Inspirations

Jirí Barta
The Club of the Laid Off (25 min. - 1989)
Set in an empty flat where damaged, retired mannequins are stored, Barta brings those mannequins to life, showing them trying to carry out their prescribed function even though they have been remove from their regular workplace context and are broken and missing pieces of themselves. When newer, flashier mannequins are dumped into the apartment, a war erupts as old meets new. The obvious social commentary is actually pretty much left up to the viewer. The meaning of this piece could be an editorial on the plight of the modern worker in a society that is becoming less and less human, or merely a hallucinatory look into the secret life of plastic replicas of people.






Norman McLaren
Neighbours (1952)
The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower.

A Chairy Tale
A fairy tale in the modern manner, told without words. In the film, a chair (animated by Evelyn Lambart) that declines to be sat upon and a young man perform a sort of pas de deux.

Rough Treatement

Layla was sitting at her bed with story book at her lap staring blankly at the window in her room. When all of a sudden it starts raining, she snaps out from her daydream then took her umbrella and ran outside.She opens her umbrella and walk to the park near her house where her mother used to take her. Then she walk to an amusement park where her parents took her 5days before they died, she rode the carousel before then continue to others familiar places that holds memories about her parents. She felt that the whole world are belongs only to her.

Project Descriptions

Intentions
My intentions with this project is all to do with experimentation. Because it’s an experimental piece. The project will be a stop motion piece of short silent story about the world seen through a mind of a girl name Layla.

Aim and Goal
My aim is for the audience to see the world of people that have her own imaginations. To feel and understand what is actually happen to someone that lives in their own created world with their own imaginations and their own imaginary friends. And also to achieve a great cinematography.

Theme
Completely abstract but joyful.

New Synopsis

Layla is a very courageous girl, she always have her own mind of thinking towards everything. She’s very bubbly, lively, outgoing and always happy although she lost both of her parents when she was young. She has her own imaginary friends with her own imaginary world because she grew up with all sort of stories and fairy tales from her grandmother that take care of her since she lost her parents. She loves afternoon rain. Every time it starts to rain she would go out with her imaginary friends and her blue umbrella walking around to places that hold history of her late mother and father. Whenever she play in the rain she felt like she’s in another world with her parents and her imaginary friends, all happy together.

Final Concept Task

Express idea as Post Secret

Research

This research helps me to investigate different style and technique of photography from different photographers. From documentary, art, fashion, portrait, landscape, ethnographic, abstract, aerial, advertising and architectural photographers.

Richard Bailey
Sam Abell
Laurance Aberhart
Ansel Adams
Eve Arnold
Jerry Avenaim
James Bidgood
Phil Borges
Edouard Boubat
Guy Bourdin
Gregory Crewdson
Patrick Demarchelier
Terence Donovan
Elliott Erwitt
Adolfo Farsari
Jill Greenberg
Lois Greenfield
Gottfried Helnwein
Nick Knight
Annie Leibovitz
Loretta Lux
Dave McKean
Steven Meisel
Susan Meiselas
Joel Meyerowitz
Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Erwin Olaf
Robert ParkeHarrison
Rankin
Floria Sigismondi
Skandi Skoglund
Jason Lam

www.jasonlamphotography.com
http://www.loisgreenfield.com/index.html
http://www.lorettalux.de/
http://www.rankin.co.uk/
http://www.floriasigismondi.com/
http://www.sandyskoglund.com/
http://www.richardbailey.org/

Rough Script (point form)

Synopis
Layla is a very courageous girl, she always have her own mind of thinking towards everything. She’s very bubbly, lively, outgoing and always happy. She lives in the city and she loves afternoon rain. Every time it starts to rain she would go out with her blue umbrella walking around in the city to interesting places around the city in the rain. She would smile, play in the puddle. Whenever she play in the rain she feel that she’s in another world.

