APD_Week4_Play and place

Theme:

Play and Place

Context:

In response to the theme Place, I made an animation. The initial inspiration is from the APD lecture, we were making a mind map together, in terms of place, Shika came up with the word storage, then it occurred to me that it could be virtual storages, such as hard drives. I like to clean and organise my hard drive so that I could get more space for future usage.  Then I made my own map to extend the story.

Method:

I draw a mind map based on the words we discussed in the class and made a storyline for my animation. Once I finished the mind map, I visualized my mind map into a storyboard. Then I created the scenes in C4d and render them into to sketch style. Combine all the elements in After Effects and editing the sound effect in Premiere.

Response/Reflection:

Regarding the theme place, I think it could be anywhere, real or virtual. And for most of us, we rely on virtual storage to store our work, study and even memories. Besides, only in the virtual world, we can clear the space that easily--only with one click and empty all the space. In terms of play, I connect virtual storage and memory, then try to use anthropopathic ways to demonstrate how people clear their memories by deleting all the files that they stored before. The end of the story did not design this way at first, I thought just let the file fade out. But according to ''play can be pleasurable when it hurts, offends, challenges us and teases us, and even when we are not playing. Let’s not talk about play as fun but as pleasurable, opening us to the immense variations of pleasure in this world.''(Jesper Juul, Geoffrey Long, and William Uricchio,2014), I changed my design, although it looks a little bit harsh, it interprets a stronger feeling of anger and determination of getting over the past. Besides, experiment rendering 3d spaces into 2d sketch styles opens a new gate for me to make animations and save lots of trouble to consider the perspective when I draw in 2d animations.

Reference:

Jesper Juul, Geoffrey Long, and William Uricchio, editors,2014, Olay Matters, The MIT Press Cambridge, viewed 20 August 2020