animate!

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animate! synopsis

You’d be crazy for feeling so lonely… From scrapbook bodies to outlines filled with light, there’s collage in the chaos and dance tunes in the abstract visual music. Take two…

long synopsis

Commercial animation by-products were collected over five years. As a cathartic process, the rejected was reclaimed, and then rejected, finally.

The resulting material was compiled and edited in post production to make a five minute film. The context was to use the same production values as advertising material. So it is glossy, colourful and eternally shallow.

key credits

director: John Parry
rostrum camera: Jeremy Moorshead
editor: Roy Williams
music: Barry Quinton
sound designer: Barry Quinton
producer: Danielle Susijn

John Parry

short biography

John Parry studied at the Royal College of Art and is Professor of Animation at Savannah College of Art and Design. He has worked in commercial animation as a director for Picasso Pictures since 1994.

1998

a film by John Parry

direction

director: John Parry

image personnel

telecine operator or colourist: Mark Horrobin
rostrum camera: Jeremy Moorshead
editor: Roy Williams

sound personnel

music: Barry Quinton
dubbing mixer: Oliver Davis
sound designer: Barry Quinton

incorporated music and sound material

Crazy written by W Nelson 1961,
performed by Patsy Cline, courtesy Acuff-Rose Music Ltd and Universal Music (UK) Limited

production personnel

post production: Andy Godwin; Mark Holden
producer: Danielle Susijn

support

thanks: Picasso Pictures, The Moving Picture Company
primary funding: Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! award

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master copy format

colour or black & white: colour

video distribution format

video format: BetaSP
screen aspect ratio: 4:3
video standard: PAL
sound type: stereo

distributor

LUX
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