Project 1- proposal

story:
 A man was working on the street, he found if he through touching with others that can go into their inside world. He must keep with them in a extent, or the inside world will disappear.

key point:
scenes of inside worlds, transition shots and sound effects.

Sketch：

Response of Felix in Exile

The story I understand is below:
  The exiled Felix seats in his room.He begins to look some pictures or photos from a suitcase.Through the pictures I realized a sad story (maybe it is history). In somewhere of Africa,a poor place,and it was lack of the basic infrastructure. There was an engineering team, which consisted of a female designer and some male workers. The woman was Felix's wife or lover, Felix missed her very much. The engineering team began to make the plan of the whole project of tap water, and built the foundations.However, when the project was continuing,for unknowing reason, the whole engineering team has been murdered.
  When Felix reminisce this history, he feels so sad and painful so that he stops to watch and tries to wash his face to calm down. But it doesn't work, the memory keeps playing while his sadness like overflowing water in his room begins to inundate him.
  Felix might be the one who participated in the event, or really knows the process of it. At the end of animation, Felix stands up with the suitcase from the pond where is the site of the project.As far as I am concerned, no matter is the pictures remind Felix the feeling of the event he participate, or the intense pictures make him being personally on the sense; he is in too deep of the feeling of the event.

Music:
The whole process of the animation accompanies with a woman's sad croon, like soul of Felix's lover retell the history to him. I think this is a humanized music, because sometimes when people reminisce some memory, the scene will replay in his head, and the people's voice will replay as well.Thus the music develops the effect of the scene of plot, and enhance the tense of emotion of the animation.

Style:
I really like the drawing style for this animation. Base on the resource, I realized that the animator is a South African. He used the method through revise part of the drawing and take pictures to make the stop motion animation. First, the method he has used will remain the traces of drawing of before, with the dirtiness of pencil sketch; it will produce a natural scene of historicity. Second, I believe hand-made work will indicate creator's emotion, like the soul of a animation that will bring audience more intense feeling.

Comment for Selection of Goodman's Aesthetics

  Through the reading, Goodman explains the relationship among symbol, art and understanding of world. In his opinion, people use symbols to perceive, understand and construct the world of people's experience; and the understanding of the world are consist by different science and different arts. So,people use symbols to compose artworks in processing different functions and bearing different relations with the world they refer to,which like a particular cognitive for the world. Because of the complicated construction, people need explanation and description to help them understand three things about artworks: theme, method and style/system of rules. Also, the aim of art is understanding the world, which get the same aim of other form of human knowledge. So art is a branch of epistemology. Art is a important part of understanding and making knowledge enterprise. Since the process of making art is a mode like making seriously science; through discovery, creation and refine the knowledge that base on understanding. It can be said, art is the second development for the part of things of the world to understanding, Before arts show up by aesthetics symbols, everything about the artworks must be deliberated and it is a serious behavior.