I thought of a different model doing animation projects in our school environment. It would completely change how everyone thinks and produce extremely different results from what we are currently doing.
The idea is simple. Students still need to make a film. Except there is one major rule, they are not allowed to do any work on the film. All the work needs to be done by other students.
I will run through this hypothetical scheme.
On the first day of the project, all of the students arrive in class with scripts and ideas for films. Everyone is given 10 Animation Dollars. Everyone presents their work to the class. Afterward the free market economy opens up. People will start bartering, bidding and trading ideas. They aren't allowed to use their own ideas, so they are required to find something else. But they also want to present the best ideas as they can get more Animation Dollars in return.
So now the idea has to be purchased, and ideas sold. The students then need to hire other students to continue to flesh out the idea. There is strategy in this. Supposed you have 8 animation dollars left. You could pay the best student to do a great job, or you could pay 2 students to both try at it and hedge your bets. In any case, the students will again try and get work, and try to get work done for them.
This process of finding other students to do their work, and finding work from other students will continue for the entire process of the film. The money will have to cycle around many times for all of the films to be completed
Things will need to be laid out, animated, shoot, edited. Music will need to be recorded and sound effects created. Each student will be directing and producing their movie, but they will never get to actually touch the work. They can only make decisions that will hopefully lead the movie somewhere great.
But from a reverse perspective, students will also need to be considerate of those they work for. They need to get work done on time. There needs to be a vast amount of communications between students to get what needs to be done, done correctly.
At the end of the project, all of the movies will hopefully be completed. Credit will be given where credit is due. If a student was able to do a fantastic job on the animation in someone else's project, they get marked well for that. If they were able to really produce a great project, they also can get good marks for that. This means that a hard working student will never get screwed by students who don't give real effort.
This way of working would also mean that we couldn't coddle our work like we tend to. There would be more risks, more happy accidents and just a huge amount of communication between all of the students.
I would love to participate in the above project.
Kyler
3 comments:
It's an interesting idea, but in the end the projects are all going to be less personal. I understand that for the rest of life animation is just going to be a job, but to you really need to get used to that so early? Shouldn't you be able to work for yourself at first?
I think it's a great idea Kyler !! We should, at least, do one project like this. We are always working alone, on our own project while in the real world, we will mostly be working in team. I think that there's no better way to understand the work of a director this way.
You should propose it, maybe it will change something in the future years ! And one of the animation II film will change :P
Your right Mory that this project well be slightly less personal, but at our school, every other project is really personal. As it is currently designed, every project is personal, and we never get to experience anything else.
The other advantage that this system might allow is for much larger scale projects to happen. Animation is so much work that things never get really big unless a large group gets involved. And at our school, we never seem to do anything big from what I've seen.
Genvieve, I will certainly keep thinking of this idea, and if you have any thoughts on how to develop it further, I would be glad to hear them. If this stands the test of time in my head for a few weeks I think we should see if this could happen in our class next semester.
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