Silent Movie - Feedback session

Thursday's feedback workshop was extremely useful, both for getting feedback on my work and whether the word was visually communicated effectively and to troubleshoot the queries I had with a couple of my design ideas in particular.

One thing that was noted by Dom and Lorraine was the lack of colour. Although I found it hard to incorporate a colour which would enhance the concept in some way, it was suggested I could use coloured wool/yarn' in reference to sequence 1 and 2 (below). It was noted that sequence 2 was the most effective as Dom understood the concept and believed it communicated well.

I was unsure how I was ultimately going to translate sequence 2 into After Effects as it was essentially a line which formed a word as opposed to animating a word itself. It also used a depth of field as the sequence begun with with the piece of 'string' (yarn) coming into the frame from behind the viewer (lower left) and exiting in the upper right corner. I asked Lorraine and fortunately, there is a simple (more or less) way of producing this outcome. I will need create the word in Illustrator and place the path of the type into After Effects where I could then alter the anchor points.

Sequence 3 was the most self explanatory as it was an immediate response to how I could animate the word 'spin' - simply by spinning the letters (this was similar to sequence 5). The 4th sequence was also received well though the last section needed more frames to communicate the idea more effectively.