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" Animation is about expressing thoughts and emotions through artificial means and is a
distracting device in order to have interesting ways to commune your thoughts to others".
This was portrayed in John and Karen by Mathew Walker. This uses colour, compositions and silence. The character of John is a that of a large polar bear, hence the large paws and small tea cup. Whereas Karen is an assertive rabbit! Although it seems drawn out to get to the point and long periods can become boring, it's not until thinking about the concepts of the film do you really appreciate it.
Barry gave a short bio of how as a child he became aware of his way forward in life by watching his favourite scene in the Sound of music where Maria helps the children put on a puppet show,which seems to transform relationships and the dynamics of the family.
Aspects of this can also be seen in Mary Poppins with the use of her talking to the head umbrella!
Barry also worked with animation of models these can be seen in his short film "One time" and he talked briefly about his work on "Wind in the Willows" and "Rupert Bear," his controversial works on "Verdis Rigoletto" and much more. Clips to accompany his talk were on "War Horse", "Ballet of Still life at the Penguin Cafe Orchestra" and his "Complete Works on Shakespeare".
The only aspect I didn't cope with well was the length of time it ran for, luckly I was able to take my dictaphone and on occassions was able to stand to relieve my problem of fidgeting and not keeping still.
Content of the talk and how interesting I found it was 10 out of 10.
The only aspect I didnt cope with was the length of the talk which was 1and a half hours long.
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