Working with my concepts

1) Abstraction: for this first piece, I plan on focusing with the echo of the sound. Depth will be playing a significant part in this animation. We listening to the sound, there seems to be two factors involved--the first is the constant background sound that seems to fade in and out but on a continuous basis. The second is the introduction of a sound that seems to overlap and is only present for a short time.

With the second part, I will be using the media limitation of something "hand drawn"--this allows it to correspond with that particular sound on a more micro level since there doesn't seem to be a set sound that is being made. And because the sound is present for such a little amount, I will be having it fade in and out in a timely fashion so that it will be synced to the sound.


2) Type-based: here the sound will still be the "fireworks", but the focus will be mainly that high-pitched sound that seems like something is falling from the sky. Because this has such an impact over the rest of the noises in the sound clip, this needs to be the point of emphasis in the animation.

One f the ideas that I plan on working wwith is whether or not I should use words when creating this animation. I like the idea of creating something that will have meaning in the end, but ultimately I'm not sure if it will take away from the experience of the sound.

The limitation that this one will have will be based on using "only 2 colors, derived from magazines, photos, books, any printer matter". By doing so, I am setting myself up to work "Raw" and not deal with worrying about illustrating the obvious.


3) Referential: the sound that I will be using for this one is that of the ice cubes being poured into the glass and then adding in the soda pop into it.

This one is so hard to stay away from showing the obvios because the sound makes it hard to depict something else. I'm still not sure how I am going to make this piece referential but I am in the process of finding out and will document it once I do.

Even though I am still not sure of what I'm doing, one of the limitations that I would like to use for this one would be that of "a type of climate".


(Note: examples of my work-in-progress will be added on here shortly)