Wednesday, 4 October 2017

Wolf Alice - gifs & animations


  • Recommended Listening: Wolf Alice - Don’t Delete the Kisses

    Continuing (a little) with animation, I tried to capture two disparate emotions in a similar method, if that makes sense.
    Instead of a huge animation, I tried a few looping gifs that are clear without being over the top. This one I feel is the less subtle of the two, but the song itself is a very overtly aggressive one (lyrics include: “Am I a bitch to not like you anymore? Punch me in my face I won’t even fight you no more”). While it was a change of pace, I definitely feel the second gif is more effective.
  • This song is very lyric heavy and overtly romantic, in the classic more tragedy-centric sense. Because of this, as well as the lengthy title and swelling instrumentals that dominate the back end of the song, I felt a little overwhelmed when approaching it, as it feels like a very complete and full thing already.
    So I left it for a while and dawdled on other stuff.
    But then I basically thought, if you can't tell everything, then tell nothing. Does that make sense? I hope that makes sense.
    I basically just wanted to give a small look into the narrative made by the song, by showing a simple image that anyone who’s ever written a nervous message to anyone else can understand. Literally as I type this the cursor stops and blinks along, as if the whole world is waiting to see what you’ll write next. I wanted to communicate this nervousness and trepidation in the simplest way possible.



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