1. Did you feel like the drawing had a life of its own? Or was that influenced more by the title and my discussion afterwards.

2. Did you find yourself needing to pull out some image of what was being drawn? Regardless of the fact that it is a nonobjective doodle. 

3. Does the doodle have a sense of motion or growth without the animation? Or is it reliant upon that media to give it life?

     The process for drawing and filming the stop animation was relatively easy once I could work out the nuances in switching between drawing and filming the individual frames. The part that was a bit more tedious was after that when I loaded the raw footage into iMovie where I had to analyze and slow down over 65 clips to get a fluid progression. Once that was done those files were condensed and saved as one larger movie clip which I was able to pull into it's own project and it was there that I experimented with how fast the image would develop or revert. It was at this stage that I realized I could of gone further with the drawing instead of relying on a loop that could carry enough weight. Luckily the timing worked out and the drawing had an organic quality that almost made it seem like it was growing or breathing. It was then that I limited it down to repeating itself four times for impact. 

I felt the class did a good job all around when it came to executing this project even with varying levels of proficiency at video editing let alone filming in general. We had viewed works by Kara Walker and William Kentridge so I feel like we felt compelled to try and take on a meatier message in all our works, some may have been more successful at conveying their message. However it gives us all a chance to dig down and try and find a voice for why we make art. When it comes to how our class is operating I find the times we take to open the floor to discuss our concerns or ideas on our works.