Analysis - More Planning

Miwa Matreyek has used various visual art elements in her animation, including colour, shape, line and movement, to create her desired overall visual affect and mood. The colour scheme that has been used is monochromatic, and consists primarily of blue of the sky and shades of grey. As blue is used globally to portray peacefulness, optimism and tranquility, the colour scheme works to add those feelings to the scenes that contain colour, and emphasise the contrast with those that dont, giving them a darker, more dismal, miserable mood. Likewise, the shapes and lines predominately used in the images of the animation are mostly geometric, even in the nature scenes. This is demonstrated in the jagged horizon line of the mountains, which convey feelings of pain and suffering to the audience. As previously mentioned, the shapes used are also geometric, such as the rectangular buildings in the city scenes, the only exception being the hands, which are more organic in nature. This 'organic' aspect of the hands is also shown through their rythmic movement in the beginning and final scenes of the clip, however their movement slowly becomes more robotic and perfunctatory as the film progresses. It is clear that the art elements of colour, line, shape and movement all work together to add various moods

Analyse

Paragraph 1: Elements

• Colour - monochromatic grey (represents magnitudes of good and bad/passing of time) and white, blue (optimism, happiness, peacefulness, calm/sad, lonely, depressive emotions)

• Shape – hands, the contrast between

• Line – organic/geometric, jagged lines of nature

• Space –

• Tone + light – city scapes use greater amounts of black, create darkness (may mean presence of shadows, depression or evil/used to emphasize the contrast between the two settings), used in mountains and buildings to create the illusion of form and texture and bring the film to life

• Illusion of form – ^

• Texture – mountains?

• Overall visual affect/mood –

Describe

1. Miwa Matreyek

2. Digitopia

3. 2005

4. The literal objects in the animation include hands, mountains, a head, city scapes, scientific instruments, etc.

5. When I first look at the work I notice the artists use of hands in multiple scenes because the way in which she has included them (without bodies attached, moving as if they have a mind of their own) is very unusual and quite abstract.

6. Matreyek has used what I would describe as a monochromatic colour scheme, as she has only used a very bright light blue paired with shades of grey, occasionally verging on completely white or black.

7. The shapes that Matreyek has used in her film are predominately geometric in nature, and have quite sharp, straight edges, particularly in the city scape and it’s high rises and buildings.

8. The artist has used lines in the work, not as a central point in her artwork, but to define the various shapes through out the film or divide space, as demonstrated in the horizon line of the mountains in the first scene.

9. Texture does not really play a major role in the animation, however there are some scenes where Miwa has created the illusion of texture through the use of tone and lines to add a sense of reality to the images. A prime example of this

Ana

Principles

• Movement

• Sound

• Balance

• Unity

• Contrast

• Pattern

• Abstraction

• Composition

• Distortion

• Emphasis

• Harmony

• Juxtaposition

• Pattern

• Proportion

• Relationships

• Repetition

• Rhythm

• Tension