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During my senior year in high school I decided to play football again and was really enthusiastic about being a starting running back. Our second game of the season was against Bamberg Germany which was an engineer detachment Army base located a few hours north of Hohenfels. During the game around the middle of the second quarter I was involved in a freak accident caused by an illegal tackle which ultimately ended my football career ,as well as my academic. I suffered a severe concussion and was in a coma for three weeks, after I was recovered I had to relearn a lot of things and try to catch up with what felt like the world after I left the hospital.
I spent most of my childhood watching my mother pop pills. I will make an animation about living, fatherless, with a mother who was mentally absent. I will collapse this extended period of time into remembered moments and "journal entries" comprised of my thoughts...as well as some healthy tinkering with pill bottles! I'm a little too old now to pass for a 6-year-old...so i'll be using a friend of mine and her daughter to aid me.
So, I'll be honest... A year ago this month I began country western dancing. I will say that before the first time going out, I thought it was the dumbest thing I had ever seen. After being assigned a project that asked us to study social dancing, I realized how much a part of the culture it is in Texas. In order to successfully display this in my class, my team and I had to go experience it first hand. The first night I went out I was so nervous I didn't know what to do with myself. I didn't want to look like an idiot in front of all the people at the "Honky Tonk." That night I literally fell in love with what I know consider my favorite hobby. It has been a year and I can say that I am significantly better at it. I love dancing. It has changed my perception on the culture of Texas as well as made me realize how much a part of my own family's history that it is. That being said, it was a life altering experience that I love to share with people.
My basic Idea is to tell that story through stop animation. I plan to use the whiteboard technique, pixilation, as well as object manipulation. I will use these to tell my story from the beginning till now.
An event that greatly impacted my life was when I met my boyfriend 5 years ago. I was 16 years old and we have been together ever since so essentially our relationship has been a huge part of my life and partially helped me become the person I am today because we grew up together. I know that doing something on a "boyfriend" could turn into a sappy idea, however I was wanting to go with something a little more abstract anyway. I wanted to start it off making a stop motion at the place we first met. He moved to California for school 3 years ago, then moved home, and then moved back again, so about 50% of our relationship has been long distance... that is a different animal in itself, and the mood of the piece would probably be a bit darker because the distance has put a strain on both of us. I was wanting to try to go to the airport and maybe do an animation involving airplanes as well. I'm also considering using a white board technique with an iPhone and text messaging.. we will see how that turns out.
The piece is based on relationship culture and the experience of being with someone who lives over 2,000 miles away, it's not an easy thing!
My animation is going to be how I met my husband. He is the closest person to me and affects my culture everyday. I am going to use pixelation, object manipulation and wipe board in my animation. I think this video will be heart warming and everyone will be able to relate to it because everyone knows what it's like to have a crush on someone or the idea of falling in love.
My idea is to hi-lite the freshmen & sophomore culture of trying to figure out what you really want to do. The "moment" will be when I stopped going to school and was worried about my future. I then had a dream that left me inspired and certain of my future as an educator.
My first semester of college at UNT I had a hard time making friends and felt really alone. I was borderline with depression and thought seriously about leaving school to move back home. I plan on making my movie about my second semester when I joined a Christian sorority and the change that it brought to my whole college carrier.
I come from a family who was, and still partially is heavily involved in drug abuse. If we had nothing, they had drugs. So my AA project will be crafted with claymation, pixilation, object manipulation, and some whiteboard to convey the culture of addiction in direct relation to family and the choices we make as we grow.
The first thing that came to mind when i was given this assignment was to do a animation of the time i was in Elementary being made fun of for the way i looked and being all alone because of it. It really dropped my confidence level to the point that i did not want to be around other people. This continued on until i went into third grade when i finally gained my first friend.
I came to the United States about seven years ago, and I can never forget how difficult and different things were to me. I did not know English nor the culture. I had to strive my way through the first couple months of high school, and over time my English got better and better. I was able to understand the vocabularies to do my readings and to write essays. My listening skills got better as well. I am going to make an animation about my experience in the USA as a newcomer and a student in high school. I am not sure exactly how I am going to put it all together, but I am going to use pixilation, object manipulation, and white board.
I was not always an artist. I actually began my journey as a freshman here at UNT, about three years ago. I would like to crate an animation about the journey I've encountered in college through this life changing choice as chapter 1. Then I would like to incorporate a chapter 2 entailing the decision of becoming a ceramicist and art educator. I plan to use pixilation, object manipulation, and white board.
