University hasn't even started yet and we've already been tasked with a small brief, but I guess you can't start working too soon. On a tour around Salford Quays our two new tutors, Johnny and Joe showed us what this opening brief would be on. The sculpture they showed us was of old docking equipment, called Silent Cargo. The purpose of the sculpture was to show the changes to trafford park over the last one-hundred years. The docks were booming with trade but since the introduction of shipping containers the docks it had become derelict, the salford city council then intervened seeing the potential of the area and put in plans in place for renovation sparking new life and giving birth the media city we have today. I found the idea of having a snapshot of the old, living in the heart of the new to have such a powerful message. To always know where you came from and appreciate your roots i believe is lost in today's society and i am guilty of it myself. Silent cargo does not only invoke memories of the past but ideas of the future and what possible snapshots of today would be left in what Salford Quays would be in over one-hundred years.
First off I have to start by staying this was definitely the most painful day I've experienced. The unforgiving nature of stop motion angers me to a level I can't understand. I will learn to love this as I can see the benefits and skills it teaches, a real life practical application of timing and spacing. Joe and Johnny always say don't start an animation without planning so I've been strictly abiding by those rules, which tends to mean I spend a good amount of time planning before I even enter the stop motion room. This being my second pendulum animation, I decided it would be best this time to have an actual video reference which was a crude video of a pen swinging from some headphones, I was in a public space so it was a bit embarrassing to record. From the video what I learned was how the pendulum comes to a stop, the swings a short obviously but they are incredibly slow, and moving in other directions rather than just left to right. I did a bar she
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