Animated Narratives W9

This work explores ideas of time by applying different time characteristics such as time can travel backwards, forward and slow down. In this storyboard, I am using wipe transition to indicate time travels to the past. In this period, I am only showing the events necessary or directly connected to the future, which are the girl’s struggles with having braces. Little time is spent during these shots, as they are only to establish an understanding of what the girl has been through, not to get the audience absorbed in the girl’s past. Moving back to the present time, the event sequences are slightly more detailed, to allow the audience to understand the depth of the girl’s world better.

Using the slow-motion effect, I mean to show the importance and significance of the event where the girl’s teeth become misaligned. Here, as more time is spent on the subjective and heightened view of the girl’s experience, the audience is invited to feel what the girl is feeling and to have sympathy for her. The different events are done in slow motion, added with muffled and distorted sound to create confusion and disorientation, similar to what the girl is going through. She is in shock, worried, confused, and panicked, and all these feelings make her unable to digest and perceive the event clearly. In the end, all that has happened is a dream that the girl is having. Nothing happened in real-time, they all happened in the girl’s mind, a different time-space.

I also experimented with different story orders which proves to create a different feeling of the story. This idea to shuffle the order is taken from Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen by Steven Katz (2001), which examines how the order of shots affects the delivery of a story. The use of slow-motion to indicate the importance and contrast the actual fast pace of the events is shown similarly in the movie Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them (Dir. David Yates, 2016), on the scene of catching the Occamy. Through this exercise, I reflected that I can exploit time and its characteristics as a narrative device more to suit ay story that I’m working with. I now know better the application of time editing and its effects on storytelling.

Eugenia Liony Cynthiaputri

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