Opportunity to Contextualise Your Concept Video Animation Seminar Presentation

The purpose of the seminar presentation is to give you the opportunity to contextualise your concept, research, planning and inspiration for the final project.

The seminars should be approximately 5 minutes in length and include the following:

• Clear concise pitch of project. What is it about and what is it going to look like?
  • Examples:
  1. This is a collage animation that tells a story about. This is a video about the day in the life of me that blends together footage I’ve shot and cartoon characters. The cartoon characters will interact with…
  2. This is a composited montage that looks at the impacts of human civilisation on the environement. It will blend together footage of … and … It is intended that the overall mood of the video will be…
  3. This is an infographics video about camel migrations in the Northern territory. It will show a blend of animated graphics and real world footage.
  4. This is a digital matte painting that portrays…
  5. This project brings to life the famous painting… by cutting it up into multiple layers stacked in virtual space then animating a camera through it.
• Presentation of themes, styles and techniques in films or videos that are a significant influence on your project.
  • Find examples of videos on YouTube, Vimeo, Daily Motion etc. that demonstrate a technique, style or theme that you want to emulate in your project.
  • Explain the ways your project will be similar and different.
  • Try as best you can, to show only the relevant parts of an example video.
• Analysis of the materials and techniques you will be using including potential sound sources.
  • Don’t just list the techniques you are going to use in your project, be specific and detail how you are going to use those techniques on the materials you have chosen.
  • Find sources that you will actually use in your project and present them as still images, short clips or screen grabs. Describe how they are going to be used.
  • If you plan to shoot something yourself, take still images as examples or find videos online that approximate the footage you will shoot.
  • Think about taking still images into Photoshop or any other photo editing program and draw on them to indicate how the images/videos will be cut up or composited into.
  • Think about mocking up video composites with still images in Photoshop.
  • Have a think about sound, if you can’t find examples of potential sounds on a site such as Freesound.org, describe the soundscape you want to develop.
• As part of the analysis of the material and techniques you wish to use, include a 10-30 second test or visual experiment made by you to demonstrate some aspect of your final project. For example, you could test a technique using proxy footage or demonstrate the visual style of your piece by finding a few sources that will be used in the project then composite them together. If you are doing a cutout character animation, find the character and make it walk.  
  • Think about what you have been making for the homework exercises, these are good examples of tests or visual experiments.This test does not have to be a part of the final project, it is just another method to describe to the audience, what it is you are going to make.Examples:
    1. If you are making a collage animation, find some of the actual sources you will use, composite them together and animate them.
    2. If you are animating a figure, cut it out and make it walk.
    3. If you are making a composited montage, find some of the actual sources or something close to what you want to use and demonstrate the technique and style of your project.
    4. If you are bringing a painting to life, cut up a small section of it and demonstrate how the layers and the camera can be animated.
    5. If you are making a digital matte painting, find some of the actual sources you will use, composite them together and animate them