Week 6 #experimenting with rotoscoping

going to push on with this one


Influences

Sokak Savaşa Karşı | Streets Against The War from sokak savasakarsi on Vimeo.

MAD 1 + N from Francesco Brunotti on Vimeo.

Week 6 #dead

showed Ed my chess video..he said it doesn't look that great, the line animation is too rough...

he liked the walking where i cut out the legs...so im going to change my idea now.

oh its only the last week...i'll be fine!

Week 5 #alienchess

thought about an alien and a human playing a game of chess..
then each time one person loses a peices they have to give up a peice of themselves
the alien would have to give up a peice of technology and the human would have to give up an organ.

filmed and rotoscoped my friends this week.









rough final chess video

Week 5 #museums

Pollocks Toy museum

Saachi Gallery

I quite like the idea of covering faces and using toys...hmm ideas...

Week 3/4 #aliens

been looking at a lot of alien type videos as the whole cyborg experiments are almost extra-terrestrial.

hello nerdy project.

Week 3/Week 4

Time management has literally been smashed into pieces.

Can't really show you my reflective journal, but it literally took up all my time.
seriously need to get a move on.

Week 2 #presentation

I used this for the mini presentation in week 3, combining all my ideas.

Week 2 #Broken Keyboard

took apart a keyboard because of the whole cyborg idea. Not sure when im going to use this...but im sure it will come in handy

After watching movies such as Terminator/Total Recall and Bicentennial Man, I decided to work on the idea of cyborg. I got some nails/computer pieces and attached them to Barbie dolls, after spray painting them, they looked almost alien like.

this is AMAZING!!

I'm liking this whole idea of using bicycle wheels for animation.
Might use this kind of idea for my final piece, if not bicycle wheels then something circular.

Week 2 #stencil rotoscope

Film Review

Film production has changed drastically over the years; directors have started to take risks by challenging common ideologies and conventional film techniques.


Slacker opened my mind to possibilities of film, it almost felt like a ‘one shot’ piece as very little editing was used. Jan Fortgang, a Film4 critic, explains that ’No single character or strand is allowed to dominate or even develop. Every scene is a snapshot, Linklater's camera hovering for a while on the edge of one exchange before growing bored and following another.’ which I have to completely agree with.

The editing style got tedious after a while, since as soon as you got indulged into one character’s story the camera would track another character, leaving you in question. This reminded me of Otolith Group’s installation at the Turner Prize as there was so much information being put forth that after a while was hard to digest.



The Long Goodbye contrasts well against Slacker as it has a conventional protagonist, Phillip Marlowe. This movie also follows the conventional five stages of story telling; there’s a solid resolution when Marlowe shoots his friend, the one who he was protecting throughout the whole movie. This resolution is emphasised when Marlowe dances off into the distance as if there was nothing else to solve. Marlowe is made out to be an intelligent detective however he fails in tricking his cat into eating a different brand of cat food, this foreshadows the detectives ways and signifies that he cant hide anything.

 The movie also carries typical ideologies, for example women being elegant; Gould continuously shows this, both orally, with her British accent and visually, by wearing dresses in almost every scene. 


This differs to Slacker, as the movie plays with common ideologies, like in the scene where the unnamed girl with sunglasses tries to sell Madonna’s ’Pap Smear’. The character is dressed in a black baggy t-shirt and worn out shorts, this shows her lack of care in physical appearance, going against the ideology of women being elegant.



Une Femme Est Une Femme is similar to The Long Goodbye as Angela follows the ideology of a woman, by carrying out the household chores, yearning for a baby and being highly sensitive. Many cinematic techniques were used, I especially enjoyed the long pan’s used with the text interfering its emptiness, it creatively showed time passing and story telling. This is similar to Slacker as long pans are used continuously.



This movie, like The Long Goodbye, has a main protagonist, Angela, with beauty as her strong point.

 The scene where the purple light is shone against Angela’s face reminded me of Andy Warhol’s print of Marilyn Monroe; this emphases Godard’s passion for conceptual ideas.

Godard plays with the idea that orchestral music should be used to create tension, he uses the music whilst Angela and Emile argue giving an overall comical approach.


Une Femme Est Une Femme was created before Slacker and the Long Goodbye however I believe Jean-Lu Godard was way ahead of his time as he challenges traditional forms of film without changing common ideologies. All three movies have shown the evolution of film; challenging traditional forms of film with conceptual ideas in modern times has become a must.


