Research Presentation and Post Links

Research Presentation:

The representation and influence of Gothic animation:

Research Posts Links:

Week 08:Research Areas: Gothic color analysis:

Post Links:

Week 0: Timeline & Understanding of the history of film, animation, and VFX.

Week 1 :Good & Bad Animation according to my understanding

Week 1: The Animation studios/forms of animation/animators who imitated or resisted Disney’s hy

Week 2 : Notes and summaries

Week 3 : Note

Week 3: Mise-en-scene Analysis & Summary

Week 4 : Film Story & Characters Breakdown & Timeline

Week 5 : Film Character & Story Development Breakdown

Week 07: Research Areas: Gothic color analysis(First draft)

Week 08:Research Areas: Gothic colour analysis

The difference between animated tones in the traditional sense and those in the gothic style (Tim Burton).

Tim Burton’s films are my favourite of the Gothic genre.The difference between animated tones in the traditional sense and those in the gothic style is the main direction I will analyse.

People’s brain waves respond to red as alertness and to blue as relaxation. to blue and relaxation. Color is largely influenced by psychological factors The influence of color is largely influenced by psychological factors, resulting in psychological color vision. People see different People will have different associations when they see different colors. I will be using Tim Burton’s film “Corpse Bride” and “Frankenweenie” for a tonal analysis.There are also children’s animations in the traditional sense.

Keywords: Color Tones,Gothic style, Animated films, Dark Fairy Tale

Example analysis for traditional animation and gothic animation

Tonal analysis on “Corpse Bride”:

Director Tim Burton’s stop-motion animation, The Corpse Bride, is
is in a darker tone, with a dark blue dark tones are the dominant tone of the film, which is also a formal expression of Tim Burton’s Tim Burton’s style in a formal sense. This darker tone creates a mysterious, macabre atmosphere for the film to create a mysterious, macabre atmosphere.

The film’s use of tone contrasts with traditional films, The film’s use of colour tones contrasts with traditional films, and is intended to be ironic. In the film, the world of the living is The world of the living is a cold colour palette of very low purity, a metaphor for the indifference of the human world. The world of the living is a cold colour palette, a metaphor for the coldness of the human world. The underground world of the zombies, on the other hand, is a colourful and cheerful The world of the zombies is colourful and cheerful, a metaphor for the harmony and love between them, full of It is full of “human feelings”. When the zombies come to earth, people feel the green hue of the film. But when people feel the But when people feel the emotions of the zombies, the colour tone returns to colour.

Keywords:Colour, Gothic style, Film.

Traditional children’s animation:

In the animated film “Flying House”, there is a group of character’s emotional portrayal. As a young man Carl, newlywed and in high spirits, and his wife are living a happy He and his wife are living a happy and sweet life and looking forward to a happy and beautiful future. The bright colors and high luminosity in the picture reflect Karl’s happy mood at this time.
The bright colors and high brightness in the picture reflect Carl’s happy mood at this time. With the passage of time, Carl has become an empty nester in his twilight years. Carl has become an empty nester, his partner has lost his life, and he is left alone in this house.

The dark colors further emphasize the fact that the character is in his old age, and also reflect the character’s depression. The two sets of images are similar in composition, but the colors are different,
The two sets of images are similar in composition, but the colors are different, and the mood of the characters is also different.

Keywords:Color,Traditional animation.

The Gothic style of film is hyper-realistic in that it is more real than reality, which is meant to provide a greater contrast to the fantasy world. In turn, Tim Burton’s story and themes can support such expressive designs, with the scenic staging of his films taking into account the characters’ surroundings and overall story values.

In Tim Burton’s visual imagination, which often blends an atmosphere of Gothic architecture with sunny, sunny countryside, two worlds that should be completely and utterly at odds, an old castle full of gloomy desolation and claustrophobia and a country cottage full of bright warmth and colour, he merges these two worlds that fall so far apart. This stark contrast appears in almost all his films.

The benefit of this gothic style of cinema may be that it brings a more visual experience that immediately catches the eye. His films are extremely personal and so out of step with mainstream aesthetics that it is immediately obvious that it is his film. On the flip side, there are no bright, warm colours like traditional animation that bring children some inspiration and fantasy. It is probably an animated film that is not suitable for children.

