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10 Beats in 30 sec

BIG Themes (things to go in the division between the beats)

struggle/hardship/survival

individuality/community

music//choir

joy

Protest/modern stuffs

Merging moment (where it builds the tension)

Repetition, roads to freedom, silent screams, tapestry, different emotions, all the other themes throughout

NO!!!

fist, chain, slave

obvious scene

black dots

blood

Outro (silence)

peaceful scene

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR2NJEqdUb8&ab_channel=ClipzVEVO

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https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/vincent-de-boer-the-stroke-animation-080121

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Hope, joy, diversity, individuality, community,

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planned to animate focusing on the sound of the beat (slave song)

remember to bring joy and the “normals” of black history

no chains and fists

not always showing fights and struggles

remember to provide audience some sort of context that relates to the book while we are using abstract imageries.

color - starts off from yellow, black and white, add colors where the tensions build up, go back to yellow, black and white at the end

start to animate, create storyboard and specific visuals.

word "community" is an important visual we should probably consider to animate.

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“Solidarity is the womb of community”

“We shall overcome, we shall overcome someday.”

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https://seminar580.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/hall-the-spectacle-of-the-other-pdf.pdf

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Welcome to the terrodome song introduction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePPMOiLbAKY&ab_channel=Lobotom1st

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nice concise but powerful lyrics - song from 13th

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nice concise but powerful lyrics - song from 13th

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Letter to the Free By Karriem Riggins
https://www.google.com/search?q=letter+to+the+free+common+lyrics&oq=letter+to+the+free&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j46j0l4j69i60.4535j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
start at 05:20 :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AChGszRGwI

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https://kingston.app.box.com/folder/129735656151

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EkbpLf0nKQlS2xKO3DOj4gOQYKDiHbCp-ZgdXBxnwSo/edit#slide=id.gb652d333df_0_0

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EkbpLf0nKQlS2xKO3DOj4gOQYKDiHbCp-ZgdXBxnwSo/edit?ts=5ffd7f57#slide=id.p

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really like this idea chi!!!!!!! -(nick) 

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really like this idea chi!!!!!!! -(nick) 

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These are all lovely and i agree, would be really atmospheric once put into animation. I'm really attracted to the colours in some of these, making me question our decision to stick to yellow black and white, but I'm not sure...

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These are all lovely and i agree, would be really atmospheric once put into animation. I'm really attracted to the colours in some of these, making me question our decision to stick to yellow black and white, but I'm not sure...

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(Henry)

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And also I thought this was interesting -  this short animation is just showing a face most of its time. Likewise maybe we could use ideas as simple as this for our 30 sec animation, for example, using one focal point to which we can surround all the other elements ,along with interesting sound play and timeline sequence. I think this kind of delivery might be very impactful in short amount of time, and also easy for us to collaborate!? -chi
https://www.instagram.com/p/CInwElVAMIE/

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I like how the texts appear and move in this example of his work! maybe we could borrow some ideas from it -chi
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJHe-9Mg-Cd/

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I thought I’d just attach some textures to get us inspired :) - tabs

these are really NICE -chi

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Yes I love ruffmercy animations and think that way of working could suit this project well (tabs)

whoa I really like his animations, I agree with Tabs! -chi

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I LOVE yann kebbi -chi

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Been really inspired by Ruffmercy recently, really like his work and think for abstractness he is a great example. He's an animator.

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Yeah I follow him on Instagram, love his stuff! (Tabs) nice textures :)

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I like this reference a lot! very similar vibes to what I was thinking. (Nick)

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I came across some cool examples of abstract/atmospheric images that we could refer to from @geoffroypithon on insta. I thought if we're going abstract, I think these kind of delivery/method can be useful!? (using our limited color scheme). This guy's insta postings are mostly bombarded with colors and could look very busy, but we could pull out some good things I guess!
-chi

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Our area of interest:

atmospheric/emotional piece which responds to the overall message and content of the book, with reference to the book’s intro, conclusion and poems.

help us to abstract the stories and each of the 40 years into more powerful words.

making a visual poem of the whole book

Some poems were  very good (Nick)

Remembering the Albany 3

Not without some instances of uncommon cruelty p143

Ideas about our animation:

poems sometimes have negative scenes and positive scenes in their stories. should consider how we might integrate them together or develop the fragments of atmosphere into an effective narrative sequence.

similar kind of repertoire (persecution - resistance - change in the law - etc) repeats over time periods. this idea could be played into animation using repetitive imagery.

boy waving the flag in the book cover - the waving flag can be used for creating a cool transition into another scene in the beginning.

Yellow, white and black (+greys). using this color scheme will help our images to be integrated as a whole.

should NOT do anything in a form of chronological timeline.

