Today I had a personal tutorial with Gary and I showed him my latest progress. My latest personal respond towards London would be “How sound affects my experience within Parks.” Below are interesting ideas I got from our conversation.

• We can respond to the greenery within London in a ‘celebratory’ manner since it is a city with so many green spaces.
• We can also respond to the city more critically.
• Think about speed and intensity.
• Think about organic shape and inorganic shape. Maybe the transformation could be between the two (so as to bring up some contrasting experience?)
• Try other pen techniques, the change could be subtle as well.
• Think more as an author than just a narrator of the story. Try record sounds more specifically of the subjects I’m interested in and try mixing them up rather than just using the recordings I have.
• He mentioned this word ‘Cacophony’ which is interesting which means ‘an unpleasant mixture of loud sounds’

So the big idea I got is treating each movement as life itself and to experiment more with the transitions of the visuals.

He also suggested a handsome of artists to explore further as follows,

Jan Svankmajer

Since I might want to use clay to visualise my experience, I should check this work.

William Kentridge

It’s interesting how the canvas of the work is used to make the animation by drawing onto it and take a photo for each step.

Oscar Fischinger and Fantasia

The pioneer of experimental animation which I found really exciting. I’ve searched on the internet and found this article interesting to read further. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jan/09/oskar-fischinger-animation-disney-nazis

Len Lye

I also read briefly about him from the Experimental Animation book. I need to explore more about him.