After sketching out different ideas and storyboards I analysed each idea. I was unsure about what style to use, between the idea of the entire thing being a buffering computer screen or the idea of ‘things you do can in 10 seconds’. To get an idea of what the first idea would look like, I used illustrator to give myself an idea of what it would look like. Again, I took influence from the style of the glitches in ‘The Matrix’ and layered shapes on top of each other to create the idea of pop ups on the screen and objects moving on the page.
I liked the general style of it but still wasn’t sure how it would look in an animation or video, so I created a storyboard so I could get more of an idea.
Although I like the individual images and the way they look, I think having a full video all consisting of the same or similar images could get too repetitive or boring, and the meaning behind it is too literal and leaves nothing to the imagination. Because of this reason, I decided not to go ahead with the idea.
I then had the ‘things you can do in 10 seconds’ ideas which I had to decide between. After thinking about all of them and imagining what they would look like in my head. Firstly I decided a split screen view was not the right path to go down, although it may show the contrast well, the split screen view gives the sense that two things are going on at the same time, whereas I wanted to give the idea of 2 completely different things you could be doing.
I then had two ideas, one of which the buffering screen comes up after every animation, in the other, the buffering screen doesn’t come up until the end when all the animations have played. Although the 2 ideas are very similar, I think the idea of only showing the buffering screen brings up the tension and shows the contrast between the two. If the viewer is aware of what the video is about it could come across as boring and wouldn’t be as interesting, whereas if the viewer is drawn into the video watching the animations and learning about what can be done in 10 seconds, the final scene will shock the viewer more and could make them think more about what they’re doing while their computer freezes.
Ben Jackson 