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Time
in Nature
Objectives
To
gain experience with sequential imagery to convey time, change, or
motion.
To
create moving visual images and symbols that explore the idea of
Nature in flux.
Project
Overview
Your
challenge is to plan and execute a mural, cartoon, or animation that
uses time, change, or motion to convey an
idea about the natural world.
Project
References
Muybridge,
Eadweard
-- Mastersof Photography series
-- Wikipedialink:
ASU, TimeFrames
Haring, Keith: FlipBookGif animation tutorial:
-- Wikipedialink:
ASU, TimeFrames
Haring, Keith: FlipBookGif animation tutorial:
Vocabulary
time,
still image, frame, sequential images, cartoon, mural, animation,
flip book, zoetrope, frame rate, frame sequence
Materials
Open
Process
Preliminary:
1.
Before coming to class, review the theme of The
Natural World
as found on the website. Also read the discussion on Time,
Change, and Motion
for
Unit VIII.
2.
Make a list of words that evoke the idea of "nature."
Compare this with viewpoints--scientific, cultural, spiritual--that convey ideas about the Natural World.
3.
Create a "short list" of words that seem to effectively
illustrate the natural world through "time, change, or motion" (e.g., the gait of a horse, the changing seasons, a
breaking wave).
4.
Create a series of thumbnails (minimum of 10) that translate your
words into simple sequences of images.
5. Plan out your project,
remembering to focus on methods for conveying time, change, and
motion.
6.
Select the best sequence to use as the basis for your final project.
7.
Put all of your "prelims" into your notebook.
Exercise:
1.
Determine what scale and context would best serve your idea. Will
your final project be a mural? A cartoon for a newspaper? A
computer animation? A hand-held flip-book?
2.
Consider what media would best serve your idea. Will you use multiple
photographs? Drawings? Computer printouts? Xeroxes? A
combination of each?
3.
Notes on possible project directions:
MURAL:
If your final project is a mural, you may want to create a scaled
version that serves as a proposal for an actual site
(this could serve as your final project in and of itself). Consider
opportunities for collaboration with either other students or
members of the local community. In the latter instance, the
way in which you represent the natural world could be arrived at in
conversation with a community or school group.
CARTOON:
If your project is a cartoon, you will be producing boards that are
significantly larger than the size you find in a
newspaper. After completing the boards, use a service bureau to
reduce the boards to black and white "stat prints"
suitable for reproduction in a newspaper. Alternatively, use a good
quality xerox machine or computer scanner to reduce the
scale of your boards to typical newspaper size. Consider what
issues would be of interest to the readership of a local, national,
or foreign newspaper.
ANIMATION:
If your project is an animation, your instructor may ask you for a
"story board" of the entire project. If time
and facilities permit, this story board would provide the basis for
an extended project focusing on an animation created using
film, video, or a computer graphics application capable of creating
animations. Alternatively, consider forms such as flipbooks and
zoetropes for presenting animation.
Critique
Ideas
When
you have completed your composition, divide into small groups and
exchange artworks with another group from
the class. Within your group, work together to respond to each
project in turn. Consider the following:
1. Describe the
techniques for creating time, change, and motion that your fellow
artists used and explain how various effects were achieved.
2.
Point out any personal symbols the artist used to indicate a
particular meaning.
3.
Discuss ideas the artwork seems to communicate. After some sharing of
interpretations, attempt to state the message of the project
in one sentence. (This artwork is about. . .)
4.
Explain how the shapes, symbols, or other elements of the composition
support its message.
Notebook
Checklist
□ Clean
and Organized
□ Turned in on Time
□ Turned in on Time
□ Discussion
Page on Time, Change, and Motion
□ Project
Objectives
□ Concept
Page on The Natural World
□ Vocabulary
□ Vocabulary
□ Research
□ Natural
World Shortlist of Words
□ Thumbnail
Sketches