OUAN401 - Context of Practice: Final Idea

OUAN401 - Final Idea:

Fraktur starts by crawling proudly onto the screen. He then bigs himself up and grows and stretches to show off his power and influence on German propaganda. As he grows, he also bounces a little, but not too much as he has a stern and abrupt personality. He squashes and stretches a little to show how "big" he is and as if he wasn't flaunting his position enough, he pulls out of nowhere (Tom and Jerry influence here) a nazi flag and swings it around a little.

As this is happening, a few planes scatter across the frame and move to the right, coming off the screen. Fraktur is feeling pretty happy with himself up until big, bouncy Bauhaus catapults wildly onto the screen and pushes arrogant Fraktur into a corner. He then shrinks, leaving Bauhaus towering over him as Fraktur cowards in the corner. Bauhaus is very jiggly and wiggly as she has a happy, prevailing personality. She's happy as she is the font of freedom, of a new, modern Europe, a modern Germany.

Bauhaus then extends a foot from her body and kicks Fraktur off the screen. She then struts to the centre of the frame and gives a jolly thumbs up. Victory.

OUAN01 - Context of Practice: Practical Initial Ideas

OUAN401 - Initial Ideas:

In order to start creating my practical animation for the context of practice brief which included an essay, I first had to gather some ideas and plan out what I would animate and what subjects and themes I would talk about. I wanted to relate my animation to my chosen essay subject in some way so in the end I chose the theme of propaganda and typography for my animated response.

Firstly, I thought about a small caricature of Adolf Hitler silently narrating the animation by using facial expressions. hand gestures and body language to show whether or not he liked the fonts in question. I chose to use the two typefaces Fraktur and Bauhaus for the response as they were both very controversial and served a huge purpose in propaganda/social cause at the time. They both almost competed against each other with Bauhaus depicting a modern, more free Germany (and Europe) and Fraktur being used as a very traditional, frighteningly beautiful font in order to represent Hitler's rise to power.

One of my ideas is shown below.

 

I started thinking about how I could make the animation more obviously related to war. A lone tank rolled across the frame leaving Fraktur in its tracks. The last letter evolved into a turret, soon firing a turret of which exploded and left a fact behind. Hitler then gave a thumbs up to show his love for Fraktur. I wasn't so sure about this idea as it was too literal and wasn't creative enough. It didn't have any "wow factor", so I came up with a few better ideas and finally settled on this... (See next blog post)