Context 1- Film Series Evaluation

Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Zero De Conduit- Out of all the films i found this the most interesting and i thought it had the most narrative even though it was a silent movie. The first film to be told entirely through flashback is quite and interesting concept too. When talking in our groups we said that some of Tim Burtons films haave the same feel of a lunacy and craziness.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man- I didnt actually see this film but everyone told me about it and told me not to see it, although this has made me want to see it more, by the sounds of it, it sounds like quite a sick film.

Zero de Conduit- French film about children at school deciding to revolt and break down the system. i found it quite hard to follow at first and a bit slow obviously it was made a long time ago but still. The fact it was the first film to involve slow motion is impressive and the overall picture was fairly interesting.

Un Chien Andalou- Psychotic. Obvisouly not meant to have any real narrative to it or any understanding. The first movie produced by Bunuel and salvador dali, the first real surrealism film, they released in 1929. Although there isn't meant to be any meaning behind the film i felt that it was almost an insight into a lunatics mind and how they viewed the world.

Rough Sketches of My Underwater Laire....

Lighthouse lift that goes underwater... First room....

Submarine room.... The Water Globe.....

Robert Bradford - Recycled Toy Sculptures

Stumbled across this and though it was pretty cool, what with there being a lot about wastage and how we should be recycling more, thought it was not only a good peice of art but also a good way of recycling/

Virtual Enviroments Work

While ive been doing the moving image pathway there have been times in which i didn't have much work to do as we weren't able to meet up, i decided to start looking at the next project which is the animation/virtual enviroment pathway, in which we have to create a 'secret laire'. i've drawn up a few sketches of ideas and developed one mainly, which im calling 'the lighthouse'. sketches below.......

1st Day of filming...

Finaly got round to doing out first bit of filming for the project, managed to capture what will hopefully be the first and last scenes of our film. i was pretty pleased with it and think it worked really well, thanks to leona.
Next filming day tomorrow i hope runs as smoothly.

Being Producer...So far...

When picking roles in our group i felt happy with being producer and still do but i now see that it intails quite a lot of organisation, which is hard as im not the most organised person in the world, after a few meeting up sessions it has been hard to organise getting everyone together but i have now put together a schedule and re-written the script including some of the new scene which should hopefully make it easier to meet up, hopefully we will have the shoot done by next friday day providing actors, equipment and group members are available.

Gaze film development...

When thinking about how we wanted our film to look i suggested a film called 'the machinist' which has very dark overtones and low saturation, which i think would work really well with our film. Here's the trailer to get an idea of what i mean.