Media and Design

 Collage is a technique that can be called mixed-media art. The term collage originate from the French term papers collés - that means used to describe techniques of pasting paper cuts in different/ various surfaces/places. In collage technique, imagination is limitless. Normally, what we didn’t see in our world by together, we have a chance to put together/ put side by side by making collage. Collage is not only include papers, it can also include other medias such as painting, drawing, digital collage and three dimensional elements. While you creating your own collage, the content is up to you, in other words, you could criticize something in it, or you can express the idea in directly or creating very abstract way. The way you tell a story is what is in your own mind. Therefore, I like the collage technique because I make my own rules. I don’t have to put myself any obligation or rules. Normally, every pieces that you put together has a deep meaning in it. However...

What we covered in this week is about experimental film that is also called avant-garde cinema. Experimental film usually re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explain the subject bu using different kinds of approach to display audience. Experimental films are usually made cheaply with low budgets. Generally, experimental film doesn’t reach many people and these kinds of films are not having a broad influence on people. Additionally, these kinds of films explain the subject in a different approach and it makes many time to understand hard. It contains so much metaphoric meanings/things and sometimes it is getting hard to follow narrative of the film. However, experimental film makes people to think and understand. Even if it is hard to understand, most of the time it is subjective. There are no one truth. What you understand or what you get in the idea, it is true for your perspective. It is different, unique. People experience what they haven’t been traditionally explored b...

Every time we watched film, most of the time we don’t consider sound in terms of how these sounds make it by people. In sci-fi films or action films, they are many different kinds of sounds which should be made by people by using different types of approach. It is called foley. People get in a sound studio and they made sounds by using different things. For example, many scene of people stab each other, these sound   usually made by using lettuces and knife. Every time in film people stab each other, a person who sound maker in studio, stab the lettuce and reach same sound what they want to approach. It should be synchronous . The   film called Berberian Sound Studio (2012) which is directed by Peter Strickland, we watched in COMD207 and I have first time watched these kinds of film.The way film was edited, the way they showed how to make sound is interesting for me. I have never before seen and also think about how sound made it in film so, the way they reach...

In this week, we covered the lecture about montage and also use of transitions in the movie. In order to put together videos side by side, montage is the most important step to create watchable movies for audience. As we watched the most terrible movie in the classroom, we also recognized importance of the montage in movie. For example, even if we shot whole car travel by camera, we cant use all the road scene at the same time. Audience get bored while they are watching the movie. The first important rule for filmmaker is that not bored people, make curiosity. This makes audience full concentration in movie. So, at that time, we use montage. Montage makes films dynamic. Morever, if selection of music matches with the movie tempo, also it makes more dynamic. Audiences also feel like they are in movie. The way using music makes people sad, happy, nervous etc.   The another important part is using transition in movies. While watching a movie, we try to make connection be...

In this week, we covered a lecture about mise-en-scene, props, costumes, lightening. These are important and also necessary aspects to create a movie. These are made a movie look more great   . Set design, costumes give clues what movie is about. Every topic needs to have connection with subject/genre so audience understand by looking at image.   In this week, we   also watched first episode of Legion, which was about a man with schizophrenia and also his extraordinary power. David hears weird sounds in his mind and when he hears these sounds, it is also connected with creature which is called devil with a yellow eyes. Addition to this, these weird sounds in his mind refer to there is a negative situation and that negative situation   usually creates another huge disaster. He control things with his mind and when he feels negatively and start to hear sounds, everything is going to explode everywhere. When he feels like that in the episode, it is also co...

In this week, we learned knowledge about lightening which is one of the most important aspects in the movie, video clip, photography etc. Light changes everything in shot, depends on angles, it can give emotional atmosphere or dark feeling or give any emotions. There are many types of light technique that gives have a chance to reach any of feeling in the video or photograph. In the lighting workshop, while we were creating the set, the most I like is that using red, green and blue colours in the photographs. I like creating silhouette and low key lighting. It was enjoyable class hours to spend our time because studio gives us to understand more about lighting compare to the classical powerpoint lecture.   Lighting is everything because in the movie or video clip, even if your framings, sounds are good, when your lighting is not matching with the idea of what you want to give message of this shot, your whole work could be in trash. Therefore, lighting setting is...

Alice in Wonderland is written by Lewis Carroll in 1865. The book is about a girl named Alice falling through a hole into a fantasy world and what she face with different creatures in that place. Even if Lewis Carroll created book for children also adults are interested in this tale. He didn’t know how his story become so popular for many years later. Now, his story have been the subject of adaptations and also they have been transformed into new forms of media. In the story, it has so much imaginative characters, they can talks, sings etc. so, this absurd nature of Wonderland also gives the producers and film making sectors to present their imagination in a unique ways. When I was a child, I watched cartoon version of this story and I enjoyed it because the story itself has broad imagination.  Walt Disney Pictures presented the movie by Tim Burton. Tim Burton has a characteristic style in his whole films and I really curious about before the fil...