Monday, April 21, 2008

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.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

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.

Friday, April 11, 2008

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.