In our first week of our Monochrome elective, we first began learning and experimenting with patterned animation. We started with tracing charcoal on paper over an electrical sockets to create black and white patterns that we then created a stop motion animation with.
This was the first of several patterned animations we would make as we would then be tasked to observe our environments to find more repeating patterns we could film. First we filmed patterns we could find inside the LCC campus building.
Following this, we were then tasked to film something that was “boring” or “ugly” which I responded with by filming rubbish bins on the street in my neighbourhood.
From these initial tests we were able to gain an initial understanding of the experimental mindset we were going to have while creating our films. From this we were able to understand how find different sources of inspiration where we wouldn’t normally look for it for our work.