The beginning of the end

So I have been looking at various movie production quotes like director or actor quotes that reference the development of film over the last two years, this will have to be adapted to integrate with the monologue I will be taking from someone else. Here is my list that im starting to create.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
–James Broughton

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you’re a director. Everything after that you’re just negotiating your budget and your fee.
–James Cameron

First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it’s been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you’re going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it.
–Richard Donner

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it’s all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.
–Samuel Fuller

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It’s a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.
Bryan Singer

After much consideration I have now changed the direction my EMP will be going I am now going to be doing an installation at the film festival which will be held at the life centre in Winton (which I will upload photos of when I make a trip there soon). I will also be putting together some visual effects which will be used in the interval between the films and the categorys which the installation and th animations will be based on:

People and Places-  Ideas that come to mind for people and places are footage of busy streets in and around bournemouth, maybe a timelapse of people walking through and about the town centre.

Heritage - Footage of the beaches at sandbanks and local areas maybe corfe castle and the animals that can be found in Dorset.

Future-  This i may look at experimentally with some visuals encorporated into a night scene with cars etc.

Culture- I think of different nationalities converging in one area when I think of culture this I believe will be another reason to use Bournemouth as it is a hub of cultural diversity.

I have instinctively changed my original plan for my EMP as I felt that there was not enough work for me to do and the outcome that i achieved early on was not suitable enough to become a final outcome.

I have decided to move my EMP into an installation which is based on the film industry and how it has developed and grown over the last two decades I will be looking at lots of different films but also taking into account the movies that will be played at the film festival which i will be setting up the installation itself. I have compiled a list of movies which i consider to be detrimentally import to the development of film in the last twenty years and then a further list which is compiled of newer art house films. This will last ten minutes and will have an interval which will include imagery of the film festival logo and explantation of the installation and will then go on to display another ten minutes or so.

This is a first draft list I will go on to speak to the events guys and see if they have any ideas of what sort of films they would like to show soon.

Saving Private Ryan

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Forrest Gump

Trainspotting

Life Is Beautiful

Schindler’s List

American History X

The Usual Suspects

28 Days Later…

The Hangover

Children of Men

The Prestige

The Departed

This list will change due to my opinion and also popularity though IMDB I will also take into account much newer films and also films which touch on sensitive areas and make people aware of things that where previously unheard of.

So I have decided to finally try my luck at projection and VJing as i think it would definitely be a route i could be interested because of the music side involved I have decided to get in touch with a two visual artists who do events in Bournemouth and they have agreed to let me help with some shows they are doing in the future and hopefully over the summer. The first is vj splatty (steph) who does the dub optic events and outlook festivals and i am going to help set up an eye visual installation which should be cool, the second is rebel overlay (spen) who does shows all over the world and has agreed to let me come along and help with a show he is doing in london at a warehouse project and hopefully set stuff up.

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bedroom wall glow

So ive messed around with mad mapper in my living room and bedroom with a short throw projector (the devil) anyway experimented done some cool stuff these are the images i got from it.

Duboptic eye

After a bit of work and design ideas I decided that if the eye blinked it would look a lot better I did this by using different photoshop images and importing them in which worked nicely then added a starburst effect in the background as well as a glass effect to the eye along with a lense flare for the pupil and i think it makes it look so much better than before. There is also a left eye I have just sent these to  a vj who will hopefully try and implement them at an opening night at an event in London. (http://www.facebook.com/events/190831447682837/)

Dub optic eye both

so we used these eyes in part of the show it looked cool ive got some photos of it up as well but now im think about doing loads of individual eyes link which link up by wire the same size as the projector screen.