Films -
King Solomon's Mines - 2004 version
The Decent
The librarian Return To King Solomon's Mines
India Jones And Crystal Skull
Game -
Uncharted 3
Saturday, 29 October 2011
Influence Map
Films -
King Solomon's Mines - 2004 version
The Decent
The librarian Return To King Solomon's Mines
India Jones And Crystal Skull
Game -
Uncharted 3
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Metropolis Review
Fig one - Poster
Metropolis is a Science-fiction expressionist film from 1927
and directed by Fritz Lang. The film is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and
metropolis society is split up into two classes, the managers who live in nice
big skyscrapers and the workers living underground. “The story tells of a great city whose two halves--the pampered
citizens of the surface and the slaves of the depths.” (Roger Ebert, March 1998)
Metropolis was founded and built by Jon Fredersen but the
main protagonist is Fredersen son Freder who lives a luxurious life with all
the other sons of the managers.
The scene when Freder is in the eternal gardens he sees a
young woman (Maria) who has a load of workers children to show the upper class
what the working class is going through. Stunned and intrigued by the woman,
Freder who was unknown and blind to what goes on in the working world goes down
and sees what going on in his father’s city, searching for the woman. “The city leader’s son on an odyssey to the depths
in pursuit of saintly workers’ advocates Maria.” (Peter
Bradshaw. September 2010).
Lighting is used effectively in Metropolis, the scene when
Maria is running away from Rotwang, he chases her with a spot light/torch and
even though its just a light moving around her, she’s scared and shows this
well in her acting.
“There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain
unless the heart acts as mediator”. (Maria, Metropolis). The workers are the hands and Jon Fredersen being the brain, have no
connection with each other until Freder goes into the depth to look for Maria
and becomes the heart and connects them.
Fig Two - Scene
Freder’s character is a noble
caring man who shows this when his father fires Josaphat and Josaphat doesn’t
know what to do and decides to kill himself but just before he does Freder
stops him and helps him out. Then at the head shows is heroic side by risking
his life to save the children from drowning.
Make-up plays an important part in this film especially when
Maria is pure and innocent she has little make-up to show purity but when her
double is made from the robot her make-up is dark and gothic around her eyes to
show evil and help the audience tell the difference between them both.
“Narrative logic takes
a backseat to rampant expressionism”. (Nev Pierce, January 2003). The
movement of the actors were in sync with the music beat. Also the way the actors move and run was very theatrical and over the top.
Overall the film has a lot of similarities with “The Cabinet
of Dr. Caligari” obviously for both are silent horror films from the 1920’s but
they both use music, make up and acting to make both films understood without
speaking.
Illustrations
Bibliography
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
King Solomon's mines Book
King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist SirH. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre.
The book was first published in September 1885 amid considerable fanfare, with billboards and posters around London announcing "The Most Amazing Book Ever Written". It became an immediate best seller. By the late 19th century, explorers were uncovering ancient civilisationsaround the world, such as Egypt's Valley of the Kings, and the empire of Assyria. Inner Africa remained largely unexplored and King Solomon's Mines, the first novel of African adventure published in English, captured the public's imagination. It is now classified as children's literature but was originally read by adults.
Information from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Solomans_Mines
Monday, 24 October 2011
The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari Review
Fig Two - Scene from the film
The cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is a silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene. The film is about the deranged Dr. Caligari and his faithful sleepwalking Cesare, who are linked to a number of murders in a mountain villiage.
“The first thing
everyone notices and best remembers about "The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari" (1920) is the film's bizarre look.”(Roger Ebert, June
2009). The setting of the film is what
is the most unique thing about it, everything is asymmetrical and odd looking,
buildings and streets are more like canvases for scenery and objects.
“It is difficult to imagine the film done better with the benefit of sound, colour, or any innovation since.” (Nick Hilditch, March 2001). The music
plays a massive part in the film, setting the scene and emotion of the film. There’s a scene where Jane is anxious so the music picks up speed to show this
to the audience as the actors can only portray so much emotion in the acting.
“A ghostly looking
Francis (Friedrich Fehér) recounts to an equally pale friend his strange tale
of woe involving his fiancée Jane (Lil Dagover).” (Cole Smithey, October
2011). The make up in the film on the main
protagonists is heavier around their eyes to make their eyes stand out more to
help caption emotion their feeling, which also gives the film a gothic feel
towards it.
Drama staging rules are present in the film as the actors
never really have their backs towards the camera, the drama rules mainly stood
out near the end an actor goes to grab another actor to his right so naturally
he would use his left arm but so he doesn’t show his back towards the camera he
uses his right arm to grab the other actor instead.
Overall the film is unique with, no other film like it. Over
the top acting and music to set the emotions in the film, there’s elements of
gothic in the makeup which is also used to help show emotion through the actors
expressions.
Illustrations
Bibliography
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Life Drawings
All my life drawings so far, a mixture of pencil, charcoal, and small quick drawings of different poses.
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Black Swan Review
Fig one - Black Swan Poster
Black swan review
The black swan directed by Darren Aronofsky, is about a
young girl called Nina who is a ballerina and has always wanted to play the
main part in the play “swan lake” and finally gets her chance but at a cost.
“But to master the
role, Nina must perform as both the rigid and timid White Swan and the
unbridled and passionate evil twin, the Black Swan”. (MATT NEAL 6th
February 2011). Nina pushes herself to the limit of perfection throughout the
film but lacks passion of lust in her performances which is noticed by her
director and he begins to flirt with. Getting more progressively more vigorous with
her by rubbing her sexually or forcing a kiss upon her, she refuses him and he
tells her to have sexual encounters or masturbate to show feeling in her
performance.
Fig Two - Scene from Black Swan
“The camera lurches,
leaps, and pirouettes; in some scenes, it feels as if it's being tossed around
the stage along with Portman”. (J.Hoberman, December 1st 2010).
Camera angle shots in the film make the viewing claustrophobic, through the
film there is never a decent view of the scene its always close to the actors
also following Nina from behind never getting a clear view where she’s heading.
“psycho-melodrama is a
glittering, crackling, outrageously pick-able scab of a film”.(Peter
Bradshaw, Thursday 20th January 2011) physiology
plays a big part in the film, throughout the film Nina keeps seeing her
face on other people this is a sign of death coming, her mum is a very
possessive woman controlling every think Nina does, this is mainly because Nina
is living her mums dreams as her mum gave up her dreams to have Nina. Yet at
moments her mum seems to want to ruin her daughter by buying a massive cake and
trying to serve a big slice to Nina even though they both know Nina can’t eat
much because she has to maintain her figure for ballet.
Illustration
Bibliography
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/20/black-swan-review
Thumbnails - 31 (51 All Together)
adding all my thumbnails together I have done 51.
Face Drawings
I decided to only spend 30 mins each on each face, which is probably why some look slightly different from my actual face, also i have done 6 because i cant count.
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Final Image Progression
Starting off with a white silhouette to get a basic structure and posture of my hybrid. Then progessing with little detail on where my hybrid is and slight shading. the third image I start to go into colour with the skin and fourth image just progessing with the image and changing where one of the wings is postioned.
Monday, 17 October 2011
Maya - Materials
2. Silver
3.Chrome
4.Plastic
5.Gold
6.Glass
7.Glow
8.Glow in the dark
These all roughly took me 10 -20 mins to finish.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)