Time and space always manages to extricate lots of nerdy talkings, which is a shame it is seen that way... there is a lot of math that can describe it but despite that there is a lot of natural phenomena and patterns that can be seen in this subject. We had a lot of discussion involving the idea of scale in the universe in relation to people. We branched into the idea of connecting people and observing those links.
Some of the topics we went over that we were interested in showing through the Canada Line project:
-the Realization of being connected-
Particularly in regards to dark matter, the invisible form that shapes the universe we know, we considered things that shape our personal community and space. These things are not always obvious at first but if we take the time to step back and observe they may form. We thought about that in regards to scale as well, that nested within other elements are more things, such as the individuals in a community, etc. This is where we also thought of the importance of the very brief but wonderful encounters we experience every day, a touch on the hand, saying hello, a kiss, etc.
- overlapping opportunities -
Another theme we looked at is at the progress of time as a linear function. When those timelines overlap they have the opportunity to create a completely new experience. In relation to people we thought about how an interaction with a person can create much larger experiences than we could ever create on our own, and that in the idea of linear time, we could possibly have hundreds, thousands, etc, of these interactions that we are not even aware of yet.
- exploration of space and time principles -
We looked at the way things move in space, because it is at a much different scale and of different properties than we experience on Earth, the way things move and react to one another will be very different from what we are used to. Particular elements we liked were how masses in space attract to one another (made us think of people coming together to make towns and cities, or on a smaller scale, families). We also looked at how stars implode and explode and found that type of motion very engaging too, particularly in regards to the short screen time we have on the project, so we were looking for interesting and grabbing visuals.
From there we thought about what other visuals we wanted to look at, and the idea of drawing with light on long exposed photographs came up. We decided to do some tests to see how hard it would be to animate with that method.
we were focused on using light to represent the dynamic energy that is constantly in motion in the universe. We also didn't want to create character using literal visuals, so the use of light was to serve as a visual representation of a character/place/object in space's energy. We also tested out compositing the images to see if that would work. It was fun to create the still images but animating it proved to be very challenging.
For our first pitch to the Canada Line, we wanted to integrate the human elements that attracted us into the motions and visuals of space and time.
Our pitch video:
What I worked on for this video was the rotoscoped elements. I chose two video clips from The Human Animal of interactions between people that I thought carried a subtle beauty when observed. I wanted to rotoscope enough of the silhouette to show that the characters were human, but not so much detail to make fully representational characters.
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