Artefact 3 - Spider

In this piece I wanted to show how a heightened emotion such as fear/panic can be portrayed through character animation alone.



I had a good critical response to this artefact in which my tutor Andy Love went on to dissect it. I really need to work on the timing and spacing on this. Timing refereeing to how long a shot will take, for example, how long will it take for her to enjoy the aroma of the coffee. Spacing refers to the keying of frames, whether it will be fast up and slow in etc. The feedback I received was very useful and made me think about why she is smelling the drink opposed to me just thinking about the gag itself. You want her to savour the aroma, slowly bringing the cup up to her nose, slowly enjoying its scents before returning to its holding position before having a taste. By showing how much she is enjoying this drink this really sets up the gag of; she is really enjoying this time by herself and the drink, then it gets ruined by the visit of the spider thus making the arrival of the spider that much worse making the overall gag better in itself. I need to think more of the thinking behind that character itself. This all links back to timing and spacing, she brings the drink way too fast up to her nose, if this was real life she would be getting drink all up in her face! More keys there would slow it down a little! The way in which she jumps out of the seat is both physically impossible to which my peers physically tried to re-enact and the transferral of energy is all wrong. Her hand needs to stay firmly attached to the sofa when she grabs a hold. The amount of energy in which she is grabbing the sofa would make it more than likely fully tip over. I need to re think the way she would pop out of the chair and the angle in which she would turn. Overall I think this is a good artefact, my peers had much to speak about which gave me much useful evaluative notes and my tutor said that the reason he could pick it apart and speak about it so much is because it is a good artefact. I need to carry on to work on all said points above and the points said in earlier artefacts to eventually make an excellent artefact. I will go over this when I have the time and re post it without and evaluation.