Research into joanna Quinn

About Joana Quinn:
Joanna Quinn, a British animator in partnership with her partner, Le Mills; founded the company 'Beryl Productions International LTD'.  She has a BA in Graphics and a foundation in art, but ventured and then became a professional in animation after experimentation at Middlesex university during her Graphics degree. Becoming well known from her first complete animation, 'Girls Night Out' (1986), (in which she won many awards), she developed her skills further and did international animations,  became a lecture with even more awards.
'fine drawing skills, wonderful characterisations and her humour mark her out as a unique talent.'
- (http://www.berylproductions.co.uk/company/joanna-quinn/)








Watching Joanna Quinn's animation, 'DREAMS & DESIRES:FAMILY TIES' video on YouTube,
I can tell that she as an animator and director uses very interesting and dynamic camera movement, she has adventuresses angels and shots to explore the use of story telling in a different ways than what we are used to, however each of the shots give more energy and movement and work very effectively.
For example: the shot of her feet walking, the perceptive looks as if we are looking through her eyes looking down at her own feet as she walks. Not only does this show movement in a different way (compared to a walk cycle being done in a medium close up or wide shot) but shows a more live action stylised way of camera technique. Her frames are made to look documentary style, as if she physically has a camera she is recording through instead of being physically there in the moment.

Despite the animation being made to look through the perceptive of a camera, the animated movement of the main character is very energetic, they way her body twists and her exaggerated movements.

(http://www.berylproductions.co.uk/wp-content/files_mf/cache/th_9023f37c05b395037b8cbfb36c4c97bf_blacksmithsequence.jpg)



notes:
- The way she moves is very fast paced and exaggerated.
-  Her camera movements is more documentary/ live action styled. Mostly made to look hand held.
- Interesting angels, that only shows parts of her body and not fully.
- some shots move from being presented in a documentary to her magically floating almost abstractly.
- the use of hand held involves interesting shots: inner framing/ frame in a frame, an example of this is her reflection in the cup of tea, also includes whip pans, what shows off the intensity of action,
She also slows action down and speeds it up, almost like slow motion. The pace changes when the flowers are flung in the air, it becomes slower as if time is slowed down. This technique builds up tension, preparing us for the impact when the dog jumps up and nicks the bouquet. The action then speeds up, showing the destructiveness of the dog tearing through the wedding flowers.
- She does not always colour everything in the frame, sometimes there is no colours at all. Her work is very expressive.
Style of Joanne Quinn
From what I can see about Joanne Quinn's work is that it looks pencilled and sketchy, in the previous YouTube video, 'Joanne Quinn: How I animate' we know that her technique she used is traditional 2d hand drawn, using F12 paper and a peg bar.
However the colouring is very soft, It could be pastel pencils, water coloured pencils or maybe digitally coloured in?
From the drawings of the man in an apron, from anther animation she has done, It visible that she has used colouring pencils.


What I most like about her work is the energetic movement and sketchy look, I would like to experiment this with in my work.

I Would also like to experiment with pace.

What I would not take on is the light pastel colours, as I do not associate this with the brief of 'night time', I perceive more darker tones for night, and would find that more fitting to my mood of my animation.