Self Introduction: Autobiographic

Starting out as flipbooks in the 16th century, then as photographs began to develop in 1826, it wasn't long before animation and film started to take form and make use of this idea that was beginning to evolve and take form. In the same year as the photgraph was beginning it's life, Dr John Ayrton Paris started selling thaumatropes in London. These were followed some years later by the zoetrope in 1834 which was then improved as the proxinoscope in 1877  only to then have the enhanced flipbook known as the mutoscope released in 1894. By this time Marey had developed Chronophotography (1870) and the photograph was slowly beginning to become more and more refined and advanced. Thus in 1879, Muybridge took it and made the zoopraxiscope. After the Lumiere brothers had conceptualised moving image, it wasn't long before George Melies created the first ever animated film, "Le Voyage dans la Lune" (1902).

Now, in the present day, I created my very first animation. Ever. So proud. :')

This animation was made using a canon camera borrowed from the FTU with tripod.

To complete this first brief, I used mementos and keepsakes that I have accumulated over the years. The teddy bear is one of the first gifts I ever received and signifies the childhood era of my life. The order in which the items interact with each other is unintentionally chronological: from child hood, I then entered the phase of life where I was obsessed with dolphins and water life in general. This lead in to my "pirates" phase, fuelled by the feature films "Pirates of the Caribbean" as shown by the spyglass. The guitar pic and the cushion with a photo print of myself and friends where the next stage of my life and all disappeared into an aged bag which I have had since I was seven, portraying that one of the main constants and all encompassing aspects of my life is that of travel and holidays with my family.

In order to make them move, I simply propped them up with my hand out of the frame, although this didn't work perfectly every time. 

I'm pleased with how this turned out, but if I were to change anything it would be to retake those shots that my hand was visible in and to add sound. Perhaps it might be worth inserting a wire structure into the teddy to make it easier to move and stand by itself thus eliminating my hand from the frame.