Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Direct Animation: Ignore the frame line and pull marks as long continuous bands
- Type
- Set in Direct Animation's manner (Write letters by hand one frame at a time and keep the drift), and let Photogram's lettering (For letters, lay cut stencils on the paper and leave them reversed) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Direct Animation's material (Paint onto clear stock, scratch into black, and switch between them); bring in exactly one thing from Photogram (Photo paper, lamp height, exposure time, distance controlling edge hardness).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #f0eee5, #73777a, #111315.
Where they fight
- Two techniques rather than two looks. Decide which one runs last in the process, because that is the one that will show.
- Roughly 105 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.
Caution
- Direct Animation Laying one scanned scratch texture over the footage so the dirt sits still instead of changing every single frame.
- Photogram This is not black and white abstraction in general. Merely arranging unusual objects records only shadows, while transparency and distance from the sensitized surface are what make the image.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Direct Animation (Technique, 1935–) and its accent from Photogram (Technique, 1830s– / avant-garde revival). Structural cues: Hand-drawing on film; Scratched marks; Continuity that ignores frames; Physical blots of color. Accent cues, used sparingly: Cameraless; Object contours; Reversed values; Contact and distance. Composition: Ignore the frame line and pull marks as long continuous bands. Type and lettering: Write letters by hand one frame at a time and keep the drift. Let one material quality come from the second style: Photo paper, lamp height, exposure time, distance controlling edge hardness. Mood: Rebellion, Play, Intimacy, Technology, Calm. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #f0eee5, #73777a, #111315. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Direct Animation 1935– / Technique / Experimental Film
Images made without a camera, by drawing, scratching and pasting directly onto the filmstrip. The film stock itself becomes the brushstroke and the rhythm.
- Photogram 1830s– / avant-garde revival / Technique / Photographic Techniques
No camera is involved. Objects laid on the sensitive surface and exposed to light turn contour, transparency and distance into the picture.
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