Our tasks onwards:

Image research

picking out key words and key quotes and try to visualize them.

research tailored/reference to poem/introduction/conclusion

visualize the key words/phrases/quotes to generate initiate ideas for the animation. Based on the texts, create visual image/animatics of the atmosphere/emotion/feeling, then come up with a sequence that is most effective.

Some feedbacks(from Russell) we might consider:

what specific characteristics does this “atmosphere”(our area of interest) portray? what is the visual tone of our image?

how is this abstract atmosphere going to be practically related to the book? is there any particular content that gets pulled out visually and volumed up?

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Want to keep the colour scheme for the animation the same throughout to help integrate the multiple images together and to the book cover.

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Want to keep the colour scheme for the animation the same throughout to help integrate the multiple images together and to the book cover.

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‘ separating communities and people from their humanity’

"what we did have was each other and a vision"

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these notes are really useful! - chi

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"tracking down and securing runaways"

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"savagery in the wilderness"
"shame and humiliation that enslaved ppl...were plainly visible in their tears and in the silent screams of their eyes"
"railroads to freedom"
"law did not protect us"
"life on the trading floor"

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"challenge the racial barriers"
"Picturing their lives as free people ....but an illusion"

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"Betrayal of humanity"
"parting from loved ones"
"resistance and defeat"
"shame and humiliation"

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Any possible words/phrases that we may refer to when we create our visual imageries (that abstractly speak of emotion/feeling/atmosphere of the book)

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Hey guysssss I tried to visualize things that stuck out to me. Texts in the illustration are some of the words and phrases that I thought would apply to African American's struggle regardless of different time periods in America - e.g. "law did not protect us", "Life on the trading floor", "resistance", "silent screams of their eyes", etc. Since we aren't able to focus on one specific narrative for the project, I was trying find the overarching theme/idea/emotion that repeats throughout each narrative. Perhaps when we make the visuals based on those texts we might be able to create a strong atmosphere which includes the content of the book comprehensively but not in too much detail.

amazing! - henry

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(Page 4) What is important to consider as you begin to develope response to your area of interest/focus?

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(Page 4) What is important to consider as you begin to develope response to your area of interest/focus?

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What from your knowledge and existing research could inform your decisions?
What additional knowledge/research could be useful?
Where/how are you thinking of finding/doing this?
How much information is needed to communicate your area of interest/focus?
Is this too broad/narrow within our 30 second limitations?
Can we talk about our area of interest/focus in a concise way, in 30 seconds?
How might your area of interest/focus be depicted visually?
Where could image research expand/challenge these thoughts?

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(Page 3 Knowledge) What knowledge do you have so far about yourarea of interest / area of focus?

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(Page 3 Knowledge) What knowledge do you have so far about yourarea of interest / area of focus?

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What is specific and/or important about this knowledge?
Is this something you knew about before?
Do you imagine the viewer of your piece will have knowledge
of your area of interest/focus?
How is this written about in Four Hundred Souls?
How does your area of interest/focus fit into the wider 400 year history?
What additionally researched knowledge do you know so far?
Where has this knowledge come from?
What are you keen to know more about?
What do you think is important in communicating your area of interest/focus to someone else?

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(Page 2 : What stuck out to you?) Why as a group have you chosen this?What interested you as individuals and as a collective group?

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(Page 2 : What stuck out to you?) Why as a group have you chosen this?What interested you as individuals and as a collective group?

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What was your initial reaction/response to your area of interest/focus?

Do you think your reaction was universal or personal?

What stuck out most within your selection?

This could be specific details or an overarching idea/message

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(Page1 Intro) What is your selected area of interest / area of focus?

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(Page1 Intro) What is your selected area of interest / area of focus?

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How would you concisely describe your area of interest/focus?

What are the key pieces of information?

Why is this area of interest/focus important to Four Hundred Souls as a book?

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Another netflix doc about racial wealth gap in us,15 mins

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Explained | Racial Wealth Gap | FULL EPISODE | Netflix

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The full 13th Documentary on youtube :0

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"..if a Black person took up a pen to write, that pen should be used as a sword to wage war against the oppressive white racist regime" (p299/ pdf p317)

"Black people have never stopped dreaming, or fighting for those dreams to become a reality" (p395/pdf p413)

"But I suspect that her wildest dream for herself and for me mirrors my own" (p396/ pdf p414)

"But we can help chart out a path that leads us all to a better future - the kind of future that will more closely resemble our ancestors' wildest dreams" (p396/ pdf p414)

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Ideas about the direction of our project:

Abstractness, creating atmosphere/emotion > more than concrete narratives

accentuating emotional aspects

not relying on each narrative or being too straightforward

be careful not to be too generic or predictable so we can acquire more audience

should purely be about the content and not to be opinionated with our own perspectives

metaphor of a choir in which individuals sing together in a harmony singing the same music.

Using the book cover:

Animate using limited color scheme based on the book cover -> later come back to the image of the book cover using cool transition

Show the book cover first and start our animations as the book opens?