Visual essay.
Intoduction -
Music : Toots and the Maytals - 54-46 was my number
This is england style introduction, titles appear in sync with music.
Titles:
A film by Tom Stockbridge
Three pathways
One choice
My Visual essay.
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I thought i had a clear idea as to what pathway i wanted to pursue in my 2nd year before i had even started the course.
Which would of been interactive media. And it probably would of stayed that way had i not been fascinated with what you
create with a camera.
interactive media:
video of me working at computer
Choosing interactive media for tom seemed like the best choice at the beginning of the year. He enjoyed creating website
layouts and portraying his own style. But when it came to building the website in dreamweaver and css it became repitive
and his intrest quickly strayed. The more tom sat there coding in dreamweaver the less likely it became that he would take it further in the second year. Although coding wasnt particulary enjoyable for tom he still thinks it is a worthwhile skill to posess. Being able to create a website for yourself is a valuable skill to posess and enables you to create a web presence for yourself via a web portfolio. But overall tom didnt feel like interactive media offered the same sort of variety and experiences that you would perhaps get from moving, on top of the fact that you have to sit infront of a computer for hours on end trying to work out whats going on with your div tags!
Virtual enviroment:
video : my animation dp2.
I always thought i would really enjoy creating things in 3ds max, and i was right, i did. Yet i wasn't quite prepared for the amount
of time and effort you would have to put into the program and still not recieve the best results! I did however really enjoy experimenting
with models and it enabled me to have a real insight into how much time and patience goes into making animations and games. Unfortunately my
understanding for how 3ds max works was extremely limited and i found that it was a complete uphill struggle for me not matter how hard i tried
i quite literally went from this
insert - picture of me happy > looking like a zombie.
Although tom wont be pursuing animation in the second year, he did manage to grasp a few worthwhile concepts which no doubt can be applied to projects in his second year. well atleast he hopes so!
Moving image :
The first project of the year for me was moving image, and it was the most enjoyable project throughout the whole year. Working as groups to create short films really inspired tom to continue with moving image into the 2nd year. Although we were given
strict instructions with what to include in the film, One shot for the first project and a script for the second, we were able to interpret it
in our own way and add our own individual style to it. And that is what motivates tom the most with moving image, it allows you to create and work on a style. Ive always been a huge fan of british film, Mainly because tom feels that the movies produced dont soley rely on special effects and huge budgets, but portray emotion from the characters for what they are. and i feel that britian has created some of the best film directors in the world such as :
Guy Ritchie, a hugely acclaimed director, and for good reason. Lock, stock and two smoking barrels and snatch really inspire me to want to film. Guy ritchie's ability to film numerous plots which coincide and intertwine with eachother is amazing. He has been able to create incredible originality and trademark style, something which i aspire to have.
Danny boyle is another great british director, and is the man behind the 28 days later franchise, and the worldwide sucess slumdog millionaire. The main thing that inspires me about danny boyles films is that he operates in such a variety of genre's from horror to rom-com yet as a viewer you can still recognise danny boyles style.
Shane Meadows is an award winning director, who has created 7 films since 1996. Raised in nottingham, Shane dropped out of school early and eventually ended up volunteering at an art centre, where he began to learn the skills behind film making. Movies such as This is england and dead mans shoes, are regarded as his best films to date. Dead man shoes was nominated for a bafta for best british film and this is england actually won the award in 2006, along with a british independent film award. Shane Meadows originality and style of filming inspire me to pursue moving image, in the hope that i can perhaps one day, affect british cinema in the same way.
Anna Atkins - V&A trip.
On the Trip to london's v&a museum tom came across the work of anna atkins. Atkins was one of the earliest female photographers, using photo sensitive materials to make a record of her specimens as a botanist. Her work is now regarded as art, with people replicating the same method she used, to create intricate designs. Although atkins work is a type of photography, she has created a style that other people can recognise across all of her work. Something which i can try and apply to my work, so when people view my recordings they know that it is another piece of my work.
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