Dogme 95
blog task
the Dogme 95 was a list of rules that were made to challenge directors and to create a more honest film. these are rules.
- Shooting must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found).
- The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs where the scene is being shot.)
- The camera must be hand-held. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted.
- The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera).
- Optical work and filters are forbidden.
- The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.)
- Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now).
- Genre movies are not acceptable.
- The film format must be Academy 35 mm.
- The director must not be credited.
it started 1995
Dogme 95 ended in 2005 once its founders decided that the Vow was producing formulaic films, but its initial effects can't be denied. Sometimes giving yourself complete freedom means arresting your creativity with unlimited possibilities. But, you put that creativity inside a box -- it'll find a way to break free.
i dont think that it it is creating anything more to the film experience its just a route to get to a result. it has more variables for "happy accidents" to occur which could make things seem more artistic without a set vision on the directors part.
Richard Williams
the Theif and the cobbler
Did a bad animation because he didn't storyboard Warner bros took the Animation that he had worked on for 25 years and finished it without him ,Arabian Knight.
provide an overview of the british new wave
British new wave films also known as kitchen sink drama is a style of film that focuss on the grit of ordinary life. the director would typically use unknown actors from the regions they depicted to make the films have an extra layer of believablity to them. other identifiers of british new wave are stories that depict angry working class males which were usually adaptions from plays or novels of the time.
first appearance in the 1960s. films that dealt with serious social issues of the middle class
Explain the influence of the british new wave on modern films
Billy Elliot
MOtion Capture history
Motion capture humble beginnings started in the form of rotoscoping as animators would take live action reference and draw over the top of cells to get accurate life like animations.
Animation Motion capture developed along side technology and as one grew so did the other. the Technique was developed to put land mark dots onto a human figure and capture the movements with cameras this information could then be transformed and applied to a 3d mesh in 3d space on a computer.
Although this Technique has its benefits it is not a quick shortcut to greatness. if the resulting animation is not treated with care the motion can feel dead but alive at the same time. this is usually to do with the face or eyes and is deemed uncanny valley and can inspire creepiness and unease in the viewer. but there are some good examplesof motion capture such as its use in the video game "the last of us" where the characters are brought to life through the acting of talented actors.
Uncanny valley Mass effect 2
German New waveName of manifesto
Aim of the manifesto
time period
Years active: 1962 - 1982
major Film makers within the movement
Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Ulli Lommel, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Peter Schamoni, Volker Schlöndorff, Straub-Huillet, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Margarethe von Trotta, Werner Schroeter, Wim Wenders
Themes expressed through the films
a group of twenty-six young German directors wrote and signed the Oberhausen Manifesto which boldy declared the old German cinema dead: "Papas Kino ist tod (Papa's movies are dead)." The signers of the manifesto emphasized the importance of short films as a tool to educate rather than entertain. These young Germans were seeking expression using a fresh film language. Their short, unstructured films, produced on very low budgets, reflected their philosophy that the German film should concern itself with contemporary German problems; the materialism of postwar society, the morality of the bourgeoisie, the alienation of youth, and the moral disaster of the Nazi legacy. Some of the filmmakers made autobiographical films in the belief that one's personal problem was also the world's problem.
what previous New wave movement was an influence
Provide an overview of animation history 1986-1989
when the wind blows (1986)(uk)
an adaption of a graphic novel about government and focuses on the effects on middle class home people.
Brothers Quay
influenced by europeon animation
surrealism
create nightmarish stop motion films
Sledge hammer
1986
mixture of animation styles and live action to create texture and feel to the music video.
Girls night out 1987
Animation
loud short film about the textures and feel of 'what a night out what the girls' is like
family dog 1987
wicked city 1987(japan)
Akira (1988)
an anime
promethus garden (1988)
a stop motion film that reads more like a crazy dream. shapes morph into new shape with no explanation or seamingly connections. there seems to be a focus on mutilations and faces emerging from nothing.
breakfast on the grass (1987)
the hill farm (1988)
done in a 2d sketchy animation style the hill farm shows the day to day life of a couple living on a farm and the sort of situations they have to deal with in a comical animated twist. it doesnt use dialogue which is great and funny an i like it. I feel as though the lack of dialogue allows the audience to read into the emotions of each character with their own emotions making each character instantly more relatable. its a trick that video games use when they implement a silent protagonist so the player can project their own world views onto the character and it makes the game feel more immersed. the artistic style feels fresh and honest it feels like a world that exists in a dry paper environment due to the dry nature of the mediums used. it provides an interesting view on how different people approach different scenarios and perceive situations differently. from people who are in an environment for a long time vs people who are experiencing those things for the first time.
