Finnished Project

I have just finished my last project: Cinema and the City.
Overall I am happy with how my film turned out. It was a bit of a rush to get it finished but I got there in the end.
There are a few things I would like to work on before final submisison. For example: The music, I am not really happy with the song that is on it at the moment. I would like a piano piece with no words and it also needs to be more depressing. The other thing I would like to fix up is some of the images, I feel they need to go into photoshop to make them looked finished.
Other than those two things I am happy with how I turned out and am glad I moved it to Premiere Pro.

Now it's time for a new project!!

Animating Identity

I already have a small research topic I am interesting in and would like to develop it for this project.
Watch this space...

Film Negatives

Story Board

                                    

Stills From My Film

Walker Evens + Alfred Hitchcock

House by the Railroad (1925). The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho (1960)

Elle - Amazing

-I love these photographs because they look like Film Noir stills

'The Gaze' Reading

-I thought this was a nice conclusion in the reading about The Gaze
-Link to reading:
http://moodle.op.ac.nz/file.php/1321/MC_11March_Olin.pdf

Highlights from my Photoshoot

-Just a few nice photographs from my photoshoot yesterday. (All untouched)

Sophie Calle

"Sophie Calle (born 1953) is a photographer among other things."

"Calle's very first work involved following strangers around Paris. Calle had been abroad for a number of years and the idea behind this surveillance was initially an attempt to reacquaint herself with the city. However, she soon discovered that observing the behaviour and actions of these strangers provided information with which to construct their identities."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Calle

‘For months I followed strangers in the street. For the pleasure of following them, not because they particularly interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, then finally lost sight of them and forgot them.

At the end of January 1980, on the streets of Paris, I followed a man whom I lost sight of a few minutes later in the crowd. That very evening, by chance, he was introduced to me at an opening. During the course of our conversation, he told me he was planning an imminent trip to Venice.’

Sophie Calle

NOTORIOUS: Alfred Hitchcock and Cotemporary Art

Exhibition involving 14 artists who are inspired by Hitchcock, including Cindy Sherman, Victor Burgin and Douglas Gordon, to name a few.


Link to the website:


http://www.operacity.jp/en/ag/exh19.php

Christoph Girardet

"Born in Germany in 1966, and now living in Hanover, Germany, Christoph Girardet studied with Matthias Müller at Braunschweig Art Academy and works with him on film projects. A specialist in 'found footage' film, Girardet has had a number of solo shows, as well as taking part in many international film festivals. For the Hitchcock exhibition he works with Matthias Müller to create montages of Hitchcock's films."

http://www.operacity.jp/en/ag/exh19.php

Victor Burgin

Victor Burgin (born 1941) is an artist and a writer. Burgin first came to attention as a conceptual artist in the late 1960s. He has worked with photography and film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Burgin

-In these works shown Burgin recreates scenes from Hitchcock films

Salla Tykka

"Salla Tykkä was born in 1973 in Helsinki, Finland, where she lives and works today. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts ini 2003. She has been working with photography, video and film since 1996, and she had her first solo show in 1997."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salla_Tykk%C3%A4

Her website:
http://www.sallatykka.com/web/index.php

Her work entitled Zoo (2006) Is very interesting

"Zoo follows a young female protagonist as she walks through a deserted zoo, peering at the animals in different enclosures and occasionally photographing them, subtly conveying a sense of independence, intelligence and a mounting state of anxiety. She looks at the animals; they look back, mimicking the situation of a beautiful woman in a male-dominated society."

Taken from: http://www.chapter.org/6248.html
More infomation on this website about the work.

Flims Similar to Revolutionary Road

American Beauty
-Sam Mendes, 1999. (Also the director of Revolutionary Road)
-The film won five Academy Awards.
-(Not set in the 1950s)

"Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169547/

The Stepford Wives 

-Bryan Ederhart, 1975.

"Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073747/

Remade in 2004

-Frank Oz

"What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech terrifying little town, in a very modern comedy-thriller."

-The idea world, woman robots that do whatever you want them to do.

Shoot The Moon

Alan Parker, 1982

"A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for four young children. While they attempt to go their separate ways, jealousy and bitterness reconnect them."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084675/