Michele D'Auria

This week’s animation by Michele D'Auria - Promenade the puzzle - was a bit confusing... at least for me anyways, I had a hard time figuring out what the point of the story was. It looks like a guy smoking a cigarette but at same time at first I thought it was a lady because it seems like the outfit is a black dress and the shirt is light pink, the way the hands move when smoking and the way the cigarette is held. Well it could just be to make it confusing and spooky, while he is smoking the smoke becomes a ghostly figure face of a woman and it leads to believe that it is someone he loved or loves because they start making heart shapes out of the smoke and later kiss. It is like what keeps them connected is the smoke. Also there are lines and shapes moving while they create the illusion that there is a flash and later on in the middle of the shape movements a heart is in the center pounding with a red background from the heart shape the face is once again formed this time taken apart from the heart yes, like a puzzle. There is also a cross that shows up many times, is it describing death? At the end it seems like he just bows and then you can here an audience clapping. The music that was used for this animation makes it creepy and it fits perfect for this flash a soundtrack by an Italian band Premiata Forneria Marconi. This flash uses many of the same movements and shapes therefore even though it is very lengthy, the same shapes are being used just in different positions.