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Offbeat Episode 1

This video is the first in a series, the other I will be finishing towards the end of the semester. Throughout my career as a musician, I have struggled with self confidence. The confidence to play loud and proudly for others, especially when I am playing alone. This leads me to not play at my best when playing with small groups or by myself. Even when others tell me I am a talented musician, I find difficulty in believing that when I often struggle with the basics. This is what I wish to tell through this animated series.
This series is about a trumpet that is not confident in its playing abilities. For this reason, it has difficulties fitting in with the rest of the outgoing group. It must find a way to become more confident in its abilities in order to fit in with the group. 

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  1. JazeleApril 13, 2020 at 1:30 PM

    First off I would like to say that I like the idea behind this and the way it was thought out and actually created. One thing I am wondering is why I do see your hand on occasion placing in objects but then other times the objects are appearing on their own or sliding in to the scene. At times when the hand is only in for a fraction of a second it seems like an accident for it to be in, unlike the title section where the hands are clearly meant to be there and serve a purpose. I think the musical instruments without the use of the hands works better because it gives the instruments a life of their own and lets them express themselves in a way that is themselves with no help of a human. The pieces move nicely and I think it runs smooth, the camera moves a little but it does not move enough to say it mattered or ruined it in any way. The movements look natural with the way any stop motion does.

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  2. Tate RamseyApril 14, 2020 at 4:13 PM

    First of all, I'd like to commend you for including your hands as part of the video. It can be hard to keep still and move incrementally with your hands. The framing and animation were good and it was easy to tell what the video was about without dialog and without reading your description first. A few small issues I noticed were that your hands seemed to appear unintentionally on some frames and when you were introducing new objects at the beginning, the focus would shift for a frame. The lighting would occasionally change but that was not as distracting. I think you did a really nice job.

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