BSA 106 First Emotional encounter

  1996 when i first saw a zombie on resident evil kill and eat the main character the directors cut play station

at this time i was about 6 years old and that scene in the game still sits with me to this day.




more recently was resident evil 2 in the year 1999 ish i thought i had survived the last game i merely saw at the age of 6 at this time i was about 9 and there was one scene where i thought i was safe in this hall way which the undead could get there arms through  the gaps in the window and i  literally lept to my feet with my controller in my hand both, resident evils have had an influence on me and now i have an odd hate for the undead. Alongside Parasite eve 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1rsujJ2CjA

early in my life i had an unusual fear of girls because of Species



at the age of about 11 ish maybe later the grudge made me laugh as all the people in the room could not watch the creepy scene


in the year 2010 i watched a movie that made me uncomfortable Splice due to inter species  relations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pIeSYhipUs

BSA 106

The Beginning 

During the Golden Age of Hollywood (1930 – 1960), most film directors worked for one of the major studios

French film critics noticed some American Directors made films that were their own personal visions and were “auteurs” (authors of their own films). Examples being Alfred Hitchcock and Orsen Welles

The first American New Wave started outside of Hollywood by independent film makers in New York

Little Fugitive (1953) By Ray Ashley, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin

Film was an influence on the French New Wave with Francois Truffaut stating - “Our New Wave would never have come into being if it hadn’t been for the young American Morris Engel, who showed us the way to independent production with this fine movie.”

New York New Wave

Lionel Rogosin made On the Bowery (1956) – Neorealist view of New York that has a mixture of documentary and scripted footage - 

Robert Frank made Pull My Daisy (1959) -

John Cassavetes made Shadows (1959) – Contains improvised dialogue and a narrative with interracial romance -

Shirley Clarke made The Connection (1961) – A mixture of cinema verite and French New Wave. Her films depict drug addicts, sex workers and different races mixing together 

  

    New Hollywood

A new generation of young filmmakers emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s

Studios lost the right to own their own theatres (Paramount Antitrust case 1948) and they struggled to sell films to independent exhibitors and were losing their audience and money. Also competing with television.

In 1966, British films found success in America with examples being

Alfie  

Georgy Girl 

 Blow Up 

The success of these films showed that American audiences were open to films with more explicit content and different narrative structures.

Jack Valenti was made the new head of the MPAA in 1966 and the outdated production code that restricted film content was updated. This allowed new freedoms for filmmakers to make anti-authoritarian films which appealed to younger audiences.

Bonnie and Clyde1965

In 1963 Robert Benton and David Newman (writers for a New York magazine) wrote a script for Bonnie and Clyde (based on the American criminals who during the Great Depression, robbed and killed people) and managed to get the script to French New Wave Director Francois Truffaut. Truffaut was to direct the film but pulled out to shoot Farenheit 451(1966)  . He passed on the project to Jean-Luc Godard who also pulled out in favour of shooting Alphaville (1965)

Eventually, actor Warren Beatty read the script and decided to produce it and hired Arthur Penn to direct. The film was funded by Warner Brothers.

Jack Warner disliked the rough cut and gave the film a limited release. The film also received bad reviews.

The film however was well received in England. Beatty managed to get Warner Brothers to re-release the film and it became a success and was nominated for Academy Awards. Notable for it’s depiction of sex and violence

The Graduate (1967)

Director Mike Nichols won Oscar and film received multiple nominations

Soundtrack consists of songs by Simon & Garfunkel

Introduced the world to Dustin Hoffman

Benjamin Braddock (Hoffman) has just finished college and is unsure of what to do with his future, when he becomes sexually involved with a friend of his parents… Mrs Robinson

Fritz the Cat (1971)

Far from the traditional child-targeted animated films

Ralph Bakshi believed that with all the changes in society and the new social power and economic freedom of the young people, it was time to take adult animation seriously.

Taking the comic strip character created by Robert Crumb, he made what became the first X-rated American cartoon.

Fritz lives an alternative lifestyle among students in New York who experiment with free love, drugs and rock n roll 

BSA 106 Cinema Verite and Direct cinema

Background

During the 1930s and 1940s the requirement to shoot lip synced dialogue on 30mm film meant that cameras and recorders became much larger and heavier, reducing portability and the ability to record spontaneous action.
by the end of the 1950s several tech advances came together including better 16mm film stock lenses for shooting with natural light and especially  smaller lighter and sometimes integrated sound recorded .

by the 1962 camera operators were able to hand-hold or rest cameras on their shoulders allowing mobile shooting with minimal interference.

these new cameras and recorders enabled an entirely different style of shooting documentary film . for the first time film makers were able simply to follow their subjects around as they went about their business or to take cameras into public spaces without causing a huge disruption. these tool revitalised the documentary form in the 1960s and 1970s.

Differences 

Cinema Verite


to obtain truth from the subject the presence of the film maker must be acknowledge or even discussed.

The principle method is  participation between film maker and subject often through interviews

commentary is vital whether in voice over or through on screen presence
the audience is free to identify with with the film makers or the subject s position and point of view.
the film maker is a fly on the wall or in the soup intervening to get a response 

Direct Cinema

To obtain truth from the subject, the film-maker should be as unobtrusive as possible.

The principal method is observation of subjects behaving within their environment.

Commentary is minimal or absent so that subjects can speak for themselves.

The audience members should forget the film-makers and feel as if they’re in the room with the subjects.

The film-maker is a ‘fly on the wall’, watching but practically invisible.

BSA 127 2d Animation 2016

The Beginning of the 2D animation

I have chosen to Animate Kain The Destroyer and his transformation into the second form of 3  where he has sacrificed his eyes for a mouth



i Feel this transformation will not turn out the way i had first conceived it  because of my skill level in the 3D area how ever at least i have chosen to get it on paper and copyrights to the creation of my first child from my dreams of  my new world.