Reference

Bottomore, S., 2013. Moving color: early film, mass culture, modernism. [online] researchgate. Available at: <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270788685_Moving_color_early_film_mass_culture_modernism> [Accessed 28 November 2021].

Watkins, E., 2013. Color and the Moving Image: Theory,Aesthetics,Archive. [online] researchgate.net. Available at: <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304792193_Color_and_the_Moving_Image_History_Theory_Aesthetics_Archive> [Accessed 28 November 2021].

Herrmann, H. and Bucksch, H., 2014. colour tone(Brit.). [online] researchgate.net. Available at: <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314843851_colour_tone_Brit> [Accessed 28 November 2021].

Reference Movies:

Corpse Bride

Flying House

Week 07: Research Areas: Gothic colour analysis(First draft)

Theme

The difference between animated tones in the traditional sense and those in the gothic style(Tim Burton).

Keywords: Dark Fairy Tale , Tim Burton

Outline Structure:

Introdution

Part1:

Introduction to the topic, about Tim Burton style films and traditional animation films

Main Body

Part2:

Analysis through examples and reference films to analyze the different performances and personal opinions of the two colors.

The beginning will be a partial analysis of Tim Burton’s style and traditional animation

Part 3:

Discuss the differences and tendencies between the two.

The benefits and drawbacks of both.

Part 4: Conclusion

References:

Questions to research:

What is the impact of color on animation?

What is the effect of color tone on people?

Gothic design style of Tim Burton’s animated films

What is the difference between it and traditional animation?

What are the similarities?

References:

Bottomore, S., 2013. Moving color: early film, mass culture, modernism. [online] researchgate. Available at: <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270788685_Moving_color_early_film_mass_culture_modernism> [Accessed 28 November 2021].

Watkins, E., 2013. Color and the Moving Image: Theory,Aesthetics,Archive. [online] researchgate.net. Available at: <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304792193_Color_and_the_Moving_Image_History_Theory_Aesthetics_Archive> [Accessed 28 November 2021].

Herrmann, H. and Bucksch, H., 2014. colour tone(Brit.). [online] researchgate.net. Available at: <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314843851_colour_tone_Brit> [Accessed 28 November 2021].

Film Reference:

Corpse Bride

Flying House

Week 5 : Film Character & Story Development Breakdown

The Platform(2019)

The film tells the story of a sub a vertical prison where platforms with food descend from level 1 all the way down to the hundreds of levels, and the underfed prisoners begin to descend into cannibalism.

Main Characters:

Goreng: “Anti-Utopian” citizens, voluntarily imprisoned with the promise of increased social mobility upon release.

Trimagasi: Prisoner, held in a vertical cell, a cellmate of Goreng.

Story Development:

The story is set in the future, in a not-too-distant “anti-utopian” society. Here there is a mysterious prison called the Prison Pit. The Prison Pit is a vertically sealed prison, with two people living on each floor, for a total of 333 floors. On the top floor of the prison, there is a team of top chefs. Every day, the chefs create a large table of rich dishes, some of which are based on the favourite foods of the people in the prison. The main character is on the 48th floor, on the same level as a middle-aged man whose mantra is “obvious”. The most peculiar thing about the prison pit is that the whole structure is an underground floor that extends vertically from the surface to the ground.

Each level of the cell has the same structure, with a lift shaft in the middle for the lift to pass through, and is deep enough to reach the bottom. Each day, the team of chefs places the table on level 0. The table of sumptuous food then sinks down to the first level with the levitating table in the middle, and the first to enjoy the delicious and uncontaminated food is the first level, and so on, the further down the hierarchy, the less food is eaten, even turning into eating scraps, then eating the bones left by others, and finally nothing left. The hero, at first disdainful and somewhat pretentious about eating other people’s leftover food, casually takes an intact apple.

