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Hokay. So. Lots of stuff is going on with me trying to coordinate with other people to borrow a camera/ find a location/ and get the files sorted to post. I haven't posted until now is that I wanted to wait so I could put the actual video files with the post, but apparently that's really difficult. I will try to ad in the video or some stills tomorrow if it decides to cooperate.
I have shifted my project since the shoes idea to focusing on full outfits. I want to explore how what a person wears and how they walk affects our perception of them. I have filmed my self walking across a plain background (really hard to find) in 14 different outfits starting with casual workout clothes and moving through fancy to ridiculous costume. I will have them all edited together so every half second or so the outfit will change as I walk.
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So my plan is kind of difficult to explain, no surprise there. Technique wise I want to play around with stop animation that is based on actual video footage. I was thinking about how much of our personalities is interpreted by by others based on how we walk and what we wear.
So I want to do a short animation of feet walking, but as they walk they change into different people wearing different shoes. This will be really hard, but maybe achievable.
Here is one short crappy to give you an idea of the visual research I am working on. I would link more but they take forEVER to load.
It would be awesome to get a tutorial on importing a video to photoshop so each frame was available to view and draw over.
This is an AWESOME idea. I was thinking about working with shoes for a previous project--but I think you're really on to something working with shoes related to identity. I wonder, though, what exactly you are trying to achieve here or if you are going for an exploration of how we identify ourselves through shoes (and more broadly through clothing and presentation) and how others recognize aspects of our identity through shoes( and clothing/presentation)... this seems like a good/fruitful topic. I wonder, though, about the rest of the body... for the duration of the animation will we only see the shoes? Will we see the shoes first (in an effort to set viewers to create certain expectations), then will bodies be revealed later? Or is the focus just on people's feet and shoes? Have you considered how to use sound in your project? Would you play footsteps sounds unique to each person, or something entirely different?
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