Animation Proposal

For my animation proposal, I took strong influence from certain pages of my sketchbook that I felt were both visually engaging and relevant to my quote. These were the pages that conveyed the theme of the boundary between the real and the digital best, since this is theme that has really interested me during my research.

These pages all reflect on the theme of the digital realm intersecting with the real world, and I also really like the visual theme of text/glitches on top of the real world, or else buried within it. My quote focuses on digital art using glitches and digital noise, which I can incorporate into the real world. There are many layers to the proposal I want, which I will fully explain in my essay, but essentially I want to combine elements of virtual reality (which is on the rise), smartphone culture, and blend them with the real world. I feel like there are many cultural pieces which reflect negatively on technology's influence in the real world, and I don't want my animation to just be another hashing of that same idea. Instead, I want to explore the aesthetic of the combination of the two, and show that it isn't necessarily awful.

I also want my animation to be in a portrait 1080x1920 aspect, as this can be viewed on a smartphone screen, so that it encourages the viewer to interact with it, and view it through the same device that can be used to see the world through. 

Below is my final image sequence. It will be a continuous shot, but I want it to be interactive - in that the viewer has to physically select the options. However, selecting the option that doesn't progress the animation (so choosing "ignore" at the beginning) would just cause that notification to keep popping up forever, until the viewer selects the right option. The final few options (as it pans up to the sky) don't change what happens onscreen, and it progresses anyway.

The image sequence can also be viewed at https://issuu.com/allyhorton/docs/image_sequence