The prison also has an anti-theft mechanism, if someone tries to hoard food, even if they steal a piece of fruit, then the floor activates extremely hot or cold temperatures so that you have to throw away the food left behind. He signed up voluntarily to this prison because he wanted to quit smoking, and if he lasted six months, he would receive a certificate and each person could bring one thing into the prison, and he chose a book from Don Giovanni to bring into the prison. During this time, the hero also meets a woman who comes down from above, a woman who the old man says is looking for her son and will kill her roommate to increase her chances of meeting him, and follows the table down from the top in search of him, but so far has not been found. If the meal reached each level and each person ate only the portion of food that belonged to them, then everyone would have enough to eat. But this is only the ideal, because – by human greed – one is never satisfied in the face of desire. Those at the top would have more choice, they could choose the best food at will, and there would be more than enough to go around. Those at the bottom, on the other hand, are left to eat the leftovers of the top. What is even crueler is that if those at the top eat more or spoil the food at will. That would mean that there would not be enough food for those at the bottom.

The reason the old man ties up the man is that after a week, people are eventually unable to beat hunger and have to eat each other if they want to live. The old man has to cut off the flesh from the man’s thigh with the knife he carries in order for both of them to survive and prepare to eat it to relieve his hunger. Just as the old man strikes at the male lead, the woman who has come down to look for her son arrives on this floor. The woman has been searching for her child inside the prison and has been taking the food truck down to the bottom floor every month and thus has experienced various bottom killings. The woman takes out the old man cleanly and saves the hero. The male lead was one of the few people who had shown her kindness when she was in the upper levels and was helped by the woman. The woman cuts off the old man’s flesh and feeds him in order to keep him alive, and in this way the woman in turn teaches him to eat human flesh, and the hero survives on level 171.
After surviving the third month, the man reaches the 33rd floor, this time his cellmate is the woman who had interviewed him to come to prison. She came to the prison voluntarily because she was suffering from terminal cancer and thus wanted to be saved in the last days of her life. With the idea of spontaneous solidarity, she helps the next level to distribute the food and asks them not to eat too much of it each time with great pains, hoping to achieve a per capita distribution and thus break the plight of cannibalism in the prison, but no one listens.

It is time to exchange floors again, this time the hero arrives on floor 202, the interviewer hangs himself straight away and the hero wakes up with his whole face squared off. Again, in a situation where hunger is unbearable, the hero, abetted by a vision of the dead old man, still decides to betray his conscience and soul by going down and eating the interviewer to save himself from surviving. Coming to the fourth month, the hero’s cellmate this time is a Christian black man named Barahat. This time he is assigned to level 6, which already belongs to the real upper class within the prison. The black man tries to break the rules within the prison and he initially does so by using the help of the upper class and then climbing up to the upper level with a rope. But just as he was about to climb to the upper level, he was rewarded with a blow of human excrement from the upper levels, which nearly killed him.

Desperate, the two men ride the dining car all the way down, and are met with more and more horrific sights of cannibalism of the utmost horror. The deeper the lift descends, the closer the human hell gets ……
Eventually, though, they reached the bottom level, 333, and found an Asian girl who appeared to be the child the woman had been looking for, but the woman was looking for her son and there were no children under 16 in the prison. In the end they decide to give the girl the milk jelly, the black boy dies from blood loss and the hero eventually realises that the girl is in fact the very message being passed on to the administrator, so the hero decides to stay on the bottom of the next level on level 333 and the girl rushes up after the hovering table.

Character Development:

Goreng:

When he first arrived in prison, he disdained eating scraps and treated the prison with a God’s-eye view. Over time, he gradually compromises like his environment and begins to eat, even eventually eating human flesh. Eventually, he chooses to go down and distribute food in order to change the system, eager to change it all.

Analysis:

What each man who enters the prison pit brings with him represents him as a person, social attribute, profession or class. The hero starts out representing the intellectual theoretical school, on the liberal side, which corresponds to the reality pretty much of the middle class or intellectual middle class, well educated with some social status but not a top distributer. After being whipped by reality for a few rounds he rises to the 6th level becoming a decision maker and becomes a real surrendered revolutionary and social practitioner.

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Pride & Prejudice (2005)

The film tells the story of the love and choice of spouses of the five Elizabeth Bennet sisters, the daughters of a country squire in early 19th century England.

Main Characters:

Elizabeth Bennett: The second lady of the Bennett family is extremely assertive in many matters and does not succumb to worldly ideas.

