Gun Fun

"Every day, eight American children are killed by guns."

Children can be easily affected by their environment, their friends, and especially their parents. They learn by watching people interact with the world and take it as a model of their behavior. Our video reflects how powerful a gun or other violence could be to change a child’s life, even if they don’t witness the actual violence.

Blake storyboard

Moving image poem

Script: The clip will be about a child's ideals of what she believes to be peace within her environment.

This is a poem written by my friends daughter. She is 7 years old and wrote this poem in response to a class assignment titled: How to create change in your environment. She wrote about peace and her hopes for the world she lives in in poem form. Her older sister will be playing a violin tune that she had created and I will use art to create images that will bring the poem to life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA4xMaVmk1Y

RachelSt.Pierre Storyboad

Script

My project is entitled “Dragon Song”.  The animation is based on a poem written by the 11 year old girl that I nanny for.  The poem is inspired by the influence I have had on her as a mentor and the impact she has had on me as a young, innovative girl.  The main theme of the poem focuses on the infinite power and potential of freethinking passionate of young women.  I will be using lots of paper throughout the animation in cutout form, origami and paper dolls.  

Production Plan

I will shooting this film on a Cannon rebel camera and using a desk lamp for fill lighting.  I am using props such as origami, paper cutouts (hearts, text and backgrounds) and these gorgeous paper dolls that I purchased on Etsy. (Examples Shown Below)  I will be using the SAM animation studio and attaching my camera to a USB cord. I prefer to use the SAM software because I love the onion skin it provides to help with continuity.  Since I am shooting more than one “scene” I will be uploading all the footage onto iMovie and doing the final edit on there.  

URL Example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06dAqSFn1lk

Polished Refined Women

This film is about the juxtaposed women's rights and how far have women really come in today's society. The twentieth century saw a dramatic change in perspective as to the position of women in society. But has that change been as dramatic as we first thought? Watching these images of powerful women while listening edited to this particular audio track asks the question of how far have we really come? These changes, like those that constituted the economic revolution, will probably accrue over time. They will come about as more women, and more men, adjust their lives to the conflicting pressures of family and work until a threshold of incompatibility is reached.

Fly Away With Me - Dream Sequence

This is the story of a little kite who wanders off into the world to meet with a special someone. Follow him on his journey across the fields and see what he finds. We ran into a few issues during the process but overall I think we're satisfied with the final result. Our original issue was a lack of tripod, so each image is slightly different which effected how the "scenes" lined up at the end. There was originally 2 more sections in this animation but we decided to remove them as the final product was too long. The second was the decline of resolution once I imported the images into SAM. I'm unsure why that happened but it's all part of the learning process I guess. The inspiration behind this film was based on the soundtrack. We were reminded of a summer day filled with hot air balloons and kites. So we thought it would be fun to create an animation of a wandering kite in its travels.

http://youtu.be/oDhaZElJ4Ho

Music by the The temperance seven
Titled "you're driving my crazy"

The Land of Great Expectations: Another American Dream

After

Before

              There are so many angles to look at regarding gender, but I chose to focus on what it means to be an "American Woman in modern times" as I know it to be. The ad I found for a salon in The Improper Bostonian was as close to perfect for this project as I could have hoped for. 

              Here we have a woman who looks like she fits the standard of an "ideal woman"- she's physically attractive, well groomed, and can afford to get her (already gorgeous) hair done at a Boston salon. From there I considered the human anxieties and goals of today's (American) women and placed them below the hair, as if they were being washed out. I was happy to recycle the slogan as well, because it works just as well in this new scenario.

Sources:

• Google Images
• The Improper Bostonian
• Boys and Girls Names for your Baby

Sexuality is My Own

 

Girls and women are continuously portrayed as objects of desire. They are degraded in television and movies both subtly and blatantly. Examples of this devaluation of woman's sexually can be found everywhere from high end clothing advertisements to cult classic films like Jack Frost (the horror film). Girls are pushed to dress sexier, be skinner and to continue to keep up with the latest trends. If they do not abide by these social expectations and peruse things like careers, they are often labeled negatively. If we don't put more effort into teaching girls about media literacy they will never unlock their true potential. Girls need to breakdown and push back on the societal pressures placed on them. This is the only way a woman can gain control of her image and once she does, nothing will get in her way.

Images found in this order.

http://resumebutterfly.com/classic-suit-job-interview-outfit/

https://www.facebook.com/BostonAtNite

Google search of "sexy women"*

*note the lack of women of color.