http://mhshallways.com/reviews/2014/5/7/life-aquatic-with-steve-zissou-review CC The meticulous and fantastical frame design spills over with detail in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou directed by Wes Anderson. The film reveals many examples of mis-en-scene and how we frequently see the lighting, costume, setting and composition within the frame work together to create meanings. Anderson uses a lot of parallel or perpendicular […]
Image from: http://www.researchomatic.com/Swot-Analysis-145181.html cc SWOT analysis (alternatively SWOT matrix) is an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats—and is a structured planning method that evaluates those four elements of a project or business venture. A SWOT analysis can be carried out for a company, product, place, industry, or person. In this instance it is being carried out for a person…ME! […]
This week in our workshop we had a listen to a podcast created by the guys at RadioLAB about sleeping. As I listened to the very calm sounds of their voices and the sound effects that trembled me inside I was lifted off my feet and went into a deep deep sleep for a good […]
Sung E, Mayer R, 2013, Online multimedia learning with mobile devices and desktop computers: An experimental test of Clark’s methods-not-media hypothesis, Elsevier, Vol. 29, Issue 3, pp. 639-647 As we didn’t have a lectorial today, we were told to talk about a reading we did ourselves for our Project Brief 4. Our topic is […]
In today’s Workshop we watched each other’s PB3 films, and it was interesting to see all the different friends, family members and acquaintances people had that held unique characteristics. In our other portraits a lot of people did the same sort of approach and looked at one aspect, but I found that everyone really explored […]
In Keith Sawyer, 2007, Group Genius: The creative power of collaboration, New York: Basic Books, 2007, pp.39-57 focuses on the group flow and the heightened state of consciousness. In our workshop class we talked about how when we are grouped into a team we are able to achieve greatness. The reading also stated the ten […]
In the extract on ‘Non-Narrative Documentary’ film in D. Bordwell and K.Thompson, 2006, Film Art: An Introduction, pp. 342-370 the main ideas where on the different aspects within Documentaries and Experimental Film. When we watched the categorical form of Gap Toothed Women, it made me think of the how models back in the day used to […]
You must watch holy motors twice in order to truly understand it. As I watched this weird concoction of sounds, camera angles, characters and emotions in the opening I felt weirdly satisfied and very intrigued. The opening is of this unknown character in a locked hotel room trying to find his way out. The bizarre sounds […]
Synopsis Finding your true passion is always a hard thing to do. Olivia Barnes gives us an insight into her childhood interests through the art of painting. There is defiantly more than meets the eye when you came into contact with her.
Once i started filming my Project Brief 3 i found that there were gonna be some problems. These were the lighting, camera lens i used and sound of cars in the background. The lighting was hard because i was using all naturalistic lighting in my garage. But as the sun went down i found that […]
