Introduction to Animation – You Are Here Project

What I am?

What I am? Where do I belong? What do I want to be? What do I aim to become? The questions keeps going on… For everyone else, maybe I’m just a girl who likes to draw. But nobody knows my true identity and my actual thinking behind.

Everyone in this world has a different thinking and understanding process. The joy, the sadness, the excitement and the anger changes in ratios and aspects for each person. Some people may express it more deep and vividly, while some does not show any clue of their emotions at all. These simple yet important factors in human nature matters a lot to me. But how?

I remark myself as an observer. I observe people and their emotions and try to collect information of everything little by little. Every small aspect and emotion can derive me to create something new. This can be anything possible. For example; a character drawing or such. But why do I keep on observing to create something?

I choose this particular way because my main aim in this world is to create the impossible. I believe that I can achieve this by exploring everything around me. I always aim to search through different sources of information and by thinking outside of my box. I frequently try to challenge myself throughout different aspects to create something unique. This is how I explain “Me”.

Object Activity

As our first task, we have been asked to create a Padlet that is related to objects. We needed to put 6 objects in total which had a meaning to us. As for my objects, I have chosen “Iphone, Computer, Drawing tablet, Fairy Figure, Chopsticks”. These objects are the most important ones for me because they are all related to my communication & my interests.

A better explanation of my objects:

• My computer: This is the most important object out of all because I complete my school works, my artworks and play games in my PC.

• Fairy Figure: This figure represents my inner fantasy mind. I’ve grown up watching shows like W.I.T.C.H, Winx and even now I love to watch fantasy stuff which includes fairies, witches, magic spells etc.

• My Iphone: My main source of communication. 

• Chopsticks: This object represents my fascination with Japan. Since my childhood my love for Japan didn’t change. One day, I want to live in Japan.

• Drawing Tablet: This object is what I can’t live without. I always draw and complete my artworks with this tablet.

• Suitcase: Since my childhood, I’ve been travelling everywhere around the world.

My padlet page: https://artslondon.padlet.org/lcapa01201911/ts5vgfg67hk6fx2

As for our second task before getting into our project, we have been asked to create a Padlet page again. But this time instead of objects, we had to contain drawings or pictures of the people that had an importance to us.

I didn’t draw anything for this one because I didn’t have any ideas of how to make it entertaining. I also thought that it would be really good if I added pictures rather than drawings because I always draw on a daily basis. So, I wanted to make a change for myself with posting pictures of them rather than drawing.

The people I have chosen are the ones who are the closest to me. They are; “My mother, My dad, My boyfriend, My grandma, My Grandmother, My Grandpa”.

A better explanation of the people which I have chosen:

• My Mother: I love her more than everything. She is not just my mother but also my best friend, my sister and my reason to still keep fighting towards everything.

• My Dad: Just like my mother, I love him more than anything. I really miss to play games and build amazing things out of legos back when I was a child.

• My Boyfriend: He has become my world since the 10th of February, 2018. I love him more than anything!

• My Grandma: She is like my second mother. Next to my grandpa, She has taken care of me in my childhood.

• My Grandpa: He is a really important person in my life. He has contributed a lot in my growth.

• My Grandmother: I cannot see her very often as my other parents because she lives far from our home in Istanbul. But I still love her so much!

My Padlet page: https://artslondon.padlet.org/lcapa01201911/u5o7f0i5gh132kth

Cultural Identity

Culture is the shared characteristics of a group of people, which encompasses , place of birth, religion, language,  cuisine, social behaviors, art, literature, and music. Some cultures are widespread, and have a large number of people who associate themselves with those particular values, beliefs, and origins. The culture encourages and adapts people’s behaviours and the way they grow up. When people meet up with different people from different cultures, they have the opportunity to reflect and showcase what they are made of and where do they came from.

