ear to stay
A multi-media stop motion film about ear representation.
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Go beyond purely digital technology and embrace the DIY nature of experimenting with different materials to create a mixed-media film.
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Art-Director | Graphic Designer | Collage Artist | Concept Development | Digital Animator | Sourcing
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Art Directors
Karina Cruz
Despina Nicolaou
Katie PhillipsTutors
Carlos Padro Ros | DVEIN
Teo Guillem | DVEIN
Bernard Arce
Lucia Colombo
The Process:
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Having so much pun!
Finding ways to both play with words and materials.
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material scouting
Rummaging through markets for vintage postcards, magazines, and papers.
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Collaging
Experimenting with our materials by collage making.
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DIY lightbox
Creating a lightbox from scratch to have a controlled environment for our video shoots.
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stop motion process
Using an iPhone 14, a stop-motion app and a few versions of a phone stand, we were able to take stable pictures that were strung together into stop motion animations.
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earbook pictures
For the Earbook scene, we took pictures of our classmates’ ears and used them to create a personalized touch.
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hands on approach
Experimenting with unorthodox methods of scene creation.
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digital elements
We were able to put our content together to create the film by using Procreate, Premiere, Photoshop, AI voice generators and deep fake videos.
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final presentation
Presenting our film as an ear rights movement set the comedic tone of our project.
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creative book
Our final creative book was also a DIY paper collage scanned and used as the background for digital text.
