After discussing Shannon and Weaver's take on the Process of communication, we were shown some clips that made good use of a balance between redundant information and entropic occurances. Once of which was 'Hasher's Delerium', depicting a drugged man's hallucenations. An early example of abstract animation, that I couldn't personally connect with, but was still able to identify the events with regards to entropy and redundancy.
Although Shannon and Weaver's diagram takes into account the transmitter, reciever, sgnals and channels, and the interference of noice, it is lacking in any response from the listener, the reciever. This was elaborated on by Norbet Viener, who established the theory of cybernetics, a feedback loop in which responses are made to events.
Jan Svanmajer - Darkness/Light/Darkness - 1989
Theis short claymation 'Darkness/Light/Darkness' was created by Czech film-maker Jan Svanmajer in a surreal response to his concerns of communism.I found the experience very entropic and slightly disturbing. There's and element of redundancy once each new body part is introduced and we come to know them as a character, but it keeps introducing new unexpected elements and events, such as organs crawling through the room, that unsetlle a viewer who was beginning to adjust to the strange occurances. At times it is very creepy, almost scary, such as when there are knocks at the door, or bangings n the window, trying to enter the room. This relates to the period in which the artist is most likely expressing. I'd like to incorporate similar surpise tactics into future animaton work to keep the audience guessing and engaged.
This also is evidence towards Paul Well's statement: 'Animation is a fake medium'. Not in the sense it is counterfeit, but with the understanding that there are no restrictions and isn't governed by the laws of phsyics; animation is an illusion of life, a positive deception.
