES AND VIDEO COULD BE SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE SPLIT… IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON WATCHING THE MOVIE… TURN BACK NOW… YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

 

Somewhere in my animatic, the MC mentions that his uncle’s wife came to take him to lagos, while the rest of the characters in the animatic aren’t wearing anything (not naked! God forbid… er… think of something like we bare bares… they dont wear anything but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are naked, right? Anyway, enough of this)

I wanted the uncle’s wife to… I dunno, stand out with an outfit so I was thinking something similar to Patricia from the movie Split. I just liked the way she dressed and her whole personality.

If the ‘uncle’s wife’ could speak, I would model her after Patricia.

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Documentary Film Critical Portfolio

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This is a shorter version of the document I sent.

1. Summarize your Film Project as if it was finished in one or two sentences.
Mention subject, form (narrative, doc, experimental), technique, stylistic approach.
For example:
A doc film about the treatment of elderly people in homes, using interviews of nurses
and managers. Made in stop motion, animating ‘home food’, furniture, medical paraphernalia etc. as characters.
This is a documentary film about my father and his struggle through life from his childhood
to his adult years made with traditional 2D animation using very simple designs as
characters.

2. Modes of Documentary

Describe WHAT you will do next, to concretely put these Modes into practice.
I plan on using the Expository Mode, Observational Mode and possibly the participation mode during my project. I believe the expository mode will be the most helpful because it’s a traditional interview me interviewing my father while he talks about the most difficult parts of his life.
The Observational mode will be useful because I hope to visually capture some
sights on how the world would have been like back in those times through imagination and some research.
I am possibly thinking of using participatory mode because I feel like I could be an important part in the story because he talks about me a lot… this is something I am debating about.
3. Watch as many documentary films as you can. Spend time on this, looking for films that capture your interest and imagination.
List the titles + author of 3 Documentary Films that you find inspiring for your project because of their FORM or APPROACH to their subject.
30% Women and Politics in
Sierra Leone
Anna Cady, Emily Copper 2012
What is Fufu
Martin Orton, Greg Villalobos 2009
Velocity
Karolina Glusiec 2012
4, Analyse these films. Describe the FORM and their use of MODES. Explain WHY you find them effective and what you will borrow from them.
30% Women and Politics in Sierra Leone: This documentary is shockingly like how I
envisioned my documentary to be like, it’s even better since it’s base in Africa but the methods are different from how I expect mine to be like. In the documentary, I do not know the term for it but when the women are talking about what they went through/their experiences, it was in some sort of painting animation and when they are focusing on the women, which is the traditional expository mode, it’s done through live action.
I find this effective as it lets us differentiate from fact and fiction as for all we know the painted sections of the documentary could be imaginative where as the live action sections feel real, a fact because we see real people on our screen. What I would possibly borrow from this documentary is the way the filmmaker differentiates between fact and fiction with the changes between live action and the animation.
What is Fufu: I really like the style of this
documentary; the character designs might be different from how I would like mine to be like but the simplicity is what I strive to achieve. I believe this documentary uses the performative mode because the filmmaker(?) is talking about their own experiences on the events, is a character in the animation and it doesn’t ‘feel’ like a traditional documentary to me.
I want to use this type of mode in some parts of my documentary, preferably when my father talks about his experiences during his early life, I also want to take in to account the way the filmmaker used metamorphosis in their animation because I believe it will really fit the way I want my documentary to go.
Velocity: This documentary really took me by surprise. I have been trying to find ways to make my documentary as simple as possible but this… this documentary is so simple I am baffled by it… in a good way by how it’s able to communicate effectively… I would even go far to writing that this is an animated documentary in its simplest form and it’s making me question things now because of how simple it is. It has no colour just simple 2D line art. It is done, in my opinion, in observational mode because we just see the scenes pass by and the narrator is narrating what’s happening in the scenes.
What I am going to take from this documentary is its simplicity. I love it.