Launching the Project

From this day and on experimentation,imagination and creation start. The ideal goal? Creating a 20 minutes film based on the analysis of the basic plot components of Russian folk tales, by Vladimir Propp.

But first let’s break down the title of the project:

1)Motion Tracking

With motion tracking, you can track the movement of an object and then apply the tracking data for that movement to another object—such as another layer or an effect control point—to create compositions in which images and effects follow the motion.

2)Who was Vladimir Propp?

Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp ( 29 April 1895 — 22 August 1970) was a Russian formalist scholar who analysed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements.

Vladimir Propp extended the Russian Formalist approach to the study of narrative structure. In the Formalist approach, sentence structures were broken down into analyzable elements, or morphemes, and Propp used this method by analogy to analyze Russian fairy tales. By breaking down a large number of Russian folk tales into their smallest narrative units, or narratemes, Propp was able to arrive at a typology of narrative structures.*

Motion tracking a fairytale? What that even means? There are gonna follow many posts so all of your questions will be answered shortly.

* Picture of Vladimir Propp and info as seen in wikipedia.org