Philosophy // Day 2

Today, we wanted to establish the visual style for the lettering which would make up our animation. Taking loads of mark-marking equipment into college, we spend the morning experimenting and were able to produce a range of different typographic styles:

This thick black was achieved with a heavy paintbrush and I thought that the effect was particularly strong and interesting. 

From these experiments, we loved the Japanese water pen best for its flexibility. The reliance on water gave the type character and a range of tones that would be difficult to achieve through other techniques. Others, like the paintbrush used for war, or the crayon for infant we will implement for emphasis on the key words we highlighted yesterday. 

Using the japanese water brush we both wrote out one of the passages. This was a time consuming process, but we were both really pleased with the results. Here were some of my attempts:

Here were some of Hannah's:

We scanned these into the computer and found that they scanned really well. We thought that inverting the colours removed the 'on paper' appearance of the text and would allow us to work with a totally darken background on the projector.

Due to CoP tutorials tomorrow, we will have to resume next week. Here is our plan for the week:

Monday - Finish writing out third passage

Tuesday - Edit all the letters -> Where should there be reaplacements? what needs redoing?

Wednesday - Storyboarding

Thursday - Scanning and editing 

Friday and Saturday - Animation 

This will be a crowded week, but the final result should be worth it.