My choice to be abstinent has greatly effected my life. My AA will give an insight to all of the societal influences that I experience every day that directly conflicts with my lifestyle. Mainly it will show the distance I feel from popular activities in our youth culture (drinking, swearing, sex, etc.)I will also include snipits of past relationships that were broken because of my choice to wait. However, I am quite happy with how this choice has shaped my life and in no way do I mean for this story to be a sad and lonely one. I know almost for sure that I will be using whiteboard, some sort of claymation, and pixilation.
Definatly need some opinions if possible! So I am caught between two topics.
1. I want to focus on my life as both and art student and a sorority girl. Most people believe that every girl in a sorority is a sterotypical "sorority girl". She's gorgeous from head to toe, perfect body, perfect personality, perfect life. EVeryone knows her and loves to hang out with her. She knows how to party and have a good time. Although many of my sisters meet the "sorority girl" criteria, I don't. I am what many people call rare. I am a art major that loves to stand out and be weird yet be the perky, obnoxious and well a sororoity girl. In this video I could really just compare and contrast myself with some of my sisters and really reveal my life in Pi Phi.
ORRRRRR...
2. Okay...so for my second option I am going to reveal my biggest obsession and love of my life, my hair dryer. Every since I can remember, I have always had my blow dryer by my side. Growing up my mother would always have it running in the morning as she got ready for work and at night when she would lay in bed and read. I remember the day I got my blow dryer at Walmart and immediately new it was love at first sight. So like mother like daughter, I became obsessed with my blow dryer. For this video I would basically start from the first time I purchased it and how our relationship has grown and how I use it throughout the day.
In both videos I would use object munipulation, pixilation and white board technique.
I am considering doing my AA over anxiety. Anxiety seems to be a very universal disorder ranging from your everyday stress to severe panic attacks. Over the past few years, I have been diagnosed with it, prescribed medication for it, suffered from it (insomnia, paranoia, doubt, irrational-ness in general..... Typically, I am not someone who suffers from extreme panic attacks...in the sense that I would have a breakdown in front of a crowd. Ironically, I think my anxiety of making a public scene prevents that from happening haha. But definitely I have suffered internally from it. Usually when I'm alone, I will dwell on something that happened and analyze it to the point where I have made up some irrational idea or fear or feeling...something that completely doesn't exist....but in my mind it does at that point in time.
Even trying to explain it now, I feel like I sound ridiculous. So that's what I'm going to try to do with this stop motion process....portray the ridiculous-ness of what anxiety can create in my mind. I plan to do this in a more abstract manner using claymation, object manipulation, and white board I think. Instead of trying to explain in a literal manner, I think I would like to experiment with getting the overall feeling across using these different elements.
This previous summer I took care of my terminally ill grandfather. All summer all I had time to do was work and take care of him. After he passed it took me a little while to readjust back to my normal schedule and doing the things I love. I wanted to get over his death as quickly as I could just because the thought of what happened was just too painful. A few weeks passed and though I kept telling myself I was fine, it was obvious to everyone else that I was still upset. Those events showed me how pointless it was for me to try and mask those painful emotions, especially when they are so obvious to everyone else. I felt guilty for trying so hard to forget him so soon after he was gone, and that I never took the time to properly remember him.
My AA will capture the mood a few weeks after he passed. Throughout the video there will be various hints that something unpleasant has happened in my life but it won't become clear to the viewer until the very end. It will show me trying to get back into my usual schedule of work and hanging out with friends while using a combination of live-action and various forms of stop-motion animation including object manipulation, white board animation, and puppeteering.
Difficult subject to approach for me, but during my mid-teens I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I have bouts of severe depression as well as manic episodes and panic attacks. My disorder wasn't really well-managed until I spent some time in a psychiatric hospital. I'd like to do my AA on my hospitalization and how it transformed my life.
A great deal of high school and middle school years for me was contending with my stepfather's various illnesses, which also wore out my mother to the point where she ended up in the hospital along side him. So, for about a week I lived alone without my parents trying to understand in my little teenage mind why this was happening to me and my family. Eventually as things worsened or remedied over the years, I had a point where I had to figure out who I was and how I would deal with this if it happened again in my adulthood, this involved me completely losing faith in my religion, and "converted" to Atheism. It was a tumultuous time in my life, and it was a day where everything about my perspective in life changed.
I'd like to approach this project metaphorically as I have in my music and art, illustrating through an older track I produced earlier this year, and through clips of the life of an animal that falls to the hands of modern society and is reborn in a kind of separated purgatory. Super odd, but it will involve a total overhaul of an individual's thought process and beliefs. I'll be using the conventional illustrated stop motion, and photographed objects as well.
