Hey everyone [who reads my blog posts thank you for doing so I am eternally grateful]!
As you can tell, I finally have my Senior Research Project (SRP) Proposal up! It'll be to the left, right beneath my About Me. So feel free to take a gander at that if you so desire.
But what have I been up to?
Well, today was an exploration of the lost voice concept.
And I made a video. Because yah know. Voices.
Here are the drawings that are used in the video, in case anyone was wondering about that:
As you can tell, I finally have my Senior Research Project (SRP) Proposal up! It'll be to the left, right beneath my About Me. So feel free to take a gander at that if you so desire.
But what have I been up to?
Well, today was an exploration of the lost voice concept.
And I made a video. Because yah know. Voices.
Here are the drawings that are used in the video, in case anyone was wondering about that:
And, of course, for your dose of shorts, I present to you Dodudindon, a short made by students at Gobelins, a renowned school for art and animation in France (the short is a teeny bit risqué, but adorable nonetheless):
And then Omelette, one of my all-time favorites, made by Madeline Sharafian, a student at CalArts:
I also wanted to share two articles I read last week but forgot to mention, which are tips for writing from Joss Whedon and some rules of storytelling from Pixar. They're both quick(ish) interesting reads, whether you're a storyteller or not (but, really, aren't we all?).
And, lastly, a video of the creators of South Park crashing a "Storytelling Strategies" class at NYU that I was recommended to watch by my mentors. The main takeaway is that when storytelling, don't go "this happened and then this happened and then this happened and then this happened"; approach it more as a cause and effect scenario (like how things happen in real life! whoa), where "this happens, which causes that to happen, but then this happens, ergo this happens."
Ah Daria! I love all these videos! Especially the one on the MTV site. Your short is so cute! :D I can't wait to see more! Have you decided on an idea yet?
ReplyDeleteDon't you love all the students' faces when Trey Parker and Matt Stone walk in? And my video wouldn't really be considered a short, per se... more like pictures with narration haha. And I haven't decided yet, but you better believe that today I'm going to be drawing a shizzle ton and I'm going to be deciding and I'll let you guys know either today or tomorrow! Or over the weekend. We'll see.
DeleteI may or may not have spent almost an hour on your blog watching these animations... I really love the idea about the voice balloons!
ReplyDeleteOh gosh; I knew I'd gone overboard when I posted those 9 videos last time haha. I'm definitely going to try to restrain myself and limit it to one or two per post from now on. But I'm so glad you enjoyed them! They're what inspire me, in addition to the environment and people around me. Yeah, I love this idea too. Gotta choose, gotta choose... we'll see what I end up with!
DeleteI love that video you made omygod it was so funny and cute! So is this the type of stuff that you're going to be doing?.
ReplyDeleteYeah! Except the actual video will be animated and have more serious voice acting, if there is any dialogue haha. This was like... a silly outline for a concept, of sorts :)
Deletegreat concept video! And I love the shorts. How do you go about finding all of these? I'm so glad you have such a wide range of inspiration!
ReplyDeleteAw I'm glad! These are just shorts I've come across throughout my time on the internet, actually. Whether that may be through people sending them to me, other blogs, university websites... there's so much fantastic content out there, it's amazing.
DeleteHello Daria,
ReplyDeleteI love this website, your website layout is beyond the rest of the projects I've seen. Your use of white spaces, an artistic background, and use proper use of videos/images and information is amazing. Using your own drawings and humor and relating them to popular shows people know and have seen is a great way to advance your research and allow the reader to understand exactly what you're doing. The use of outside information and relating it to your own research is important and I believe you are headed in the right direction. All I would suggest is learning how to wrap your texts in your post around your images to save space and I believe it would look better.
Sterling,
Lutheran High School
Heya Sterling,
DeleteI'm so glad you've enjoyed the blog! You know, I think I really get an advantage, aesthetically, in that my project is artistically driven and I get to present a lot of media on the subject, whilst maybe some more scientific/conventional research projects are very much more analytically-based, with experiments in the lab and technical terms and the whole shazam (not that animation doesn't come with its own technical terms, but they're pretty self-explanatory usually and I try to keep it simple). And yes, I do tend to be a bit informal in both speech and writing, as colloquialisms are well-suited to my style of humor; and I like to think comedy makes people pay attention a teeny tiny bit more. Though really, who knows; I might be rambling to myself and making jokes this whole time while people groan, "Not again," at their screens.
I get where you're coming from with the wrapping text around images, thank you very much for the suggestion! However, especially when I write a lot, I tend towards having the images as stand-alones; it breaks up the text a bit, and makes it less overwhelming than it would be if everything was crowded together. I guess it's just my personal preference. In this particular post, I would've put the two images side by side, at least, except since one was wider and the other longer blogger was being a butt about it and kept separating them.
Thank you so much for dropping by with such kind and constructive words! Feel free to continue visiting if you so please, and I hope you're having a lovely day :)