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| Photo of Group Work, Author's Own |
During the second lesson of the Graphics transition we worked a lot on the art of storytelling and story boards. We began by watching some short films and noting down what made them interesting and engrossing. One of the films we watched was a short 20 minute film called Fridge by Peter Mullan, it was really emotional and grabbed everyone in the rooms attention. The film is set in the slums of Scotland and shot in one small courtyard overlooked by surrounding estates. Two main characters Rudy and Alice are homeless and they are drunks who live on the streets of a Scottish town, in a rundown and depressed area. Rudy interrupts some thugs threatening another drunk and sends them off but, for the laugh, the oldest boy locks another in an abandoned fridge. Unable to get the door open to let him out, Rudy and Alice try to get help and keep the trapped boy alive until someone can help him out. The film works best as an allegory for poverty and the boy in the fridge is not the only person trapped and needing help. At times it makes this point a little heavily but mostly it is clever and spot on. Rudy and Alice are trying to help the boy but everyone they turn to turns a blind eye and it is up to the poor to help themselves. The sense of feeling behind this message is powerful and it left a real impression on me as a result.
(Mullan, Peter 1995 www.youtube.com)
After watching a few more short films we analysed the basic layout of movies in six steps and came to a conclusion that it began with the introduction of characters, proceeded with at least 4 problems / obstacles, and ended with either a resolution or a
cliffhanger. To start the process of creating our own films we got into groups of 4 and started to draw characters and locations from memory of our imagination or those of real life. We then started to work with each other to create a story using the basic layout and a combination of all our characters and locations. We all had to decide on three of the best ideas and then using the same sheet of paper translate our idea. This proved fairly difficult because the images behind would confuse the story but we completed the task, and we used bold colours so the story didn't get lost in with the background. The image below is what we came up with.
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| Photo of Group Work, Author's Own |
Throughout the day each of us were given a short tutorial on how to use the program "i-stop motion." The software allows you to take loads of pictures and then edit them together at the end to create a moving image. Our class moulded a piece of blue tack in different ways, and the video below shows the blue-tacks progression.
Video of Class' Istop-Motion Experiment, Author's Own
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