provide an overview of the 1990s animation history covered in class
the simpsons USA 1990
Ren and stimpy USA 1991
Cartoon network
cartoon network purchased Hanna-Barbera in 1991 and in 1993 started creating such original animations
Batman the Animated series 1992
Bruce Timm relaunched the Batman character as a dark noir style. the style was inspired from Frank millers rendition of Batman in his comic "the Dark night returns"
Timm went on to produce the superman animated series.
Barry Purves UK
created this intricate stopmotion animation in the style of Japanese Kabuki theater. the animatoin went on to win many awards which is surprising due to the whole film being shot in his bedroom.
Jurassic Park 1993
steven spieberg created Jurassic park
Considering the documentary on jurrasic Park and the advancements made with combining CGI with live action, express your opinion in regards to the following questions-
Discuss a live action film where you feel the CGI detracted from the story
Scorpion king from the mummy returns.
animated Dwane the rock Johnson as a giant scorpion. nuff said. but the character looked plasticy and the movements didnt look natural at all.
Discuss a live action film where you feel the CGI was seamlessly integrated
James Camerons Avatar. created by the CGI magicians at Weta Studios this film in its year set the mark for how CGI can be integrated into a film with 90% of the film being CGI and it still being belieable.
Run Lola Run
the story had some very interesting film techniques that flashed thorugh peoples timelines with interaction with lola showing a butterfly effect that her actions had effects on people lives.
there were a lot of repeating motifs
her scream
the blind lady
time clocks
heart beats
running
orange
death
i would recommend this film
1994 the tick
the critic
1994 duck man Everett peck
1994 the big story
1995 secret adventures of tom thumb
1995 the end of the world in four seasons (reference story boards)
this compilation of animations had a unique visual style and story telling approach. i think the method of story telling with multiple panels shown at the same time was confusing and may require multiple watches to fully understand what is going on in each section. the pacing was off for me and seemed kind of slow. i enjoyed the line work and traditional feel and the layout of the panels had their own element of appeal animation. I also thought the unique layout with panels sometimes crossing over into others opened up more avanues of possiblities in story telling expecially when the 3rd wall is broken and charcters move out side of the panels and break the rules of conventional story panels.
1995 Toy Story
Blair witch project
this film played on a lot of fears that people have such as; being lost, being powerless, being hungry, being watched, being mutilated, being taken, being in the dark and probably quite a bit more. i think it did this effectively by not over blowing the production value and instead opting for a hand held found footage style that makes us feel as though we are watching clips from an event that actually happened as opposed to just going through the motions. it makes the footage feel legitimate.
Reservoir Dogs
Animation 1990s
two similar films came out the same year
A bugs life by Pixar
and
Antz by Dreamworks Animation
A bugs life did better but both films did well
A Scanner Darkly
Richard Williams
the Theif and the cobbler
Did a bad animation because he didn't storyboard Warner bros took the Animation that he had worked on for 25 years and finished it without him ,Arabian Knight.
provide an overview of the british new wave
British new wave films also known as kitchen sink drama is a style of film that focuss on the grit of ordinary life. the director would typically use unknown actors from the regions they depicted to make the films have an extra layer of believablity to them. other identifiers of british new wave are stories that depict angry working class males which were usually adaptions from plays or novels of the time.
first appearance in the 1960s. films that dealt with serious social issues of the middle class
| Year | Play/book | Film |
| 1956 | Look Back In Anger (play) | |
| 1957 |
Room at the Top (novel)
The Entertainer (play)
| |
| 1958 |
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (novel)
A Taste of Honey (play)
| |
| 1959 |
Billy Liar (novel)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (short story)
|
Room at the Top
Look Back In Anger
|
| 1960 |
A Kind of Loving (novel)
This Sporting Life (novel)
Billy Liar (play)
The L-Shaped Room (novel)
|
The Entertainer
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
|
| 1961 |
A Taste of Honey
| |
| 1962 |
A Kind of Loving
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The L-Shaped Room
| |
| 1963 |
Billy Liar
This Sporting Life
|
Explain the influence of the british new wave on modern films
Billy Elliot
MOtion Capture history
Motion capture humble beginnings started in the form of rotoscoping as animators would take live action reference and draw over the top of cells to get accurate life like animations.
