We were given the task to recreate the three little pigs story in groups. We decided to begin by watching the story again, allowing everyone to be focusing on the same variation of it. After brainstorming some ideas we decided that the best way to do this in the allocated time would be to use a stop frame animation. We then allocated each person a part of the scene to create and gathered all of the materials we needed. To bring in the book context we thought it would be a good idea to place the scene on top of the open pages of a book. The part of the scene that I had to create was the brick house. To do this I printed out a texture and created a net out of it. This then folded together to create the 3D structure of the house. Once everyone had created their parts of the scene we put them together and began to take photographs. Before going into the final animation we wanted to do a test run to ensure that everything worked smoothly. The final step of the process was to compile the images into premier pro and add see how it turned out. After watching back the animation we decided to add some sound effects. The 3 act structure divides the narrative up into three main parts; the setup, the confrontation and the resolution. In our scene the set up was the scene being introduced on top of an open book, the confrontation is when the wolf blows the first two houses down and attempts to blow the third down, and the resolution is when the wolf tries to go down the chimney but gets burnt and runs away.
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When researching for this project I came across a news article written by Flavio Salsano about how he likes to use shadows to create stories. When put together with his illustrations they create little characters with big personalities. Below are some examples of his work. I liked how he used everyday overacts to create the shadows for his characters then drew on top of the shadows. I wanted to look more into the use of shadows and how I might be able to incorporate them within this project. I came across a book by Megumi Kajiwara and Tathuhiko Nijima entitled Motion Silhouette. In which the reader used a light to cast shadows on various pop outs in the book. This creates a shadow which in turn tells the story. I really liked this book because it is very minimalistic and encourages the reader to interact with it. Whilst looking at the different types of books I came across the work of Jodi Harvey-Brown. She uses the pages from books to create these beautiful sculptures that bring the story to life. Some of her most intricate and most impressive designs are below. I also came across the work of Victoria who create similar sculptures to the ones above. One of her most popular pieces is made from the book The Hobbit and features Smaug the dragon and a miniature Bilbo Baggins. The idea of making a book come to life is one that I wanted to experiment with for this project. To do this I took a well known story and illustrated over some of the pages. The book I chose to do this with was Of Mice and Men and to choose what the illustration would be I read the page and picked out what I thought were the main points/subjects. Below are some of the pages that I illustrated on.
The Cambridge English Dictionary defines a book as 'A written text that can be published in printed or digital form.' This is a definition that I don't completely agree with. I feel that a book can take many forms. Picture books such s flick books don't fit into this definition. However Ulices Carrión defines a books as a 'sequence of spaces'. Definition that I think is more fitting.
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