#expecting the audience to have a really solid base under them re: their ability to engage with complicated films

[dandeyrain]

i've been rotating the "this doesn't make any sense!" response to boy and the heron in my head and i wonder how much of it comes down to like...the kind of audience that engages with ghibli movies vs the kind of audience that mostly only engages with weird art movies vs the kind of audience that only really engages with blockbusters and marvel movies, and the overlap of those groups in the theater.

because, like, the boy and the heron is far and away more straightforward, from a plot perspective, than a lot of other Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies i've seen and love, but it IS a Weird Extremely Personal Art Movie even so. usually the only people seeing Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies, especially in theaters, are people who like that and expect that and have seen those types of films before and are therefore capable of engaging with them even when things aren't as clear as they'd be in an average blockbuster flick. like, nobody who only cares about Cinema to the extent of marvel movies and MAYBE john wick is going to see beau is afraid, and if they did they wouldn't have the tools to engage with such a dream-logicy movie. it would just be a weird thing that doesnt make sense to them, at least until they worked their media engagement muscles with other weird films. there's a lot of self-selection to the kind of person who usually sees these kind of movies.

while boy and the heron is weirder and more complex than a lot of other ghibli movies, as far as weird art films go it is incredibly, INCREDIBLY straightfoward. every weird plot point is explained very clearly to the audience, very little is up for interpretation from a strictly "what was the plot" point of view. boy loses mother. father remarries and moves the family. boy struggles to contend with grief. boy is pulled into a magical world by an old man who wants to use him. time is weird and fucked up in the magical world, but the movie is going to go out of it's way to highlight who's who and make it clear how the time travel works and the characters' relations to one another. the boy refuses to take over the magical world because he wants to live in the real world with the real people he loves. boy leaves the magical world having learned an important lesson about moving on. but the boy and the heron trusts its audience, doesn't handhold, and expects the audience to engage seriously and with focus to its plot and characters and stories.

a lot of people never watch movies like that! a lot of people are used to uncomplicated superhero movies and romcoms and that's it. the difference is that those people were never going to see beau is afraid, so the discussion about that movie instead comes from people who have the tools to engage with it. but because of the aesthetic-ification of ghibli, a lot of people who don't Do art films but are really into the aesthetics of cute little guys and girls in pretty dresses went to this art film and were confused that it was weird and dream-like and dark and strange and requires more of its audience than just passively watching.

anyway there's nothing wrong with not having the muscles to engage with weird art films, though i do think everyone should challenge themselves with the kind of stuff they watch. there's nothing wrong with preferring simple straightforward uncomplicated plotlines. but it is really interesting seeing people talk about the movie like it's insanely weird and doesnt make any sense meanwhile me and the friends i've chatted with about who DO have experience with this kind of film all feel insane because the movie is SO clear and SO straightforward by the standards we're used to. its just a neat crossover re: the kinds of movie fans that exist

#rain speaking! #does this make sense #its like if this was a live action more or even an animated movie from another studio half this audience would never engage with it because #it is on its face a weird strange art movie about the director working thru smth #but ghibli is as much an Aesthetic (a highly simplified 'cozy' and uncomplicated aesthetic that has very little to do #with the kinds of films ghibli actually makes) as it is a studio so a lot of ppl whod otherwise never touch this type of work #are going to be in theaters for it #WHICH IS GOOD!! i hope watching it inspires those folks to engage w more weird shit #sorry for the beau is afraid comparison they rly have very little in common it was just the first thing that came to me #when i was thinking abt other weird highly personal art films made by directors who are clearly #expecting the audience to have a really solid base under them re: their ability to engage with complicated films #boy and the heron spoilers /

[stillness-in-green]

I felt like the plf war was rushed

1.Plf advisors getting hype but no payoff

2.Only miruko, Momo, and Kirishma got time to shine

3.Machia got defeated to easily

4.The war felt more like a raid

I don't know if I feel like it was rushed, per se--it's by far the longest arc in the story so far by number of chapters, and would be even if you cut off the Tartarus jailbreak and the entirety of the hospital aftermath. What it absolutely does feel like to me is unbalanced.

