Bad Bootje and Botox Bo presents: BSA 3

The coronavirus is currently booming, but its sudden popularity is actually really hurting our beloved film industry, with film releases and productions being delayed. Essentially its put the entire industry behind a month or so. The first article we looked at was this: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/17m-film-studio-cards This $17.7 Million production studio could open a lot of opportunities in Dunedin and Southland, I didn't know this but the article mentions Jane Campion's new film " The Power of the Dog " which filmed in Dunedin recently. Which is ridiculous, on a movie like that we should all get some cable wrangling gig or another. The movie features Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst, which is also outrageous because the fact that this knowledge didn't reach my ears at the time means I missed an opportunity to get my ins with Kirsten Dunst. The article mentions the range of different locations that we have access to down here and I very much ...

For ages now I've wanted to watch the movie Brawl in Cell Block 99 , the title sound offputting and looking at the hard copy cover art makes that name seem even more like a shitty grindhouse movie than it did. However the director is what intrigued me so much about the project, he is a writer turned director who makes movies on his own accord, fully auteurist.     These posters are so fucking bad, they do the movie an injustice. I was interested in the movie because of the rave reviews it had gotten and because of his previous debut feature: the western horror Bone Tomahawk . I didn't think an amazing amount of the movie upon first seeing it but have come to see the great parts about it because of the number of YouTubers who sing its praises.  Red Letter Media made a video that cemented the movie as unique and special in my mind, and encouraged me further to check out the directors' other work: Finally, I was pushed over the edge by what I heard abo...

Today we looked at the Australian and Pacifica Film Industry: Things like Mad Max The Water Diviner Bro Town Three Wise Cousins Sione's Wedding ______________________________ https://the-big-movie-company.business.site/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=referral We also looked up places of possible employment far away from here, specifically Aussie.

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...

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...