Animation Motion capture developed along side technology and as one grew so did the other. the Technique was developed to put land mark dots onto a human figure and capture the movements with cameras this information could then be transformed and applied to a 3d mesh in 3d space on a computer.
Although this Technique has its benefits it is not a quick shortcut to greatness. if the resulting animation is not treated with care the motion can feel dead but alive at the same time. this is usually to do with the face or eyes and is deemed uncanny valley and can inspire creepiness and unease in the viewer. but there are some good examplesof motion capture such as its use in the video game "the last of us" where the characters are brought to life through the acting of talented actors.
Uncanny valley Mass effect 2
German New waveName of manifesto
Aim of the manifesto
time period
Years active: 1962 - 1982
major Film makers within the movement
Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Ulli Lommel, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Peter Schamoni, Volker Schlöndorff, Straub-Huillet, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Margarethe von Trotta, Werner Schroeter, Wim Wenders
Themes expressed through the films
a group of twenty-six young German directors wrote and signed the Oberhausen Manifesto which boldy declared the old German cinema dead: "Papas Kino ist tod (Papa's movies are dead)." The signers of the manifesto emphasized the importance of short films as a tool to educate rather than entertain. These young Germans were seeking expression using a fresh film language. Their short, unstructured films, produced on very low budgets, reflected their philosophy that the German film should concern itself with contemporary German problems; the materialism of postwar society, the morality of the bourgeoisie, the alienation of youth, and the moral disaster of the Nazi legacy. Some of the filmmakers made autobiographical films in the belief that one's personal problem was also the world's problem.
what previous New wave movement was an influence
Provide an overview of animation history 1986-1989
when the wind blows (1986)(uk)
an adaption of a graphic novel about government and focuses on the effects on middle class home people.
Brothers Quay
influenced by europeon animation
surrealism
create nightmarish stop motion films
Sledge hammer
1986
mixture of animation styles and live action to create texture and feel to the music video.
Girls night out 1987
Animation
loud short film about the textures and feel of 'what a night out what the girls' is like
family dog 1987
wicked city 1987(japan)
Akira (1988)
an anime
promethus garden (1988)
a stop motion film that reads more like a crazy dream. shapes morph into new shape with no explanation or seamingly connections. there seems to be a focus on mutilations and faces emerging from nothing.
breakfast on the grass (1987)
the hill farm (1988)
done in a 2d sketchy animation style the hill farm shows the day to day life of a couple living on a farm and the sort of situations they have to deal with in a comical animated twist. it doesnt use dialogue which is great and funny an i like it. I feel as though the lack of dialogue allows the audience to read into the emotions of each character with their own emotions making each character instantly more relatable. its a trick that video games use when they implement a silent protagonist so the player can project their own world views onto the character and it makes the game feel more immersed. the artistic style feels fresh and honest it feels like a world that exists in a dry paper environment due to the dry nature of the mediums used. it provides an interesting view on how different people approach different scenarios and perceive situations differently. from people who are in an environment for a long time vs people who are experiencing those things for the first time.
provide an overview of the 1990s animation history covered in class
the simpsons USA 1990
Ren and stimpy USA 1991
Cartoon network
cartoon network purchased Hanna-Barbera in 1991 and in 1993 started creating such original animations
2 Stupid dogs 1993
The powerpuff girls 1995
Dexters Laboratory 1995
Johnny Bravo 1995
Batman the Animated series 1992
Bruce Timm relaunched the Batman character as a dark noir style. the style was inspired from Frank millers rendition of Batman in his comic "the Dark night returns"
Timm went on to produce the superman animated series.
Barry Purves UK
created this intricate stopmotion animation in the style of Japanese Kabuki theater. the animatoin went on to win many awards which is surprising due to the whole film being shot in his bedroom.
Jurassic Park 1993
steven spieberg created Jurassic park
Considering the documentary on jurrasic Park and the advancements made with combining CGI with live action, express your opinion in regards to the following questions-
Discuss a live action film where you feel the CGI detracted from the story
Scorpion king from the mummy returns.
animated Dwane the rock Johnson as a giant scorpion. nuff said. but the character looked plasticy and the movements didnt look natural at all.