You note that the "war" feels more like a raid, and you're right. As a caveat, it's worth keeping in mind that "Paranormal Liberation War" as a name for the arc in question is entirely an invention of the fanbase. To the best of my knowledge, the reasoning for the name was that big action shonen series like BNHA (Naruto, Bleach, Hunter x Hunter, etc) always have a war arc, so what we were seeing in the lengthy, mass combat confrontation with the PLF had to be HeroAca's equivalent. It's not a term that's in the manga itself, however, not called as such by the characters, not referred to as such by Horikoshi or his editors, not even namedropped in chapter or volume titles. If it feels like a raid, that's probably because that's what it was intended to be.

And that's the problem, really. This arc shouldn't have been about a couple of raids; it should have been about a war.

(Below the cut: a bunch of fired-up complaining. Uses some harsh language, and talks about both injuries and deaths we did see and some we logically should have.)

From the outset, we were told that the resources Shigaraki had amassed were "on par with, or even stronger than" the resources of the hero-saturated society. Yet, we're expected to believe that a force that strong is so easily taken down by a single coordinated set of raids? Yes, the heroes had the benefit of surprise, but there's just so much that doesn't work for me.

First off, and to get this out of the way, it's ridiculous that the heroes even had the benefit of surprise. The MLA had an unknown number of hero double agents. They had people in the government; they had people in the infrastructure. This is an organization that had been living undercover completely unsuspected for multiple generations--how did the HPSC ever manage to carry out a massive, country-wide investigation on such a secretive group and coordinate multiple simultaneous, comprehensive raids without a single person finding out and alerting the higher-ups over a period of only three and a half months?

When exactly did Hawks have time to go and revive Best Jeanist--which he tells us he did personally--such that none of the bugs and micro-cameras he was covered with picked up on it, and both he and BJ could be back in the positions they needed to be in for the raid to begin?

How did Skeptic find out about the raid such that he only discovered it at the last possible second and not minutes, even hours, before it kicked off? How did hundreds of heroes (and even "hundreds" is being conservative, given the fact that they had seventeen thousand people to detain) close in on the villa without anyone from the PLF noticing, either Skeptic with his information network or mundane precautions like people on watch?

Even granting the heroes their surprise advantage--which I don't want to--if the advisors were all supposedly "stronger than the average hero," why didn't we see any of them winning? Okay, yes, Hose Face beat Midnight, but he had every possible advantage in that "fight"; I hardly count it as some big impressive defeat that shows us that the villains were holding their own.

Here's another thing: the MLA styled themselves as an army--they were demonstrably trained in troop tactics. When we saw them in Deika, even their nameless on-the-ground people were capable of coordinating with each other on the fly in response to the movements of the enemy, as we saw come up repeatedly:

Yeah, they were off-guard at first, but as soon as the advisors made the front line (which, you'll note, was immediately), that disadvantage really should have begun eroding. Certainly once Geten--Geten! The number one MLA member most willing to disregard collateral damage! And there he was being a proper leader!--got to the front and started yelling orders, we should have seen the PLF rallying, and I can't imagine any sensible justification for the tides not turning when a) Re-Destro showed up to occupy the highest-ranked hero on the field, b) a bunch of heroes peeled off to try to stop Machia only to get trampled for their efforts, and c) Trumpet got dug out.

You know who don't style themselves as an army, though? Heroes. Oh, they get some basic lessons in cooperation as students, but the extent of such lessons we see is stuff like "why it's important for heroes to have signature moves"--so that on group missions, their reputations will precede them and fellow heroes will already know their shtick. U.A. teaches the odd lesson plan that involves the kids fighting in groups, but there's a huge difference between you and 3 to 6 of your buddies fighting a similarly-sized group in a practice fight, or a handful of heroes teaming up to take down some criminal low-lives, and the mass combat scenario that was the raid. For heaven's sake, look at our closest other equivalent: the raid on the Hassaikai base. At every turn in that encounter, the heroes let themselves get split up and picked off, winnowing down their numbers. It's even explicit in the narrative that hero team-ups were, in the age of All Might, uncommon, and heroes are only just beginning to adjust to fighting in teams. The erstwhile MLA should have had the advantage there.

