Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Pulp Fiction: Shots FINISH



This shot starts the scene. We can hear Travolta talking to him. We can see he is not interested and has other things on his mind. His stress is shown by his hand, frown and eyes.

Here is Travolta talking to Marvin. we can clearly see the gun, and it catches your eye, foreshadowing. Travolta's dark suit versus the light outside makes our vision hone in on the centre.

Boom. Our eyes were focused on the centre of the frame, so as Marvin's head explodes it hits the centre of our vision, which makes it feel like a real impact, and almost shocking as it was so fast. like a jumpscare almost.

My college film: Dude, Where's My Wall




Here is my film. It's pretty bad.

To improve we should of recorded dialogue without the disruption in the background. Overall shots were pretty good, although none of it felt very dynamic and felt very still. No fluidity. Although this does add to the "humour"... Lighting however was pretty good, everything was clear to see. Audio is a problem. I could not scale sound very well, many sound are too loud or too quiet and I cannot do much to change that with my limited knowledge. The flow between shots is...semi fluid. Most of the time the audiences view is naturally looking where it should, and their eyes don't have to do too much work to see what is happening.

Turns out I missed an audio clip. At the end there was meant to be a cartoon zoom effect. It seemed to of disappeared mysteriously just before I uploaded it to youtube...either way I've added it to the file, but I have not re-uploaded to youtube yet.

Here's the re-upload





Tuesday, 18 October 2016

Colour Harmony

Complementary
Complementary colours are a colour harmony, which uses opposites. Such as Red and Green, or Blue and Orange. 
Analogus
This method uses similar colours, such as shades of Green, and colours close to them. 
Split Complementary

This has colours that are almost opposites, and puts them together. There are many variants of this effect, such as Triadic, Rectangle, etc.
Square
The square uses 2 sets of complementary colours. Such and Red And Green, with Blue and Orange.

Gamut

Gamut is the range of colours. This takes in mind the  different colour modes such as RBG and CMYK. It is everything we can see. It is used to see what different outputs can show to the audience.



It is similar to the colour wheel, but way more practical. It shows all the colours for printing and for online use, and the spectrum in which the human eye can see. 




When all colours are added up we get white. As we can see to get yellow, we mix red and green. And pink is found between blue and red, and cyan is found between green and blue. Black is the absence of all colour.  


Colour through the ages

There are 256 colours in a .gif.

The difference between the colours of 1970 and 1960

In the 1970's colour was a lot more conservative. Beige, brown. cream. Smooth colours, earthy colours. Many cars in this era had these similarly earthy and conservative colours. A far cry from the 1960's.

The 1960's however where very colourful...almost too colourful, inspired by the drug culture and the rise of music and of the psychedelic. This could be seen everywhere from advertising to fashion. Bright coloured cars and bright clothes, and colours that  burn your eyes.

Photoshop's colour mode is RBG because it is on a computer screen. Printed CMBK is a better choice

Colour in the modern day I would say is very split. In fashion dark colours are quite prevalent, but there is some colour, sometimes. Burgandy as on the rise for a bit. In film colour has a split depending on genre but there is an increase in brown, earthy tones used.

Thursday, 13 October 2016

My Mash-up Poster: Sandler Wars FINISH

Here is my poster so far. My masterpiece....Star Wars. but with Adam Sandler as every character. Amazing I know. Not the epic saga humanity wants, but the one it needs! And deserves! (take that as you will)

Here is Darth Sandler. I had many issues with this one. I made many different versions. I had a half Vader half Sandler face, but it did not work too well. I then tried a Spaceballs style Vader face, keeping the top and side of the helmet but showing Sander's face. This proved to be a little better. However I also had a lot of trouble. I then after lots of mistakes managed to cut out Adam Sandler's head and fit it into the helmet. I then used the eraser to shade his head, as the brush tool was way too harsh. I then erased his crossed arms, and blurred it into the poster. Hopefully this won;t be a problem.

Next is the beautiful princess Sandler. Yes, nightmare fuel indeed. This was a tricky one. I, after lots of mistakes and failures, managed to come up with a solution. I erased Princess Leia's face, and then put Sandler's face in. Then I used the perspective, Warp, and spot healing tool, to blend the faces together. What I made was a monster.

"IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!"