Week 10 - Abstract animation and my Synopsis

In today's lesson we looked at animators who are experimental in their work.

These included:

Norman Mclaren - who is best known for his films which he developed new animation techniques for, such as drawing directly onto film stock and pixilation.

John Whitney - Known for creating animations using his mechanical analogue computer.
Catalog  a film by John Whitney

Mary Ellen Bute - Who was significant and seen as one of the first female experimental filmmaker. Her specialty was visual music and in her lifetime she created many short abstract musical films.

Researching these people helped me to have a better understanding  and idea about being experimental, which is what i will try and incorporate into my animation.

Some animations we looked at :

'Canon' by Norman Mclaren

'Spook Sport' by Norman Mclaren and Mary Ellen Bute


Synopsis:

I chose soundtrack 2 - It starts off with a trumpet playing, as it zooms into the trumpet it turns into black and then zooms out revealing a cat playing a guitar. The crowd is clapping and you see another band member. The crowd is happy again until a mouse walks on stage and noisy and honks a horn. The crowd then starts booing and that's how it ends.