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Continuous Journey Four

Artist: Somerville, Mary · b. 1984

Continuous Journey Four

The artist was in Italy in 2010 on an RSA John Kinross Travel Scholarship. …

The artist was in Italy in 2010 on an RSA John Kinross Travel Scholarship. Image to front of paper insert is of a still from the animation and features a modelled windmill construction casting a shadow to its right. The digital video production is 7 minutes 5 seconds long and plays on a loop. The production is a stop frame animation and features modelled sets, characters and props. The production is silent. ANIMATION SCENES AND RUNNING ORDER

00.00 – 00.23 A modelled windmill rotates
00.24 – 00.33 A carousel of black plasticine dogs rotates left to right
00.34 – 00.52 Modelled windmill, front view cutting to side view
00.53 – 01.17 Closer views of carousel
01.18 – 01.27 Windmill side view
01.28 – 01.48 Shadow view of turning carousel cutting to dark close view
01.49 – 02.12 Wide view of carousel and windmill turning together. A 2 headed white
plasticine dog walks in from off screen right and joins the carousel
02.13 – 02.16 The white dog leaves the carousel and walks off screen left
02.17 – 02.28 Shadow view of carousel
02.29 – 02.59 Wide view of carousel to left of screen. Close up view of one dog
struggling to free itself. Back to wide view – one dog frees itself and
escapes the carousel. Another two dogs follow suit
03.00 – 03.14 Cut to modelled tree with white bone swinging from wire attached to a
branch
03.15 – 03.26 Shadow view of carousel
03.27 – 03.57 Cut to modelled tree. Bone is still now. The two headed white dog walks
in, sniffs at bone and walks off screen right. Three black dogs gather
round and jump trying to reach the bone.
03.58 – 04.00 Side view of a modelled table and chair. A white pot and bowl sit on the
table next to each other. The three black dogs pass in front, left to right.
04.01 – 04.03 View of modelled Italian church façade.
04.04 – 04.07 Close up view of front of church. A white dog with one head goes inside.
04.08 – 04.25 View of interior archways of church. Camera pans up and then back down.
The white dog walks through.
04.26 – 04.58 Cut to table and chair. The chair moves to each four sides of the table and returns to its original position to the left. A two headed black dog walks in front from left to right.
04.59 – 05.07 The chair is now under the bone hanging from the tree. It moves around the tree.
05.08 – 05.15 Cut to table and chair. A black dog comes in and tries to reach the objects on the table via the chair. The white pot moves away out of reach.
05.16 – 05.20 Cut to church façade. A black dog passes in front left to right. Cut to close view, the black dog goes inside.
05.21 – 05.37 Inside the church a white pot with handle sits on a black rug. The two headed black dog comes in, nudges the pot and moves away.Cut to close up of pot and rug, the three black dogs appear to be drinking from its contents.
05.38 – 05.47 View of top of turning carousel
05.48 – 06.14 View of dogs still on carousel. The dogs that escaped return and reattach themselves facing the opposite way.
06.15 – 07.05 Low angle view of tree with hanging bone. The chair has returned, it cautiously tries to reach the bone and then walks around the tree several times.

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