Task

Year 9 Creative Media

Appraising Animation


TASK : Watch excerpts from the work of Miwa Matreyek, Multimedia Artist.


Take notes on your blog and then write a 600 word appraisal of one of Matreyek's works.

Appraisal = Describe what you see and hear, Analyse the Media Language and Interpret the Meaning

Use correct sentence structure, grammar, spelling, referencing and bibliography.

1. Watch these sequences and select one to anaylse and interpret

· Digitropia http://vimeo.com/5906461

· Circus http://vimeo.com/6714468

· Factory http://vimeo.com/5905934

Embed your chosen piece into your blog



2. Focus Questions ~ answer these on your blog

· Identify the imagery by listing what you see eg the subject matter; objects, shapes etc

· What is your overall impression of the mood of the work

· Watch and Listen for visual language cues, sound cues and editting



3. Anaylsis - see

http://www.howtodothings.com/hobbies/how-to-analyze-a-movie

· Notice the visual language used by Matreyek's eg colour, line, the quality of the movement, shapes, use of scale etc - list what you identify - help site: HERE and for specific film language: MISE-EN-SCENE

· Notice the sounds - list these identifying their type and quality



4. Interpretation

· What is your interpretation of the work?

· Survey friends and family ~ what do they think the work is about?

· Who do you think is the intended audience for Matreyek's work?

· How does visual language inform your interpretaion?

· How has Matreyek used sound with the animation images to create meaning?



Other works by Matreyek: Artist ~ http://vimeo.com/5906187 and http://www.semihemisphere.com/

this is an experiment that brooke and i did trying to spread out ink without adding more because it just sept through but this didnt look very good under the camera.

p.s. I dont know why this video comes up Red??? We shot it in Black

Week 5

At the end of week five Brooke and i have finished shooting our first three scenes. The next part we have to finalize is the ink scene bit this is the hardest scene in our whole film so it is probably going to take us a little while. We are going to try a few more ways to shoot the scene and hopefully by the end of week 7 we will have all of our scenes filmed so we can edit our whole movie and put it all together in week 8.

Scene 2 trial shoot

Last week Brooke and I decided to go down to the art rooms and trial different ways that we could shoot our ink scene. It wasnt as easy as we thought it would be. Mr Powell has been giving us other ways we could possible put the same message across without using ink so we will be trialing different ways to shoot scene two. In this video are some of the different ways we could shoot the ink pouring on paper...

Scene 2 - Trial

Yesterday Brooke and I went down to the art room to trial different ways that we could shoot scene two. It was a lot harder than we thought it would be. There are many different things that can ruin this scene. Scene we have to shoot this scene outside so we don't spill ink everywhere it could really screw up our movie because of the lighting!!! There are so many other things that could efffect our movie becasue of this scene! In this clip you will see three different ways that we could shoot this scene. We think we are going to use one of the two last ones. See what you think.

Term 3-

Next lesson Brooke and I are going to have our first attempt at recording our second scene. In this scene the two pieces of black paper that read love and hate are scrunched up in a ball and have ink poured over them and then the scene is reversed to make to look like the ink is being taken out. This scene will be the hardest scene to shoot because it will be really hard to record the ink falling from the bottle. i have a feeling it will take quite a few tries for brooke and myself to get this scene right!!!

Scene 1: Draft 2