Part 2 of the Love Affair Storyboard
Part 1 of The Love Affair Storyboard
Part 2 of the claymation storyboard
Part 1 of the claymation storyboard
The Love Affair: An exploration in pixellation. In collaboration with Daniel Reece for the class Methods of Motion. Music by Edith Piaf and Special Thanks to Quenna Willis
One of the first animated documentaries, this film tells the story of a Israeli man who is recapturing his memories of the Lebanon war in 1982. The dreamlike essence of his and his interviewees trips down memory lane are perfectly portrayed by the use of animation because the genre’s fluidity. The color and style of the animation changes with the mood and “strength” of the memory. The realness of the story, the massacre, the group amnesia, the middle-aged men dealing with their memories, all of these aspects are hard to portray without turning the audience away. The use of animation brought down the intensity without “dumbing” down the content. Also, the ability to draw historical evens without using reenactments made it seem realer. The filmed climaxed at the very end when it switched to real footage of Lebanese women crying over the dead. At this point, the protagonist has fully recaptured his memory and the use of a reality filter (the animation) is no longer necessary.
