At the start of this project, which specifically had to be produced for display outdoors I had a whole different medium in mind...sculpture, which I was soon to discover wasn't something I enjoyed, at all...don't get me wrong sculptures are fantastic, I'm just not very good at creating them as I thought!
The little maquettes I started creating before realising sculpture wasn't for me...
The concept of starling murmurations and relating their behaviour to our human communities stayed the same but I decided to create a stop motion animation instead as I had a good experience with making one for my last project and having some workshops earlier in the year also hugely informed my decision to choose stop motion animation.
experimenting with drawing onto 35mm film directly with ink...
I attended a Norman McLaren exhibition and workshop to learn a little more about how the animation is created on film as apposed to digitally aided stop motions.
Some film with sharpie marker pen scribbled onto it...
I was very kindly given some film from the camera less filmmaker Steven Woloshen, who works for the National Film Board of Canada and was at the workshop with a film he was working on. It was great to speak to someone so knowledgable about film.
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