As to Machia's defeat, I think the big problem with it is not how it happened, per se, but the timescale involved. The plan itself was sound enough, and even with all the kids' efforts, it still took Machia reaching Shigaraki and not getting any new orders to follow to really do him in. Given what we can extrapolate about his movement speed, though, I just don't think the kids should have had time to set all those traps, especially given how much of that equipment would have had to be fabricated by Momo on the fly. I know she's gotten stronger and all, and good for her, but you're telling me that in the four months between Joint Training and the raid, she went from passing out because she created a bag of goodies and one (1) cannon to being totally fine and still able to coordinate her fellow students while cranking out 23 jars of sedative, dozens of feet of rope/cable, multiple fire-resistant coats, explosives they somehow had time to bury, and three cannons?

For fuck's sake, Jirou gave Machia's ETA as under ten seconds. Yeah, Mount Lady slowed him down, but "only a little"--how much time could she possibly have bought them, that the kids were able to to coordinate and enact everything that plan involved?

You guys, go read this post by @codenamesazanka. Machia is so fast. So unbelievably, incredibly fast. "Twice as fast as the fastest train in the world" fast. "Horikoshi clearly did not stop to think about the distances involved here" fast. Three miles in ten seconds fast. It would have been hard enough to square with the needs of the plot that the kids were sufficiently far from the villa to have the kind of time they needed to swing Momo's plan at all, but Horikoshi explicitly letting Machia get right on top of them before the kids even start just makes it completely impossible for me to credit. Machia clearly being slower aboveground than he is when burrowing does not make that much difference to my suspension of disbelief.

My other big complaint? More people should have died, for real. The PLF warriors would not have been holding back. They were ready and willing to kill anyone they came up against. The heroes did have to hold back, because heroes, as we're told over and over again, are not supposed to kill, no matter how dire the circumstances. That difference in ability to exercise force should have been yet another significant advantage for the PLF. I could write an entire list of characters that I think could have reasonably been killed during the raids. That wouldn't be to say that I think any individual, specific character on that list should have died, just that, based on the parameters as they were presented to audience, some number of them should have.

I mean, honestly. How did Horikoshi wanna show us Gang Orca's unmoving claw in the wake of Machia's passage and not have Gang Orca on the list of the dead? How did Fat Gun run right into a mass melee and still have enough fat left over afterward to survive getting trampled by a walking mountain? How did Thirteen survive not getting pulled out of the hospital basement when Shigaraki's Decay hit? How did Trumpet survive getting a staircase dropped on top of him? How did Gran Torino survive a fist through his tiny old man chest cavity?

I could go on and on, but it's not just about the deaths, either. I'm not saying that Kamui Woods necessarily should have died by swinging himself face-first into a blast of blue fire, but I am saying that he should have been out of commission for longer than three goddamn days. You bet your ass I'm saying that after telling us that Hawks' weak point is fire, making us watch him spend at a solid minute or more with his wings wholly enveloped in Dabi's 2000 degree flames, and having Dark Shadow exclaim that his back is completely burned away, Hawks should never have grown his wings back, much less so quickly that they were already visible under his shirt a single day later.

More deaths, more maiming--heck, even more retirements. I'm not saying I love that kind of thing in my fiction--I don't, actually. I think an overreliance on it is a sign of edgelordy nonsense. But the scenario that we had demanded to be treated with the kind of gravity that would have led to such an outcome. To set up a conflict like the raid and have the villains only barely be able to scrape a partial escape, to try to tell us that Shigaraki's victory in Deika granted him such a terrifyingly powerful force only to have them lose every battle they got into, to tell us this was a blow that shook Hero Society to its core, only to be so unwilling to kill or retire any heroes the audience cares about that Midnight is literally the only significant loss… It doesn't work. None of it works.

I don't have much to say on which characters did or didn't get a highlight. I think there were a few more people than you listed that got some good scenes--Tokoyami and Uraraka both got material I liked quite a bit; Dabi famously out-trended the U.S. presidential election on Twitter when he (literally) came clean, and Mr. Compress gave us some wonderfully interesting and characteristically opaque material to chew on. On the whole, though, adding more character moments would only have been dragging out the problem: the scale of the PLF's threat and the HPSC's chosen method of dealing with it are simply incompatible with the feeble "neither side truly won or lost" resolution we got.