Mr. Darcy:A large landowner in Derbyshire, England. He was a close friend of Mr. Bingley’s, handsome in appearance and not good with people, thus often causing strangers to misunderstand him as cold and arrogant.

Charles Bentley:Single, well-to-do gentleman, close friend of Mr. Darcy, lively and easy-going, but impressionable.

Jane Bennett: The oldest of the Bennett sisters, and admittedly the prettiest, and gentle and understanding, she believed in the goodness of human nature and looked on all things for the good.

George Wickham: A young soldier and childhood friend of Mr. Darcy. A debauched man, he spreads rumours of slander against Mr Darcy to get back at him and prejudice Elizabeth against him.

Story Development:

When the rich young bachelor rented a nearby estate, the Bennett family, who had five daughters, were thrilled to learn the news. Although Mrs Bennet had already begun planning which daughter to marry the bachelor, her husband suggested that Charles Bentley might not like it. But it was not long before Mr Bennet was persuaded by his wife to make an official visit to the estate.

At the ball, the Bennetts’ daughters met Mr Charles Bentley. Also present at the ball is his aristocratic friend, Mr Darcy, who scorns Mrs Bennet’s behaviour and snubs her daughters. Elizabeth, the liveliest and brightest in the family, overhears Mr Darcy commenting very condescendingly on local society and refusing to be introduced to her, and Elizabeth becomes prejudiced against him, despite his handsomeness and wealth.

One day Jane went to see Charles’s siblings in the rain and fell ill with a bad cold and had to stay at the estate. Elizabeth walked for a long time to visit and look after her sister. When she arrived she was in a terrible state and Charles’s sister spoke to her at length. During the time Elizabeth was looking after her sister, Mr Darcy was paying him a lot of attention and Charles’s sister became very jealous and lost her temper. She sabotages Darcy’s affection for Elizabeth, but without success. But what stands in their way is Darcy’s hatred of Elizabeth’s vulgar and calculating mother.

In the meantime, a priest came to visit, a cousin of one of the Bennet sisters, and it was in order that he should inherit Mr Bennet’s estate. The very conceited vicar spoke several times of the rich and arrogant Mr Darcy’s aunt, and as she urged the vicar to marry, he asked Elizabeth to marry him, who refused. When he is rejected, the vicar is not ashamed to propose again, but eventually fails and marries Elizabeth’s best friend.

Shortly after the ball, Charles and his sisters suddenly left the estate for London. Elizabeth is convinced that his sisters do not think Jane is good enough for Charles and prevent Charles from marrying her. Jane outwardly accepts the break in the relationship with equanimity, but soon goes to London to visit her aunt, hoping to meet Charles there. When Elizabeth rejoins Jane, Elizabeth believes that Darcy has deliberately kept Charles from knowing that Jane is in London.

Elizabeth meets up with Darcy again and Darcy is once again drawn to him. His condescending proposal to Elizabeth is rejected and he is condemned for the unfairness of his treatment of Jane. Darcy listens to her accusations in silence and writes a letter to Elizabeth the next day. Although this letter remains arrogant, Elizabeth’s dislike for Mr Darcy is much dispelled and she begins to see Darcy’s character. To add to Elizabeth’s sorrow, she falls in love with Darcy.
Shortly afterwards, Darcy and Charles return to the estate and Charles is engaged to Jane, and the Bennetts are filled with joy. Darcy’s haughty aunt is furious when she hears of this and comes to Elizabeth’s house to tell her to give up Darcy. Elizabeth, however, coldly tells her to mind her own business.
Darcy proposes again, this time in a humble manner, and Elizabeth readily accepts.

Character Development:

Elizabeth Bennett:She has a serious prejudice against Darcy at first, and when Mr Darcy asks her to marry him, she refuses Darcy, insisting on her own views. Later the misunderstanding is resolved and she gradually develops a liking for Mr. Darcy.

除了颜值爆表,《傲慢与偏见》还有这样的深意!_达西

Mr. Darcy:Darcy goes from being arrogant at first and looking down on Mrs. Bennet’s behaviour to falling in love with Elizabeth later on and becoming humble and decent.