• Layla sits quietly in her room staring out from the window.
• Layla dreaming
• Flashback to her childhood memory
• It starts to rain
• Rain broke her day dreaming
• Layla smiles
• Grabs her blue umbrella
• Rush down the stairs
• Go outside
• Cut to first destination place
• Exploring the environment
• Reminiscing
• Cut to second destination place
• Exploring the environment
• Dances and happy
• Walk to a local park
• Play with the flowers
• Dances in the rain
• Play with the rain
• Found a chair in the park just next to a river
• Sit in the chair
• Gaze at the river
• Reminiscing
• Flashback to her memory with her sister
• Memory fading out
• Back to Layla sits in the chair
• Zoom to her face
• Layla smiles
• End

Other Ideas' Interrogation

Week 4 Homework

Interrogate one of your other ideas. Choose AT LEAST ten questions from the lists generated in class (by all the groups). (I may also provide some additional questions to choose from.) Ask and answer them of one of your ideas.

Synopsis

Layla is a very courageous girl, she always have her own mind of thinking towards everything. She’s very bubbly, lively, outgoing and always happy. She lives in the city and she loves afternoon rain. Every time it starts to rain she would go out with her blue umbrella walking around in the city to interesting places around the city in the rain. She would smile, play in the puddle. Whenever she play in the rain she feel that she’s in another world.

Q:What's her characteristic?
A:She's young,average height,short black hair, and she loves everything that is vintage.

Q:Why she loves afternoon rain?
A:Because it reminds her of the memory she has with her sister when they were young. They had a race to the secret park every afternoon and most of the time is always raining.

Q:What is her feeling when she walks in the rain?
A:Happy,cheerful,reminiscing.

Q:Is the places real?
A:Yes it's going to be real places here in Melbourne.

Q:What's the genre?
A:Fancy Fantasy.

Q:How's the story style?
A:Abstract.

Q:Does light or dark matter in the environment?
A:No because the environment will be in black and white and the character and her umbrella will be in colour.

Q:Who's your audience?
A:Both young girls (17-25) and young women (26-35)

Q:Is there any dialogue?
A:No there will be no dialogue only musics.

Q:What's the aim?
A:My aim is to show the emotion behind the character to the audience without ever need any dialogue or narator to tell the audience.

Visual Style Research

Photographs by Richard Bailey

Richard Bailey, most known for his still photographs. Richard enjoys a young career in commercial direction, combining his styling, lighting and composition expertise to moving pictures for lifestyle and fashion productions. Richard has more recently brought to moving pictures his wealth of knowledge and expertise from stills photography. The lighting, composition and style from his world-renown stills photography are now reflected very much in his commercial work. His eye for detail and style is evident in all his work.

Richard Bailey is probably one of my favourite photographer. I really like all his work particularly these photographs, the colour contrast, it lures attention and appreciation. I think this colour technique he used in these photographs is amazing, it gives fantasy feeling to the photographs.

Answers from the Interrogation

Synopsis:
In this world everything is real. People run their lives that are given to them the same as everybody else. Gaby is not like anybody else, she is different. She lives in her own imagination world. One day she was looking at 3photos of different places that she took during her trip and suddenly her imagination start to take her over. All of a sudden she’s already inside the first photo walking around exploring what’s inside the photos, afterward she saw the second photo lying next to the first one and she jumped inside the second photo where next she jumped into the third photo. Finally after she finishes exploring three photos she snaps back to reality.

Q:What is the story?
A: The story is about a girl that like to create her own imagination world. She was looking at some photos before her imagination starts taking her inside the photos to actually feel the live inside the photos before she jumps back to reality at the end.

Q:What are you trying to achieve in the story?
A:With this story I wanted to show something that can't be done in real life. Many of us have our own imagination but other people can't see that imagination so in this project people will be able to see how's the character imagination carry on. With stop motion,pixilation and some visual effect I can achieve fantasy and bringing in to scene.

Q:What is the characteristic?
A:Gaby is 20 years old. She has long black hair with a very pale light skin. She wears face powder that makes her face skin looks even whiter,with colourful eyeshadows and bold red lips. She is shy and a quiet girl.

Q:What is the genre?
A:experimental.

Q:What's the mood?
A:The mood is dreamlike and joyful.

Q:Is it realistic or surreal?
A:It's definitely surreal.

Q:Who are your audience?
A:Girls age between 15 years old to 35years old.

Q: Is there going to be dialogue?
A: No

Q:What is your inspiration?
A:My inspiration comes from Alice in Wonderland.

Q: What does the character wants?
A:The character just wants to experience her imagination that always brings her to a new exciting journey.

