Thesis Title:
- A comparative analysis into various methods and techniques of audio driven animation, between the 1940’s and present.
- A comparative analysis between manual and automatic audio driven animation.
- A comparative analysis of music driven motion design, between the 1940s and present.
Key words:
- Impulsive expression
- Audiovisual alignment
- Audio-visual synthesis
- Ideological imagineering
- Ideological construction
- Emotionally rich mediums
- Mickey Mousing
- Bar sheet/Dope sheet
- Sound generation
- Frequency driven
- Hypnotic effect
- MIDI
- Animusic
- Diagetic/non diagetic
- Visual vectors
- Synchronising lip movement
- Sound effects
- Narrative structure
- Gag structure
- Story Mood Chart
Plan:
Introduction Checklist:
- Provide context of thesis
- Aims and Scope of what. I want to achieve
- Overview of chapters
- Identify readers, Examiner and people not familiar with topic
- Grab their attention, killer first line, avoid obvious question
- Background – make it relevant, current event relevance? Give reader sufficient info to know topic.
- General knowledge of subject matter, why are you doing this? Motivations? Relevant? Important?
- Preview of key points, lead into chapter 1
Chapters Checklist:
- Discuss bodies of work
- Perspectives, aims, theories
- Highlight the gaps in the work
- Justify why its relevant
- Acknowledge others work, analyse it
- Form cohesive arguments
- Define the current state of research
- What is the perspective?
- Have others reviewed this work? What did they say?
- How does it relate to your research?
- Use different disciplines of research – changes the initial theme
- Research methodology, qualitative or quantitive data, interviews, Observations , questionnaire
Abstract (300 words)
Introduction (800 words)
- new form of entertainment
- Ideological engineering
- Common used format everywhere
- Purpose
- Production timeline of animation comes last
- MTV proves how important music is to our culture
Chapter 1 – Music Mood (1500 words)
- Hypnotic Effect
- Story Moodboard
- Special effects
- Sound Association Experiment
- Psychology
Chapter 2 – Narrative Structure (1500 words)
- Animation bridge the viewers to the music
- Sound effects – queues
- Telling a story
- Pixar Shorts
- Rhythmic continuity
- Imitation
- Repetition
- Polyphonic structures
- Unification
- Gag structure
- Puntuation
Chapter 3 – Mickey Mousing (1500 words)
- Visual Vectors
- Audiovisual alignment
- bar / dope sheet
- manual given
- “Silly Symphony’ shorts.
- Synchronisation and Synthesis
- Punctuation
Chapter 4 – Technical & Digital Sound generation (1500 words)
- Spontaneous
- Animusic (mini music video)
- MIDI
- Frequency driven
- Sound visualiser
- Sound generation
- Popular abstract
- Cutting edge technology programmes
- Radically changed film industry
Conclusion (800 words)
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