Yukai Du
Way-out-ll
Way Out is an animation made on September 2014, illustration
was by Yukai Du and music and sound design by Angus MacRae. Yukai Du is an animator
from Graungzhou, China but is currently living in London, England. A book
called ‘Alone together’ by Sherry Turkle inspired this animation. The book is
about technology, specifically Internet ‘thirty years ago we asked what we
would use computers for. Now the question is what we don't use them for’, we
use Internet for everything now, it is like a battle between reality and
virtual life. Sherry Turkle is also an author I already took Internet in my
research, her book explain what I wanted to express in one of my ideas relating
to “technology”.
The animation is explaining our lifestyle in a generation
where technology subconsciously became an extension to us. The animation begins
with passengers scanning through their phone whilst waiting for the bus, inside
the bus you have more people concentrating on their phone only, further into a
different scenes and locations. Other scenes were of a date in a restaurant,
living room with family members and much more but they all had one thing in
common which was people always on their phones and the clicking and scrolling
sound was heard in each scene. The sounds started to slowly get more extreme
and aggressive and continued when everyone was stranding closely together, clicking
quickly through their phones in a fast manner and then every single source from
their phone formed into a ‘monster’ that captured and contained the people in
very phone they seem to have trusted so much, looking for a way out. The people
didn't express emotions and which made them look cold and non-interactive, as
if the virtual media is the only importance and I think it explains our
obsession with this technology. Then at
the end, we seen mark and consequence where they was contained in the phones
and nothing could be done; it Is like we cannot beat technology nor escape it.
Initially I felt that the illustration of was way to extreme
and busy to the eye, everything around always took the same grain texture and
style as the people but gradually through the video, I started to think how it
suited the story and sound. The grain texture is as if your old TV has been
turned on.
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