Chapter3
3.1 Narrative and structure
3.2 Timing and pacing
3.3 Characters
3.4 Scenes
3.5 Color
3.6 Sound
3.7 The difference between ironic animation and traditional cartoon animation
Characterisation and comparison of the elements of ironic animation
In satirical animation, narration refers to telling a story or a series of stories in a certain order, whether real or fictional. It is the basic way for human beings to understand and respond to the world. Narrative generally represents two levels of meaning: “what to say” and “how to say”. “‘what to tell’ refers to the content of the story and ‘how to tell’ refers to the way, so the narrative style refers to the style reflected in the narrative content. Satirical animation is generally a combination of documentary narrative style, virtual narrative style and realistic narrative style. When creating film and television works, artists must consider how to bring the speculative results of subjective artistic thinking to the eyes of the audience , let the audience have real visual and auditory feelings. Based on the theme characteristics of reality, the narrative style of satirical animation is documentary. It is based on the events in real life, and processes, transforms and optimizes them without changing the original events, so as to make them close to life, which has practical significance. The stories it tells are similar as a whole, showing a realistic scene Or based on reality, materialize events and exaggerate the outcome, so as to make the narrative more impact
In the virtual narrative style, virtual characters and virtual events are generally used to narrate stories. When imagination is active, subconscious and unconscious desires and feelings are easily activated and appear through dream like hallucinations. Virtual characters and events are created by the creator’s endless imagination, which allows the audience to understand them endlessly. As a form of artistic expression, satire Stabbing animation is not to copy reality or life, but to convey the creator’s aesthetic value and moral judgment through artistic image, which is the hidden part of image and story, and the meaning carefully designed and processed by the creator and expressed through image. The treatment of virtual narration lies in the virtualization of real life, not directly expressing real life, but through association and analogy Narration is not a direct presentation of real life, but through association, analogy and symbolism.
Generally, satirical cartoons or films have complete plot occurrence, development, climax and ending, and have accurate positioning for the satirical content, so they will have a concise beginning, say the theme, simple and rapid development. The climax takes a little time to show the twists and turns, and the ending is also simple and clear. They say the theme without procrastination, and the plot is highly concentrated. Strong Harmonic analysis is how to express the rich moral and interesting artistic characteristics of ironic animation with short, concise and concentrated content, take the discussion of the evil of human nature and the disclosure of real social problems as the core content, and fully express the theme through various expression methods to arouse people’s thinking
Some ironic animations usually use a very short time to express ironic fragments, but in the context of the whole big story, they use a small fragment to compactly express an ironic phenomenon, artistically reproduce or show human and social problems, achieve the purpose of teasing and satirizing under the visual impact, and produce a relatively perfect artistic effect. The irony of the plot development form in the short animation, It ignores the integrity of the plot, has no cause and effect, and directly focuses on the story. The concentrated plot not only sublimates the theme of the work, but also makes the story attractive and enhances the satirical effect. Due to the limited time and unique satirical characteristics, the arrangement of satirical animation short films is compact and concentrated in the plot. It generally revolves around a simple part of the story narration The powerful contradiction makes the central plot in the story more concentrated, and the audience’s attention also focuses on the central plot, highlighting the expression effect and triggering people’s thinking of seeing the big from the small.
In the cartoon, many classic clown images are used to satirize the dark comedy. When it comes to clowns, they can be traced back to the masked priests worshipped by the religion in the primitive society, and later evolved into clowns who performed funny programs at the carnival. They are not the mainstream characters. They are not subject to the moral criticism and constraints of the traditional social reality, so the consequences of clowns Therefore, the clown role in animation usually has the function of subverting social cognition and critically mocking social reality.
In animation, the satire of dark comedy is reflected by many classic clown images. When it comes to clowns, they can be traced back to masked priests worshipped by religion in primitive society, and later evolved into clowns who performed funny programs at carnivals. They are not mainstream characters. They are not subject to the moral criticism and constraints of traditional social reality, so the consequences of clowns can be determined without social morality. Therefore, the role of clown in animation usually undertakes the function of subverting social cognition and critically mocking social reality.
Usually, in animation, the protagonist usually undertakes the arduous task of saving the world, and is just and brave enough. Although the supporting role is different from the protagonist’s great mission, it is usually arranged by the director to care about unexpected occasions and add humorous language to make the film interesting and thought-provoking
The symbolic meaning of the scene in ironic animation is generally presented directly as a ready-made external thing with perceptual interest, not itself, but the broader and more general meaning it implies. The focus of symbol is not the meaning of ontology, but the new meaning derived from ontology, so as to provide infinite space for thinking and imagination.
