Project 3 – animation
From the start I new I wanted to do an animation but I didn’t know what I wanted to use. I then decided to use a board game to animate the pieces on the board. I wanted to use a very basic yet well known game, so I chose I childhood favorite, Candy Land. I took hundreds of pictures so that the candy land gingerbread figures seem to dance around, moving in circles to make it look like they are playing together. Once I completed the video, I was unsure of what sort of audio to use. I decided that I wanted to find music, or multiple songs to combine, that had a quick rhythm or beat to go along with the movement of the gingerbread figures. I wanted to use something childish yet not boring, I wanted to find music that would be thought of as surprising or ironic to go along with the dancing Candy Land figures. I contemplated using some sort of scary music but I still wanted the song to be upbeat and cartoon like so that it matched the animation I produced. After searching on iTunes, I chose songs from the movies “Beetlejuice” and “Nightmare before Christmas”, both cartoon children movies yet with a sort of scary or Halloween influence. The three songs I picked and combined together had exactly what I was looking for. The music is not what you would expect to go with a candy land board game, yet it the tempo and style are perfect for the dancing animation. I put the three songs in order of increasing childish horror influence, if that makes any sense… the first song is innocent and seems like music ballerinas would dance to, the second is much more upbeat and has drums, clocks, and a mischievous sound to it. The third and final song, is the most creepy so it is fitting that in the end, the four gingerbread figures fall back, seemingly dead, one by one.
