MOVING IMAGE
My work has many cross-overs, film included. I enjoy experimenting with layers, analogue techniques and mixed media. So far my film making is mostly self-taught and acts as a side product of other creative paths, however I am looking to expand my portfolio in short film and animation in a more intentional and refined way. Here is a selection of some of my work so far.
#1
Animated Short:
Too much too late
For this film, I used self-taught animation techniques, combining hand-drawn stop motion with photoshop and editing each individual frame, to then sequence and edit in Premier Pro. I then recorded and edited the sound effects (mostly from 'Freesound') along with the voice recordings of the script I had written myself. My 'voice recording studio' looked something similar to a duvet den over kitchen chairs, and I built a homemade pop from a clothes hanger and tights. The original film featured Elvis Presley's 'Money Honey' in the background of the final bathroom sequence I had to remove it for copyright purposes.
#2
theatre Trailer:
the human animal presents
wastwater
by simon stephens
I was working as the Set Designer and Assistant Stage Manager on this show for a month up at the Edinburgh Fringe. On one of the rehearsal days before we went North, I put this trailer together in a day. Staying true to the script, I gathered video clips from YouTube which reflect some of the narratives of the characters, and we projected them over the actors in one afternoon. The song is also referred to numerous times in the play, which I edited the images to fit around. See my 'Stage' section to see photos from the production. MUSIC CREDIT: Maria Callas - Carmen (Habanera) (Chuy Ayala Remix)
#3
Animation meets live action:
Generation F
This piece was created for my BA dissertation. I was inspired by other theatre makers who have combined the two art forms together, such as 1927 Theatre's The Animals and the Children Took to the Streets, and fellow Warwick graduate company Kill The Beast's The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, and most recently Steoptik's Dark Circus. As much as I adored these productions, I felt there was a gap I wanted to fill between a character's onstage presence and the animation becoming one character and being an equal presence, rather than one being a background or a facilitator for the other. Thus, I created this experiment, writing and animating a spoken word dialogue within the mind of the character on stage. I stayed up the whole night rendering and exporting the final film to be ready for the performance the following day, so my memory of this recording is as blurry as the recording itself.
I chose the relationship with social media as the material to explore the war on communication and connection, which draws parallels in the disconnection of the real world and the digital projection. Although the central figure in the piece, I also just scrolled through Facebook totally disengaged with my audience throughout, again embodying levels of communicative conflict.
