BSA 306 - Semester 2 - Week 14

This week we had our presentation for our assignment.

To recap, I was talking about Colour Grade: The Tone and Feel of a Certain Grade. The experiment was all done over Premiere Pro as I had problems with Resolve and gave up on it. There were different kind of methods that I tried which worked and did not work for my film.

BSA 306 - Semester 2 - Week 13

The Silent Child Review

The Silent Child is a film about a deaf four year old girl who lives a silent live in a social world and learns how to communicate in sign language with the help of a social worker by the name of Joanne. It was written by Rachel Shenton and directed by Chris Overton and released in 2017.

The short film was really good and does have its moral teachings in it. The only thing I hated about this film was the characteristic of the mum. She was really mean and thinks "I'm her mum. I know what's best for her."

BSA 306 - Semester 2 - Week 9

A Boy and His Kite


A Boy and His Kite was a short film made by Epic games in 2015 to showcase how Unreal Engine could be used (for free with no royalties). They did this by creating animated projects with real time rendering of 30 frames per second, effects, dynamic lighting, depth of field, motion blur and procedurally placed vegatation on the landscape.

Morgan Lives in a Rocket House

New Zealand animator Peter Monga created an animated preschool series by himself using Unreal and without the need for a render farm after watching A Boy and His Kite. It was inspired by old stop motion T.V shows like The Wombles, Postman Pat and Pingu. It uses Unreal Engine for shading, lighting, effects, rendering and compositing stages of the usual animation pipeline

Allahyar and The Legend of Markhor

Made by Pakistani studio (3rd World Studios). They used Unreal Engine for previs, environments, effects, shading lighting and final delivery of frames. It has also sped up post-production as everything rendered as a beauty layer instead of multi pass rendering .

Mr Carton

French Animator Michael Bolufer used Unity Game Engine to create Mr Carton. The reason for this was because he found the traditional 3D tools to be to time consuming. Used Blender, 3ds Max and Unity for the modelling, rigging and animation

BSA 306 - Semester 2 - Week 8

Late Shift

The film is an interactive film and adventure video game written and directed by Tobias Weber. The participative film technology behind the title was developed by CtrlMovie Ltd.

In my opinion, I think something like this in a cinema would really bother me and I would not enjoy the movie as it is. I feel like this would work out more as a game compared to a movie. For example, if it was more like Life is Strange and Detroit: Become Human, it would had worked really well and possibly capture more audiences.

BSA 306 - Semester 2 - Week 6

The Karman Line

A short film about a mother who was hit by a rare condition that sees her lift off the ground at a slow but ever increasing rate, her husband and daughter are forced to come to terms with losing her.

Sunspring

Sunspring is a 2016 experimental science fiction short film entirely written by an artificial intelligence bot using neural networks.[1] It was conceived by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Oscar Sharp and NYU AI researcher Ross Goodwin[2][3] and produced by film production company, End Cue along with Allison Friedman and Andrew Swett. It stars Thomas Middleditch, Elisabeth Grey, and Humphrey Ker as three people, namely H, H2, and C, living in a future world and eventually connecting with each other through a love triangle. The script of the film was authored by a recurrent neural network called long short-term memory (LSTM) by an AI bot named Benjamin.

Originally made for the Sci-Fi-London film festival's 48hr Challenge, it was released online by technology news website Ars Technica on 9 June 2016

Review

The Karman Line was surprisingly funny and interesting to watch as it was a problem that they couldn't fix. Seeing how the family deal with the problem was interesting from cutting holes on their roof to using a crane to meet the mother. I would recommend this to certain people but not everyone.

Sunspring was a little bit boring and was not really my kind of film. In my opinion it was slow and made no sense since it was written by and AI. I would not recommend this film to anyone.

BSA 306 - Semester 2 - Week 5

Kubo and the Two Strings

Kubo and the Two Strings is a film that revolves around Kubo, a young boy who wields a magical shamisen-(a Japanese guitar) and whose left eye was stolen during infancy. Accompanied by an anthropomorphic snow monkey and beetle, he must subdue his mother's corrupted Sisters and his power-hungry grandfather Raiden (The Moon King), who is responsible for stealing his left eye.

This film was made through merging Stop-motion animation and 3D print making and was how they achieved a very different artistic style.

Review

 I really enjoyed this film as it had a really interesting story and captured my attention with the animation style. It's different from the typical Disney or Pixar animated movies that you've seen. I would recommend this to people if they're looking for something to watch.

BSA206 - Semester 2 - Week 4

Short Film Turned Feature

One of the major films that I found which was depicted from a short film was "Lights Out" which was directed by David F. Sandberg

This was then produced by Lawrence Grey, James Wan, and Eric Heisserer and then later turned into a proper film with David F. Sandberg himself directing it.

Lights Out then went on to grossed $67.3 million in the United States and Canada and $81.6 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $148.9 million, against a production budget of $4.9 million.

