I have spent some time thinking about the best way to introduce the amiatoin. Starting on the timeline itself feels like you are just being thrown in at the deep end without any idea of what is going on. The animation is about history and time, the introdustion begins on a time line, so in keeping to this I looked at works by Salvador Dahli and his melting clocks. This is the sort of thing which should introduce the animaation, it is also a type of branding which could follow the serise which could develop form this one animation.
To introduce the animation a clock face with the title of the animation should melt away to reveal the camera moving along time line. This intro will be created in the same style and colour pallette as the time line scene.
Hi Leanne,
ReplyDeleteI'm really not sure about introducing another visual language into your animation - you're already using a variety of styles and aesthetics - and, as I've expressed before, juggling and integrating those differences will be your biggest challenge; introducing surrealism and Dali is a mistake - I'd suggest; I do appreciate that you need some kind of opener to kick things off - and a clock face may be the way to do it - but perhaps something more immersive and forward moving might suffice - for instance, passing into the clockwork mechanism of a clock and 'out' into the space of the timeline beyond it... but Dali brings with him a whole bunch of associations that are potent and influential in their own right - it's like using music with lyrics, when the lyrics don't synch with the work they accompany...