Portrait collage_week1

20/2/2022

This week we started our visual narrative course, the topic of which was portrait collage.

In Monday’s class we were exposed to experimental animation for the first time. That is to say, animating with different materials such as clay, cardboard, magazines, celluloid panels etc. As an exercise we tried to make a loop de loop of animals (e.g. cat, bird, horse movement loop).

In Tuesday’s session, we learnt about ways of assessing and appreciating portraits. And try to analyse a picture by ourselves.

In addition, we were shown a number of excellent experimental animated short films and were also asked to pick a favourite to write an analysis of. The details are as follows.

During the class activity on Friday we did the exercise of drawing our heads. The first set of exercises was to draw multiple small heads by summarising the features of a human face as quickly as possible. The second set of exercises was to try to represent your self-portrait with the materials around it.