Black and White
Non animated - real life
John Smith's style of filming the ordinary
Simple spoken word on top of moving image.
-Basically - just what John Smith does.
30 January 2011
29 January 2011
Assignment 5: Research: Hedgehog In The Fog
This was a really cute animation based on a story.
I really liked the way the characters had been drawn, I think they really well represent their personalities.
For a childrens animation, I think this has all the criteria, really nice soft colours, nice looking characters, animals, and an interesting story line, which is simply summed up with the movement of the film.
Assignment 5: Research: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
This is an example of a very early film: silent and black and white.
I really liked it though, I liked the mixture between the moving shots of the characters, followed by the written speech. Having the stop in between each time something happens which is broken up by the shot of writing, makes for a very old fashioned feel, which is quite endearing.
Assignment 5: Research: Jan Svankmajer
I saw these films as part of the CCW cinema season at the Odeon at Leicester Square.
They are very surreal and absorbing, sophisticated animations.
I nomally don't get interested by animation, but these were a different matter.
They involved so much skill artistically, but also they were so clever as to how these films made you feel when you watched them.
They were very disturbing and gave me the feeling of claustrophobia. It was like my mind was compressed and I couldn't escape the scene. It was very weird.
I especially liked 'The Flat'. I thought that it was highly imaginitive, and despite their not being any voices (which was what made the film so effective) you really empathised with the character by the end.
The music was really important in the setting of the mood and scene, without the music there would have been little impact.
Assignment 5: Research: John Smith
I love this film maker.
Films which are so mundane, boring, unexciting, dull... yet so funny because of this!
The subjects to his films are on such ordinary things, and with his commentary its as though you are just seeing through his eyes, with his thoughts going through his head.
The films are like video diarys. So boring, so normal but so addictive.
I think i love them because it's like an insight into what someone other than myself rambles on about inside their head, and how his life is compared to mine. How he just mulls over the most insignificant details.
This one was hilarious. The tiles moved and he just simply wanted to catch them moving.
The Girl Chewing Gum (1976)
This film was amazing.
Simply, a film of a street in london which was filmed for the duration of the film.. post filming John Smith then recorded his voice over the top, so it made the film look as though he was directing the scene, however he was only describing. So clever. Such a simple idea. Really hilarious.
The Black Tower (1985-87)
This was my favourite film of his, it was about a black tower which he was adamant was following him around. The scene would change and it would just be appearing there.
It was purely a film on his paranoia of a black tower! So funny.
Assignment 5: One Minute Film
Firstly, I need to research.
Films aren't a strong point of mine so I need to find some short film makers and styles of film which excite me.
22 January 2011
Heart Beats For Pulses #4
Idea:
-To create a poster which was aesthetically eye catching
-To create an informal point which is different from the usual campaigns which are pretty graphic and disturbing.
-A positive view
Integrate imagery with text
-Create a background which ties inrelevant things with animals/welfare/vegetarian food/etc
For the background, I decided to create an intricate and delicate doodle made up of various beans and nuts, which are only really distinguishable if you look closely.
From a distance I feel it looks like either an area of a pattern of fur/skin of an animal
or
a geographical drawing.
Either way they are both relevant to the connection with meat and the consequences of eating it or where the benefits may lie if you cut down.
Placement of words experiments
20 January 2011
19 January 2011
18 January 2011
Poster Ideas/Things I like
Images Above by Village Green
What instantly appealed to me was the really unusual photography.
I think these posters are incredibly contemporary and not the sort of thing you see all the time.
Maybe try and think of a quirky representation for my poster using photography?
Above Images Shaz Manadi
Simple typeface simple layout, all complimentary of any imagery used.
Imagery itself is neat, and works really well all together, especially with the colours and and the position of the text with it.
Really like the boldness, very eye catching.
As the layout is reminiscent of a newspaper, this would work great as a poster for a campaign...
Images above By Tom Bucher
Really like the simplicity and the edgy typeface.
Very well considered use of colour.
Love how they have used little elements to create an overall piece.
Really effective for a way of having smaller messages within a general message for a campaign.
Like the simple colour too.
Swap Heart Beats For Pulses!
Above it the initial starting point for summing up what my project is about.
I now have several typography experiments to mess the sentence up, and maybe stem new ideas...
My Chosen Topic
As I am a vegetarian, I have decided to try and make people think about the amount of meat they are eating, and how reducing your meat intake or having meat free days can not only benefit your health, but also the environment (and your wallet).
The campaign to get people to go meat free a day a week is called 'Meat Free Monday' and it was a campaign created by the McCartneys.
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