1. Boneyard Shuffle - Red Nichols and His Five Pennies
- Swing/ Jazz era - 20s?
- Improvisational
- Elongated/ angular figure doing subtle movements
- Gentlemen's club feel
- Brass/ wind instruments, double bass
- Could I humanize instruments into gentlemen?
- Muted colours - soft golds + yellows, pale pink
- Mustache? Stereotypical jazz era/ gentleman character
- Sci-fi sound effects
- Future-istic
- 80s keyboard demo
- Synths
- Sporadic/ transient
- Building up + falling down
- Shape based, blobs - ever-changing
- How can I characterize irregular shapes? Abstract bodies?
3. The Night Knows No Dawn - The Body
- Scary
- Violent/ Angry
- Menacing
- Dark, harsh, rough
- Textural/ gestural marks and shapes
- Dark values
- Grey/ blue palette
REFLECTION
I've chosen to work with the Inspector Norse piece as I feel it offers to most scope for exploration of abstract characters. I feel that I often work with figure and character so this could be a good test of my character design, pushing me to explore abstract and irregular forms and how these can take on characters. While I found the Boneyard Shuffle to offer a real sense of character, I thought perhaps that the sort of 20s jazz era gentlemen is perhaps too specific and doesn't invite much experimentation. Alternatively, The Night Knows No Dawn could encourage an interesting exploration of texture and form but I am more intrigued by the transient, sporadic feel of Inspector Norse and feel that this will invite a greater exploration of shape and movement.
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