Discuss a live action film where you feel the CGI was seamlessly integrated
James Camerons Avatar. created by the CGI magicians at Weta Studios this film in its year set the mark for how CGI can be integrated into a film with 90% of the film being CGI and it still being belieable.
Run Lola Run
Release date: 6 April 2000 (Dunedin)
Languages: English, German, Japanese
the story had some very interesting film techniques that flashed thorugh peoples timelines with interaction with lola showing a butterfly effect that her actions had effects on people lives.
there were a lot of repeating motifs
her scream
the blind lady
time clocks
heart beats
running
orange
death
i would recommend this film
1994 the tick
the critic
1994 duck man Everett peck
1994 the big story
1995 secret adventures of tom thumb
1995 the end of the world in four seasons (reference story boards)
this compilation of animations had a unique visual style and story telling approach. i think the method of story telling with multiple panels shown at the same time was confusing and may require multiple watches to fully understand what is going on in each section. the pacing was off for me and seemed kind of slow. i enjoyed the line work and traditional feel and the layout of the panels had their own element of appeal animation. I also thought the unique layout with panels sometimes crossing over into others opened up more avanues of possiblities in story telling expecially when the 3rd wall is broken and charcters move out side of the panels and break the rules of conventional story panels.
1995 Toy Story
Blair witch project
Release date: 9 December 1999 (New Zealand)
Budget: 60,000 USD
Box office: 248.6 million USD
this film played on a lot of fears that people have such as; being lost, being powerless, being hungry, being watched, being mutilated, being taken, being in the dark and probably quite a bit more. i think it did this effectively by not over blowing the production value and instead opting for a hand held found footage style that makes us feel as though we are watching clips from an event that actually happened as opposed to just going through the motions. it makes the footage feel legitimate.
Reservoir Dogs
Initial release: 2 September 1992 (France)
Budget: 1.2 million USD
Box office: 2.8 million USD
this film has a non linear storyline that sticks the characters in a main scene and then gives the audience information through flashbacks that changes your opinion on characters as the story develops. someone who you would really thought was telling the truth you would find out was lying and this would completely change the tone of the story. i think this movie pulls off this type of story telling very well.
the Watch Dog movie does the same non linear story telling to reveal the very human aspects of the superheros that we follow in the story.
Animation 1990s
two similar films came out the same year
A bugs life by Pixar
and
Antz by Dreamworks Animation
A bugs life did better but both films did well
Gorillaz the band
asthetic created by Jamie Hewlett the artist behind Tank girl
some popular cartoon series that arrose from 1999
asthetic created by Jamie Hewlett the artist behind Tank girl
some popular cartoon series that arrose from 1999
Futurama
FamilyGuy
Spongebob
The old man and the sea (1999)
made in the style of fingure painting to express the emotional states of the characters at particular points throughout the story. what i like about this approach is that the artist has full creative control of the meduim they handle. I say this opposed to the idea of creating a film shot where a building may be i in a spot that you didnt invision when doing the storyboarding because of this we just accept its presents and the filmers ultimate vision becomes obscured.
FamilyGuy
Spongebob
The old man and the sea (1999)
made in the style of fingure painting to express the emotional states of the characters at particular points throughout the story. what i like about this approach is that the artist has full creative control of the meduim they handle. I say this opposed to the idea of creating a film shot where a building may be i in a spot that you didnt invision when doing the storyboarding because of this we just accept its presents and the filmers ultimate vision becomes obscured.
The wolf man 1999
A short film by Tim Hope his story on face value is about a crazy man who connects with the idea of being a werewolf but if you consider what he is saying he is really wanting to be everything but he cant really express this idea quick enough to the viewer so by the end it just seems like he is throwing random ideas at the audience but it is a really simple idea of being everything and being ok with everything as well. I really like it because it is very textural with the way that he describes things such as when he talks to the moon, it is a very serine series of shots that contains the idea of what the moon is. we know the moon is spherical but Tim describes the moon as a bowl. a bowl is something we look down into and its convex walls lead our eyes into itself, he is falling into the face of the moon. "kiss my dusty lips" is something that the moon says, it is particularly
A Scanner Darkly
the rotoscoping was cool and keeped each scene interesting at a visual level. the story impact on me most with the idea of manipulation and what it means to be manipulated. is manipulation bad? is it wrong to build a narrative of what you perceive to be your life if it makes you happy. and does it work the other way, is it bad to be content with your life if it makes you sad, angry or depressed?
