IFDM: September 2009

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Weekly Blog 3 9/21-9/27

The next scene in sequence for my future movie. The main character and his siblings first arrive at the concentration camp. They gain an understanding through the surrounding as too what is to come. This scene also adds to the protagonists character as caring helpful.

Weekly Blog 2 9/21-9/27

This is something I created using sketch up. It is a cover for a bench or picnic table in a park. It has an interesting yet practical shape that gives this object both form and function.

Weekly Blog 1 9/21-9/27

This is a movie I made When I was 14 and was really starting to learn Final Cut. I used a red screen for the blue and green bears, and placed them in from of an outside scene. This was the first time I used different angles for a stop motion movie.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Weekly Blog 3 9/14-9/20

Another storyboard of my grandfathers story. The whole family has just been separated, and this is just a brief overview of where the family is. None of them know where they are, where the rest of there family is, or where they are going.

Weekly Blog 2 9/14-9/20

This is a film that I made for my Digital Editing class at the Santa Fe Community College. I wrote, Directed, filmed, and Edited this movie, and used my friends and family as actors. I used Final Cut Pro to edit this film and shot it on just a regular Mini-DV.

Weekly Blog 1 9/14-9/20

http://runningthroughrain.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/inspiration.jpg
I was in need of inspiration about what to write for this blog, so I Googled the word Inspiration. I didn't think I would actually find anything but I found this picture, which truly is inspiring to me. Not just in the more metaphorical way, that this man is holding the sun over this city in a very majestic manner, but it also drives me to try to figure out how this is done, is it just a great angle or did they apply some digital program to it.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Weekly Blog 3 9/7-9/13

Another storyboard of my grandfathers story in the Holocaust, in sequence, this would be the 2nd part of the 2nd scene, in which the Nazis burst into the house, and despite all the protagonists best efforts and selfless acts all manage to get caught. This is the first chaotic scene of the movie where everyone in the family is separated from each other, many of which never to see each other again.

Assignment 3 Illustrator

For this assignment I didn't use internet safe colors, hence the discoloration, however it doesn't change the image much. I used a higher line weight for vectors closer forward and smaller ones for farther lines, by outlining the shadows and giving them a darker fill it creates depth. The mix between the real image and the illustration is very interesting and creates a surreal composition, unable to tell if it is real or just a drawing.

Weekly Blog 2 9/7-9/13

http://www.inglouriousbasterds-movie.com/
This is the official website for the recent film directed by Quentin Tarantino and staring Brad Pitt, both of whom I have tremendous respect for, entitled Inglorious Bastards. This might not be considered a good film by all, but it is entertaining, well shot, well thought out, vengeful, and fits in quite well with the script about my grandfathers struggle in the Holocaust I have been working on story boarding for. Many of my ideas in my story board and script are drawn form this movie as well as movies of this kind.

Weekly Blog 1 9/7-9/13

http://www.cleveland.com/people/index.ssf/2009/08/samuel_l_jackson_tommy_lee_jon.html
This is a web site for a new Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones film, directed by Tommy Lee Jones, and written by one of my favorite writers Cormac McCarthy. It is a play in which two men debate the worth of there lives called "The Sunset Limited." This movie is being filmed in Santa Fe New Mexico, my home town, and I happen to see the rough footage of one of the days of filming from that day. It was an extremely straight foward scene but being an editor I couldn't help but imaging editing the film myself. I actually spent that following night having increadibaly vivid dreams about editing that scene.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Assignment 2 Haptic Modeling

Structure: These models desplay different

structures. One is a very solid structure with many triangles (the strongest shape) and two cross beams. The other is a much weaker yet still holds structural inegrity, however it is more interesting to the eye.

Rhythm: Both of these models have a pattern to them, it may vary in magnitude and shape but the same key elements are in every beat. Your eye is taken up and down each incline, creating a rhythm in the observers head.

Melody: When I think of melody, I think of the beauty in music, as opposed to the necessary framework that structure and rhythm provide. Both of these models have a whimsical quality to them that is very pleasant to the eye and I believe captures the audience with beauty the same way a great melody can capture millions.