Rising Up: Actions as Loud as Words
Loading...
Date
2016-06
Authors
Rosas, Marion
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
University of Oregon
Abstract
This dissertation organizes my discoveries of how motions and actions of the
body complement the conscious mind and serves as an innate mode for communicating
the human experience. The first chapter of this document provides an analysis of the
nature of consciousness, introduces the mind-body debate, and argues that verbal
language has been an inefficient method for conveying the complexity of the human
experience. It evaluates a number of accounts that have attributed the comprehension of
experience to the motion involved in body language, and concludes with an analysis of
the ways in which film mimics the body in order to convey this experience. The second
chapter serves in this thesis document to describe my process in creating Rising Up, and
to assess the ways in which my research and inspirations influence the animation's
major scenes.
Description
53 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Digital Arts and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2016.
Keywords
Animation, Digital art, Motion language, Body language, Phenomenology, Existentialist film, Hand-drawn stopmotion, Mind-body debate