Through the discussion in this session I have a clearer direction of about my research
I would like to document the development of my report.
From a broad concept at the beginning to a figurative one, I was interested in ecological laws of nature and digital plants and I wanted to investigate how digital plants could have a perceptual or emotional impact on people. My topic was how to represent digital plants in film and how plants appear in the VFX visual space.
In the process of investigating abstract concepts such as digital plants and the laws of nature
I have read some materials：
THE EFFECT OF SEASONAL CHANGE OF PLANTS COMPOSITIONS ON VISUAL PERCEPTIO
Site by:Eroğlu, E., Müderrisoğlu, H. and Kesim, G. A. (2012) “The effect of seasonal change of plants compositions on visual perception”, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 20(3), pp. 196-205. doi: 10.3846/16486897.2011.646007.
I am confused because I didn’t know how to progress and I don’t have a rigorous structure. In discussions with my classmates and my teacher, I realised that what I wanted to study was actually the symbolism of plants in animation or film, a subject that goes back to a more interesting topic for me, namely metaphor and symbolism.
Nigel recommended a book to me which is Understanding animation by Paul wells and a chapter dedicated to metaphor and symbolism, the chapter provides two case studies and here are my extracts from the book which I found very useful.
‘Metaphor essentially grows out of symbolism and serves to embody a system or ideas in a more appealing or conducive image system.’
‘Symbol and metaphor still render narrative as open-ended, though, because their deployment enables multiple discourses which may, at any point, contradict or support dominant readings.’