Fishy

The creative brief we got this term was a class project. We chose a song collectively. The song chosen was Mr Scruff - Fish. What a tune!! So this song was then split into 20 equal segments and given randomly to the class (there being 20 people in my class). As the song is mainly samples of people talking about fish with no apparent narrative we decided to add an overlying theme which was Environmental Issues.

The brief was to represent the song and narrative in your segment. Working with the people either side of you on the transitions between your pieces.

As always with university projects i just want to experiment and learn as many skills as possible. So from the start I wanted to composite live action with stopframe and digital animation. Inspiration for which would be Noah Harris's work with E4 and most recently Ford.

For the narrative of the piece i wanted to do something comical yet challenging.
The idea I came up with; In response to human consumption of fish the fish are adding to the natural output of C0 2 from the sea by opening up massive soviet C0 2 tanks underwater thus adding to global warming and ending human existence.




This was one of the most laborious and enjoyable projects I have done to date. I spent Around 40/50 hours on the final 12 seconds. I learnt origami, went to central London at 4 in the morning for a 3 second shot and did lots of testing and random shooting with frosted glass and light filters to get the sea effect I was after.
ABOVE is a short making of video which should help explain.