Scratch Film Junkies

Wow! What a film. These Scratch Film Junkies really know what they are doing. I really liked their use of colors, and how they were able to incorporate sound with their film. If I were to do mine more like theirs, I would include images, like preshot film, and then bleach and scratch on top of them. I feel that they were really good at creating depth. The use of layers really builds the film and really shows just how hard they worked on the film. 

Projections of Sound On Image

I really liked this article. It was informative and interesting at the same time. I had never thought of sound as a bridging mechanism. Not in the sense of bridging a gap in the cut, but in the sense of being a way to suggest a connection between two shots that would be meaningless together. Sound is something I haven't given a lot of credence to, but after reading this article, I'd like to learn more. It is interesting that our minds filter sounds in a completely different way than images. That would lead me to believe that it can be manipulated to a further extent than images. That means, it can have an even greater affect, because it can be tampered with more. Sound is something that is foreign to me. Though I hear it each day, I don't understand how acoustics work, this article definitely makes me want to learn more. Sound seems to play a bigger role in a feature film than I had thought. 

Theory of Animation

Let me start off by saying I don't like theories. Theory of relativity, not a fan. But in all serious, this theory of animation article was sort of interesting, but I felt that when it comes to speaking about something, I'd rather see a person's practiced work instead of their critique of other's. This article spoke heavily on Disney and their cel animation and I couldn't help but feel like the author was somehow "drawing" the conclusion that mass made cel animation lacks art. That experimental animation with its planned non-continuitity is in someway better. I had particular qualms with the section that said it is so much easier to create life-like characters in animation than colors and rhythms. To recreate the nuance of a human character is a very hard task, I think this writer completely ignores the complexity of Disney's cel animation. Rhythms and shapes have no life. In my opinion, they are much easier to draw. Therefore, this article completely critiques cel animation and has a strong bias. I can't explain just how much I disliked this pretentious article. 

But at the same time, it had some interesting notes about music. And I do believe that experimental animation has its own place along side the visual representation to music. Imagine what MTV music videos would be like!

I am a fan of cel animation, and with digital technologies, the nuances are becoming even better. Animation can be taken seriously. If the author wants us to believe that cel animation isn't art because it recreates life and instead should represent what we don't normally see, I disagree, but that's just me.