I’ve been thinking about hands and how people express themselves unconsciously while they are speaking.
Hands are very personal, reflecting how they are used over a person’s lifetime.
Some hand signals have specific cultural meanings, often contradictory between cultures.
Where sign language (BSL, Auslan etc) is formal and structured, I want to document emotional sign language.

I would like to make animations of hands moving (maybe then freezing in a position like scissors paper rock) to convey / express emotion. I have experimented with filming friend’s hands while we were chatting but they completely froze as soon as the camera was turned on. I think the next step is to have a controlled filming experiment with volunteers who are comfortable being filmed. Things to consider are using a tripod for a static shot or hand held following the action. Then experiment with tracing in After FX.

Get your head out of the surf and back into art.

To Do:

Research colour
Shades of white
Mattes to distort

Screen potentials
Locations

Hands
Sign language

Make sounds
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