Unit 4

After discussion with Simon and Alex I have narrowed the intro down.while was can do is give the characters background in the beginning but now I think I'm just  give the location of the set in my case the Museum
Here are some reference images

this is the Natural History Museum
this was one of the slips was given was at the Natural History Museum it was a museum.
this can't be changed because it's the environment set
the only thing I can changes the style and location of the set

My character of which was my second slip is a gravedigger menace was hard to work out because I don't know much about grave diggers so I googled grave digger and with these reference images to go by

So now the personality of a gravedigger would be bleak because he has to bury people everybody's all day long so my guess is he would be a moody, character called look even an athletic build because of begin all day

And finally my prop is a mousetrap but with this I'm going to go with a widely Coyote Road Runner kind of feel meaning gravedigger looks up military hardware in a catalogue this gives me the chance to make my storyboard a in a comical kind of way. Like the Road Runner I will be trying to catch the mouse but always failing at the task.I don't mean me i mean the gravedigge.

The Cutting Edge: Psycho,

Psycho, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1960. where do I start with this film firstly what caught my attention was the music. The famous intro which has been remixed by the famous rapper "Busta rhymes". the film Psycho is a complete switch from the film "rope"the camera in "rope" it has want continuous camera shot with the exception of seeing changes which was to change the film. Psycho on the hand has multiple camera shots. Close-up shots wide-angle face-to-face shots. which gives you the viewer intimate experience with the actor. The actor/character "Anthony Perkins" he plays the character of "Norman Bates"which plays extremely well.

If the name psycho which is that name of the filmis named after this character because he's a psychopath with a split personality one of his mother which is dead which is the dominant frame of mind compared to the Norman Bates personality which is the rational one. the conflict between these two personalities brings us to a first murder scene which is the framers shower scene, With the camera prospective you are in the shower looking through the shower curtain and black shadow creeping towards the the shower with  actress
"Janet Leigh" who plays "Marion Crane"

 This scene is most remembered from the film. the story line of the film is pretty complicated but with the camera effects makes extremely interested. you find"Janet Leigh" who plays "Marion Crane" being handed some money which gives this character the excuse to run away. which Leeds evidentially to death the second main part of the film the middle you find out the relationship between the mother played by Anthony Perkins
and a string of more deaths. the ending you find yourself in the police station where Anthony Perkins has been captured and confesses to the murders and int he police station you find Anthony Perkins feeling the chair in a straitjacket and then a close-up of his face and a clever camera trick we see a skeleton of the mother and Anthony Perkins face combines this is and very good camera trick

images
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/mediaindex(01:24)(09/02/2011)

Time may have dulled the shock, but the craft is as impressive as ever.

Sean Axmaker Seanax.com (01:24)(09/02/2011)

 

Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece blends a brutal manipulation of audience identification and an incredibly dense, allusive visual style to create the most morally unsettling film ever made.

Dave Kehr Chicago Reader (01:26)(09/02/2011)

 

This is easily the most shocking film produced by the "Master of Suspense.

David Parkinson Radio Times (01:27)(09/02/2011)

Unit 4 The Cutting Edge

The Cutting Edge:
Rope, Dir.Alfred Hitchcock,
1948

Alfred Hitchcock for me is one of the best directors of all time. One of my all-time favourite is “The birds”. Which Alfred Hitchcock also directed.

The film about to dissect is called “Rope”.

In the beginning seen of the film you get a view of a downtown apartment block. You hear a man screen and get to witness the aftermath of a murder. And then a close-up shot of the rope. Hence the name of the film “Rope”. Once this happens you are gripped by a urge to find out what as happens and why is it happened. When the camera zooms out of the shot from the rope you find our first two characters/actors. The main actor/character is 

 

John Dall AKA Wyndham Brandon

The second character/actor is

Farley Granger AKA  "Philip Morgan"
With this character/actor in the beginning of the film you begin to see this actor breakdown in the way of being nervous and on edge and  "Brandon's" always correcting him to stay calm and collective.

which are also lovers in the film which is'nt obviouse in the film with actor.Brandon

you find out straightaway that he is the brains of the operation/murder with the actors boldness and ruthlessness

The film rope has a begining which is the murder the second sceneis the arrival of the guests including 

"James Stewart" AKA "Rupert Cadell".

this character/actor appears in the middle of the film. "James Stewart" 

at the end of the film he finally figures them out. At the end of the film he confronts to actors "Brandon" and "Morgan" and dissects them in a "Colombo" Kind of way breaking them down individuallyto one of them confesses to the murder.

The set of the film is an apartment with a big window at the back of the scene. with a fixed camera. here is not a lot of cut scenes in this film actually there is none. This is due to Alfred Hitchcock' editing there is one continuous camera shot. This gives an intense feeling of focus and awareness.

imag's

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040746/.(00:13)(08/02/2011).

Hitchcock's 'one take' classic gets better with age.

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC).(00:23) (08/02/2011).

 

Rope remains worth seeing, for its difference from cinema in general and from the rest of Hitchcock's work in particula

Keith H. Brown

Edinburgh U Film Society (00:25) (08/02/2011).

 

a deeply interesting film if not exactly a successful one ... you can feel it straining to articulate a truth it doesn't quite grasp.

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (00:28) (08/02/2011).

 

unit three process tree

Lighting arrangement one.

Same lighting process but with the spotlight on the manikin

 This has both ambient occlusion and global illumination

This is my Segway to scale with with colour boxes

all views in wireframe of the Segway

 Front side box made in phone shop

the left side of the box exported to maya

@ Phill

Pill can i use 2011 powerpont to show my work On the uni comps. Or do i have to use 2010 To show my work.

eassy

im going to do

  " The Uncanny"
     The cause-and-effect of uncanny in films and game's.

unit 3 maya

I wasn't at the maya classes at the end because of back problems are really enjoyed the last few tutorials. The Paris case. And the colour rendering.

this is the leaf are done from the beginning

This is the final render

this is the blood cell blood flow

I like this XRay one I had a bit of fun with this one.

I prefer discoloured in the yellow
And finally the book