Week 1

The Start of Film Project

For our first project talk this year, we were asked to recreate a room from a movie scene in a 3D space. The room had to be realistic and also povide the viewer with a screenshot from the movie matched up near perfectly to the recreated 3D space in Unreal Engine 4.

For this project we were split into groups and had to decide between us which movie to choose and specify which scene, alog with a screen shot from the movie to match the 3D scene.

My group went over many movies trying to decide which scene envviroments would make a more interesting scene. We were asked individually to create a list of 3 movies seperate from what the group chose.

My list included:

1) Inglourious Basterds, was my first pick. This is probably my favourite movie I could watch over and over. But particulaly the opening scene is my favourite, on a milk farmers country side cottage. This scene also offers a great view of the room from all sides through out.

2) Only God Forgives, is another one of my favourite movies. The movie is dark and full of deep thought with an amazing cinematographer. Set in Bangkok, the movie uses neon lights and colours through out. The scene i thought about wanting to recreate in a 3D space is within a strip club. A narrow room filled with bright neon and a stylised asthetic looked stunning. However limited view of the room could be problematic and also may have been too basic for the brief.

3) There Will be Blood, is my third choice as this film ust stands out to me as another one of my favourites. Mainly for Daniel Day-Lewis's portrail of Daniel Plainview. The scene i chose in this is at the end of the film, and the set is a wide open bowling alley built in Plainview's mansion. It is striking when you watch in the film as it shows such wealth,owned by morally 'poor' man. However, just like the Only God Forgives scene, it may be too basic for a whole group to recreate.

The group choice came down to the Movie, Kingsman: The Secret Service. The scene we chose occurs in a pub named the Black Prince. We all agreed that the seen has a good view of nearly all the walls and great assets we can model and recreate. I'm glad with the selection we came to as it is simple with a lot going on in the background.

composition lecture

Also during the week we were givn a lecture on the use of coposition in your work. Composition is how the picture is layed out. for example, the most basic tool to use is the rule of thirds.

Source: http://eyecaging.tumblr.com/post/17300075771/10-top-photography-composition-rules

We also learned about another method called The Classical Armature. This tool originated from the classical painters as the liked using geometry.

They would place the centre of a mass at the points where the lines meet, called power points.

critical studies

In critical studies we were told what was expected of us. We had to create a personal action plan and make a chart of my current skills, skills to work on, my goals and my resources.

For the next session, we are to write up the personal action plan and choose an image that inspires you and bring it to class next week.