Animation Analysis Task

Factory from citrusink on Vimeo.

Identify the imagery by listing what you see eg the subject matter; objects, shapes etc

In this short film they have used iStopMotion and a little bit of animation. This video shows people working in a factory, they don't look very excited. It also involves a lot of tools and machinery. The person who created this video replaced a lot of the tools with parts from a human body for example, the grabber of objects is replaced with a human hand. This short film is in back and white, this makes the video look depressing, sad and boring and it makes the person watching feel sorry for the people working, and puts them in a depressing sad mood. Some scenes in this film seem to repeat itself somethings. The sound effects in this video is of the different machines, there is no dialog included in this video. The person who created this video also exaggerated the size of the different tools used for example, the spanner was ten times bigger then it's actual size, this is to show how hard and painful it is to do this job.This shows sympathy for the people in this video.

What is your overall impression of the mood of the work?
This video is not very exciting. It feels very boring and slow, but i think that that is what the artist of this video wanted to do. In some parts when i saw the people with the miserable look on their face, it made me feel a little bit sorry for them. I feel like this video was made to show how much people have to work and put up with, and seeing this video makes you feel sorry for all the people working hard in factory's and even though they look like they want to quit they can't.


Watch and Listen for visual language cues, sound cues and editing
The whole film is in black and white, which gives it a depressing and boring mood. It is extremely repetitive, and there are lots of mechanical sound effects e.g. the hand coming down. There is also no dialogue, and no real storyline, so it is a little bit hard to understand, so you have to watch the film quite a few times. This work was done in iStop-motion as well as Animation as in between the film you could hear pauses in the sound effects when it switches scenes.

Analysis:

Look at : http://www.howtodothings.com/hobbies/how-to-analyze-a-movie

Notice the visual language used by Matreyek's eg colour, line, the quality of the movement, shapes, use of scale etc - list what you identify - help site: HERE and for specific film language: MISE-EN-SCENE

The movie is in back and white with no other colours. There are a lot of lines and different shapes used in this short film. There is no dialogue in this film and the only movement in this film is people bopping up and down and walking. They have blown up the size of normal everyday tools such as the spanner. As i stated before there is no real story line that follows and is mainly repetitive.

Notice the sounds - list these identifying their type and quality

There are sounds of different machines working it sounds like it has been recorded. There is also sounds of people working and walking. You can also hear things dropping and beeping which sound like the noise that the computer does. The sounds sound like they have been recorded as the quality of the sound isn't clear in some parts.

Interpretation:

What is your interpretation of the work?

My interpretation of the work is that the maker of this film is trying to give the message that some people live boring, dull and repetitive lives with no enjoyment working to try and earn money. If we don't do something about this our lives are going to be like this for the rest of our lives.

Survey friends and family ~ what do they think the work is about?

My sister thinks it is about people doing work and thinks it is rather boring.

Alisha Seeto states:My interpretation of the work is that the artist is trying to show everyone how much work goes into a factory or really anything in the world. There are little people who work hard for the big people. Sometimes the small people do not get recognized and nobody thinks about them. I think that it also trying to make people understand that it’s not always sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. In this video it is black and white and dull – not very happy in this factory!

Gabby stated:

My interpretation is that the artist is trying to say that many workers live boring, repetitive lives and they will stay that way unless they decide to change them. Work is not always fun and life can get repetitive.

Who do you think is the intended audience for Matreyek's work?

I don't think Matreyek didn't have a specific audience, although if he did have a specific audience I think it would be adults as they will be able to relate to what he is trying to say about hard working days and jobs and they do work everyday day and they will understand the theme if this short film.

How does visual language inform your interpretation?

The whole film is in black and white and all the scenes are repetitive and the sound effects where repetitive to. There is the same use of lines and shapes as well. Also the people are pretty much doing the same just with different tools.

How has Matreyek used sound with the animation images to create meaning?

Matreyek used the same repetitive sounds over again, this is also shown with the images. to give it a boring and receptive theme just like the average day at work. this is because you hear the same sounds over and over again each day with the same job that people are doing around you.