The animation process is over.

I believe that today I have finished animating. I say believe for I am not sure whether perhaps I should develop more of a title sequence or not. I will seek advice on this from tutor and peers.
It feels good to have reached the end of my planned storyboarded film though, and has defiantly been the longest three and a half minutes of my life.

However I cannot rest yet, for the animation process is only part of the finish article, now, in a way, the interesting part begins. Up until now I have know what Ive wanted to achieve fairly precisely, as I made sure to plan my animating time as much as possible, and though I have been thinking constantly about how to show the film, now it is time to actually begin doing it. It will be harder than the animating in some ways, as am not as sure set in my intention, however this allows me freedom to experiment more than the animation process, and will hopefully be far more interactive than spending hours alone in my animation world.

I must now begin to think about installation, an art form that has always interested me, but one I have seldom attempted my self. One thing I find interesting about installation is the way that they can so versitile, being something huge and overwhelming as I remember Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project at the tate was:

It was a truly remarkable thing to visit, and the way that he completely transformed a space by doing so little sticks with me even now. I find it interesting how, in works like this, the participation of the audience is so key, and is perhaps even the part of the installation that has the most impact.

Or on the other it can be hand subtle and understated that you could miss it, such as the exhibition Freianlage by Andrew Bracey I once saw at the minories in colchester, in which he had created a "zoo" of toy animals by placing them around the gallery in various places, sometimes on pedestals, some times tucked away in the very bottom corners of the rooms or even hidden down cracks in the floor boards.

here he talks about one animal in particular.

It was interesting how this, involved participation from the viewer, but in a very different way to weather project, as this work asked the viewer not to bask in the grandure of the insallation, but instead lose oneself in the details of it. It seems to me that this interaction an instalation can have with an audience is key to how the installation can affect them and how they perceve it. I also feel that this can be infuelced by very small, details of context and simple logistics, which, though often not the most obvious things, can be some of the most crucial.

The installation aspect of my work is more a tool to enable the viewing of my film and so has a function, but this, in a way, opens up interesting new possibilities. It will be interesting to explore the way in which we interact with media such as film, something which now adays we are more acquainted with, and encounter more regularly than ever. Is it still possible for this medium to be as captivating as it once was?