I will be doing my AA over my relationship with my sister. Being that it is a tender topic for me I will be using metaphors symbolism and analogies instead of straight forward representations. My sister and I grew up in a very different environment than what we live in now. Once we moved away from that past life we tried to keep up an 'image' for each other, pretty much lying to each other about who we had become. It wasn't until recently that we learned that we were hiding the same secrets from each other, and it really opened a big door for our relationship.
My video will be about getting pregnant while not married during my sophomore year of college and how it changed my life, also getting married to the father while still pregnant. This is the biggest moment/s in my life and although it started out bad, it became the best thing ever. I will be using object manipulation, whiteboard, puppet manipulation, and maybe pixilation.
My AA will more than likely (because I like to change my mind a lot) be about my art experience through my first undergrad here at UNT and how I bailed on my dreams (and studio degree) of becoming an artist and a teacher and ending up where I am now... years older. I will more than likely use pixelation, object manipulation and whiteboard techniques to carry this out.
My AA will be about the serious car wreck that my girlfriend and I went through last December. The wreck ended up crushing a vertebrae in her lower back, and she had to get a spinal fusion to fix it. My story will be about our struggle together through a traumatic event. The culture I want to reference is post traumatic stress, living our lives with the constant reminder of the day of our accident and how it has never left, but has become a piece of my life much like my art and passion for teaching.
My AA will be me waking up to realize I'm in a real life fairy tale. I've spent so much time examining the parts of my past that were shitty that I want to spend some time making work about my present life. If you had told fifteen year old me that I would go to college with my high school sweetheart I would have called you liar hung up on dated conceptions of romance and love. Yet some how I ended up in this amazingly caring relationship that has lasted the test of time (so far). I want to use pixilation, projectile, and object manipulation.
My AA will be about my struggle and strife of an early, unplanned pregnancy and how none of these problems even matter now. I will explore the culture of motherhood and try to convey those little moments of "mommy hood" where nothing else matters but your kid. I will probably use puppet manipulation, object manipulation, pixilation, and white board.
During my senior year in high school I decided to play football again and was really enthusiastic about being a starting running back. Our second game of the season was against Bamberg Germany which was an engineer detachment Army base located a few hours north of Hohenfels. During the game around the middle of the second quarter I was involved in a freak accident caused by an illegal tackle which ultimately ended my football career ,as well as my academic. I suffered a severe concussion and was in a coma for three weeks, after I was recovered I had to relearn a lot of things and try to catch up with what felt like the world after I left the hospital.
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DeleteI spent most of my childhood watching my mother pop pills. I will make an animation about living, fatherless, with a mother who was mentally absent. I will collapse this extended period of time into remembered moments and "journal entries" comprised of my thoughts...as well as some healthy tinkering with pill bottles! I'm a little too old now to pass for a 6-year-old...so i'll be using a friend of mine and her daughter to aid me.
ReplyDeleteOops. This presentation will hit on Drug Culture (doctor shopping / use of prescription drugs for a nonprescription use).
DeleteSo, I'll be honest... A year ago this month I began country western dancing. I will say that before the first time going out, I thought it was the dumbest thing I had ever seen. After being assigned a project that asked us to study social dancing, I realized how much a part of the culture it is in Texas. In order to successfully display this in my class, my team and I had to go experience it first hand. The first night I went out I was so nervous I didn't know what to do with myself. I didn't want to look like an idiot in front of all the people at the "Honky Tonk." That night I literally fell in love with what I know consider my favorite hobby. It has been a year and I can say that I am significantly better at it. I love dancing. It has changed my perception on the culture of Texas as well as made me realize how much a part of my own family's history that it is. That being said, it was a life altering experience that I love to share with people.
ReplyDeleteMy basic Idea is to tell that story through stop animation. I plan to use the whiteboard technique, pixilation, as well as object manipulation. I will use these to tell my story from the beginning till now.
teach me. I like to learn new things, no matter how "dumb" it seems.
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ReplyDeleteAn event that greatly impacted my life was when I met my boyfriend 5 years ago. I was 16 years old and we have been together ever since so essentially our relationship has been a huge part of my life and partially helped me become the person I am today because we grew up together. I know that doing something on a "boyfriend" could turn into a sappy idea, however I was wanting to go with something a little more abstract anyway. I wanted to start it off making a stop motion at the place we first met. He moved to California for school 3 years ago, then moved home, and then moved back again, so about 50% of our relationship has been long distance... that is a different animal in itself, and the mood of the piece would probably be a bit darker because the distance has put a strain on both of us. I was wanting to try to go to the airport and maybe do an animation involving airplanes as well. I'm also considering using a white board technique with an iPhone and text messaging.. we will see how that turns out.