And that's my rant on that--thanks for the ask!

#and yet #i still hate it less than the shitshow that went down with lady n and overhaul #inkbuckets #paranormal liberation front #meta liberation army #bnha #stillness has salt #stillness answers

[indiehousefilmfestival]

“5 Great Movie Fights From the Past Ten Years” by Nathan Shepka

Having been a massive action movie fan for as long as I can remember, I’ve just about seen it all. Okay, I’ve seen nowhere near it all, that would be nearly impossible. But I’ve seen my fair share of the cream of the crop (movies like Die Hard, Rambo and Hard Boiled) and I’ve seen the absolute lowest of the low, the bottom of the barrel.

For that reason alone I think it makes me a pretty good judge of on-screen scuffles. Again, I’ve seen loads. From Bruce Lee to Van Damme and everything in between. I appreciate a great punch-up, whether that be full blown brawling ala Hard Times (Charles Bronson) or wrist snappingly brutal martial arts fights ala Hard to Kill (Steven Seagal).

Here we’re going to look at some stellar fight scenes from the last decade. In a time of overblown superhero movies it’s sort of slim-pickins’ in terms of real, old fashioned hand-to-hand fight scenes, especially compared to the 80’s and 90’s for example when actors like Van Damme, Seagal, Norris, Stallone, Schwarzenegger and many more were at their peak.

Hence why some of the fights mentioned below either come from instant cult classic foreign films or sometimes from direct-to-video diamonds in the rough. These are by no means the cream of the crop but are just some of my favourite fight scenes in terms of being really impressed upon first and subsequent viewings.

Fast Five – Vin Diesel vs The Rock

Let’s start with a nice easy one. You have Vin Diesel, cornerstone of increasingly ridiculous action franchise ‘Fast & Furious’, you have the introduction of hulking wrestler Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnston to the franchise. This surely has to make for a good skirmish.

Not famous for their intricate aikido moves or graceful high kicks, this fight relies more on cracking each other across the face with punches powerful enough to level buildings. It’s not ground-breaking by any means but it’s exciting to see the two shaven-headed bulls duke it out.

The fight is a lean 2 and a half minutes, not dragging itself into the realms of audience boredom whilst keeping it trim enough to leave the viewers wanting more. This grapple-fest ranks above the slightly skimpy Rock vs Statham battle in Furious 7 that marginally suffered from typical Hollywood editing farts and slightly uninspiring choreography despite featuring some unusually artistic camera movements.

The Rock and Diesel bulldozing through the set like it’s a china shop is reminiscent of Van Damme and Lundgren’s breeze block filled re-match in the belated Universal Soldier: Regeneration and it serves as a memorable scene in a movie that’s already filled with ludicrous stunts and physical feats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQEfEeBR3-M

Skin Trade – Dolph Lundgren vs Tony Jaa

A movie that was criminally never released on DVD in the UK and that arguably would have made a killing in terms of the casual action fan enthusiast, (given that the cast includes B-movie legends Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Michael Jai White, Ron Perlman and Peter Weller), Skin Trade features some exceptionally strong martial arts battles.

With a cast like this, you'd expect that to be the case but when you consider the budget of the film and presumably the limitations it had in comparison with a 200 million dollar Fast & Furious entry for example, you'd be forgiven for anticipating underwhelming ‘X vs Y’ fights, a bit like The Expendables franchise has unfortunately produced.

However, Skin Trade really does pull out all the stops in terms of fights and Dolph's battle with Asian action puppet Tony Jaa impresses due to its shrewd combination of the lumbering Lundgren relying on brute strength and nimble Jaa flying around like a praying mantis. A superbly lit location, lengthy punch-up and the best of American and Asian choreography make this one to watch. It totally trumps Dolph's strategically similar battle with Jet Li in The Expendables and Jaa's initial fight with Paul Walker in Furious 7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiKDAGrjuBE

 Hunt to Kill – Steve Austin vs Gary Daniels

A little-known movie starring Steve Austin, