Bad Bootje and Botox Bo presents: BSA 3

This week we were told that for out essays we are supposed to be making some kind of argument. An argument is a statement that we are affirming and supporting throughout the text. My Potential Arguments:  - An author puts their real life experience into their literature, even when it's not intentional. - An adaptation can never capture the original artist's voice completely because it is put through the      filter of someone else's imagination and experiences. - A purely conceptual idea will be supported by the author's personal experiences, beliefs and emotions to transform it into a very personal piece. - Coming of age movies are not the only types of stories to project their authors so clearly, and most stories are actually a type of coming of age for the main character, regardless of genre, age of the protagonist or setting. - Human beings use allegory to help spread key ideas and lessons so that the majority can learn and ultimately benefit from them....

This week we looked at dialogue, first thing we covered was that at the beginning of cinema there was no sound. Movies used slides to communicate what characters had said, these called "inter titles". Music would be accompanied live. In 1909 M.N. Tropp came up with the idea to show additional text on the bottom of the screen - "subtitles". These were cost effective and could be distributed worldwide. In 1927, "talkies" took over when The Jazz Singer was released with synchronized dialogue. I remember watching Fritz lang's 1931 Picture " M " which was his first film with synchronized sound (he also directed Metropolis ), he makes wonderful use of this new technique, giving the titular Murderer an iconic whistle.   To see how someone recently experimented with subtitles we looked at Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch. There is a school of thought that cinema is purely visual. I think this depends on the film and story bei...

In class this week we looked at short films that eventually evolved into feature length films - short stories that have a special concept or stylistic execution that results in them later being adapted into longer productions, usually funded by a larger studio. Making a short film is one way to get attention from potential investors and to break into the feature length film industry, which is what my personal ambition is: to someday make feature length fictional narrative films.  One of the first we looked at was Vincent (1982) by Tim Burton. This short is about a boy with odd hobbies, it's a very normal story but told through this queer young man's perspective, resulting in an overly stylized aesthetic. I really enjoyed it, its weird that Burton says so often he never took inspiration from German Expressionism when this so clearly feels like the films of that movement. It wasn't directly interpreted to a feature film but gave Burton the exposure he needed, he w...

We were looking for theoretical texts in class, things that are not technical guides on how to do what we want this year, but rather opinion pieces observing another artists' work or analyzing ideas rather than the technical execution of something. https://www.cmstudies.org/page/jcms http://filmjournal.org/ http://www.alphavillejournal.com/ Kathryn gave us these links to online film journals to use. The Alphaville site takes its name from the 1965 film by Jean-Luc Godard, as mentioned in the first journal they posted. This New-Wave film interested me because it chose to tell a very similar story to mainstream Hollywood at that point - a noir detective story. It does it in a new way though, that obeys the French New-Wave movement of which it's a part though. I think this film can very much help with my research as it uses the genre conventions its tied to to still tell a story that fits within the auteur's own ambitions. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com...

I have decided to change my question a bit to be more tangible, and something I can more directly work on. Before it was a very large topic to tackle and while that might have worked for something like visual arts, I find it hard to make tangible for filmmaking - which needs technical experimentation. My question is changing into: "How can I put an emphasis on key emotional elements present in a scene to make it a more engaging and effective experience for the audience?" This means that my experimentation becomes more focused on the technical execution of scenes, I will be looking at interviews of directors who craft scenes well and try and find out what methods they employ to elicit emotion in the audience. I will also be researching some theoretical texts and try and see what people say makes a good scene or try and find an analysis of how the audience experiences emotion through film. ---------------- This is what I was thinking about changing my question to, I...

What I kinda want the logo to look like With me changing my question to focus and make individual scenes this year instead of the full shorts, I have decided that I would like to take First Diemester into feature territory, the story is overly complicated for the short film format and has more potential than I wanted to explore but which I couldn't in the restrictions of that medium. As a feature the film will be made up of Five Chapters: Chapter I Nowhere to Run To; Baby! The title card shows up after he asks his GF to marry her upon finding out that she is pregnant. The chapter starts with him finding himself in this undesirable situation and ends when he decides to take action. He finds out that she sabotaged their birth control method to have the child without his knowledge and he and his friend do some research on how to induce a miscarriage within the first few weeks. They make a couple of Plans, Plan A - using vitamins and herbs to induce a natural miscar...

