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 >:(
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 scene to make it effective and engaging?
o Research purpose, aims, and objectives
I want to learn how to make a movie engaging scene to scene, by the end of this process I hope to have a better understanding of how to make each scene feel impactful and keep the audience engaged enough to watch to the end.
o Importance and relevancy to own practice addressed
This is particularly important in the third part of my research question - Entertaining Horror Fiction. I want to be able to take potentially pretentious themes and make telling them an engaging experience moment to moment.
o Specify what other research is being, or has been, conducted in this area
FIND SOME RESEARCH
o Discuss key works by other filmmakers/animators/video game developers whose works are relevant to the proposed project
KEY WORKS AS INSPIRATION
o Describe your proposed research methods, experiments, and intended output
I will apply specific emotions to the scenes in my films and for each research how another practitioner or practitioners executed it, then emulate their techniques onto my own scene and see how effective it is by gauging audience engagement.
o All references, including films, etc, APA referenced
REFERENCES
** Proposal to be 750 - 1000 words long and may include supporting visuals**
Does it reflect audience taste?
We were tasked with looking at one of the winners of the Oscars this year and look at who else was nominated and determine if we believe they deserved it or not:
Taika won this year for best-adapted screenplay. The other nominations were Greta Gerwig for Little Women, as well as Joker, The Two Popes and The Irishman. I've only seen Joker and Jo Jo Rabbit, but I think Taika shoulda won obviously because his shit's always been top-notch and he's a New Zealander.
There's a really great video by Thomas Flight on Youtube asking one of these questions - him focusing on Editing:
I wish I could be similarly comprehensive but I haven't seen half the films nominated and even if I did I don't think I am as instantly observant to pick up on everything within the first viewing.
We watched the Oscar-winning animated short from this year:
Hair Love, about a dad learning how to care for his daughter's hair so they can go visit his cancer-stricken wife.
We discussed Bong-Joon Ho winning for Parasite, for best picture, best original screenplay and best director. A surprise since he says the Oscars are actually very local, so for a foreign film to win those big awards are quite an unexpected achievement.
We then watched Late Afternoon, which was about how an elderly woman experiences dementia. This one brought tears to my eyes, it was very effectively emotional, which was surprising because I thought the concept was quite obvious and thought that once we knew we'd harden a bit, but it took its time and showed it properly - still ensuing the waterworks.
We then watched Animal Behaviour which is a very clever allegory for therapy. It's smart in the way it represents emotional trauma in a humorous way.
One Small Step is what we watched next, which is about a girl who wants to be an astronaut and in her mission to achieve this she neglects her father.
Next we watched Dear Basketball about Kobe Bryant.
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 scene to make it effective and engaging?
o Research purpose, aims, and objectives
I want to learn how to make a movie engaging scene to scene, by the end of this process I hope to have a better understanding of how to make each scene feel impactful and keep the audience engaged enough to watch to the end.
o Importance and relevancy to own practice addressed
This is particularly important in the third part of my research question - Entertaining Horror Fiction. I want to be able to take potentially pretentious themes and make telling them an engaging experience moment to moment.
o Specify what other research is being, or has been, conducted in this area
FIND SOME RESEARCH
o Discuss key works by other filmmakers/animators/video game developers whose works are relevant to the proposed project
KEY WORKS AS INSPIRATION
o Describe your proposed research methods, experiments, and intended output
I will apply specific emotions to the scenes in my films and for each research how another practitioner or practitioners executed it, then emulate their techniques onto my own scene and see how effective it is by gauging audience engagement.
o All references, including films, etc, APA referenced
REFERENCES
** Proposal to be 750 - 1000 words long and may include supporting visuals**
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In class we looked at the Oscars that just happened and some questions were posed:
Are the Oscars still relevant? (looking at viewing numbers, the nominations and winners, host or not)
Do the ones who win deserve it? (not all voters see all movies, safe choices, snubs)
Does it reflect audience taste?
We were tasked with looking at one of the winners of the Oscars this year and look at who else was nominated and determine if we believe they deserved it or not:
Taika won this year for best-adapted screenplay. The other nominations were Greta Gerwig for Little Women, as well as Joker, The Two Popes and The Irishman. I've only seen Joker and Jo Jo Rabbit, but I think Taika shoulda won obviously because his shit's always been top-notch and he's a New Zealander.
There's a really great video by Thomas Flight on Youtube asking one of these questions - him focusing on Editing:
I wish I could be similarly comprehensive but I haven't seen half the films nominated and even if I did I don't think I am as instantly observant to pick up on everything within the first viewing.
We watched the Oscar-winning animated short from this year:
Hair Love, about a dad learning how to care for his daughter's hair so they can go visit his cancer-stricken wife.
We discussed Bong-Joon Ho winning for Parasite, for best picture, best original screenplay and best director. A surprise since he says the Oscars are actually very local, so for a foreign film to win those big awards are quite an unexpected achievement.
We then watched Late Afternoon, which was about how an elderly woman experiences dementia. This one brought tears to my eyes, it was very effectively emotional, which was surprising because I thought the concept was quite obvious and thought that once we knew we'd harden a bit, but it took its time and showed it properly - still ensuing the waterworks.
We then watched Animal Behaviour which is a very clever allegory for therapy. It's smart in the way it represents emotional trauma in a humorous way.
One Small Step is what we watched next, which is about a girl who wants to be an astronaut and in her mission to achieve this she neglects her father.
Next we watched Dear Basketball about Kobe Bryant.
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