BSA 306 - Semester 2 - Week 3

The Circle 

The Circle is a short film about a street artist and his estranged son reconnect as a result of their common interest, art. The short film itself was entirely shot on a DJI Inspired 2 drone.

Review

I found this short film interesting as everything was shot on the DJI Inspired 2 and how amazing was it that they created hand grips and different structures to work around the drone. It was interestly shot and also had a good story to it.

BSA 306 - Week 16 & 17

New World 2013



New World was a film that I recommended to be watched during our class time.

This film tells a story of a undercover cop who is torn between his duty as a cop and a crime syndicate.

I would recommend this film to those who are interested in crime films and takes away from the typical American Crime-Drama genred film as it is differs. I believe that this film was focused more on the story than action throughout the film, the performances from the actors were really strong and made them stand out even more.

BSA 306 - Week 15

The Guard



Directed by - John Michael McDonagh.
Year - 2011.
Genre - Thriller/Comedy.

Synopsis

This film is about an Irish cop and an American FBI agent, that become partners and work together to uncover police corruption while deciphering a drug-trafficking ring.

Review

This is a very Irish film, which I think is very comedic. It is engaging to watch, although, sometimes hard to understand what the actors are saying due to their thick irish accent. This is a film that I would recommend to people but only if there is subtitles. It's a very comedic yet enjoyable film to watch with some jokes are over the top but done well.

BSA 306 - Week 13&14

Amelie review

Amelie is a 2001 French romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It tells the story of a shy waitress, played by Audrey Tautou, who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better, while struggling with her own isolation.



The colour scheme of this film was very striking in terms of vibrant colours. The animations that were included in the film also brought out a very fantasy element into the story and made it more interesting to me.

The way that she secretly executes complex schemes that affect the lives of those around her made it interesting as well. As I was not here for the first half of the film, I felt like there isn't much that I can talk about as well. The part which probably intrigued me was when she played a cat and mouse game with Nino around Paris before returning his treasured photobook.

  

BSA306 - Week 12

Russian Ark Review

Overall I think that the Russian Ark is a good movie, but in my opinion, at first I thought that the one shot sequence was really cool but after a while, it got boring and plain as I'm just seeing the same angles, style and composition at most. I'm also amaze by the essentrics of the whole planning into what happens next for the actor's movement.

If there is one thing that I could change, that would probably be having different shots in it.

BSA 306 - Week 11

Baraka (1992)



Baraka was directed by Ron Fricke. It is a non-narrative documentary film and explores themes via compilation of natural events, life, human activities and technological phenomena.

The message that I got out from this film is that it kinda depicted humanity and how we should see other cultures and respect them as it is from an outside perspective with all the different rituals and shows how we interpret it differently from others.

The absence of dialogue in this film in my opinion kinda made it long and dreadful in which made it harder for me to watch. If there was some form of dialogue or maybe human language, we could possibly see and interpret the film differently and may or may not made more impact towards the audience.

I would recommend this film to those who are really interested in like a non-narrative documentary style kinda of film that makes one interpret things in their own way. In the other hand, I would not recommend this film to those that are not into this kinda of genre as it's interesting but really lengthy.

Samsara is the sequel which came out in 2011.

BSA 306 - Week 9

The Bear and the Hare is a Christmas advert for John Lewis directed by Yves Geleyn and Elliot Dear which was released in 2013.

https://vimeo.com/79217517

I believe that the techniques used were from a mix of stop-motion and 2D animation. 

John Lee, the production designer/supervising model maker built the backgrounds and has also worked on other film sets like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Frankenweenie.

  

I think this advert created a nice and family friendly Christmas advert that brings back nostalgic and soft feelings to the heart.

BSA 306 - Week 6

World of Tomorrow is an animated science fiction short film which was written, directed, produced, animated, and edited by Don Hertzfeldt

It follows a young girl named Emily who was contacted by a third generation of a clone of her future self. The clone's objective was to extract Emily's memory of her and her mother but to do so clone first explained to her about the cloning process, time travelling and her love life.

I found the short film really entertaining, creative and comedic. The style of the animation was fairly simple and was also very childlike as if it was drawn by a child. It worked well with the story and the plot was a little bit dark but still comedic.

If you look at it in another way, it was actually focusing more on human society who were afraid of dying to the point that they extracted their memory and made a clone of themselves to live longer. This has allowed them to "box" themselves rather than to die normally.

I felt that the animation style actually changes the tone of the story and taking away most of the dark humor. 

BSA306 - Week 5

Loving Vincent

Loving Vincent is an animated film about Vincent Van Gogh's biographical drama life, in particular the circumstances of his death. It is the first fully painted animated feature film. The film, written and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, is a Polish production, funded by the Polish Film Institute, and partially through a Kickstarter campaign.

Actors that looked similar to his paintings were casted

They were also shot on green screen as a guide line of the movements

The film took four years to complete for a team of 125 painters.