response to wells animation theorys

animation, as Wells explains pretty thoroughly, has many forms that provoke different emotions and meanings. i like the fact that Wells was simply distinguishing the difference between experimental animation and "orthodox animation" because it seems that most articles about experimental vs. popular film entertainment takes a hard opinion on one or the other. Wells just layed out the makeup and products of both.

Although, he does go to say that abstract animation requires more effort and creativity... and that you need the highest mental and spirtual faculties. thats whatever.. i can agree to him to some extent, but i think that creating a long narrative animation would be pretty tidious in its own ways, maybe not spiritually, but physically more difficult.. but i dont really know because ive never done any animation before.. thats just what i would think..

i really liked the section on musical relationships...and how there is some kind of psychological and emotional relationship between sound and color, i think this idea has been widely touched on when you look at animated music videos.. animation gives the viewer a chance to really explore different depths that may coincide with the music..and gives the artist a chance to really create more vs. other types of film. one of my favorites is radiohead's paranoid android... i think the animation is awesome and lets you see things that go along well with the music that you wouldn't normally see..i think thats something the experimental film does most of the time anyway, gives you a view of another concept you wouldn't normally see in your everyday narrative.

the presence of the artist i think is another important issue that wells touches on... it's something i've briefly touched on in other classes, but i think is crucial to appreciate when viewing experimental vs. orthox animation... because we are so trained to view animation with a different eye, like narrative vs. avant-garde films.. we have a similar training with animation, we watch the story unfold and just follow along to the narrative structure and don't pay enough attention to the details.. and that's somethign that should be noticed the most in animation because there is so much room for creativity... there are much less boundaries.

The Russet and Starr quote was awesome...i like the idea of associating music and experminetal film together a lot, so when he says that will excute the scores of his visions that correspond to his state of my mind, i can't help but imagine a rhythmic interpretation of some great painting.. that steps away from classical story telling and pertains more to visual pleasure.