Studio Brief 3 - Explore - Final Pixelation

Here is my final Pixilation. I decided to focus on the idea of a parasite taking over a host in their sleep, and then having the host go through a series of nightmares; Suffocation, Fire, Sharp objects and Growing old, with eventual death.

Because a lot of the Pixelations that I looked at for inspiration involved clothes and usually household and common object. I decided to apply a few of these aspects into my own piece. I used my own materials found in my home, to give an abstract look. I used a black cardigan to demonstrate suffocation, and orange, yellow and red clothing to represent fire.

I feel that overall, my Pixilation was successful, however there is a lot that I could work on. One thing being sound. If I have a chance to come back to this piece, I would add ambient sounds over the images, to create a more dreamlike feel at the beginning. I then would switch to thunderous like sounds, to give a sense of rumbling and to symbolise the shift in tone. I would also add loud, cracking sounds to portray the fire, as I feel that the materials I used were too abstract and using sound effects would communicate the scene better.

I would also experiment with the lighting, and camera shots in my next Pixilation, as I felt like I had limited myself to one single camera shot throughout the whole piece. However, I feel like using one whole continuing shot, with one main focus, fit my Pixelation. When planning, it seemed like using more shots to establish what was happening would of proved to of been useless for what I was trying to portray. Overall, I feel like the certain camera angle I used throughout was perfect for my idea, but I will definitely experiment with camera angles further in my next animations.

In some of the scenes, there are some technical and visual errors. For example, sometimes the lighting shifts when it's not meant to, and the duvet that the person is lying on moves unintentionally. I also think that the transition to black at the end could of been dragged out further and become more gradual.

I would also add credits and a title. I am aware of how important these are, however I wasn't aware that it was something I should of considered.

Overall, the piece I produced resembles my original idea, as well as a lot of my sketches and my storyboard. I also think that I communicated my thought process well through sketches, Blog posts and annotation of my images.