Final Edit: Robin Thicke Mockumentary
I hated this project with a passion I did not know existed. The idea wasn't the best, but I wanted to work well with my partner and not completely dominate her, and not use any of her ideas. Overall, I didn't mind how it looked, but it wasn't my favorite project at all.
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Documentary Planning
1- Create a Statement or Treatment
What the theme/ or question is?
Interview a famous musician about a completely ludicrous song that he/she wrote, and ask them why they wrote it.
What is your perspective of this theme?
I personally don't like this theme at all, but my project partner really wanted to do it, so oh well.
Background research, aesthetic content…
Look into the meanings of music, why it's written. Find someone who looks like a famous person.
2-Create a list of Priority Elements in the documentary
This should include opening, context of theme, interviews, supporting information, moment of culmination and ending.
Statements from the artist
Shots of the music video that was recorded for the song
Public interviews
Interviews from the music industry
Fill shots of what might be happening during the interviews
3- Make a list of video shots needed
This must include establishing shots, environmental background shots, close-ups, transition shots, visual textures, etc.
I have no idea
What the theme/ or question is?
Interview a famous musician about a completely ludicrous song that he/she wrote, and ask them why they wrote it.
What is your perspective of this theme?
I personally don't like this theme at all, but my project partner really wanted to do it, so oh well.
Background research, aesthetic content…
Look into the meanings of music, why it's written. Find someone who looks like a famous person.
2-Create a list of Priority Elements in the documentary
This should include opening, context of theme, interviews, supporting information, moment of culmination and ending.
Statements from the artist
Shots of the music video that was recorded for the song
Public interviews
Interviews from the music industry
Fill shots of what might be happening during the interviews
3- Make a list of video shots needed
This must include establishing shots, environmental background shots, close-ups, transition shots, visual textures, etc.
I have no idea
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Exit Through the Gift Shop is the story of an eclectic French man attempts to integrate himself into the culture of street art, befriending many well known artists, including the elusive Banksy himself. The twist is, that Banksy hijacked the filming, turning the interviewer into the interviewee with a ridiculous twist at the end as to what happens to this simple french man.
The beginning of the movie felt very believable, as there was actual documentation to back up what was being said. The original creator of the film had hundreds, if not thousands of hours of footage that he had shot through his lifetime, and it was all in chronological order. It compromised years of life, as the viewer watched his family and him get older and grow up. His start in street art is believable, that he knew someone who knew someone, and then he met more people as he went further along into the project.
Towards the middle and the end is when the documentary became less believable. How is it possible that Banksy let this random man from France film him when he has been so secretive all this time. Or that he would actually promote a man that produces bullshit for work, someone who has never made art. The idea that it's a hoax is played in the name of Thierry, "Mr. Brainwash". Conveying the idea that he has brainwashed everybody into believing he was something.
"Understanding Comics- The Invisible Art" Review
- The reader is told how something ends, however the author gives the story enough leeway that there are possibilities for more to be added to the story by the viewer. An open-ended story is a nice way to put it
- If there are multiple panels depicting one action, it can slow down time and elongate the moment
- Another way of expanding the time that the viewer experiences is to end a caption, leaving a lingering feeling
Graphic Novel: Don't Forget Your Sunscreen!
Working on this project I changed my mind multiple times as to what my subject was (this is becoming a problem as I need more "iteration"). First, I started with the idea that I wanted to paint a girl, showing her transformation from the beginning of the day to the end. But as I began painting it, the story felt so cliche and I wasn't happy with how the work was coming out. BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD (errrr storyboard I should say). As I was in my room, there was a sculpture that I had made earlier, that reminded me of a cactus, and wouldn't it be funny if the one thing a cactus needs, the sun, is what kills him. To create this graphic novel I used a mixture of photography, collage, and sculpture. Overall, I'm very pleased with the end result, with the dark twist in the plot.
Time Lapse: Brooklyn Bridge
This project annoyed me to no end. I wanted to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge when I was shooting the images because the camera I was working with was very unfamiliar. In total, there were around 400 images over an hour period, but the camera didn't sequence them right, so when dropped into premiere, only about 200 showed up. Learning premiere was the hardest part, but once I became familiar with the program it became very easy to use.
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