In this blog, I will look at my first Conceptual Exploration: First Diemester . The terribly titled short film is outlined, the scenes and key emotions listed and the personal inspiration inherent to it are explored. Logline  A heist movie but instead of stealing something the main characters try and induce a miscarriage. Origins As I explained in Amendment I, this idea was purely conceptual, I developed it back when I first came up with it (after telling a couple of people and getting positive feedback I felt like it was an idea worth exploring even if I was at first shaky on its potential), my initial development can be seen on these blogs from last year: https://bomyburgh2again.blogspot.com/2019/08/full-term.html https://bomyburgh2again.blogspot.com/2019/09/first-diemester.html Since then the idea has seen a lot of change, I feel like it is much closer to being a personal film now, with me injecting more realistic motivations into the characters and transfor...

We were introduced to the paper today and looked at the handbook a bit, although still not 100% on where things overlap with Research or how our work will be marked. We had to present our idea to the class - which I covered in this blog, presenting my idea and proposal presentation: https://badbootjebotoxbopresentsbsa3yall.blogspot.com/2020/02/research-iii-chapter-i-part-ii-proposal.html I did a hack job of it in class but told everyone my question for the year and gave an example of what kind of movie I could make, I am still not sure which one I will decide on for this paper, they require some more development each. Those projects can be found here: https://badbootjebotoxbopresentsbsa3yall.blogspot.com/2020/02/research-iii-chapter-i-part-iv-long.html https://badbootjebotoxbopresentsbsa3yall.blogspot.com/2020/02/research-iii-chapter-i-part-iii-short.html With some more on the way.

This is Screen Arts III, in this blog we will be looking at what we are expected to do this year as well as an overview of what we did in our first class. This year we are looking at international cinema, specifically where there are career opportunities. Traci says its like one year of job searching. Year III serves as an investigation of what is going on in the world in our fields. We have a proposal in Week 8, we present the body of work in Week 15 and our blog is due in Week 17. We are making a pie this year, and have to document our process in making this pie. This is an allegory for what we are creating this year, but served mainly to make us hungry >:( Proposal The purpose of this assignment is to propose a research question relevant to your own contemporary practice and explain how this will be explored through experimental practice-based research. The proposal is to include the following: o Title of your research How can I apply a key emotion onto a scen...

Part VII is a focus on adaptation and how that can be a form of Second-Hand Personal Inflection, this is the second example of Second-Hand Exploration that I will be doing. In this blog, we look at the concept, story structure, inspiration from external sources and final outline. I think that adaptation is a form of the second-hand exploration which I am looking into with my Research this year. I had an idea a couple of years ago for a Scooby-Doo style animated show which would work as a subversive adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's' work. I have chosen to do 2D animation as my elective this year and will then produce this idea, hopefully finishing the initial designs, script, storyboards, and pitch bible for this Lovecraft project well before I start that paper in the second semester. Concept The work's title is Lil' Cthulu and Friends, a tv parody series of the old Hanna-Barbera mystery crew shows (like Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? ,  The Funky Phantom and  Goober an...

In Part VI we take a look at Alistair Fox's book Coming of Age Cinema in New Zealand :  Genre, Gender and Adaptation as my first theoretical text. I went to the City Library to look for some books about writing or filmmaking that might be related to my question, I found this one focusing on New Zealand Coming-of-Age Cinema and after reading some of the introduction I thought it would be a good option as one of my theoretical texts (even if what the author is writing on is about a genre which I don't intend to focus on). Unfortunately, I was unable to take out the book as it is a reference copy only, they told me I could scan specific pages of interest but I just snapped some photos with my phone of the sections I found most relevant to my own study. Function of Films Fox focuses on the Coming-of-Age film but he says some very interesting things when discussing the function of these films. When reading I considered the possibility that what he is saying might app...

In this blog, I review my personal explorations and define the lines of division between each. I define each type, explore what makes them different and why I have chosen to separate them, as well as list some ideas from my past in each and look at why they fit into the camps that they do. I have written a couple of blogs now which have started to probe into the kind of personal explorations I want to be making throughout the year, and luckily the two that I have chosen to develop are both on different ends of the personal influence spectrum. I have found that all the ideas I have can be camped into three different conceptual foundations: First-Hand The first ( Klosterplatz 5,  https://badbootjebotoxbopresentsbsa3yall.blogspot.com/2020/02/research-iii-chapter-i-part-iii-short.html ) is a story that I have worked on because of a request from someone else, I molded it to their personality and life experiences. I am calling this a Second-Hand exploration: seeing how personal inj...