The language of collage in stop motion: from a home-kitchen

NEW SOUND WANTED...

An interesting home-made stop-motion animation, Butterfly Effects, created by a few of my current and former students because they want to carry on with creative activities... The beauty of free association... It invokes the langage of children which is a lost source of inspiration, a lost platform of creative approach we want to revisit as grown-ups.

This is meant to be an MV, but I recommend to watch it without sound to really understand its charm...

Venda Lee and "7" are the two main creators, assisted by other friends and family members who helped cutting the photo characters which are in bulk quantity. They spent over 7 months to complete the entire project.

"They are very selective members as we demanded high cutting skills HAHAHA. To me the hardest part of the project
is spending weekdays evenings in shooting..." said Venda.

Here’s a link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yd1uZfvk9Y

My quick remarks to Venda on the work:

"It is really cool work and highly imaginative. And honestly I think this work has much greater potential to be an experimental animation than for MV. For MV, there's a certain grammar you need to follow...MV works upon structure and repetition... This work may have to be re-cut for that purpose. However, this work is far beyond an MV that is subservient to the melody!!! I really think it would be good if the sound can be reconstructed as an autonomous soundscape. Give one more layer of sound and a different world, and you'll discover many great things you have already put into the work that you are not aware of..."