Class Interrogation (Elaine,Albert,Tiffany)

Name : Albert
Interrogation :
1. What is the characteristic?
2. Why is it a monster?
3. What is the genre?
4. Where is the scene takes place?
5. What triggers the argument between the two character?
6. How you portray the arguments?
7. How is the story ends?
8. What is the main intention of this animation?
9. What is your target audience?
10. What is the mood?

Name : Elaine
Interrogation:
1. What style?
2. What sort of mood you try to portray?
3. What is the characteristic?
4.What is the environment setting?
5. How did the character been brought up?
6.What dilemma does the character face?
7.Dramatic or comedy?
8. Will you use flash back or real time in telling the story?
9. How are you going to tell the story?
10. What choice does the character make at the end?

Name : Tiffany
Interrogation :
1.What is the story?
2. What are you trying to achieve in the story?
3. What is the characteristic?
4. What is the genre?5
. What's the mood?
6. Is it realistic or surreal?
7. Who are your audience?
8. Is there going to be dialogue?
9. What is your inspiration?1
0. What does the character wants?

Concept Development: Four Ideas

Idea 1
Project type:stop motion,pixilation

Synopsis

Maureen is a children books illustrator. She spends most of her time at home drawing. She’s an awkward, shy, quiet and unsociable lady. She doesn’t have a lot of friends; Maureen likes to be by herself. Most of the time when she was drawing she would imagine that her drawing comes to life and become her friends.

Idea 2
Project type:stop motion,pixilation

Synopsis

Layla is a very courageous girl, she always have her own mind of thinking towards everything. She’s very bubbly, lively, outgoing and always happy. She lives in the city and she loves afternoon rain. Every time it starts to rain she would go out with her blue umbrella walking around in the city to interesting places around the city in the rain. She would smile, play in the puddle. Whenever she play in the rain she feel that she’s in another world.

Idea 3
Project type:stop motion,pixilation

Synopsis

In this world everything is real. People run their lives that are given to them the same as everybody else. Gaby is not like anybody else, she is different. She lives in her own imagination world. One day she was looking at 3photos of different places that she took during her trip and suddenly her imagination start to take her over. All of a sudden she’s already inside the first photo walking around exploring what’s inside the photos, afterward she saw the second photo lying next to the first one and she jumped inside the second photo where next she jumped into the third photo. Finally after she finishes exploring three photos she snaps back to reality.

Idea 4
Project type: video

Synopsis

Kate is a very girly girl, she wears heals all the time, she’s polite towards people, speaks very soft, she hates sports and she doesn’t wear jeans. Overall Kate is very feminine. Little did she know that she has to leave all her feminine side and transform herself to be everything that she hates and against, all that is just for one guy. That guy is Danny; he’s tall, good looking, popular and smart. The only problem is he hates girly girls. All of Danny’s previous girlfriend always appear to be tomboy and good at sports. Kate go through a very difficult obstacles in transforming herself but she worked hard in becoming a perfect girlfriend for Danny.

Book Cover

' The orginial photograph is credited to Eolo Perfido
where here I just simply used and edited them to
make the book cover.'

GROTESQUE
NATSUO KIRINO
Publisher: HARVILL
Category: CRIME FICT

Article. Assignment 2

ADS TURN TV INTO AN 'EWW'TUBE

March 17, 2008 -- IT'S enough to make me take up smoking again.
You see the ads every morning on NY1, airing as regularly as a cigarette addict needs a fix.
The anti-tobacco ads put out by the city Health Department are as grotesque as open-heart surgery performed without anesthesia.
There's video of a beating, diseased heart. It's followed by an image of discolored lungs. There's a mouth eaten away by disease. And a throat with a purplish tumor growing from it.
I get it. Smoking is bad.
But this is sick.
For the last few months, Health Commissioner and chief nanny Dr. Thomas Frieden has ratcheted up an anti-smoking blitz to the point of nausea.
One morning, as one of the commercials came on, my gaze fell on the 9-year-old with whom I share my world. She tried to hide under the sofa.
I can explain to my kid why people simply should not smoke. But this campaign goes too far.
A check of parents assures me I'm not alone.
Anne Townsend, a Brooklyn mother, clicked on the tube to catch up on Spitzer.
As she watched, horrified, her girls, 3 and 7, mutely stared at the set, terrified.
"I had to explain to them that I think smoking is terrible," said Townsend. "And yet I don't want them to think that their friends are going to have these horrible things happen to them."
Beth, mother of kids, 4 and 8 years old, said, "I think it's horrifying!
"No one thinks everyone should go out and smoke, but the message is lost.
"To a child, it's the picture of a monster."
Sarah Perl, assistant commissioner of tobacco control, told me that since Feb. 25 the ads have logged just seven complaints, while hot-line calls from smokers who aim to quit have jumped 400 percent.
These ads are set to run through the end of the month.
A news broadcast would not post pictures of medical atrocities without warning. But these X-rated ads run without a rating.
The Health Department needs to toss them out with the Marlboro Man.

