Workshop with Lorraine

In this workshop we created our own little flip books, and used one letter to experiment with. This helped us with working with time and frame. Through drawing onto 50 'frame', I created a flip book use a lower case 'a', which came onto the frame from the right and moved into the centre, it then stayed there and as the frames went on the letter got more and more coloured in until it was completely black.
here are a few 'frames' from my flip book:

I need to create another flip book for next tuesday, I will do this once I have researched into different ways of moving a letter within a frame.

Notes taken in the workshop:

Lorraines blog:

lorrainelcabagd.blogspot.com  (main blog)

motion404.blogspot.com  (motion graphics in particular)

Also in the workshop, I began to think about the meanings of each word, and different things I could do with them (crunch/disperse/compress):

Compress:

-tightly compact in a shape

-squash to bottom of the frame

-'Tetris' - heavy letters fitting together or squashing the previous letter as they fall down from the top of the frame.

Crunch:

-letters come on 1 by 1 - bang into each other and knowck particles off the previous letter

-start with full word - goes slightly bigger then crunches and shakes back smaller - shakes/cracks/particles come off/crumble/break

-heavy weighted font - bold

 Disperse:
-shatter, reverse shatter
-like a crowd of people - as they start to walk away slowly one by one
- typeface made up of dots, and the dots moving off the frame in different directions - breaking away