Sara Nesteruk
Todays lecture was about motion graphics theory looking at how motion graphic designers communicate to the audience and what they have created.
Oskar Fischinger was a German-American abstract animator and painter who was most famous for creating animations for music. We looked at 'Kreise (excerpt)' meaning 'Circles' in German. A creative innovative piece that explores colours, shape and form it shows how he breaks colour down into different parts.
The next video we looked at was 'Spherikal' by Ion Lucin which I found quite mesmerising and interesting to watch. Stylistically and technically refined the video is enigmatic creating a mood and different sense of feeling for the audience to watch it. It shows that you can start with something very simple, in this case a circle and execute it in different ways to create a complex design and vice versa.
Spherikal from Ion on Vimeo.
We were also showed more animations focussed on music: Alexander Chen, Strings: J.S Bach - Cello Suite No. 1 - Prelude. This animation looks at classical music with a deconstruction of every note to create a visual representation, as you see the notes the appear to get slower and distort what the audience are actually watching - it is also quite mesmerising like Spherikal. The animation is very delicate and simple, disorientating the viewer.
I also really liked the video, 'Understand Music' telling viewers that they don't have to understand music to enjoy it. Theory about deconstructing music theory by including elements of music, layout and typography to create a delicate, articulated beautiful piece of work. The video is designed to resonate with the viewer. The video links to a quote by Jean-Paul Sartre: "Imagining consciousness" to create work and present it and then let your audience interoperate it for themselves and how they view things, it allows the artist to connect with their work which then creates a connection for viewers. Sartre is suggesting that representing something that allows you to connect with your own imagination is the nature of the image.
Understand Music from finally. on Vimeo.
