Week7_Play and Objects

***This week’s response was made in collaboration with Qi Zhuang and Sean Zhang***

Theme

Play and Object

Context:

Fresh Guacamole by PES | Oscar Nominated Short

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJdJIwCF_Y&t=15s

Stop motion cooking PIZZA

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUyzi-hK5h4&list=LL0JOKwcaIzZfrk1G9pKEnZg&index=4&t=0s

PES’s work inspired me a lot, the work of object deformation and transformation in his works is very smooth, and it considers not only the shape and size of the item but what is interesting in his work is that you can't predict how the object will change. However, there are rules to follow, which may be related to the object ’s color, shape, or sound, so that the change is more logical.

Method:

We used the sticky note in different colors, and objects of different colors,  stop motion shooting techniques and editing techniques.

The conception of object changes, shooting, and the search and creation of sound materials are all done together.

Response:

We intend to carry out reverse thinking from the PES change method, transforming the abstract object into something that people feels making a scene. We intend to start with the color and use the color as the correlation to do transforms. We used a sticky note because it is a variety of colors and can be easily disassembled with the cooperation of scissors. We have designed a general direction, and the protagonist needs to make food by changing the post-it notes. So I designed a yellow sticky note to turn into French fries, the clay fish's blood turned into ketchup, and so on.

Reflection:

This is very interesting cooperation. Although in the cooperation of many people, sometimes it takes some time to discuss the work and the discuss of the opinions, but in the cooperation of many people, the interesting inspiration that appears in a short time. The number of ideas comes out faster. For the first editing stop motion animation, I think it is a success in the finished product. However, in the animation creation, the way the object changes, there is still no thinking out of the Context. I hope that there will be a better way in the next creation.