After doing some animation tests in after effects I especially liked experimenting with the use of colours. I want to create a piece with the simplicity of my tests but with meaning, a more personal response to the brief.
Thinking about topography and the meanings that it can imply, I thought about journeys I had been on.
Other than holidays and standard trips I couldn't think of a trip I could make personal something that would relate solely to me as the creator.
It was a coincidence that on Christmas Eve I would have to get a bus to my fathers house to spend the holidays there.
To anyone this might not seem like a hard task.
But after a car crash when I was 13 getting on a bus causes some serious issues for myself.
After the crash I was diagnosed with a stress and anxiety disorder which has impaired my everyday life greatly (see kinetic typography animation below) and there were some things that I avoided doing to make myself feel comfortable, for example, going on a bus, to the cinema and sometimes even leave the house.
There was a lot riding on this bus journey, it was either get on the bus or spend christmas alone, as my brothers all have their own lives now and my father is too ill to drive.
so this time I had no choice.
I decided this could be an interesting journey to document. Especially for the sense of topography as I will have the literal idea of a journey from being on a bus, but also a more personal journey of me working through my stress and anxiety to get to my fathers for christmas.
In doing so I can monitor my anxiety and represent how I am feeling with the use of colour. For example green for good and red for bad.
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