傲慢与偏见》︱达西先生真的冲破了门第观念? - 简书

Analysis:

The actors have done their homework on this point. Whether it’s Elizabeth’s initial affection for Darcy, or the sudden change to full-on sarcasm, or the slightest shift in emotion about love, we see the seriousness of the emotions shown by the actors. The main theme of the film is to express what kind of gesture we are looking for in love. Elizabeth, for example, wants a love and marriage that is full of spiritual happiness.
Her friend, on the other hand, chooses a stable marriage, a relationship with nothing, but a life of plenty.

Week 4 : Film Story & Characters Bleakdown & Timeline

This is the movie I want to explain:

《Charlie and the Chocolate Factory》(2005)

《Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 》is based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Roald·Dahl. Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film tells the story of Charlie, a kind-hearted little boy, and five lucky children, including Charlie, who all draw golden prizes and are given a tour of a magical chocolate factory. So the five children plus their parents go on a mysterious and unpredictable adventure to this eccentric factory that has not been visited for 15 years.

These are the five main children in this film.

Chracters Background

Charlie Bucket : a kind and loving boy who lives with his family in poverty near the Wonka Factory . The gluttonous Augustus Gloop , the spoiled Veruca Salt , the arrogant Violet Beauregarde and the ill-tempered Mike Teavee .

Willy Wonka : The owner of the chocolate factory, distorted in his understanding of fatherly love by his father’s severity.

Story Arc Breakdown(8 steps)

Little boy Charlie Buckett lives with his parents, grandparents and grandparents.
Looking out of the Barketts’ window, they could see the largest chocolate factory in the world, owned by Willy Wonka, the great inventor and manufacturer of chocolate. It is a mysterious factory with locked doors and no workers have been seen entering or leaving the gates for 15 years, but the smell of chocolate is strong. The factory’s Wonka brand chocolates are sold all over the world and are loved by children.

Mr Willy Wonka made an announcement that he would be opening the Chocolate Factory, full of “mystery and magic”, to five lucky children. In addition to a tour of the factory, they will also receive enough chocolate candies and other sweets to last a lifetime.

Little Charlie found the coin in the snow and ran to the nearest shop where he couldn’t wait to buy the Wonka brand of chocolate. Little Charlie, who hadn’t tasted chocolate for a long time, was wondering what the chocolate would taste like when he unwrapped the wrapper to find gold revealed underneath.

The visit to the chocolate factory was a singular experience. Little Charlie, Grandpa and every visitor were amazed by the sights and smells that came out of their noses and their experience was filled with endless wonder, amazement and bewilderment.

The huge ‘candy bar’ caused the other four children to lose their self-control and some fell into a river of chocolate, some were turned into sweets, some were sent to the scrapyard and some got into the TV and turned into signal particles.

Young Charlie is unmoved by all this and eventually becomes the heir to the chocolate factory, but chooses to give it up for the sake of his family。

Week 4 : Note

Story curves’structure

Exposition: introduce of settings, problems that characters facing.

Rising action:

Climax: tense moment of story

Falling action: movement toward ending

Resolution: final outcome

Stories’ characteristics

Life death

Consciousness unconsciousness

Order chaos

1.You
2.Need
3.Go
4.Search
5.Find
6.Take
7.Return
8.Change

Character Types

protagonist:Main character,the hero or story driver (good or bad)

Antagonist/s:Stand against/challenge the protagonist but can have something to learn or redeem

Dynamic:Experiences inner growth/change and learns

Static:No growth or change,repeats actions no lessons learnt

Round:Developed,understood,life like,deep relatability

Flat:Undeveloped,one dimensional,minimum insight

Archetypes

1.Hero
2.Mentor
3.Threshold Guardian
4.Herald
5.Shapeshifter
6.Shadow
7.Trickster
8.Allies(sidekicks)

Key considerations

establish the personality or demeanour of character for the film or scene.
determine anatomical details and physical fluidity and extremity of action required.
identify all actions your character performs in your piece.
design actions and emotions that drives the narrative.
clear frame or stage your character for performance in a scene.
design audio to support the performance and action of your character.

