Turns out Kat looked up "I Met the Walrus", and really liked it, and sent me email suggesting we worked together for the project!!! I love it when, things like this happen, and its really comforting to know we are sort of starting with the same base idea.
It has worked out that i am in a group with Kat and Holly, neither of whom i have worked closely with before, but both of their work i really really respect and admire. It is a all female group, which could signify problems for the future, having spent my school years in an all girls school-i no intimately how unpleasant an group of women can be to each other. I would normally avoid this situation like the plague. However i hope that I'm proved wrong. I do have faith that we could work together successfully.
On scanning through the audio choices that we were given, we decided on the spur of the moment plum for Hamiltion Hawkins, talking about the racism among the American soldiers, in Hayle, during the war.
Its hard to say why this was our preferred audio, but we considered things like voice quality, diction and and the expression of character within the voice through speech mannerisms. The old woman-Winnie's audio tracks seemed to be a popular choice with the rest of the groups, but we found that her voice was far too accented and crackly , making it hard to distinguish what she was saying. Some of the other characters featured in the selection of audio talked about subjects that were not engaging enough, about mundane ephemeral things, from which no particular message could be expressed within a potential animation. Other characters had monotone voices, lacking appealing inflections to play upon.
In the end we chose Hamiltion hawkins, partly due to his lyrical and clear voice, but also because the subject he was talking about had gravitas and intrigue, rather than just being simply entertaining. Racism is controversial and we have taken on a huge task by trying representing it, we could not pass up the opportunities it gave. He congered up very clear images in our heads of the scenes he experienced- and therefore he would do this to our audience as well.
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