Preludes Fasahar Motsi Gauraye by Matthew Rankin

Preludes Fasahar Motsi Gauraye by Matthew Rankin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe in Fim Competition Category.

Baƙin ƘarfeFim· 2020

Preludes Fasahar Motsi Gauraye

by Matthew Rankin

Client: Matthew Rankin

Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe Winner in Fim Category

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The Design

About Preludes Fasahar Motsi Gauraye

Preludes wani gajeren fim ne na fasahar motsi gauraye wanda aka gina bisa waƙar T.S. Eliot mai suna iri ɗaya. Fim ɗin yana ɗaukar mintuna ɗaya da daƙiƙa takwas kuma yana haɗa hotunan Eliot da wani asalin waƙar kiɗa. Wurare (scenes) suna haɗuwa ta hanyar jigo da sauti maimakon ta salon gani guda ɗaya. Aikin yana haɗa fasahar motsi ta 2D da 3D, wanda aka tsara a Cinema 4D, aka fitar da shi ta Redshift, kuma aka haɗa shi (composite) a After Effects. Kallon iska yana sauyawa zuwa matakin titi, inda mutane ke wucewa ta bayan allo (screens). Fim ɗin yana nuna tunani kan rayuwar zamani ta hanyar tsohon rubutu.

The Recognition

About the Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe

Zanen Preludes Fasahar Motsi Gauraye ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe, wata karramawa mai daraja da ake bai wa kyawawan zane-zane waɗanda ke cika buƙatun ƙwararru da masana'antu da ake tsammani daga ƙirƙire-ƙirƙire da aka tsara da kyau. Waɗanda suka lashe kyautar Baƙin Ƙarfe suna nuna babban ƙwarewa, ƙwarewa ta musamman, fahimtar ƙwararru da ikon ƙirƙira na masu ƙirƙirar su. Ana sa ran zanen Preludes Fasahar Motsi Gauraye ya zama ƙirƙira da ake girmamawa sosai, ake sha'awa da ƙauna wacce ke da amfani kuma mai sababbin abubuwa. Wannan zane da ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe yana haɗa mafi kyawun ayyukan fannin kuma yana da halayen fasaha masu cancanta da ke da alaƙa da sanin yadda da baiwa. Ana girmama zanen Preludes Fasahar Motsi Gauraye saboda cikakkiyar kulawarsa kuma an tsara shi don ba da ingantuwar rayuwa da ke taimakawa wajen mai da duniya wuri mafi kyau.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Preludes is a mixed media collaborative animation based on a poem by T.S. Eliot. The process involved the poem being chosen by the producer, who then invited a musician to compose a one-minute piece which was handed off to me to provide to create visuals on both the the words of Eliot and the music.
Dimensions & Packaging: Duration: 1-minute, 08-seconds
Tags: poetry, animation, motion graphics, 2D, 3D, after effects
Production Technology: Preludes utilizes both 2D and 3D animation all composited in After Effects. The scenes with 3D were done in Cinema 4D and rendered using Redshift. It also uses several After Effects plugins such as Video Copilot's Sabre, Rowbyte's Plexus, and Red Giant's Particular and Form.
Design Challenge: The challenge became putting the many ways this manifests into only one-minute and matching those visuals to an already created musical composition. And that's how an aerial view helps to alienate us from the tracking signals on the street and we are suddenly shifted to street level view to see faceless people bumping into one another with screens blocking the vision.
Research: For this project the research fairly straightforward. It started with a cursory reading of the poem, Preludes by T.S. Eliot, and listening to the soundtrack created by Angus Macrae. I listened to the audio repeatedly to let it sink into my memory and to help with visualizing general concepts. This was followed by seeking out deeper analysis of the poem so that I better understood the themes, ideas, and symbols. While I could certainly have skipped this step it was profoundly important as I went along and was searching for visual fragments to add to the density of the piece.
Inspiration: Preludes is based on T.S. Eliot's poem of the same name and a one-minute musical soundscape provided to me and composed by Angus Macrae. The whole project was organized by a group called Campfire Poetry that uses poetry as away to promote collaborations between musicians and animators.
Project Duration: The project was started 20 December 2019 in New York City and completed in February 2020.
Operation Flow: I was immediately drawn into Eliot's non-narrative and slightly abstract form, even though he was describing a very defined and concrete world. I took that as an opportunity to create scenes that were thematically, but not necessarily aesthetically, connected. Instead, I chose to let Macra's soundtrack be the connective tissue weaving together Eliot’s view with my own as I explore how our modern world looks and feels in the context of Eliot’s ideas.
Team Members: Director/Animator: Matthew Rankin
Producer: Max Rothman
Music/Sound: Angus Macrae