film

• Brings imagination to life
• Search for the hero
• Film is the intersection of art
• movement
• creative artistic expressions
• music
• Across the Universe
  Fifth Element
  Die Hard
  30 Days of night
• If you've seen a historical movie, well, you know all about that era
  (So true! Movies don't lie!!)
  

Citizen Kane--The greatest movie of all time! (yeah, right!) But could a book have told the story in the same way? You wouldn't've been able to see how his ex answered in her drunken rage or how pitiful she was after he died.
The depictions of how his home changed over the course of dinner conversations was engaging.


Assignment for Thursday: p.310, first assignment and write about my reflections.

Re-makes and re-mixes

What do people do when they remix and remake something?

Digital remix--artificial, hoax, lies, for fun (Weird Al)

Express solidarity and/or support.
Fan Fictions and other artistic expressions of the original artwork

Expressing political views

tuesday, 10-16

Photographs! Lines in the photograph depict motion as well as depth. The first photo we observed in class comprised of a line of spectators across the top and a line of police leading down to the woman resisting, trying to push the line back.
The second photo depicts a line of tanks being held up, effectively stopped, by a pedestrian. The lines of the street and the arrows on the blacktop all direct the eyes towards the lone pedestrian. One man really can make a difference! One man stands up against 4 tanks; he represents courage.
Daguerreotype-Predecessor of the modern photograph. Frenchman Daguerre invented a way to preserve an image for posterity. Before Daguerre, there was no "past" except as it was remembered or written. Suddenly, there was a way to preserve how things looked! The difference between the photo and the painting is that a painting is shaped by the painter's perspective. Photographs and daguerreotypes are unbiased.
There is no way to cheat photography (well, now there is); photos are honest, they tell it like it is!
Stieglitz revolutionalized the photograph industry. He took photography from documenting and reproducing for posterity to ART! He captured life as it happened, creating a genuine impression of the past instead of historical documents.
Dorothea Lang was a photojournalist. She also brought photography to yet another new level. She did the migrant mother we looked at earlier this semester when we looked at how poverty is depicted.

Assignment: On Sunday at exactly 12 noon, point my camera out the window and photograph something! Anything! Think of placement and depth. For example, don't split the frame in the center with a tree trunk. Between noon and 12:10, take several, and then blog about what I see in the picture.

Logos

What does a logo represent? The entire product and or service! Loyalty, brand recognition, lifestyle (?)...

Contrast
Balance
Rhythm--how the eye moves across the image
Unity--the over-all, stylistic choices

Dots center your eye; the eye "reaches" for them.

An image speaks louder than a thousand words!
Case in point: Big Hearted Bob's billboard

Saul Bass is the one name I should remember from this class!!
He designs logos such as: at&t, Quaker oats, United Way, Starbucks, Dodge
He reduced the Bell logo to it's basic components; no fancy 3d components because they don't need it

Apple computers had a colorful apple with a bite taken out of it, the computer for the rest of us, so the rainbow is where the image takes you: take a bite out of this rainbow apple and you will find the pot of gold! Take a bite out of this "fruit of knowledge" and get a great computer (source of knowledge). Maybe...the viewer took that bite or the viewer is that last piece that makes the apple whole. Nowadays, it's a futuristic, glassy apple but still with the bite missing. The shape is still the same because it still works.

IBM logo with the lines seem to try to represent movement and stability (rhythm of this logo).

Quaker oat meal logo has a traditional, historical image over a modern font. Always evolving without changing; connecting the traditional with modern!

Opening sequences

I have to admit it: I love Monsters, Inc. And the opening sequence with all the doors really clues you into the importance of doors for the whole movie.

I also like Crash which opens with a scene from closer to the end of the movie. You don't really know how all the characters from such different walks of life are connected until you understand the scene of the crash.

10-02

Elements of Graphic Design
Contrast-- a good design uses contrasts that compliment and are proportional within the frame.
Balance-- refers to the placement of elements within the design frame (does not mean put everything in the middle)
For example, The Man with the Golden Arm starts out with dramatic white lines against a black screen, perhaps to draw the viewer in to the world of needles and drum sticks, which is what the film is about.


Look at my DVDs and titles and opening sequences to discern what the movie is about.