Thursday 20 November 2008

Recent media antics!

With Mr. VS:

Today was our first day on coursework. Many ideas were about but we came to the conclusion that we would do an action/thriller in the same style as Sin City. This means we are going to attempt to turn some of the characters into cartoon then from cartoon back to the characters. Although this is going to be a highly time consuming task we feel, in our group, that it will be worth while and the best results will come of it. We expiramented on photoshop today, and had a few attempts at making pete (fellow film maker) into cartoon. This was highly unsuccessful. But as time goes on and trail and error takes place this could turn into the next motion picture. Or not!

With Mrs.Francis:

We have looked at a skins or hollyoaks trailer or episode and analyised the 4 parts. Misse-en-scene, editing, sound and cinematography. All 4 elements were very pronounced in the skins series 2 trailer that i watched. We have also watched East is East and have made noted on the clips that we have seen on youtube to represent how this is a "british comedy". But most recently we have looked at channel 4 films and prodominatly english films with the usual Huge Grant, Simon Pegg effect.

1 comment:

Sacha van Straten said...

Hi CK,

It's great to see you writing about both aspects of the course. Look for those links and crossover points. They do exist and making them in your own head is important.

I was very impressed today with the way you researched the technique you want to use and then set out about teaching yourself how to do it, in an experiential way. Often, that's the best approach to learn how to work the kit technically, while also playing around with creative ideas.

Full credit to you!