Storytelling Through Computer Animation
Assignment A3 on Mood
Objectives- Gain practice in thinking about how mood can be conveyed visually
- Gain more comfort in creating a setting in Alice
- Learn more Alice tools
The Mood or Tone
Today, we will explore some additional tools for creating a setting in Alice. In particular, we will focus on tools in Alice which can be used to enhance the setting and create a mood or set a tone.Professional painters have to make choices about their paintings such as the color palate. These choices affect the mood of the work. Visit the following National Art Gallery tour: http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg68/gg68-32624.html.
For each of these works of art, make objective observations and then make subjective observations, without mixing them.
Objective Observations
Describe what you see in the piece of art -- the forms and structures, the arrangement of the various elements. Avoid personal feelings or interpretations.Your description should help a person who has not seen the image to visualize it.
Subjective Observations
Describe your personal feelings when looking at the piece of art, drawing upon associations and making judgements about the image, anchoring your subjective response in something that is seen. For example, "I see...., and it makes me think of ....."
Using color to set a mood
Color is a powerful way to set a mood, but it is also subjective. Here is a link to information on the psychology of color:
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/EET/articles/wadecolor/start.htm.
Your task: (which is to be completed individually, though consultations are encouraged...)
Your primary task to use Alice to create a new scene which does the following:
Message: Your scene should convey to the audience about a fear that you have. This can be a fear you have about some aspect of your current life at Berea. It can be a small fear or a large fear. The restriction is that it must be a fear which is personal in nature. In addition, this fear must be conveyed primarily visually in an Alice world. In addition, bear in mind the following:
- Mood/tone: The mood you set is entire up to you. It can be comical or dark or whimsical or silly....
- Label: Please use an Alice billboard (rather than 3D text) in this scene as a label.
Please save this Alice scene as yourusername-A3. (Eg. Mine would be called pearcej-A3 because my Berea username is pearcej.)
In addition, type an Artist's Statement in Microsoft Word.As you know, an artist's statement helps the audience to understand what the artist believes to be the most important aspects of his/her art and the techniques used to make it. Again, a paragraph of three to five sentences should certainly suffice which answers the following questions:
- What fear is being conveyed and why was this particular fear chosen?
- What mood have you chosen to try to depict?
- Specifically, what have you done to try to set the mood?
- What did you chooses to put on the Alice billboard and why?
- Are other tools are employed: symbols? exaggeration? analogy? irony? If so, why are they used?
Submit both to Moodle before our next class.