Reference:

• National Geographic, Cultural Identity, Available at: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/topics/resource-library-cultural-identity/?q=&page=1&per_page=25 (Accessed: 15th Nov 2020)

As our next task, we have been asked to create a Padlet under the topic “Cultural Identity”. For me, culture becomes one with these; Peace, Unity, Food, Helping Others.

• Peace: I believe peace is also very important in the meaning of culture because a culture should only stand up with the power of peace.

• Unity: I believe unity is an important aspect when it comes to culture. Every people around the culture should become together as one.

• Helping Others: I believe by helping other people around your culture, you can make it stronger.

• Food: I believe that food is an important aspect of culture. The reason of this is that it is unique to every culture and by this way people can identify where you belong to.

As for my last aspect, I have chosen a quote to resemble what I think about the meaning “Cultural Identity”.

• A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.  – Marcus Garvey

My padlet page: https://artslondon.padlet.org/lcapa01201911/kurxk506zo8wqozf

15 Second Video

Moving on, we were asked to create a 15 second’ video about the meaning of “Here” for us. I was quite unsure what to do at first glance, but then I have decided to take shots of what I do in a daily basis. I have decided that the things which I do on a daily basis actually covers up the meaning of “here” to me. The reason of this is because while doing these actions, I remember that I am here.

My “Here” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjL8eTDL2CU&feature=youtu.be

A Significant Place In Your Life

As we were debating in our online class, we had a small task to do. The task was about mapping the “significant place” from our memories. We were asked to create a map and answer several questions about it. As for my own map, I have decided to draw my first house’s map from my memory and labelled my house with a star as a point.

What Is the Significance?: The significance of Ata Olgac Street for me is that it is the place where I started to grow up and live my life. I am still living in the same house in Istanbul.

Where Does The Place Begin and End?: The Street begins in a hilltop and ends at the beginning of the stairs, which is connecting to the seashore.

Sound & Motion in Animation

Animation and sound together can be depicted as a whole. They are just like a harmony if used together. Animation is the main sequence of motion and sound is the guide to it. By motioning it in the right way, the animator can give every aspect of information to the audience. And by using the right sounds in the right time, the animator can express the right feelings within the frame.

Tim Macmillian – Ferment(1999): This animation was directed by Tim Macmillian in 1999. It is a motion-lapse animation. The camera movements were usually still between the frames which I thought it was an amazing idea to create a concept like this. During the frames, the most recognizable thing was the sounds. There were sounds of people screaming, animals, classroom noise etc. The sounds were really remarkable overall. I have really enjoyed watching this animation as I thought it was really impressive in the way of camera movements and the sounds.

Reference:

• Animate Projects Archive, Ferment, Available at: http://animateprojectsarchive.org/films/by_date/1999_2001/ferment (Accessed: 27th Nov 2020)

Jonathan Hodgson – Feeling My Way(1997) In this particular animation, Jonathan Hodgson captured his way from home to work in a dynamic animation. The animation itself is really abstract and includes different types of work collaborated together. The animation is a mixture of live-action footage with painterly animation work and collages on top of the footage. There are different sounds occuring within each frame, but the most recognizable and the stable sound throughout the video is the walking sound. I really loved how Jonathan Hodgson captured and played with each frame of this animation. Overall, it looks fantastic and I feel like I can watch this forever.

Reference:

• Vimeo – Jonathan Hodgson(2011) , Feeling My Way(1997) Available at: https://vimeo.com/32255983 (Accessed: 27th Nov 2020)

The Brothers McLeod – Marfa(2017) This animation is completely based on sound. It is based on a town called “Marfa”, which is located on the borderlands of Texas. The visuals were hand drawn based on the sounds. Most of the time there were people talking and the visuals were changing according to what they say. I have founded this animation ultimately creative and distinguishable from what I have encountered so far.

