The lifting tower brief was introduced to us in the lecture theatre as a year group early on in the year. After hearing the brief I was excited to at the opportunity to undertake another collaborative brief, and intended to work at least at the start of the brief with other animation students. I approached Ollie and Oscar and we formed a group with the addition of Hattie from graphic design. During the briefing Fred [who delivered the brief] described the process we would undergo. This involved splitting into groups and coming up with visual ideas and then the organisation who commissioned the brief would pick their favourite ideas to narrow down the selection. Following this the people working on the brief would concentrate on the best ideas in order to bring the brief to a close before the Christmas events began in Leeds. We had several meetings straight away where we discussed ideas at length before working on individual ideas separately in order to gauge how they would work given the limitations and description of the final outcome in the brief.
Below is part of the initial work I produced to visualise my idea. It included following an owl [representative of the Leeds Owl] around the city centre and then as it flies out to more rural areas around Leeds. This was quite a complex idea in hindsight and I can see why it was unsuccessful. Furthermore, I should have paid more consideration to the nature of the brief and thought about the way the idea would be projected in the final outcome.
Following this, we had the chance to speak to consult with a representative from Lumen who gave us more details about the way the projector worked and what kinds of work will be successful and unsuccessful. Based on this we altered our ideas further and eventually assembled a range of successful short animations to be projected onto the tower.
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