Stage 1 – book
Experiment one
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“The complex and paradoxical relationship between drama in print and drama in performance has occupied scholars and critics for as long as the two forms have coexisted.”
(Prest, 2001)
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I selected books as a medium of transformation because the relationship between printing and film needs to date back to the era of drama. Movies and plays performed the script as the core. And performance elements include props and so on, contain the onstage and the off-stage (audience) interaction relations. Both plays and novels can reflect the development of certain life contradictions. The way the drama presents the plot is mainly through the actions of the actors.
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Making this book, I wanted to summarize the plot development in chapters in order to appeal to the structure. For example, books will have covers, tables of content, and different chapters. I took the content of the actor’s behavior, state, as a way to tell the story.
Each page of the book is like a stage for the two protagonists, with a blue shirt on the left and white on the right, each occupying a page fairly.
The flowers appear in the middle.
The effect of flipbook animation is added to the flower and is stand out of the book. This is a response to the original visual effect of the animation, as well as an emphasis on it as a symbol throughout the film.
When two people start to fight over flowers, they begin to draw boundaries on each other’s territory to possess that flower.
For the transformation of knowledge
First, by putting the moving Image into the book, the whole story is divided into paragraphs rather than a very consistent change from beginning to end. And, because of the limited pages, there are fewer detailed changes in the relationship and the emoticons.
Second, the original humorous animation effect is lost, and the original visual language is lost. The stop motion animation, through editing, gives the character the exaggerated expression that many cartoon characters can have, like Tom and Jerry. The background music also contains a pixel game feel, making the dark content of the later period, still like allegory or fairy tale, less difficult to accept. But when presented in a book, without these bonuses, the atmosphere becomes serious. More about the educational value of the story itself.
Experiment two
Stage 2 – Greeting Card
- I really liked the idea of each page being a scene to miniaturize a scene onto a piece of paper that was a mini stage. I deleted all the fights and turning them into a friendly greeting card
- On the other hand, greeting CARDS are more accessible than books and can be delivered to more audiences.
- Maintain the sense of humor of the original and make the viewing experience more interesting
For the transformation of knowledge
In terms of richness of knowledge and story, greeting CARDS can have very little. To fit on a card, compress the entire content into a central idea, “Love your neibougher.” And through the cover of the blessing, and the scene to show the theme.
But in the process of transmission, more audiences will be involved in it. And every person who fills it or receives it reprocesses it.
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Bibliography
Prest, J. (2001) Theatre of the book, 1480–1880: print, text, and performance in Europe, History of European Ideas, 27:4, 426-428, DOI: 10.1016/S0191-6599(01)00031-6