Reference:

• Vimeo – The Brothers McLeod(2017) Marfa, Available at: https://vimeo.com/288702427 (Accessed: 27th Nov 2020)

Field Work

As our next task, we have been asked to go out around our neighbourhood for a fieldwork. Our aim is to capture everything around our neighbourhood and then create a map out of it. These can be buildings, objects, the conversations between two people, the smell etc. For this activity, I have created a 10 cm wide paper frame in order to capture scenes. After I have finished my frame, I have went out from my dorm room. First of all I have captured the scene around my dorm.

After I have captured this scene, I have sketched it through my sketchbook. I have also wrote down every single aspect like time, the smell around the place. After I have created the lineart, I have decided to colour it on my computer, using a drawing tablet. At first, I thought that I would colour it traditionally but then I have changed my mind and coloured it digitally to add some material iterations to it.

Moving on, I have taken the second frame after walking a while. This area was a bit more loud compared to the first one as there were more people talking. I have again sketched it and completed it back at home. I have also coloured this one digitally using a drawing tablet.

As for my last scene, I have found a unique scene which I believe was a church. The shapes around the building was really fascinating. I have sketched it while looking at it and then completed the lineart back at home. Coloured it digitally.

Mapping Process

As for my last step, It is time for me to create a map out of the things I have observed in this fieldtrip. I have used a map of my neighbourhood and put my pictures & drawings on top of the map. I really liked how the final product is looking as it looks really abstract.

Words & Stories

As for today’s lecture, we had the chance to check out words and stories as a whole. Our tutor also had asked us to write a short story for our homework which is about 10 to 50 words in total. As for my short story, I have decided to reflect my inner self by writing a fantasy story. I have wrote down a story which is about a land which absorbs dark magic inside but after the queen and the king gets married to each other, the land itself gets cleaned by the dark magic. At the end, the land gets filled up with joy and love.

My Short Story: Once upon a time, there was a land filled with dark magic. But after the queen and the king got married, the darkness across the land disappeared. Everyone got filled with joy and love. The whole land was reunited and got escaped from the dark magic.

I have also uploaded my story onto my Padlet.

My Padlet Page: https://artslondon.padlet.org/lcapa01201911/xwuun6fgee1w1r6v

After I have shared my story with the class and my tutor, we have separated onto groups of 2-3. This time, our aim was to change our stories into words. We had to find these words from other people’s short stories. I have separated with Polina and Sheryl and used Sheryl’s words which are associated with her story. These words were;

• dead street
• Afternoon minutes
• dead sister

I have then mixed these words with the words which I have used in my story:

• “dead sister of the dead street”
• “darkness filled the whole land”
• “reunitement and joy”
• “the joy vanished the darkness”

The outcome was really different than which I have designed. The words which I have picked up from Sheryl’s story made my concept really different.

After we have completed this activity, we have discussed about writers which are Raymond Carver, David Gaffney and Dougal Dixon. We have talked about their usage of words, which I thought it was really interesting as a whole. After this activity, we have looked at words. We have mainly discussed the usage and types of words. Some of these are typography, fonts, short stories, books, poems etc.

Sound

The term “Sound” is very universal and it is the thing we hear every second. A life without sound would be so empty in every aspect. There are also different types of sounds that we hear in our daily lives. These are;

• Mechanical Sounds
• Natural Sounds(Indoors & Outdoors)
• Vehicles
• Footsteps
• Rustling Leaves
• Colliding Objects
• Cooking
• Pinching
• Splashing
• Taps
• Lifts
• Doors

And the list continues to go on until forever.

Ambience

Ambience is the thing which creates and builds up the area. It can also be referred as the “background” tone. It is a fusion of many small and indistinct sounds that build up to become a blended whole. Some examples are;

• Hospital Corridor
• A city traffic junction
• A modern kitchen
• Festival at dawn

Music

Music is around us for a very long while. It has the power to build up serotonin through our brains and our body. Each person has its’ own distinct choice of genres. We hear music from cars, shops, other people’s headphones, neighbours gardens, apps, games etc…

Form and Content

Under the topic “Introduction to Animation”, we are aimed to create or form something which explains and describes our inner selves. This can be a book, a zine, or even something which is totally different like a shape of apple. But the most important thing about this project is that it needs to be about ourselves and what we are all about.

