Core Media Animation

Tracing Loops involved making drawings or isolating elements of video that students initially recorded.

The prompt was to produce a creative documentation of a particular process or activity. The intention was not to make a conventional, how-to, instructional video. Instead, imagining a collage approach was encouraged, to suggest a narrative of sorts, as a poetic observation.

To achieve this, the students envisioned a composition that consisted of cycles. With cameras, they were to record short actions that repeat, that make loops, material that could then be composited by way of editing, drawing, extracting, processing, and animation.