BSA 106 Comedy from the past and the present.

These are a few of the films i found rather tickled my funny bone:

one of the  most early films i enjoyed as a child would have to be Ace Ventura and or The Mask both of which Star "The over actor" Jim Carry.



more recent ones would have to be Jay and silent bob Strikes Back right next to the first anchorman starring Will ferrel and other great actors plus Bruce almighty


as well as rush hour starring Jackie chan along with Shanghi noon and knights

And the first Jack ass but what was more funnyer than that was the sudden influx of copycats.

And 21 + 22 jump street

And most recent would be the Big Lez Show done in paint but contains adult notions
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Bonus round - A mini review on the documentary of the change of film and animation


This was very enlightening unfortunately it would appear that to make a real impact on the world now days when it comes to making a film or animation you must not just adhere to the normal of the industry sometimes you just have to get it done however my specialty will probably be immersion compared to contemporary film or animation
 

BSA 106 films of Sadness recent and older

I remember The films that made me sad either loudly or quietly

Starting with ;

at a young age when flubber first came out and the Death of Weebo was damaged beyond repair.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws8IjKpYcgQ&list=PLqpIhEJeX98TiYBC5T7ouCP2T7-ZLZwKy&index=10

  

The Bridge Terrabithia The death of the only friend the main character had in  his life 

The death of Chris rocks Character in the longest yard.

And the death of Mufasa in the Lion King  1

BSA 106 1970-1975

USA

Lillian Schwartz

An artist and pioneer in computer animation.

A Christmas Carol (1971)

Made by Richard Williams (Animators Survival Kit)

Made for T.V film and was later released in movie theaters

Won 1972 Academy Award for best animated short film

This caused controversy and led to the Academy changing it’s rules, deeming that T.V movies could not be considered for the Oscars.

France

Serge Danot

Made the pilot for the TV series The Magic Roundabout.

500 episodes of the stop-motion series were made between 1963 – 1970

In 1970 a feature film was released called Dougal and the Blue Cat.

France / Czech Republic

Rene Laloux

Made The Fantastic Planet 1973

Based on the novel Oms en Serie by Stefan Wul

About a society where humans have been taken to another planet to be pets

Film alludes to social concerns of fascist repression and war as well as alternative culture and Eastern mysticism.

France / Poland

Piotr Kamler

Made The Step 1974

Experimental abstract stop motion film.

Japan 

Renzo & Sayoko Kinoshita

Made Made in Japan in 1972 – Animation about the Japanese culture putting the economy before anything else.

Also made made what is considered to be one of the most harrowing and disturbing animated shorts, Pica-don 1978

An animated depiction of the bombing of Hiroshima.

Hayao Miyazaki & Isao Takahata

Created TV series Heidi 1974, an adaption of the children’s book

Both men went on to form Studio Ghibli to produce their own feature films (including Spirited Away & Howl’s Moving Castle)

Norway

Ivo Caprino

Perfected a technique of manipulating characters in real time (an early version animatronics)

Later switched to stop motion and created The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix 1975

Film took 3 and a half years to make and was huge in Norway, creating box office records that still stand

Was shown daily in some theaters for 28 years

HUngary

William Feigenbaum & Jozsef Gemes

Made children,s film Hugo the Hippo 1975 that became a cult favourite with adults

The first international release of a feature length animated film from Hungary

 UK

Bob Godfrey

Made Karma Sutra Rides Again 1971 during the early 1970’s craze for adult animation

About a middle aged couples behind closed doors hobby – Sex and it’s many possibilities

Godfrey believed animation should concern the surreal and fantastic, rather than imitate realism

Was given an X certificate and screened along side Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in the UK

Nominated for an Oscar for best animated short 

BSA 124

Cayleb and i have teamed up for the Assignment in BSA 124 and we plan to create a flubber LIKE blob with self image issues we join him as he tries to change how he feels about himself and launches into a mission to discover himself as he travels back and forth from his local cosmetic shop he begins to experiment with the over the counter things as he does this he goes through color by color and eventually comes to a full on rainbow and we watch closely as he experiences all the ups and downs of changing ones self image and his success when he gets to the end.

BSA 124

Today Chris took us back through the camera steps and usage terms  and we also got to play with the stop motion software Dragonframe and Vaughn gave us a mini task in our select groups to create a small movie just so we understood the software we are going to be using for the assignment which is the best for stop motion purely for the onion skinning this tool in dragonframe was beyond helpful to us due to the fact that our worm thing was beginning to fall apart because of all the touching and manipulating of the plaster stuff however this was a great experience only the first time i have used dragonframe where was this tool 10 years ago.

here is a look at the Worm Mr Vaukins and I made for the task at hand .

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