Not gonna lie, this project led me to a loooot of thinking, scripting, overthinking, questioning, and doubting. Every week I kept having more questions, which just brought more doubts. Since I was the creator of my audios, I wanted to have a clear narrative. And above all, you almost need a strategy or at least a clever way with the subtitles to communicate the message I wanted to share. I wanted to do it in a way that was smart but simple.
Proof of my overthinking – my notes.
Rainy day
Italian hand gesture meaning “What are you talking about?!”
Primarily, I worked with After Effects and created various interactions (as you can see in the following video). However, my aim wasn’t simply to visualise and animate the text to represent the sound, as that would become too descriptive and unrelated to my enquiry. That’s why I struggled to find different strategies to use subtitles in a way that was both simple and communicative.