Adaptation & Professional Practice Part A - Sounds for Infographic

I was researching some possible solutions for background music for my infographic. Something upbeat, happy and looks to provoke the audiences viewing attention. I came across Bensound.com, here there is plenty of variation in royalty free tones. All one has to do is to credit the source in an animation and they can use them. I highlighted a few that caught my interest.

Adaptation & Professional Practice Part A - Animating Icons of 10 steps

Adaptation & Professional Practice Part A : Infographic Text Intro

Mudbox tutorial: The pepper

Adaptation & Professional Practice Part A - Refined Designs

Adaptation & Professional Practice Part A: Breakfast Cereals Research

An influence map of some of the examples of breakfast cereal fonts, shapes and positioning's. All of them together creates a variety to select from. The colours seem to compliment each other and some strive for simplicity, others for intricate placements. You can also tell which are children breakfasts by just observing the characters, always filled with happiness in their space. There is always one dominant colour in these as well. For example the Frosties cereal uses deep blue to bring forth the character to the audience, eye-catching reds in both the tongue, scarf and font.

My favorite to select from these though would be between the Dorset and Jordans Cereal.

I've put them into a colour order from what I would think would be night to day. I prefer this design because of its positioning, simplistic yet effective designs with the most basic typography. Some of the colours compliment each other really nicely. I would like to incorporate this style into my own workings.

 

 

I want to use the dorset cereals colours from above to annotate the passing of time into morning. I could set a timer on the colour to contrast from one to another. I'm also thinking of a wiping transition to display information on the screen. I will be briefly going back to my designs, taking some font styles and creating colour compositions of possible steps.

Adaptation Film Review: Paprika

Directed by Satoshi Kon and released in 2006, Paprika is an Japanese animation co-written by Yasutaka Tsutsui and Seishi Minakami. Satoshi Kon born in 1963 studied at the Mushashino College of arts. He began as a manga artist, moving onto animation working in the background of many films such as 'Roujin Z' (1991), his first feature film was 'Perfect Blue' (1997). In 2001, he finished work on his second feature, 'Millennium Actress'. Satoshi's style as you can guess is as a anime/manga artist. With this art form he can explore surrealism to an audience who is quite familiar with it, anime and manga always looks to push the boundaries on what to expect in cinema.

The film is about three scientists at the Foundation for Psychiatric Research who fail to secure a device they've invented, the D.C. Mini, which allows people to record and watch their dreams. A thief uses the device to enter people's minds, when awake, and distract them with their own dreams and those of others. Chaos ensues. The trio - Chiba, Tokita, and Shima - assisted by a police inspector and by a sprite named Paprika must try to identify the thief as they ward off the thief's attacks on their own psyches. Dreams, reality, and the movies merge, while characters question the limits of science and the wisdom of Big Brother.

It was attempting to push the boundaries of surrealism and force them into realistic spaces. It felt like in some areas to be reminiscent of 'Inception' by Christopher Nolan. I believe it did this by asking us subliminally if the animation was currently in dreamspace or awake, just like Inception did. The editing was repetitive just like the dream sequences, it was a constant reminder to events that occurred earlier in the film. The soundtrack was filled with energetic Japanese pop, it gave us a hint we would see Paprika by including her own theme tune.

I would recommend this to people who have seen animations such as the Studio Ghibli collection or looking for a fresher release from anime eastern cinema.