A Change of Plan

Most of the feedback I received after presenting to my class regarded the mismatch of the audio and video. Because the spoken content is so crazy to begin with, poking fun at it using sci-fie trailer movie titles didn't really add all that much to it. But I was married to the visual style. I considered using an interview with Tom Cruise, but aside from the fact that it had an awful soundtrack, it was still too crazy. The visual style wasn't making a statement.

Finally I decided to go with one of my original ideas to visually represent an interview with Sarah Palin despite the fact that I am ready to wash my hands of her presence on the political scene. I am aiming to animate a good portion of the audio from the clip below.



I decided to let myself go a little, concerning how much I stayed true to the style of 1950s movie titles. The concept is to illustrate her the ignorance and fear-mongering of her words by imitating war-propaganda/documentaries of the cold war in terms of the visual vernacular, and introducing a 3D element to represent a battle-map.

So far I've made 12 seconds worth. Took me a solid 6 hours!


A Very Narrow Maritime Border from Gabriel Aronson on Vimeo.

My aim is to use the crackling of the film to accentuate all her "ummms" and "errrrs".

In hindsight, LAND BOUNDARY should really be coming up from the ground. I just couldn't resist the cool fly-in effect.

Some sketches: