Popova's Reflective Diary: Collabor-8 Animation workshop

For the Collabor-8 event we had an animation workshop during which we create a video based on the idea of the event which will be running on a massive screen at The Space. It is an interesting creative low budget approach to promote an event.

The main aim of the event is to unite all young people aged 15-25 and to inspire them to create art together and express their creativity. The flyer and the logo of the event is made by 8 faces (mine and of another 7 member of Get Involved) drawn on a piece of paper with different color makers. The short video has the same idea. It consists of 3 part - one of them is the coloring of the Collabor-8 text which is also part of the logo in different colors ad prints, the secong is the profile faces and the third is a face with a sound wave coming out of its mouth. All we used is a large piece of brown paper, can also be many smaller sticked together as a background and additonal pieces of brown paper on which we made the drawings and and placed them on the large piece. As a budget it cost around 10£ - 7-8£ for brown paper and 2£ for makers.
During the making the camera was set on a certain box and we were placing and removing the images. The movement was simulated by the slow change of the position of the object we put. With the coloring of the text we sticked the letter on the background, coloured a bit of them, then moved away from the shot, took a picture, and colored a bit more, then removed again, take a picture, ect. The less the progress of the coloring is for a picture, the more natural it looks as a movement afterwards. The same procedure was with the spinning 8 and the other parts of the video. Finally the effects were added on Adobe After Effects.
Here are some stills from the video making: