lecture - 28-09-05

Animation

Jim Le Fevre

Little Princesses Birthday Party

• Looks like pop up book
• Clay like puppets
• Narrator (story writer) tells the story
• No really background to give you the séance of the scene its just a black background
• Simple designed of the characters.

Paul Brush

Furniture Poetry

• Uses text (the text of a poem of some kind)
• It’s a real life animation
• Music (child like tune)
• Speeds up the images so that the images move.
• Uses random images (shoes, chairs, fruit)
• Simple
• Used a still movie camera

Oliver Harrison

Love is all

• Took him 2 yrs to make the film
• In the 1940’s Georgian style
• Used 35m camera
• Romantic type music
• Almost looks like a animation music video
• Its black and white
• Has a hint of Tim Burton to it.

Tim Mc Millan

Ferment (time lapse)

• Set up a load of still cameras to make this film
• Films around the main subject like in the matrix.
• Slows every thing it films
• Has the people talking but you don’t see them talk
• Gets random chats as they pass them
• It moves at a steady pace
• Moves from one scene to the next by using a wall or tree to do it.
• It shows a moment through a city
• It begins with death to birth

Jan Svank Majer

• Moving doors across a field or forest
• It’s the narrator whose talking
• Animation of toys moving
• Music
• There’s a scene where the toys start to move around doing things.
• It’s almost child like because of what they had in the mini film.

Punch and Judy

• Used paper puppets and 3d puppets.
• Music over laps with each other and also that sounds like they speeded it up a bit
• Music and movement of the puppets tell the story.

lecture - 21-09-05

Note -SCI – write a bit about all of the different areas then do more on the one that I am more interested in later.

Video notes about Man with a movie camera.

· Black and white silent film

· Caught the reflections of the camera man

· Filmed at all angles and highs

· Moving at different speeds

· Catches a bits of history ( cars, horse and trains)

· People would look at the camera because it was new to them too.

· Film scenes from a car

· Close ups of peoples face

· Changed from one scene to the other

· The music used didn’t really go with the film they made

· They also did a ant eye view of buildings

· They also fasten up parts of the film so it looked like they where moving fast

· Reflect the time industries and personal

Un Ahien Andalou

· Over laid casting names so that it disappeared and the next showed up

· Ghosted out to the next scene

· No one speaks in the film body language tell you the story

· Different camera angles

· Close ups

· You get roughly whats happening in the film.

· The film was based on dreams (death, sexual frustration and insanity)

· Made for himself then for an audiences

lecture - 19-09-05

We had with Rosie for a lecture and we watched 3 films that could help us in our own documentaries.

Video notes – wise men

In the whole documentary they used lots of different camera angles and close ups of the person. In the film the documenter didn’t speak in the documentary but letting the people to do the talking and using their body language to do the work. Whiles they were filming they also filmed the conditions the people where living in to give you a sense of how they lived. The film maker catches daily evens that happen to him and must have spent some time with him to be able to catcher the footage.

The next documentary we watched was called the lost peasants (part 1)

In this documentary it’s about a group of men travelling out of a country to get work. The film maker films them from a distant so that they don’t get caught by the police. There was a scene that was really good it was when the man was talking to someone on the phone and we where able to hear both of the conversations in one scene. Also the other scene that I liked was when the camera was out side the window and it’s seemed to be like they where spying on them but wasn’t. They also filmed random things or places to fill in the spaces when they won’t talking and then the music took over.

The last film that we watched was about the people that the men left behind in the second film we watched. The lost peasants (part 2).

In this film they filmed the women working doing normal choirs that they would do every day. Thought out the film it was only the narrator that was talking and when the women did talk it was when they where talking to each other about their dreams and hopes. They film close ups at time of the women. To get most of what they where saying on camera must have taken a lot of trust from the film maker because what they were saying where deep.

Specialist Contextal Investigation Project - Research File

We have to compile a research file in a folder with the following in it:

1. Lecture- notes and handouts.
2. Research-photocopies of articles, reviews, download texts, images. (from books, magazines, websites, exhibition guildes and many more.)
3. Essay- write a (700-1500 word) written account centered on the artist/pocess/movement that i like.
4. Presentation- to the whole of the class, thats going to be about 10 mins. using film clips, a power point presentation and maybe a audio recording.
5. Bibliography- built up a collection of research on the subject that i am interested in.