Feeling Lost in my own words
Two days into the week and i have been feeling quite lost until i decided to re-read paul wells - understanding animation. I remember spotting a few points that intrigued me earlier (before i had decided on a topic of research). Revisiting Paul Wells- Understanding Animation, turned out to be the best thing as i now realize that his references to Moritz underlines essentially the basic idea that i am touching on.
The true abstraction and the true symbol must have an intriguing spirit and integrity of its own, and it must suggest more meanings, various, almost contradictory depths and speculations beyond the surface value; otherwise why bother to obfuscate? If the viewer comes to the point of saying, 'Oh, that represents the police and that represents freedom,' then that revelation is about as interesting as, 'Gee, Donald Duck drives a car and mows his lawn just like an average American; he must represent the average irascible American!'
- ( Moritz, 1988:29) pg 44 - Paul Wells
Additionally, Paul Well's categorization of animation into orthodox, developmental and experimental (although arguable) gives my paper a structure to investigate the visual aspects of style variation and its attributes related to the presence of the artist and evolution of content.
David expressed the lack of scene setting in my introduction and i think with my new find, i may just be able to fill that gap. However, i am not taking the introduction too seriously as i am certain that it will change (hopefully not too drastically) towards the end. However, the backdrop/background and forming a table of content has been the focus of the week.
Decided to indulge in some shopping and bought myself some magazines - monster children, empty and res. Res seemed to be touching on 'new structures for narratives' and a glimpse of the content caught my interest. More on that when i really end up reading it. Watched a bit of Animatrix and InitialD last night.
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