Life Is Ordinary

Amy Moffitt

-This is one of my images for the project.
-Not the final one, just a test :)

Method Acting

The Machinist (2004)

Director: Brad Anderson

Staring: Christian Bale

"An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/

The Machinist - Christian Bale

"The producers of the film claim that Christian Bale dropped from about 173 pounds in weight down to about 110 pounds in weight to make this film. They also claim that Bale actually wanted to drop down to 100 pounds, but that they would not let him go below 120 out of fear that his health could be in too much danger if he did. His diet consisted of one can of tuna and an apple per day. His 63-pound weight loss is said to be a record for any actor for a movie role."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/trivia

Insomnia (2004)

Director: Christopher Nolan

Staring: Al Pacino

"Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278504/

Insomnia - Al Pacino and Hilary Swank

Crying Men - Sam Taylor Wood

"...Crying Men, is a treatise on the theme of sadness. Her new series of photographs in Crying Men attempts to capture the moment between the real and the unreal, the imitation and the authentic. By her use of celebrity actors as models, the viewer debates whether their tears of sadness (and therefore their emotions) are genuine. If the models were anonymous the question wouldn’t arise. It is a subtle challenge and typical of Taylor-Wood’s increasing degree of maturity as a visual artist..."


Link to the rest of this review

Sam Taylor-Wood - Daniel Craig

Sam Taylor-Wood - Jude Law

Sam Taylor-Wood - Hanging shot

(All images taken from Google Images)

Untitled Film Stills

"Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, a series of 69 black-and-white photographs created between 1977 and 1980, is widely seen as one of the most original and influential achievements in recent art."

http://www.artbook.com/0870705075.html

Another Interesting Website:

http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/sherman.html

Cindy Sherman - Untitled Film Still

Cindy Sherman - Untitled Film Still

Greg Crewson

"Photographs can’t, or at least rarely tell a story. There is no beginning, middle and end, there is simply the moment. You can’t tell a story in one single instant. Unlike narrative art, like literature and movies, a photo can’t tell a story by itself; it’s like tearing a single sentence, page or chapter from a larger novel or short story, but even that metaphor is weak, because even a sentence can show a progression in time or character, but a photo is forever a single moment — there’s no past, present and future, there is only the present. You can begin to tell a story by assembling a sequence of pictures, or combining them with text, but Crewdson does neither. The pictures in Beneath the Roses are united by theme rather than by story. Instead, Crewdson uses the photographic medium’s great deficit, which is also its strength, namely that it captures a single moment precisely, rather than a sequence of moments approximately. Crewdson’s pictures don’t tell a story, they evoke a story, and likely a different one in each viewer."

http://enthusiasms.org/post/199384340

 

Greg Crewson - Google Images



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...