A collaborative work with Roger Merzian, a fellow media student in UNSW. This is a response to a text by Toop.
The Idea
Text four speaks of memories spurred from certain sounds and images. It was difficult to find a method in which a memory could be animated and a message could be given clearly. The decision rested on a guy dealing with dishes late at night. The sound of the water running and the pouring rain outside reminds him of walking in the city with his girlfriend. One aspect clearly defined in the text was the fact that these memories were not specific stories or extravagant in any way. Therefore the walking in the rain with a girlfriend was the memory which spurred from the sound and images of water and rain.
The Animation
With the animation, I was using rotoscoping technique to trace the couple in his memories. This was meant to emphasize the ‘imaginary’ or ‘past’ part of it. The water from the tab and the rain are rotoscoped because the sound that came out of those is part of the trigger for the memories. In the beginning part, the man is outlined by a simple rotoscope with a line that has a same colour with the water, with this, I was meant to show that the water (represents by the blue colours) ‘triggers’ the man and similar method was applied for the rain.
Screen Grabs:
Click HERE to watch the full video.*I tried to upload it in Youtube but it messed up the quality of the animation so I uploaded the .swf file instead.