URL :
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03172008/news/columnists/ads_turn_tv_into_an_ewwtube_102351.htm

I think it's really bizzare that what the world has come to nowadays. Back in the day people know that smoking is bad because of what the parents told us about the dangerous of smoking but now we are living in different generation (generation Y) where everything is more complicated and more harder. Now most children and most people are not aware of how dangerous smoking do to the body, so it comes to the point where people need to be warned to the extreme by those advertisement of how smoke can do to our body.

Task 2. Representation and Character

Person's key qualities

-Julia
Former work mate and friend.

Julia is a person that is very difficult to be around with but at the same time she value her friendship. She’s a perfectionist to an extremely tiny detail, very hardheaded girl and strict towards everything in her life, she’s always making her life difficult where there’s actually an easy way. She’s moody and she’s a pessimist as well. She can be said to have a perfect melancholy personality.


Describe a scene or situation involving this person

Another day at work at the café, I prepare myself for a shift of critique and peeve. I know that she’ll already be there, turning up 30 minutes early checking things that haven’t been done properly by the night shift people so she can have something to complain about later. As I step my foot in the café’s door I can see her standing by the fridge with a tired, angry and unhappy face. Somehow I know that it won’t be long before she says all her thoughts and complaints to me.
She then comes up to me telling me off that we’re not yet ready to open as I make the first coffee for that first customer of the day. I’m thinking what’s not ready? Everything seems in place and ready so why not just start take customers in? She quickly explains to that there’s still another 2 more minutes till we open. I can feel she’s now watching me like a hawk. Small wrong steps and I think she’s going to eat me.
All things has to be done her way, nothing gets done any other way unless I want to hear her nagging me the whole day. Everything needs to be in place, she won’t be happy and satisfied unless everything is according to her standard and rule. No one can take it working with her except for me because she’s still my friend but she can really makes people go crazy or think she’s crazy.

Lists

Weather - Cloudy and stormy
An animal - Beaver
A household object - Rocking chair
A machine - Robots
A place - Dark alleyway
Music - Soft and sad, something sound very depressed
A colour -Grey
A fictional ‘archetype’ - Martha Stewart

Image

Yuriy Norshteyn

Yuriy Borisovich Norshteyn is widely regarded as one of the most innovative animators of all time and are best known for his animation Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales. During his work and the state animation studio, he discovered the films and writings of Sergei Eisenstein, which had a profound influence on him and inspired his own directorial ambitions towards his work. His also inspired by the early twentieth century avant-garde painting. "The painters of that period (1910-1920) enabled me to see the immense artistic potential of animation", he explains. That influenced all his subsequent work.

Norshteyn gained the status of a classic master of animated cartoons upon the release of Hedgehog in the Fog in 1975. In 1984 the international jury in Los Angeles called his Tale of Tales (1979) ‘the greatest animated film ever’. And in 2003 Hedgehog in the Fog received the same sort of accolade in Japan. He has created a special type of poetic animated cartoons, of pure lyricism and developed through a sequence of visual images. Unexpected associations, sensations, reminiscences, fears and dreams are more meaningful than the real plot in his original works.

Besides his brilliant and touching cartoon characters and amazing delicate scripts, one is clearly impressed by astonishing effect of a ‘living’ screen, which is due to a special technology that Norshteyn has elaborated himself. This is the most complicated method of multi-level transposition in the lessons of filming, the images are made as scaly combinations of tiny elements, with each of them are able to move separately for example each of the eyes, lips or fingers. As a result the character, though not looking like a realistic personage at all, but rather bizarre, amusing and irregular seems to be really living and breathing. Norshteyn intentionally insists on imperfect, non-ironed drawing.