Video 2 Work

-Presentation to the class my final project
-Presentation of video work. (By BLU)


The Seven Ravens:

Summary:
There was once a man who had seven sons, and no daughter. When his first daughter was born, he was overjoyed, but she was very weak and ill. The man sent all his seven sons to the well for water for the child, but the boys were so eager at the task that in the excitement they accidentally dropped the bucket in the well. The boys were too afraid to go back empty handed so stayed by the well quarreling over what to do next. Meanwhile, their father is angry with them and curses them all and they transform into ravens and fly off.
The young daughter grows up a little completely unaware that she ever had brothers, when one day she overhears someone speaking of them. She is shocked and confronts her parents right away, who admit that her brothers are now ravens and very far away. That night the girl sneaks away from home to find her brothers at the ends of the earth and the break the curse on them.


Formally, the video will be animated through a sequence of static images.
Influences include:
Green Evening Stories by David Troupes
The "Fractured Fairy Tales" Segment from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
( YouTube Link to The Three Little Pigs)
Concept art for Disney by Mary Blair
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Video work by BLU:
Everybody loves MUTO
It reminds me a lot of William Kentridge, except how the graffiti involves the surrounding environment rather than just existing as an image to be a frame in a movie.
But besides that there's also stuff like "ffwd" and "Child" which appear to be more traditional ways of animating.

How's that for now? I'm working on getting some pictures up, but my scanning situation is kind of a hassle. Excuses, excues!