Dazed Animated Cover Video
Published 27 months ago
Jonny Harris took one of Hedi Slimane's images that was shot for Dazed January issue and produced a video animation.
We know we asked teenagers to put their own spin on the Dazed cover as part of the Teenage Takeover for Dazed's January issue but obviously those that are over 18 years old were more than welcome to send in their submissions. Jonny Harris, a hybrid of a video director and motion graphics artist took one of the images shot by Hedi Slimane and broke it down into a one minute video animation, focusing on the helmet as a recurring motif.
"I interpreted the image as a celebration of British youth. I wanted to
convey the idea of breaking apart and transforming something into a
beautiful, flowing movement of imagery which links and works together
to form something new. For the subject matter I've broken apart the helmet photo, forming symmetrical shapes. The idea is to start off with a full helmet and finish with an
intricate web of inter connecting shapes made up of elements from the
helmet and various other armor."
"The technique I've used is to print out the
images, photo copy them, then photo copy the copy, and so on until the
image forms a completely different shape. These are then scanned back
in to the computer and cut put together like stop frame animation. It
gives it quite a low-fi organic feel. Various images are then colorised
in bright neons every few frames."
Harris has worked on projects for record and television companies whilst also working on personal projects. "2008 was a hectic and exciting year so currently recharging my
batteries for a month in Australia whilst working on a personal film
entitled "Red" loosely based on people seeing colour as emotions. I'll
be back in London at the start of Jan, taking on new commercial
projects and looking for fresh collaborations."
Music by James Powell.
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