Conceptual Abstraction:
This term relates to the abstraction and juxtaposition of narrative structures or storytelling tools, traditional cannons, and communicative vehicles.
These approaches question and build film language, challenge perception and exploit semiotics metaphor and symbolism.
Interpreting Abstraction:
There is an integral link between conceptual application and technological advancement in the innovation of film and in particular, animation, raising complex and challenging questions on;
•Categorisation; Genre & Sub-genre what is the works background / setting, mood / tone, theme or topic?
•Form and Function; interpreting meaning and relating it to the format, or presentational mode:
•Process; The techniques, materials and technologies applied within the work and the relationships between message and medium, (Does process, technique or tool become the message?)
•Formal Elements; Use of space/composition, Light & colour, movement, rhythm, timing, pacing, transition and audio relationships.
Formative Abstraction:
Primarily defined as, focusing upon the manipulation of the visual fundamentals; colour, form, space, light and texture, alongside the the dynamics of movement, time, rhythm and sound as a central theme of the work.
The artist’s involvement is essentially investigative and may not have a predetermined outcome but must be grounded in the intellectual pursuit of applying a theory or initial objective.
There is an integral link between conceptual application and technological advancement in the innovation of film and in particular, animation, raising complex and challenging questions.