For this project, I have thought about creating a pop-up book which reflects myself. I will use different materials for this project and I want my book to be completely interactive with the user. I want to reflect what I am all about.

Map Animation

After we have learned every aspect of sounds, ambience, stories, words etc.. the time has come to mix everything that we know into a 20-sec animation/video. This activity has no right or wrong so it is directly up to ourselves.

For this activity, I have decided to go with a stop-motion animation video. The reason behind this is that I’m not around my neighbourhood right now so I can’t go out and take actual footage. Moving on, I have started to brainstorm about what can I create after I have decided upon the stop-motion decision. A short while later, I have had this brilliant idea about frame-by-frame taking pictures around my neighbourhood through Google Maps. Since Google Maps has the tool to really show how it is really like around the streets etc. I got this activity quickly covered up.

After I have taken pictures frame-by-frame, I have decided to paint some of the images in an abstract way. I was inspired by the short-videos which our tutor has suggested for us. The time when I was done with the painting process, I have started to search sounds for my stop-motion animation video. During my field-trip, I have come across with different sounds through my neighbourhood. These were car noises, wind and a few bird noises in the ambience. To make things exact, I have searched for the sounds effects of what I have encountered when I have gone out for a field-trip.

For the last step, I have uploaded every image onto the program called “Movavi Video Editor”. After I have put everything in sequence, I have combined the images with the sound effects.

I am really happy about how it turned in the end. The animation itself looks really abstract with my brush strokes on top of the images.

The link to my “Map Animation” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r38UyBt7Li4&feature=youtu.be

Information About my Book

As for the book project, I decided to create a “Zine” type book. This Zine which I’ll be making will include everything about myself, including my inner side. It is going to be 12 pages in total. My aim is to give a lot of details about myself in such a short amount of space.

I really want to reflect what I am truly made of.

History of Zines

(Chloe Arnold,(2016) Since the 1930’s, Zines have been a very popular cultural traditional all around the world. Started with ”The Comet” in 1930, in a Science Correspondence Club in Chicago. The topic of this zine was about sci-fi and its topic lasted for a long time in the zine industry. Then, in 1943 a zine called ”Fantasy Commentator” started and became the most important Sci-fi zine(Ended in 2004) 

After a while, in 1967 the sci-fi zines got even more popular with the outcome of the Startrek fanzine ”Spockanalia”. It gained a lot of attention which even the famous actors like D.C Fontana, James Doohan, Deforest Kelley, Leonard Nimoy wrote their own letters in character. Besides its popularity, Star Trek was aiming to finish the show after 2 seasons but a letter campaign through the fanzines, 160.000 people was able to get the show back for about 1 year more.

Around the ’70s, zines got a lot of easier for the zine-makers to produce, because of the technology’s development. In addition to technology, copy shops also allowed zine-makers to sell their works for a cheap price. In 1970s, sci-fi zines got more shallow and ”Punk” zines started to show its identity in London, New York and L.A. Comparing Punk zines to other ones, punk had a more grungy, more aesthetic background which a lot of topics were being covered. The first punk zine to get released was the UK based ”Sniffin’ Glue” zine. The first issue was published in 1976. Other famous punk zines were ”The Clash, The Ramones, Joy Division” etc. The popularity of other zines which helped punk zine to get in the scene also got finished after a while.

From 1970-1990 zines’ popularities diminished a bit, but flourished again with the publishing of ”Riot Grrrl”. As an alternative to the male-punk scene in the past, Riot Grrrl helped girls to start their own bands, their own zines and get their voices to get heard through the community. Bands like ”Bratmobile, L7, Sleater-Kinney etc got in the scene and around 40.000 zines got published with the help of ”Riot Grrrl”. But according to some, Riot Grrrl was more than just a zine, it was a feminist movement, a political act. Many of the band groups’ members had their own zines. In 1993, Riot Grrrl started to get published in magazines rather than zines.

