Horizontal Composition
Image with foreground
Image with midground
Image framed by architecture
Focus/ depth of field for attention
Suggestion of movement
Screen direction
Use of empty or blank space
Point of view
Nose room
Headroom
Monday, February 20, 2012
Image Exercise 1, part 1 Redux
Vertical Composition
Horizontal Composition
Image with foreground
Image with midground
Image framed by architecture
Focus/ depth of field for attention
Suggestion of movement
Screen direction
Use of empty or blank space
Point of view
Nose room
Headroom
Horizontal Composition
Image with foreground
Image with midground
Image framed by architecture
Focus/ depth of field for attention
Suggestion of movement
Screen direction
Use of empty or blank space
Point of view
Nose room
Headroom
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Image Exercise 1, part 2
vertical composition
horizontal composition
focus/depth of field for attention
image with foreground
image with midground
image with background
A Hard Day's Night Response
A picture of the Beatles with Muhammad Ali pretending to be knocked out
The picture that I found from in life magazine showing the Beatles knocked out by Muhammad Ali the boxing ring reminded me of the many humorous moments in the film A Hard Day’s Night. I have a picture of the Beatles in the train car making weird faces at the grumpy old man and it has the same exact spirit that I feel a lot of magazines captured of the early Beatles with their fun loving and prankster attitudes.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Image Exercise 1, part 1
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Photo of Kubrick for Image Bank Assignment
Photograph of Stanley Kubrick by Dmitri Kasterine on the set of A Clockwork Orange (between 1970 and 1971)
Dmitri Kasterine is a photographer from England is most famous for the still photography he took of Kubrick on set during a string of three of his films. Kasterine had managed to capture a side of Kubrick that few got a chance to see as he was known as a recluse who shied away from the public spotlight that came along with the Hollywood world. I believe that photographs such as this one and others from Kasterine's collection help to shed some light on the man behind the camera that was Stanley Kubrick.
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Image Bank Assignment
Laboratory at Columbia University, 1948, Stanley Kubrick
The reason why I had decided to choose a photograph by Stanley Kubrick besides the fact that you mentioned it in class was because had never actually seen any of his photography. The man who made some of the most acclaimed movies of the 20th century started out as a seventeen year old photographer; it was certainly an interesting start and quick ascent into the film auteur we remember him as. To me his black and white movies always had a certain quality to them, as though they were shot with the eye of a photographer. Both Dr. Strangelove and Paths of Glory exhibit some excellent cinematography and I feel like finding his old photography really shows the beginning of his creative and artistic endeavors.
When I looked up his photography on the internet and found this specific photograph titled Laboratory at Columbia University I initially thought of peter sellers as doctor Strangelove. There is just something about the man in the photo that seems almost just eerie and haunting about him and too me that is something Kubrick has always had a knack for capturing. Also both shots feature two men with a very serious gaze and their eyes are covered by a dark pair of glasses that reflect an image that we cannot see. In my mind i can see photographs from this collection forming the visual aspect that would come to dominate his cinematic works.
Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, 1964, Stanley Kubrick
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Reaction to the Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The film portrays the movie from the point of view of the main character Jean-Dominique Bauby as he wakes up from a three week coma. He finds himself suffering from locked in syndrome and the only means of communicating to the world is through blinking his one eye to spell out works one letter at a time. I have yet to finish watching this movie so I am not quite sure how it ends but I have added it to my list of movies to purchase from Amazon. After watching the first half in class I could not highly recommend this movie enough to my friend as I told him about how the look and feel of the movie really stood out to me. The movie was really shot with the eye of an artist as a lot of the cinematography is simply beautiful and the way they shot the movie through the eye of the main character make it very unsettling as though I was experiencing everything he was vicariously.
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