Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Lucienne Day
Lucienne Day was married to Robin Day and together they helped to transform British design after the second World War, though they used different techniques. Lucienne designed patterns for textiles for things like furnishings, ceramics and interior design while her husband focused on designing modern furniture.
Lucienne Day was a very versatile and influential designer, she was brought up to appreciate the beauty of interior design and she also had a love for plants and nature, something which is clearly visible in her work. She has explored with a range of different working methods and materials such as collage, mono-printing and ceramics.
I researched Lucienne for my summer project and I'm also looking at her for a exercise we have in critical studies. I really like the textures and scribbly patterns that Lucienne creates in her pieces, I shall have to look at her work for references for the Mulberry brief, where we have to design a pattern for a carpet and wall tiles.
The Vicar of Dibley - Geraldine and Darcey Bussell Preform ''The Mirror''
This was a reference me and Katy were going to use for our animation, we created two ballerina figures, one quite clumsy and big and the other graceful and thin. We were going to synchronize them so they mirrored each other like in the clip from the Vicar Of Dibley and add that same sense of humor to the animation (with the clumsy figure not being the best at dancing).
However we ended up not committing ourselves to this idea because we were not sure how to achieve this in the time that we had. Although there was one solution which meant we had to involve ourselves in the video but neither me nor Katy wanted to where ballet dresses or dance so we ruled that out!
Final Animation- Without Sound
This is the 30 second animation me and Katy created. We really enjoyed using the Stop Motion program, as the element of chance was exciting and we were pleasantly surprised by the outcome. We had never produced an animation before and we had no idea what the final clip would look like, so as we learned the process of stop motion we also had the exciting opportunity to watch it all come together.
The objects we used such as the flowers and the ballet shoes work so well , in my opinion at least) as they seem to have a personality. An example of this would be when the shoes kick the the pin cushion, it makes the shoes seem mischievous and cheeky. We were able to give the flowers have that cute quality just by the way we had them move, in particular the way they sort of scuttle away like little children.
Monday, 28 September 2009
Becks - Only Ever Four Steps
I really like the puppet-like animations combined with the human man dancing in this advert. I thought that the dancing animation fitted the song really well and it just seems to gel together perfectly. I thought it was clever that one figure starts off the dancing and the rest gradually join in through the course of the advert.
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