The hardest part would probably be the drawing of each step in the transformation as each phase progresses with runes molded into the bone that makes him stand 7.8ft tall Kain is a power house with all the runes on his body each has a meaning of which is yet to be deciphered.

BSA 106 La Jetee

La Jetee

Who made the Film?
Chris Marker
Argos films







What year was it made?
 1962





What film did the director state La Jette was influenced by?(or a remake of?)

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.





What films have been influenced by La Jetee?

12 monkeys from 1992 as from what i remember of it the 12 monkeys had time travel
The Terminator also may have been influenced by this film.



Review....

My review on this film is probably going to be a summary more than a review due to the fact this film is very interesting in the ideals of time travel in this high speed world of tech that we are used to now days made it difficult to watch because of the time it took to get the message across which was hard to find in the end but this is what i got..... as a joke ....the government has been tampering with time travel for a very longtime .... funny hahaha... No the film itself is watch able hard to understant fully but watch able non the less the use of snap shot in black and white are rather effective in the telling of the story... as far as i can tell he was marked by a previous traveler before he even knew what was going on in the world he knew ..... the story was all over the place but i guess that comes with time travel.  All and all I enjoyed it Thank you Vaughn .

•https://vimeo.com/170985383

BSA 106

Animations of 1965 - 1969

Look for the Bare necessities in life

Russia
Andrei Khrjanovsky
Made there Lived Kozyavin

Japan
Toei Doga
Cyborg 009 was a manga comic about a champion athlete
similar to astro boy it was adapted into animation.


Hiroshi Sasagawa

Based on a manga comic, Mach Go Go Go was sold in the West as Speed Racer

The Western version was toned down from the original series to have the characters stunned instead of killed

After Astro Boy, the market opened up in the West for under animated, effects heavy style of Japanese anime

USA/Japan

Jules Bass

MOM Productions in Japan made stop-motion film Mad Monster Party 1967 for US Producer Jules Bass

Influenced later work of Tim Burton

Cast of famous monsters included King Kong, but due to copyright issues, the character was referred to as “it” 

USA

Disney – The Jungle Book (1967)

Notable for being the first time the animated characters movements were based on the filmed performances of the voice actors (which has since become the standard)

Also the last animated feature that Walt Disney was involved in (died on December 15th 1966 of lung cancer)

Belgium

Belvision Studios

Asterix the Gaul 1967 was adapted from the first volume of comics and graphic novels created by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo and 12 films have been made

First film was created without consent or knowledge of Goscinny and Uderzo and by the time they found out, it was to late to stop the release.

They forced production of the sequel to be stopped, stating that the first film was cheaply made and did the comics a disservice.

Croatia

Ziatko Grgic

Created Professor Balthazar when working at Zagreb Film Studio in 1967

52 episodes about the eccentric old inventor were made over a seven year period

Pavao Stalter & Branko Ranitovic

Directed an adaption of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic horror tale The Masque of the Red Death in 1969

Canada 

Eva Szasz

Based on the 1957 book Cosmic View by Kees Boeke, the film Cosmic Zoom was directed by Eva Szasz for the National Film Board of Canada in 1968

Film starts with live action of a boy on a lake, zooms out to space then zooms back in down to subatomic level, and back out to the boy.

Coincidentally, designers Ray and Charles Earnes released their film Powers of Ten in 1968, also based on Cosmic View

Ryan Larkin

Produced a sequence of award winning films in the 1960’s in a free flowing, psychedelic, figurative style

Made Walking in 1969 which was nominated for best animated short Oscar in 1970

UK/USA

Terry Gilliam

Creator of Storytime 1968 and Monty Pythons Flying Circus

Storytime was influenced by Death Breath 1964

Gilliam came up with trademark anarchic animation style by using a mixture of cutout photo’s, Victorian imagery, surreal machines and strange illustrations 

UK 

Oliver Postgate & Peter Firmin

Formed the company Smallfilms and produced many animated children’s series including Ivor the Engine, Bagpuss and Noggin the Dog

Worked out of a converted cow shed, their animated was basic, using handmade models.

The Clangers 1969 - 

George Dunning – Yellow Submarine (1968)

The Beatles agree to travel in a yellow submarine to rescue the inhabitants of a land where music and happiness are banned by the meanies

Each song was animated in a different visual style, making full use of the technology at the time

Italy 

Osvaldo Cavandoli

Created an advertising film for the Italian TV show Carosello called The Line in 1969

Was then turned into comics and a TV series with 90 episodes being produced between 1972 and 1991

USA

Bambi meets Godzilla- By Marv Newland.

From early to still early in the existence or beginning  of film and or animations.
Thank you Vaughn Millar 

BSA 124

Stop Motion 2016


Research for stop motion (The Idea)

the ideas that Cayleb and I (Theo) are working on is an idea of a "narcotic" or substance abuse flubber character of which is having issues being happy with the way they are made and he begins to seek his own recreation as he struggles with "substance abuse" he changes color depending on the substance, he uses these foreign substances to improve himself in some way however he is merely changing his color.

Eventually he finds a dodgy shop and finds further color altering that are not on the shelf of a conventional shop and could be deadly if ingested however he comes to the conclusion that life only happens once in a life time and the choice is his to do as he pleases, thus he takes the substance and he goes through a painful and jarring experience to become what he wants to be......

this substance makes him a rainbow group of colors and thus our hero is happy with the way he stands out .



Materials we are likely to use plaster cine for the blob itself but the rest of the set will be made of of mostly what ever we have available for use without a price hopefully.