ReplyDeleteThe piece is based on relationship culture and the experience of being with someone who lives over 2,000 miles away, it's not an easy thing!
My animation is going to be how I met my husband. He is the closest person to me and affects my culture everyday. I am going to use pixelation, object manipulation and wipe board in my animation. I think this video will be heart warming and everyone will be able to relate to it because everyone knows what it's like to have a crush on someone or the idea of falling in love.
ReplyDeleteMy idea is to hi-lite the freshmen & sophomore culture of trying to figure out what you really want to do. The "moment" will be when I stopped going to school and was worried about my future. I then had a dream that left me inspired and certain of my future as an educator.
ReplyDeleteMy first semester of college at UNT I had a hard time making friends and felt really alone. I was borderline with depression and thought seriously about leaving school to move back home. I plan on making my movie about my second semester when I joined a Christian sorority and the change that it brought to my whole college carrier.
ReplyDeleteI come from a family who was, and still partially is heavily involved in drug abuse. If we had nothing, they had drugs. So my AA project will be crafted with claymation, pixilation, object manipulation, and some whiteboard to convey the culture of addiction in direct relation to family and the choices we make as we grow.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing that came to mind when i was given this assignment was to do a animation of the time i was in Elementary being made fun of for the way i looked and being all alone because of it. It really dropped my confidence level to the point that i did not want to be around other people. This continued on until i went into third grade when i finally gained my first friend.
ReplyDeleteI came to the United States about seven years ago, and I can never forget how difficult and different things were to me. I did not know English nor the culture. I had to strive my way through the first couple months of high school, and over time my English got better and better. I was able to understand the vocabularies to do my readings and to write essays. My listening skills got better as well.
ReplyDeleteI am going to make an animation about my experience in the USA as a newcomer and a student in high school. I am not sure exactly how I am going to put it all together, but I am going to use pixilation, object manipulation, and white board.
I was not always an artist. I actually began my journey as a freshman here at UNT, about three years ago. I would like to crate an animation about the journey I've encountered in college through this life changing choice as chapter 1. Then I would like to incorporate a chapter 2 entailing the decision of becoming a ceramicist and art educator. I plan to use pixilation, object manipulation, and white board.
ReplyDeleteMy choice to be abstinent has greatly effected my life. My AA will give an insight to all of the societal influences that I experience every day that directly conflicts with my lifestyle. Mainly it will show the distance I feel from popular activities in our youth culture (drinking, swearing, sex, etc.)I will also include snipits of past relationships that were broken because of my choice to wait. However, I am quite happy with how this choice has shaped my life and in no way do I mean for this story to be a sad and lonely one. I know almost for sure that I will be using whiteboard, some sort of claymation, and pixilation.
ReplyDeleteDefinatly need some opinions if possible! So I am caught between two topics.
ReplyDelete1. I want to focus on my life as both and art student and a sorority girl. Most people believe that every girl in a sorority is a sterotypical "sorority girl". She's gorgeous from head to toe, perfect body, perfect personality, perfect life. EVeryone knows her and loves to hang out with her. She knows how to party and have a good time. Although many of my sisters meet the "sorority girl" criteria, I don't. I am what many people call rare. I am a art major that loves to stand out and be weird yet be the perky, obnoxious and well a sororoity girl. In this video I could really just compare and contrast myself with some of my sisters and really reveal my life in Pi Phi.
ORRRRRR...
2. Okay...so for my second option I am going to reveal my biggest obsession and love of my life, my hair dryer. Every since I can remember, I have always had my blow dryer by my side. Growing up my mother would always have it running in the morning as she got ready for work and at night when she would lay in bed and read. I remember the day I got my blow dryer at Walmart and immediately new it was love at first sight. So like mother like daughter, I became obsessed with my blow dryer. For this video I would basically start from the first time I purchased it and how our relationship has grown and how I use it throughout the day.
In both videos I would use object munipulation, pixilation and white board technique.
I like the sorority girl topic. I think the hair dryer topic is cute and quirky though. Go with your gut
DeleteI am considering doing my AA over anxiety. Anxiety seems to be a very universal disorder ranging from your everyday stress to severe panic attacks. Over the past few years, I have been diagnosed with it, prescribed medication for it, suffered from it (insomnia, paranoia, doubt, irrational-ness in general..... Typically, I am not someone who suffers from extreme panic attacks...in the sense that I would have a breakdown in front of a crowd. Ironically, I think my anxiety of making a public scene prevents that from happening haha. But definitely I have suffered internally from it. Usually when I'm alone, I will dwell on something that happened and analyze it to the point where I have made up some irrational idea or fear or feeling...something that completely doesn't exist....but in my mind it does at that point in time.
