For my third review i thought i might turn the critical eye upon myself and some previous animation work i did whilst i was a student at Leeds Met.
The brief entailed making a stop motion animation to act as an intro to a new TV programme. The work was done in groups, although mine only consisted of me and one other person, we were to create the audio track from elements of the visual and synchronize one to the other.
We decided to do our intro for a student cooking programme, which meant we would have to create the soundtrack from eggs cracking, pots and pans and any other kitchen based items. We spent 3 weeks creating the beat and everything you hear aside from the scratching is homemade. The shoot took us two weeks and post production one more,this was extremely time consuming because of distinct lack of animation skills we had, which was to be expected considering we were music tech students.
We received a distinction for the piece, which i feel we deserved simply for the amount of man hours myself and James Cope undertook, whilst others shared their work load between 5 or 6 people. The visual editing is pretty hideous and naive, but it is a light hearted video that is carried by an up-tempo instrumental, which references the images on screen enough so much so that the viewer doesn't lose interest.
I would like the opportunity to try something like this again, though i much preferred making the soundtrack as opposed to the pain-staking procedure of moving vegetables around at no mile per hour.
I hope you enjoy the old-school flavas and for those with sharp wits, keep your eye out for the fight club reference!!!!
