Monday, March 15th 2010

Things to Focus on for MY critical presentation

Reasoning behind the title

Camera angle: why it was filmed from a certain angle

Props

Outside influences to the subject in screen

Passage of time

Critical Presentations

Anthony Moltisanti- Errol Morris "First Person: The Little Gray Man"

Interesting choice of work. Loved the camera frames he showed us as he went along and analyzed the piece.

Kelsey Olson- Pierre Huyghe "No Moment"

Made some interesting points. Definitely seemed fluxus to me so I think that was a good assumption. The source of light shows a gradual passage of time. VERY interesting that she showed it to us without the music because it showed me a whole new perspective to the piece.

Wednesday, March 3rd 2010

Group 1: Emily Sneeden, KT Stemper & Kirstin Anderson- There was something disgustingly interesting about every single one, but I really enjoyed Kristen's the most. I think it was very well done artistically. It reminds me of this artist who did a bunch of screens with videos of different people singing a song. I think it was the Beatles or something. I felt like Emily's was good, but I liked the loogie and tonsil hockey pieces were the strongest out of the three olympics.

Group 2: Kelsey Olson, Anthony Moltisanti & Melissa Bonnewell- I thought the first one with the guinea pig was interesting as well. I liked how there was noise and stuff going on around her but she was sleeping and then dreams were still flashing, but I would have liked to see more dreams. The guinea pig was a little out of place. It was very interesting. LOVED the title in stop motion. I didn't really understand Anthony's that well, but I liked how still the camera was the whole time. Liked the editing in Melissa's. I liked how the footage wasn't shot as if there was a fly on the wall watching, it was shot in first person.

Group 3: Joel, Gabby, Olga- Although I didn't really understand the overall theme of the score (because I didn't know what the word meant) I enjoyed the intro title with the raisin box. I really enjoy the way Joel concluded his. Olga's was repetitive but HILARIOUS just because of their accents. OKAY, Now that I understand what sisyphean means, I get it everyone's piece and I liked them all.

Group 4: Didn't understand what the overall theme was.

Wednesday, February 24th 2010

I was not in Class today, but I know that there was a guest speaker, and that we were supposed to get to have a little time to work out our final individual score since it is due Monday, and the final group score is due on Wednesday. I worked on mine all weekend and I think it turned out pretty good.

Monday, February 22nd 2010

Presentations

Sara- Bill Viola "The Reflecting Pool"

Uses water as a motif. Influenced by zen buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. Focuses on Dualism as well.

This video was interesting but sort of tedious. I got tired of watching just a pool, but I actually found myself enjoying the sounds around outside, etc. It reminded me of being outside.

He uses symbolism. When the three drops of water drop from him in the air when he hasn't even gotten wet yet, was symbolism about how he doesn't have to physically be in the water to be "submerged" and "submersed".

Will- Spike Lee "The 25th Hour"

Likes how he tackles controversial issues (ethics, morality, racism).

I found it extremely interesting that there were so many racial and controversial slangs and terms and words towards all types of people contrasted at the end with the words fuck you written out on the mirror. I didn't like when it said "fuck you" j.c. because I am a Christian but I guess that just shows that he has achieved what he was going for. Hitting most constroversial issues.

Group/Individual Score

My group is made up of three people so we decided to go with something that has threes. Like rock paper scissors. We rock paper scissors-ed for it and I got paper! I have decided to just film a bunch of random acts that you can do with paper that will add up to three minutes!

Wednesday, February 17th 2010

Presentations

Emily Sneeden- Michel Gondry "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor"

Uses mostly cuts as transitions

Rhythmic relationship set up

Camera panning with movement so actors don't go out of the frame

Bright lights- fantasy or magical realism

Camera is stationary and the actor moves his head closer and farther away to simulate zoom

Spacial relationships as bodies move in and out of the frame

Normally actors exit stage right and enter stage left. Gondry has them both enter and exit from the same side.

Nicole Pennington- Paul McCarthy "Psychoanalytic Theories in Family Tyranny and Cultural Soup"

Cinematic Elements- External shot superimposed onto an extreme close-up on certain objects

Two types of viewpoints

Phallic Representations

THIS VIDEO IS SO CREEPY.

Event Score Project

So I am going to be out of town for the Event Score project day and I freaked out a little when I saw that it was 60 points for participation that day. I really was disappointed that I was going to miss it so I really started to think of ways that I could be there when it hit me. I could use skype! Not only would I be able to be apart of the class that day, but it could be part of my own event score. I am SO excited to be doing something different than I normally would have and I wouldn't have gotten that opportunity unless I was going to be absent! Who knew?!

Thanks to Olga, she is going to bring her computer into class on that day so that I can be skyped into class and proceed with my event score.

I did my event score today! It was really interesting to see everything going on from skype. It was like I was actually watching it in a movie or something. I thought it was interesting how everyone was doing their own event score, but certain things caught peoples attention and everyone would look over. The things I noticed the most, were the singing and olga tearing out pages from a notebook and laying on them because they were particularly loud.