ReplyDeleteEven trying to explain it now, I feel like I sound ridiculous. So that's what I'm going to try to do with this stop motion process....portray the ridiculous-ness of what anxiety can create in my mind. I plan to do this in a more abstract manner using claymation, object manipulation, and white board I think. Instead of trying to explain in a literal manner, I think I would like to experiment with getting the overall feeling across using these different elements.
This previous summer I took care of my terminally ill grandfather. All summer all I had time to do was work and take care of him. After he passed it took me a little while to readjust back to my normal schedule and doing the things I love. I wanted to get over his death as quickly as I could just because the thought of what happened was just too painful. A few weeks passed and though I kept telling myself I was fine, it was obvious to everyone else that I was still upset. Those events showed me how pointless it was for me to try and mask those painful emotions, especially when they are so obvious to everyone else. I felt guilty for trying so hard to forget him so soon after he was gone, and that I never took the time to properly remember him.
ReplyDeleteMy AA will capture the mood a few weeks after he passed. Throughout the video there will be various hints that something unpleasant has happened in my life but it won't become clear to the viewer until the very end. It will show me trying to get back into my usual schedule of work and hanging out with friends while using a combination of live-action and various forms of stop-motion animation including object manipulation, white board animation, and puppeteering.
Difficult subject to approach for me, but during my mid-teens I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I have bouts of severe depression as well as manic episodes and panic attacks. My disorder wasn't really well-managed until I spent some time in a psychiatric hospital. I'd like to do my AA on my hospitalization and how it transformed my life.
ReplyDeleteA great deal of high school and middle school years for me was contending with my stepfather's various illnesses, which also wore out my mother to the point where she ended up in the hospital along side him. So, for about a week I lived alone without my parents trying to understand in my little teenage mind why this was happening to me and my family. Eventually as things worsened or remedied over the years, I had a point where I had to figure out who I was and how I would deal with this if it happened again in my adulthood, this involved me completely losing faith in my religion, and "converted" to Atheism. It was a tumultuous time in my life, and it was a day where everything about my perspective in life changed.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to approach this project metaphorically as I have in my music and art, illustrating through an older track I produced earlier this year, and through clips of the life of an animal that falls to the hands of modern society and is reborn in a kind of separated purgatory. Super odd, but it will involve a total overhaul of an individual's thought process and beliefs. I'll be using the conventional illustrated stop motion, and photographed objects as well.
I will be doing my AA over my relationship with my sister. Being that it is a tender topic for me I will be using metaphors symbolism and analogies instead of straight forward representations. My sister and I grew up in a very different environment than what we live in now. Once we moved away from that past life we tried to keep up an 'image' for each other, pretty much lying to each other about who we had become. It wasn't until recently that we learned that we were hiding the same secrets from each other, and it really opened a big door for our relationship.
ReplyDeleteMy video will be about getting pregnant while not married during my sophomore year of college and how it changed my life, also getting married to the father while still pregnant. This is the biggest moment/s in my life and although it started out bad, it became the best thing ever. I will be using object manipulation, whiteboard, puppet manipulation, and maybe pixilation.
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ReplyDeleteMy AA will more than likely (because I like to change my mind a lot) be about my art experience through my first undergrad here at UNT and how I bailed on my dreams (and studio degree) of becoming an artist and a teacher and ending up where I am now... years older. I will more than likely use pixelation, object manipulation and whiteboard techniques to carry this out.
ReplyDeleteMy AA will be about the serious car wreck that my girlfriend and I went through last December. The wreck ended up crushing a vertebrae in her lower back, and she had to get a spinal fusion to fix it. My story will be about our struggle together through a traumatic event. The culture I want to reference is post traumatic stress, living our lives with the constant reminder of the day of our accident and how it has never left, but has become a piece of my life much like my art and passion for teaching.
ReplyDeleteMy AA will be me waking up to realize I'm in a real life fairy tale. I've spent so much time examining the parts of my past that were shitty that I want to spend some time making work about my present life. If you had told fifteen year old me that I would go to college with my high school sweetheart I would have called you liar hung up on dated conceptions of romance and love. Yet some how I ended up in this amazingly caring relationship that has lasted the test of time (so far). I want to use pixilation, projectile, and object manipulation.
ReplyDeleteMy AA will be about my struggle and strife of an early, unplanned pregnancy and how none of these problems even matter now. I will explore the culture of motherhood and try to convey those little moments of "mommy hood" where nothing else matters but your kid. I will probably use puppet manipulation, object manipulation, pixilation, and white board.
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