Group Project 1

Group Project 1
Fight Club music change

Group Project 2

Group Project 2

Exercise 1, Part 2

Horizontal

 Vertical 

 Midground

 Headroom

Nose room 

Descriptive Writing Team Exercise, Pt. 2

The church is on the last corner before the kids of the down scream their way to the candy store. Next door to the church is the animal hospital. That is where hose wives go to get their toy dogs healed from whatever ailment they have. The women are tugged around left and right by ten pound dogs that think they are the boss. There is always too much action around the church between the kids yelling and the dogs barking back. Some people aren't even aware there is a church due to its flat bland exterior of off white color. One woman is dressed in heels as she lets her dog sniff around the church lawn, waiting impatiently. She looks like the kind of woman who has some arrogance about her and expects everyone to work for her. Her lip gloss shone is the sun as brightly as her bedazzled outfit did. Between the dogs barking, the kids yelling and all of the other noise pollution it felt like when you are trying to work and someone is tapping their pen. The woman who was walking her dog started the engine of her exotic chromed vehicle as her dog surely was scratching the leather interior with its tiny claws. She screeched away obnoxiously not being able to handle the power. The car's engine added to the already noise polluted air with some audible fumes of its own. The smells of spring were in the air and it only signaled a high energy and high tension season.

 

Descriptive Writing Team Exercise

The Church is just on the edge of town on the corner.  After school it is the last corner kids round before the final stretch to get candy and pizza.  Directly next door there is an animal hospital and dogs pay their respect to the church by relieving themselves on the surrounding curbs.  Between the dogs and the children, there is always a warm feeling surrounding the church no matter how cold it is outside.  Mostly people pass by without noticing the church at all due to its lack of a steeple.  Classy suburban mothers gossip while pushing their children in large strollers fit for off-roading.  Dogs yank their owners around as they find the perfect bit of grass, unfazed by the large cone wrapped around their necks.  Dogs barks echo and mix with kids happy cries for junk food.  Cars engines rev and ATMs beep as adults leave the town center as if to avoid the apocalypse.  Birds chirp and wiz by, returning back after winter.  The palm leaves on the front of the church doors quiver as man starts the engine of his exotic car.  The car bursts to life after being still and quiet for so long.  Just the sound of the engine suggests wealth and power.  The car  shouts "look at me!" as it speeds off.  A slight smell of burnt rubber from the car and spring air signify the perfect start to better weather.  The smells in the air of grass trigger memories of what you hope the summer will be like.  The odors of fun and relaxation are almost strong enough to want to go to the shore.   

Lighting Director Question

            I would disagree with the LD.  I think that there should be flat lighting for the makeup comercial.  Face cream is suposed to make your face look nice, but if you can only see half of the face than you cannot see the full potential of the product.  I think that if the entire face was lighted than the consumer could see exactly what the product can do for them.  Even though the fast falloff could add drama to the commercial I think flat lighting would display the product better.

Exercise One, Part One

Vertical

1

Photo Credit: James Mollison

Horizontal 

2

Photo Credit James Mollison

Midground

3

Photo Credit James Mollison

Foreground

4

Photo Credit James Mollison

Head Room

5

Photo Credit James Mollison

Nose Room

6

Photo Credit James Mollison

Framed by Architecture

7

Photo Credit James Mollison

Point of View

8

Photo Credit James Mollison

 

Suggestion of Movement

9

 Photo Credit Werner Schnell  February 15th 2013

 

Background 

10

 

 Photo Credit Werner Schnell  February 17th, 2013

 

 

 

Photographer Bio Assignment

Biography 

           James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 until he was five years old.  He then grew up in England.  He studied Art and Design at Oxford Brookes University, and then studied film and photography at Newport School of Art and Design.  After that moved to Italy to work at Benetton’s creative lab, "Fabrica." Since August 2011 James Mollison has been working in the position of creative editor on "Colors Magazine."  In 2009 he won the Royal Photographic Society’s Vic Odden Award for notable achievement in the art of photography by a British photographer aged 35 or under.  His work has been published throughout the world.  Publishers include: Colors, The New York Times Magazine, the Guardian magazine, The Paris Review, GQ, New York Magazine and Le Monde.  His latest book" Where Children Sleep" was published in November of 2010.  The book is about children all around the world, told through portraits and pictures of their bedroom.  His third book, "Disciples" was published in 2008.  It is in a panoramic format.  It contains portraits of music fans photographed before and after concerts.  In 2007 James published "The Memory of Pablo Escobar."  This book tells the extraordinary story of ‘the richest and most violent gangster in history’ told by hundreds of photographs gathered by Mollison.  It was the follow-up to his work on the great apes, it is widely seen as an exhibition.  It was included at the Natural History Museum, London, and in the book James and Other Apes (Chris Boot, 2004).  Mollison currently lives in Venice with his wife and son.

Why I selected James Mollison

           I selected James Mollison as my photographer because I really liked the book he created called "James & Other Apes."  He said that he noticed that people didn't view monkeys as individuals and he thought it would be interesting to take portraits of them and turn them into individuals.  I really liked the concept.  I also really like the concept behind his book named "Where Children Sleep."  It was very interesting to see how the portrait somewhat reflected what their bedroom was like.  Some children were very spoiled and some were very poor.  I like how he documents more than just the moment of the picture, like journalistic pictures sometimes can.  He documents the person in the picture and the personality or life behind it\

James Mollison

Creative Review, September 2010

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A Page from his book "Where Children Sleep" 

James Mollison

The Diving Bell and the Buterfly

I only saw half of this movie, but I enjoyed what I saw of it.  I really liked how real it seemed when you were looking through the main characters eye.  When he shut his eye, the eyelid looked very real because of the way the light shone through it and made it glow red.  I was always annoyed in movie when a character would fall asleep and their first person eyelids would just look like two black pieces of paper blocking the lens.  Having the main character's eyelid constantly going over the lens added some action to scenes that might be more motionless without that.  Considering that is the only body part he could move.  I think the first person view was really different than anything I have seen before and I liked the narration went with it.