Knowing I wanted to use typography and textures, I started experimenting. I went into the letterpress workshop and just experimented with wood type, for texture, and ornaments, knowing I was thinking about using collage in my animation and I thought about making flowers out of ornaments would be interesting, or making flowers out of printed text.
I then moved back to the idea of using a song, and I thought I could use a more obvious choice, something which hits the nail on the head a little more than the others. However I like the more abstract and emotional approach. And picked the song ‘When it don’t come easy’ And wrote out the lyrics by hand, I find this helps to understand the meaning behind the words and I can brainstorm out of them.
From here I moved onto gathering ideas for the typography I wanted to use, and I liked the hand I used in the Summer Project and here, but I wanted to experiment with other ideas as well.
I had been working on creating a font for my professional practices project and it was similar style, instead of creating a whole new font I experimenting with adapting it, so all the baselines are different so it creates the up and down nature of my hand drawn font. I may not use the font specifically, but I thought it may help during the planning phase, or if I go down another path.
I then started to experiment with the idea behind the animation. I want to look at the things we are losing, such as fish and bees. But also other animals and food. So I started sketching out line-drawings of examples of these, Cod, Bees and Coffee Beans.
The next steps now is creating a storyboard, and then an animatic. From there I can start breaking down the image and textures I need and work on them. Then I need to start getting reading to start creating my college animation, and making the decisions on how much if any will be digital.