Today, zines are like nothing compared to the past, the topics are quite different from the past. Unlike the old times, zines now can get accessed through online with the internet. Young artists in our generation also started to publish zines through the internet to the audience.

References: 

• Chloe, A(2016) A Brief History Of Zines. a Available at: http://mentalfloss.com/article/88911/brief-history-zines (Accessed: 17 December 2020)

• Dazed Digital, Tracing The Beginnings Of The Punk Fanzine Available: https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/30999/1/mark-perry-tracing-the-beginnings-of-the-punk-fanzine Accessed At: (17 December 2020)

• Maria J, John T(2014) Spockanalia, The First Star Trek Fanzine Available: https://intl.startrek.com/article/spockanalia-the-first-star-trek-fanzine Accessed: (17 December 2020)

• Olivia, L(2013) The Art And Politics Of Riot Grrrl – In Pictures Available: https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2013/jun/30/punk-music Accessed: (17 December 2020)

Inspirations

As for my inspiration through the making of this project, I have had several artists which has helped me to construct an idea about my book. These artists are mainly Joseph Cornell, Marie Paccou and Simon Evans.

Joseph Cornell

Born in 1903, Joseph Cornell is best known for his illustrative collections, compulsive collecting and the way he gives a connection from himself to the items that he have founded. But what makes Joseph Cornell different from the other artists around the world is that he is always travelling around, but not travelling around the world, he is travelling in his own imaginations and his own ideas. By this particular way, he has mastered how to collect materials inside of different sized boxes. This specialism of him really interested me alongside his collections, which made me want to research him more.

Reference: BBC Culture(2015) Joseph Cornell: The Man Who Put The World In A Box, Available at: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151023-joseph-cornell-the-man-who-put-the-world-in-a-box (Accessed: 18 December 2020)

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Looking at Joseph Cornell’s collections and projects, he managed to create diversity between surrealism and creativity at the same time. Joseph Cornell inspired many artists around the world and opened tons of exhibitions as well.

How did I got inspired?

Apart from other artists, I have always been keen on researching Joseph Cornell’s artworks. I love that he always experiments different materials with different mediums and is never afraid of trying something different or something that he has never tried before. For this particular project, I got inspired by Joseph Cornell’s collections and decided to document my feather collection which I have collected in my childhood.

Marie Paccou

Marie Paccou is an animator from Clermont- Ferrand in France. She is mostly known for her “flipbook” and “stop motion” animation type videos.

Reference: Vimeo, Marrie Paccou, Available at: https://vimeo.com/mariepaccou (Accessed: 18 December 2020)

Reference: ZippyFrames – ZF Team(2018) A Little Lovin’ by Marie Paccou, Available at: https://www.zippyframes.com/index.php/shorts/a-little-lovin-by-marie-paccou (Accessed: 18 December 2020)

How did I got inspired?

As I was watching her stop motion videos, I instantly got an idea on how to film my book and got ideas about my childhood. Back when I was a child, I used to read a lot of books and sometimes drew on top of them. Then, I have decided to add drawings of my childhood and compare how I changed over the time. I have decided to reflect my artistic journey on my book thanks to Marie Paccou’s animations.

Simon Evans

Simon Evans is the artistic collaboration between Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan. The artists create dense text-based collages saturated with short, poetic phrases, drawings, and images often created from the detritus of everyday life both inside and outside of the studio. They describe a world poised between two poles of earnestness and irony.  With a wry brand of melancholy, Simon Evans™ presents us with a laundry list of drawings that take the form of diagrams, charts, maps, advertisements, diary entries, inventories, and cosmologies that plunge the viewer into alternate states of pathos and hope. 

