Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Text Project

I'm looking forward to this text project as I have far more experience working with animation than I do with film and I also really like Typography so I'm looking forwarded to dabbling in that.

I've already had several sleepless nights getting excited about what I can do and I've written some automatic text already. I particularly like the emotive and unusual combination of words that come out and I am going to keep writing until I get enough really nice snippets to work with.
Some ones that I've written so far are : A twitter of white noise, incandescent snow globe and what the furbie?
I'm also finding myself writing a lot of song lyrics. Strangely it seems the ones that come from songs that possible had some automatic writing themselves such as:
The dog days are over by Florence and the Machines
Full grown man and A Picture of our torn up praise by Phospherescent
I also got little snippets of nursery Rhyme in there such as Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head from Oranges and Lemons.
As for treatment of animation, timing and rhythm I'm overwhelmed by all the possibilities.
Some thoughts are:
  • Taking found objects with writing on them that have similar letters to words I am using and finding interesting ways to turn them into the words I want
  • collecting different media with words on such as magazines and newspapers and building them up into a ransom note style of animation
  • I had a look at this on Youtube and like the artists style of erasing what he'd written as I think it has an interesting meaning when what you are doing is automatic writing
  • Writing on arms and hands, filming and dropping into an animation sequence
  • sparkler and neon sign writing.
  • Normal scrabble and vertical scrabble
I need to look more at artist works related to text media before I make any definite plans.

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