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Plan

Artist Reference

Jose Romussi: Embroidering New Identities

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“In 2010 when I was in New York I decided that art was what I wanted to do, and there I started doing some artworks involving embroidery and painting.” – Romussi

From 2010 to 2014 he worked with different subjects such as ballerinas, portraits with embroidered flowers and skulls, and landscapes. Later, Jose started to see and made art in a different way: with a critical eye and a social perspective.

“My work is a constant search to express and represent my ideas. My occurring artworks are a reaction of my inspiration. This starts with an image, that inspires me in a certain way to do an embroidery that changes it into a new one. I am always searching for a new sense of interpretation for my pieces.”

His technique is focused on the use of thread as medium to make merge different times and spaces in the realized pieces. Embroidery technique is used on paper, as well as on photograph, with no fear of breaking the support since it is part of the process too.

“I intervene in images by applying my own perception of beauty to them. Sometimes by giving them a new identity or a different aesthetic concept. It’s the chance to give this image a new emotion, a new life, a new interpretation of beauty through embroidering”.

Process

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Step – by – Step Animation

I started with my first image as the background.

I then got each images and copied them over each other in order, lowered the opacity to line up the top image with the one underneath.

Windows -> timeline

Double click “frame animation”

Final Outcome

Storyboard

What is a storyboard?

A storyboard is a graphic organizer that plans a narrative. Storyboards are a powerful way to visually present information; the linear direction of the cells is perfect for storytelling, explaining a process, and showing the passage of time. At their core, storyboards are a set of sequential drawings to tell a story. By breaking a story into linear, bite-sized chunks, it allows the author to focus on each cell separately, without distraction. Depending on the source, either Howard Hughes, with the 1930 film, Hell’s Angels, or Walt Disney, with the 1933 animated film, Three Little Pigs, is cited as the father of modern day storyboards. In 1939, Gone with the Wind was the first live-action movie to be completely drawn out on storyboards before filming. The original storyboards showed stories broken up into pieces. Each piece of the story was drawn out on a card or piece of paper and pinned to a board in sequential order. Collaborators were then able to talk about and revise the story by looking at one part at a time, check to be sure it made sense, and plan for the production. Instead of redoing a large-scale drawing when changes were made, a single card could be reordered, redrawn, or even deleted. The ability to make changes easily ahead of time saves a lot of time and money!

Importance of a storyboard

When you storyboard a video you’re setting up a plan for production, including all the shots you’ll need, the order that they’ll be laid out, and how the visuals will interact with the script. The video storyboard is a starting point or suggested thorough line around which you can plan your coverage (all the angles you will shoot of a scene). This really comes in handy when you’re making your video, as it ensures you won’t forget any scenes and helps you piece together the video according to your vision. While it may take you a little while to put your storyboard together, in the long run it will save you time in revisions later. Not only will it help you explain your vision to your team, but it will also make the creation process go more smoothly.

As a group, we will be focusing on the theme of generations and the generational difference between lifestyles. For example the way people dressed, the inside of their homes and the way they went about their day-to-day lives.

In more detail, we will be focusing on fashion throughout the generations, specifically 70’s, 2000’s, present day and how fashion will be in the future.

For our 30 second animated film we plan to use a projector to project an image of Jersey in each generation, with a person walking through in an outfit from that period of time to show how fashion trends have changed over the years.

Our digital image will be a picture from each clip of each outfit trend in a line from one side of the image to another, inspired by this image below…