Week 3 : Mise-en-scene Analysis & Summary

Part 1 :

Settings & Props:

This video is set in a cave transformed into a crystal-filled cave. The characters are the hero and heroine, a little fox and two mice.

Costume, Hair & Make up:

In this scene everyone is wearing pajamas,the heroine’s dress is full of dust.

Facial Expressions & Body Language:

The female foxes have exaggerated facial and body movements, getting so excited that they slap the male foxes after the turn, to crying later. It is clear that the female fox is very upset at the moment and that she is angry with the male fox.

Lighting and Colour:

The color palette is yellowish and the lighting is soft, creating a rather sad and warm atmosphere.

Positing of characters/objects within the frame:

It is easy to see from the language and actions of the two foxes that the male fox is not only a husband but also the father of a child.

What role dose the shot choice(Cinematography)play in the scene.

The first shot shows the overall setting, followed by the shading transitions from panorama to close up to close-up, showing the relationship between the characters’ demeanour.

part 2 :

Can you describe the mise-en-scene in this picture? How are the characters placed in the frame?

The scene is set with a man and a woman lying on a bed in the room. The man’s hair is white and the woman is young and beautiful. And the bed is relatively neat and the room is relatively clean, suggesting that they have only been here a short time. And the expressions on the two men’s faces do not look joyful; instead, the two men look rather nervous or thinking about something. The figures are placed in the middle, but the overall lighting does not give the setting an ambiguous atmosphere.

Part 3 :

Can you describe the relationship between the characters?

The woman sitting is the new mistress of the house and the man standing next to her is the butler. They are not familiar with each other and the housekeeper seems rather stereotypically strict, which makes the mistress uncomfortable.

how do we know what the relationship is ?

Can you describe how the mise-en-scene works together to tell us what the relationship is?

As can be seen from their costumes, the one seated is the hostess, while the one standing is her housekeeper. The housekeeper, on the other hand, seems to have little interest in the mistress and is very oppressive. The mistress, on the other hand, is more formal and therefore less natural in her behaviour. It was enough to see that their relationship was not very good.

Part 4 :

Can you describe the mise-en-scene in this picture?

The people around her have long beards and wear long robes and are mostly male, suggesting that there may be a lower status for women in her environment.

This is a medium shot, People in the middle of the shot.

Positive direction. (The position of the camera lens at a vertical angle to the front of the subject)

The overall palette is yellowish and cold, which makes it feel depressing.

The girl had a headscarf around her head and wrapped herself up tightly. Looking around in the street, and with fear and worry visible on her face.

Week 3 : Note

Note

Mise-en-Scene:

Settings & Props

Costume,Hair & Make Up

Facial Expressions & Body Language

Lighting and Colour

Positing of characters/objects within the frame

Costume, hair & make-up:

act as an instant indicator to us of character’s personality, status and job.
Examples: 101 Dalmatians, Barry Lydon
Facial expressions & body language:

Facial expressions provide clear indicator of how sb is feeling
Body language indicate how someone is feeling towards another character/ reflect state of their relationships
Positioning of characters & objects in a frame

positioning in a frame can draw our attention to an important char/obj
an animator can use positioning to indicate relationships between peoples
Lighting & color

can be used to achieve a variety of effects:

highlight important char / obj in a frame
make char look mysterious by shading
reflect mental states / hidden emotions
color- cultural meaning/ emotional

Low key Lighting:

created by using only key & back lights
produces sharp contrasts of light
High Contrast Lighting:

Examples: Street of Crocodiles, Citizen Kane

High Key Lighting:

more filler lights are used. lighting is natural and realistic to eyes

Example: The barber of

Natural lighting:

Examples: Alice, Paperman, The French Connection, The Hunger Games

Color and film:

Examples: Cries and Whispers, Amelie, The Secret of Kells, The Revenant(cold color, color contrasts, cooler or warmer)

films have color plate to control the proportion, contrasts, etc

DOP:

The distance from the near to the farthest

Deep Focus: both close and distant planes are shown in sharps focus, which allows film makers emphasize a char/ object which is far away from cam.