Symbolic reference is common in satirical animation, and symbolism is often used to construct meaningful characters. Of course, symbolic scene construction is in contrast to realistic scene construction, that is, extracting typical elements of specific forms and expressing specific themes with other simple or complex roles. This type of scene construction needs to provide better inspiration and guidance in a limited time, and convey the symbolic significance and profound theme that the creator intends to embody in the narrative process.
Symbolic scenes are different from realistic scenes and exaggerated scenes. In most cases, the scene in ironic animation is separated from the complete scene, which generally has two forms. The common one is to replace the scene with an abstract background, which can set off the atmosphere of the story and focus on the characters, which is more conducive to the shaping and characterization of the characters. Another common symbolic scene shaping form is to use strong contrast colors or monotonous colors to create a sense of visual discomfort and conflict without departing from the scene itself, so as to make the artistic expression of the scene stronger.
In ironic animation, the establishment and expression of main tone are relatively flexible. There is no need to use absolute cold and warm or specific colors to locate the tone. When the composition and intention are good, you can use alternating cold and warm colors to create the picture. In terms of color warmth, brightness and purity, the emotion brought by ironic animation to the audience is not absolute. This experience is also related to the audience’s psychological state and environment. The relationship between color and emotion is relative. Using extremely low saturation or exaggerated high contrast colors will give people a visual impact and set the tone for ironic animation.
In the process of drawing works, the use of different colors will bring different psychological feelings to the audience. The color design of satirical animation characters should be unified with the style of the whole film, and the colors that can match the behavior characteristics of comic images should be selected to fully express their emotional characteristics. Color is not only to enrich the vision and play a decorative role, but also to arouse the audience’s emotional experience through visual stimulation. This experience directly affects the audience’s cognition of the role image and understanding of the picture content. Satirical animation enables the director to use the emotional characteristics of color to emphasize the character image and imply that the audience forms a specific attitude towards the character, so that the audience can perceive the information the director wants to express faster and more accurately.
In animation, the satire of dark comedy is reflected by many classic clown images. When it comes to clowns, they can be traced back to masked priests worshipped by religion in primitive society, and later evolved into clowns who performed funny programs at carnivals. They are not mainstream characters. They are not subject to the moral criticism and constraints of traditional social reality, so the consequences of clowns can be determined without social morality. Therefore, the role of clown in animation usually undertakes the function of subverting social cognition and critically mocking social reality. Usually, in animation, the protagonist usually undertakes the arduous task of saving the world, and is just and brave enough. Although the supporting role is different from the protagonist’s great mission, it is usually arranged by the director to care about unexpected occasions and add humorous language to make the film interesting and thought-provoking
The symbolic meaning of the scene in ironic animation is generally presented directly as a ready-made external thing with perceptual interest, not itself, but the broader and more general meaning it implies. The focus of symbol is not the meaning of ontology, but the new meaning derived from ontology, so as to provide infinite space for thinking and imagination. Symbolic reference is common in satirical animation, and symbolism is often used to construct meaningful characters. Of course, symbolic scene construction is in contrast to realistic scene construction, that is, extracting typical elements of specific forms and expressing specific themes with other simple or complex roles. This type of scene construction needs to provide better inspiration and guidance in a limited time, and convey the symbolic significance and profound theme that the creator intends to embody in the narrative process.
Symbolic scenes are different from realistic scenes and exaggerated scenes. In most cases, the scene in ironic animation is separated from the complete scene, which generally has two forms. The common one is to replace the scene with an abstract background, which can set off the atmosphere of the story and focus on the characters, which is more conducive to the shaping and characterization of the characters. Another common symbolic scene shaping form is to use strong contrast colors or monotonous colors to create a sense of visual discomfort and conflict without departing from the scene itself, so as to make the artistic expression of the scene stronger.
In ironic animation, the establishment and expression of main tone are relatively flexible. There is no need to use absolute cold and warm or specific colors to locate the tone. When the composition and intention are good, you can use alternating cold and warm colors to create the picture. In terms of color warmth, brightness and purity, the emotion brought by ironic animation to the audience is not absolute. This experience is also related to the audience’s psychological state and environment. The relationship between color and emotion is relative. Using extremely low saturation or exaggerated high contrast colors will give people a visual impact and set the tone for ironic animation.
In the process of drawing works, the use of different colors will bring different psychological feelings to the audience. The color design of satirical animation characters should be unified with the style of the whole film, and the colors that can match the behavior characteristics of comic images should be selected to fully express their emotional characteristics. Color is not only to enrich the vision and play a decorative role, but also to arouse the audience’s emotional experience through visual stimulation. This experience directly affects the audience’s cognition of the role image and understanding of the picture content. Satirical animation enables the director to use the emotional characteristics of color to emphasize the character image and imply that the audience forms a specific attitude towards the character, so that the audience can perceive the information the director wants to express faster and more accurately.