It's been ages since I posted.

Keeping blogs or journals is definitely not my strong suit. First things first I need to finish up my entries for my text project before I continue on to the loop. The short story is that I essentially ran out of time. I realized half way through that my written comment didn't really mean anything, was not poetic and didn't work at all.
I had a flash of inspiration closer to the due date and essentially it was about the ability of the mind to make connections instantaneously:
The sharp tang of ozone
and then
a flash of pure luminosity
utterly silent
building into a raw of noise
in a field a lone tree stands burning
all around the grass is greener, filled with nitrate
in the incandescent snow globe of the mind
a thought has struck.

I ended up cutting a lot of that out too in order to get it made within a reasonable time frame.

I wanted my imagery to reflect the workings of the conscious and subconscious mind. I thought about two levels of gears, neither touching the other but occasionally leaps of lightning jumping between them and thought it was a good allegory for the way problems get churned away in our subconscious and reach us in a flash of insight. However despite the fact that I built the gears I had no time to animate them into the sequence and so that part was dropped out.



these are the cogs that I made. I just exported the movie clip of them so they wont really spin properly.

Here is my finished work: My god its shite:



Here also is my two hundred word reflection:

Synopsis:
The text I used was a reaction to the process of automatic writing. I struggled hard with the loose creative process making many notes and discarding many ideas until finally in a flash of inspiration the words came fully formed into my head. Thus my piece is about the ability of the subconcious to make intuitive leaps. The animation is focused on heightening the sense of the words and building tension.


Reflective statement:
3 or four half formed animations where discarded in the process of creating this one and if I had my way I would still change 80% of this one. I feel the piece fails through a lack of personality. The text is rigidly Computer font Impact and kept pure white, I feel perhaps using Flash has made the animation too commercial in feel. As per usual I believe my fast reading speed may be throwing off the pace of the work and areas may be unreadable to some.

An animation of cogs moving in two layers and lighting flowing freely between them was meant to be added to the end of the sequence to give the impression of thought flowing between conscious and subconscious and though the cogs where made(after many tedious hours) the final animation was never completed as I believed it would possibly take the tension out of the ending.

I feel the simplest animations within the sequence are perhaps working the best for me. The blurs and the fades. I'm very impressed with the sound I was able to find and adapt. It's just a simple distortion wave of thunder with tweaks by me.