Bibliography




Film4 Review on Slacker
http://www.film4.com/reviews/1991/slacker
27/02/2011 19.02


Otolith Group’s Installation, Turner Prize, Tate Britain
03/10/2010


Andy Warhol Print, National Portrait Gallery, Postcard
02/11/2011

Week 1 FMP

This week I've been focusing on just getting some visual content, by drawing from movies such as Bicentennial Man, Total Recall and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as well as drawing from museums such as The Natural History Museum, Science Museum, The Royal London Museum, The Hunterian Museum and the London Film Museum.
I enjoy changing the speed of drawing as drawing from movies were a lot quicker than drawing from still life in Museums.

animation

i created this story from my museum/market drawings.

its based on a chicken thats forming itself back to life after being eaten.
in his quest he goes to the chicken factory to get his head as well as his legs back. in the end he gets most of body, looks kind of deformed and then meets all of his other deformed friends.

still working on this, its not a bottle, its a chicken leg!
so need to change that.

my tutor, fiona, said to cut some of it down, so im going to work on that as well as finish the rest of it off. this was over 900 frames, thus 900 drawings. plus this is just a quarter of the whole thing, so i need to do another 2700 frames...TOMORROW!!!
guess its not movie night tomorrow any more.
:/

drawing project

i really liked this project, i don't do much observational drawings, so i dont really have my own drawing style. the above is just a lot of experimentation, so don't be put your head down in shame if it wasn't up to your expectations, me being an art student and all lol.

borough market

im actually in love with this place! if there was more vegetarian stuff other than cheese and vegetables, consider me bankrupt.

snippets of my 5 minutes a day book project

Une femme est une femme

Absolutely adored this movie, it just had a really unconventional way of story telling. . I really liked the long pan’s used and the text interfering its emptiness. It had a creative way of editing, especially when the angela and emile argue, then it suddenly cuts to them making out. You fall in love with Angela character, mainly because of her beauty as well as her cute comments at Emile’s expressions. She plays a stereotypical ‘house wife’ character, this emphasised with her cooking the dinner as well as wanting a baby. I really like how Godard has directed this, the costumes, sets, makeup give us an insight of life in France in that time. He used a lot of music to exaggerate some of the narrative ie when the couple are having an argument, loud orchestral music is played in the gaps. The scripting of this movie is amazing, I wish I could get hold of it. French seems like such a pretty language, I really want to learn it now.

the long goodbye

This movie is 40’s detective movie and has its conventional protagonist, Phillipe Marlowe. I love how he’s made out as an intelligent detective, yet he can’t even trick his cat into eating a different brand of cat food, this kind of foreshadows the detective ways, in how he cannot fake anything, and this is evident throughout the movie, e.g. when the two officers come to him to ask him questions, he tries to act smart but the officers can see that he’s hiding something. It was strange how Marlow had naked woman doing yoga ? Across his apartment, yet the camera would never focus on them, they didn’t really interest Marlow. This movie is set back in time, everything is again very vintage like, life being very free and simple. It carries the ideology of having the woman as really weak and this is shown when Gould can’t control her husband thus wanting a separation. The ending was unexpected, I didn’t think that Marlowe would actually kill his friend, the one who he was protecting throughout the movie. I like how it finishes with Marlowe walking into the distance, dancing happily as if he has nothing else to solve.
Thumbs up at Arnold Schwarzenegger's popping up, made my day.

slacker





Slacker portrayed life in Texas as very slow and strange. I found some of the conversations really interesting, like the one about space, smurfs and some others. I really liked this 60’s world, everyone laid back and free. I also enjoy how the movie is filmed, cutting through different stories as people walk pass. It makes it seem like everyone that passes you has some sort of importance. Sometimes because of the slow-paced atmosphere, my mind would drift off but I’m guessing this was the directors intention, showing how life really is, not a conventional ’movie’ with the main protagonist and antagonist. I don’t think I wouldn’t actually pay to watch this movie, I would probably watch it if it was on TV on a Sunday afternoon. The 60’s street fashion is something which kept me amused, I just loved more or less all of the different costumes each of the characters was wearing as well as the run down quiet area the movie is set in. I’m actually in love with the whole vintage lifestyle, so simple and so free.

book project

I didn't do as much work as i wanted to in this project as i got a job as an christmas temp at game and that was my priority as i was saving up for a canon 550d.

I wasn't that happy with my book which would have been obvious because i didn't spend very long on it, i will re-do it when i have some spare time.

I first started thinking about 'a paranoid' book', and had an idea of using security camera's, because of the way they are so public showing its audience that people in that building are paranoid of their belongings.

I then thought of using flies, as of having 'a fly on a wall' being a very discrete way of something looking over at you. I thought of developing these two ideas further and then created this.

It's a fly with security cameras in its eyes, but i wasn't sure how i was going to produce this as a book, so this idea finished at this.

I then decided to change the idea of a 'book' and deconstructed an old book of mine. I really liked this design, and thought it could be a lamp shade of some sort, but still was unsure about how the idea will go further, so i started a new idea.

I then scrapped the idea of a paranoid book, and decided to choose a book of very little/a book that’s isn’t there. I thought acetate pages, would be good as showing a book that’s not really there. I thought of adding little things such as plants bits and snippets from the beginning of ‘the curse’. I liked the contrast between these two aspects.

Max then advised me to add evidence items, instead of words and leaves, so I added lipstick marks, a hard eaten chocolate, a train ticket and a plaster with blood on it to give a sense of evidence from a crime scene.

I didn’t get any sold : ( but I knew I wouldn’t because I didn’t spend very long on it and I wouldn’t personally pay for it myself.

But it was an overall good experience, I need to stop leaving things to last minute.