How did I got inspired?

I was really intrigued by Simon Evans’ artworks as I directly decided to create something similar to his artworks. Inside my book, I have decided to put the stains which are important for me. I have decided to do this way as I thought that it would be a great opportunity for people to gain information about me and my inner self.

References:

• Socks – MariaBruna Fabrizi(2016) ‘Everything I Have’ and Other Works by Simon Evans, Available at: http://socks-studio.com/2016/03/27/everything-i-have-and-other-works-by-simon-evans/ (Accessed: 19 December 2020)

• James Cohan, Simon Evans, Available at: https://www.jamescohan.com/artists/simon-evans?view=slider#16 (Accessed: 19 December 2020)

About Myself

Who Am I??

• I am Turkish

• Granddaughter of immigrants from the Balkans to Turkey

• I am a globetrotter

• I love to travel

• I love summer, sea

• I have been drawing since the day I remember

• I am disciplined,

• Perfectionist

• Ambitious

• I like surprises (The very first question I always asked my mom when she came home from work)

• I am an explorer ( I like to spend time in the nature- forest, beach, island etc.)

• I have a sweet tooth, I always love candies, chocolates and cakes (My mom travelled and she brought me these at all times)

• I Loved to capture moments, I always recorded objects, my nanny, I took pictures of myself, my parents.

What Am I Curious About??

• Mystical things

• Fantasy Characters

• Witches

• Superheros

• Magic

• Fairies

• Rainbows

• Super Powers

What Is Important To Me? Why?

• My Work

• My Family

• My Boyfriend

Book Making Process

After I have researched about several artists and formed my ideas about what I’ll be making as my book, I have started to build it up. I have decided my book to be very experimental in terms of the materials which I’ll be using. So, I have used materials like magazines, newspapers, photographs and coloured papers.

As for the beginning process, I have started with making my book from scratch. I have searched for some tutorials but ended up using my own techniques and methods. Since our book is supposed to be 12 pages long, I have first started off with creating the cover and the back cover of the book with folding a hard paper. Then, for the inside of the book, I have folded 6 different coloured papers onto 2 and put stuck them together. As for the last step, I have merged everything together and built up my zine book.

Inside of the book

Because this whole book project is a guide about ourselves, I have decided to make my book title “Me N Myself“. “Me” equals to the person who you see and “Myself” equals to my inner self. As for my cover page, I have decided to create a small drawing of myself, without colouring it. The main reason behind this is because I show my inner colours to people after a while later. Before people get to know me, I reflect them my unknown side to them. If someone tries to get close to me and I know that they are good inside, I reflect my true colours to them which are equal to rainbow colours. Since it is the cover page and the reader still hasn’t have a clue about me, he or she needs to turn the page for me to reflect my inner colours.

For the second and the third page of my book, I have decided to create an intro. For this process, I have found several random people from the newspapers and stuck them onto my pages. On top of the newspapers, I have drawn a full-body artwork of myself and stick it to the centre. I have also cut and stuck “Who Am I?” writing on top of the pages.

The whole idea behind this page is to get the reader more excited about what’s going to come next. I have cut all of these people from the newspapers to reflect that they all have a distinct personality inside, which I do too.

Moving on, as for the fourth and fifth pages, I have decided to go deep down to my childhood. My childhood was very bright, I never wanted to grow up. I have travelled around 20 countries including Maldives, Thailand, Innsbruck etc. Since I wanted to include my very best photographs from my childhood, I have searched through my childhood photograph driver. For the fourth page, I have done a collage of my childhood pictures.

At first, I have thought about filling these two pages only with my childhood photographs but then I had a different idea about sketching the toys which were essential in the part of my growth. So, as for the fifth page, I have sketched the toys which I liked the most. These toys were my big baby, my red kangaroo plush, my sheep plush and the angel cards which I have used to play with my mom.