9 types of shots:

Extreme close-up: The Incredibles, The Hunger Games
Close-up: Bug Bunny, The Hunger Games, American Honey
Medium close-up: This Art Club Has a Problem!, The Third Man
Medium Shot: There will be good
Long Shot: Wall-E
Extreme Long Shot
A one-shot
A two-shot
A group shot
High Angle Shot
Low Angle Shot
POV

Moving Shots:

Pan shot
Tilt shot
Traveling shot
Crane shot
Animation art and cinema

from outset animation was destined to be multi-cultural, multi functional medium fulled medium fueled by technological change.

Hollywood the avant garde

1913 Raoul barre a painter and invented the peg system providing a universal registration system

1915 saw the introduction of cel, clear acetate that could be drawn on without having to redraw the background in every frame

Art Element Vocabulary

line
shape: the feeling of the out fit of obj in 2d perspective
form: the feeling of the volume of obj in 3d perspective
color
volume
space
texture

Week 2 : Notes and summaries

The question : Use the remainder of the session to research examples of politics affecting media in one or more of the following media.

I think all these aspects are a medium of cultural communication, film, animation, advertising, television, games. As cultural products, they have a subtle influence on the way human beings interact and behave in their lives. Cultural export and cultural aggression can shake the ideological foundations of a country. For example, China does not have a Christmas festival, but nowadays it is no less popular than its own Dragon Boat Festival, which is a cultural invasion. Furthermore, cultural export, such as Bruce Lee’s films, has led people overseas to believe that everyone knows Chinese kung fu. Then there are the familiar Chinese Fuwa from the Beijing Olympics, the Nezha’s Magic Boy Descendants, etc.

Beijing 2008 Olympic Game Mascots

The most direct impact of advertising is on the economy, but not all advertising is linked to the economy, for example, during the election campaign, some advertising is for the President and Prime Minister. Advertising can spread public opinion and build opinions. And the people who do the advertising likewise have a partisan orientation.

Note:

Generally, people can influence or persuade audiences in the following areas:

Social media
Broadcast News and events
Film and Animation
Television
Media platforms that have potential to influence or persuade an audience:

Broadcasts
Print Media
Mainstream Film and Animation
Independent film and animation
Games
Podcasts
Social media / internet profile
Some messages which are used in moving image:

Subliminal or masked content
Overt / Propagandist intentions
Persuasive / commercial targets
Documentary / Investigative
Independent / Personal struggle, observation or experience
Some main topics of politics in film and media:

Political persuasion
Commercial persuasion
Race
Gender
Equality
Disability
Ethics


Animated Documentarys:

1.Neighbours (1952 film)

2.Tower (Kevin Maitland, 2016)

3.The Sinking of the Lusitania (Winsor McCay 1918)

4.Fight for the Dardanelles (1915)

5.Prelude to War (1942)

6.A Is For Autism (1992)

7.Waltz with Bashir (2008)

8.As the creative treatment of actuality (1933)

9.Chicago 10 (Brett Morgen, 2007)

10.Montage of Heck (Brett Morgan, 2016)

Taxonomy of Animated Documentary:

has been recorded or created frame by frame
is about the world rather than a world wholly imagined by its creator
has been presented as a documentary by its producers and/or received as a documentary by audiences, festivals or critics.

Some important elements for Good poses and gestures:

Better proportion of body parts
Bigger eyes and ears
Spine and fluidity:

charactors spine should maintain it’s fluidity
the shape of spine should be curves
the shape of spine should help charactor balance their bodies

Week 1 : The Animation studios/forms of animation/animators who imitated or resisted Disney’s hy

At present, the United States is the best producer of 3D animation films. On the one hand, when producers from other countries are not experienced enough, they naturally have to learn from the production models of these masterpieces, and the style will be more similar, on the other hand, people have also been nurtured by these masterpieces to have a certain aesthetic tendency. As there are many Disney-style masterpieces, it is natural that works that lean towards this style are more likely to feel familiar and more likely to be considered masterpieces. In animated films, species other than people are given souls, and they take on the characteristics of animals and the personalities of people. The animal characters become human, allowing the audience to see the human in the characters, to feel familiar and feel believable, and thus to capture human emotions. Cartoon animals are never a reflection of real animals, they are a special group of animals from a mythical world, replicating human characteristics and weaknesses, unlike themselves in the animal kingdom.