Next, for the sixth and seventh pages, I have decided to introduce my loved ones. These are my mother, my dad, my grandma, my grandpa and my boyfriend. I have printed out their pictures onto glossy paper and stick them to the pages. Since my dad and my mother are the most important two people in my life, I have created sketches of them with me. I have made these sketches by looking through our old pictures. Finally, I have also drawn a picture of me and my boyfriend in my computer. The reason why it is digital is because I wanted to add a different medium to my book.

As for my eighth and ninth book pages, I have created a completely different thing with using different materials and techniques. For my eighth page, I have imported my feather collection which I used to collect in my childhood. This collection is really important for me as it is my very first attempt in collecting things. After my feather collection, I have collected various things like seashells, crystals, rocks etc. I have decided to include my collection after I have researched about the collector artist, “Joseph Cornell“. While viewing his work, I was quite impressed that he has created artworks dedicated on nothing but the things that he collected. His artworks sparked an idea in my mind and I directly remembered about my feather collection and decided to make it a part of my book.

For my ninth page, I have created and stuck the stains which has an importance for me. I was inspired by the artist called “Simon Evans” for this whole idea. His artworks are very experimental and are distinct from what I have seen so far. I was really intrigued by this idea as I decided to create my own stains. The stains which has an importance for me are; Tea, coffee, soil, raspberry jam, honey and grass. The stains which I have chosen are mostly related with my daily consumes and 2 of them(soil and grass) are about my adorance towards nature. I have grown up being a part of the nature. I have went to parks, to the forests, to everywhere which includes a part of the nature. So, these two stains remember me those good times.

Finally, as for the tenth and eleventh pages of my book, I have decided to focus on my artistic journey. Art has been a major part of my childhood as it is now. I used to have tons of different materials like colouring pencils, watercolours, glitter glues etc. I even remember me drawing to the ceilings. Because of this reason, we had to renew the ceilings since there were pencil stains all over. So, I have printed out my childhood sketches and artworks onto glossy paper. Of course they are not very impressive as a whole but I still believe that they have a great amount of importance in my artistic journey. The paintings which I have added onto my book were from the years 2007-2010.

For my eleventh page, I have added my recent drawings to complete the cycle. I have decided to add my recent drawings to depict how I have improved over time and how my art style has changed.

As for my back cover, I have only drawn a small star and written a small descriptive writing about my book.

Sound

For the sound process, I have used 2 main resources. First one is my own sound recordings and the other one is the sounds which I have used from copyright-free videos. In the process of recording my own sounds, I have tried to create each sound which I’ll be using for my video but unfortunately I couldn’t manage to get them all correct as I have imagined. So, I have researched sounds effects from Youtube for particular sounds like magic effect, bee buzzing etc.

For the sound recordings of my own, I have used the recorder tool on my phone. Also for some scenes, I have managed to take sound recordings off my childhood videos. I have found these videos from our hard drive.

Film Making Process in MovAvi

As for the last process of our project, I have decided to create my film in the program called “MovAvi”. I was inspired and intrigued to create a stop-motion film myself after watching Marie Paccou’s short-film animations.

Since I am creating a stop-motion film, I have uploaded each picture in the right sequence.

I have had 66 pictures in total. Next, I have trimmed everything down to 35 seconds from 2 and a half minute. This step was really rough as I had troubles trimming down to the second which I wanted. As for the last step, I have added each one of the sound effects onto my film. Then, I have moved and placed these sounds in the right order.

After I was finished with the making of my video, I have uploaded it to YouTube.

My Film “You Are Here”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr4gQs-p-0I&feature=youtu.be

Reflection

Under the project name “You are Here”, I have tried to reflect my inner self by touching upon topics like my childhood, my interests and my family. I have created a 12 paged zine book which alternates various materials and ideas about myself. Everyone has their own back story; In this project, I wanted to show the bits of my past, and how I am doing right now.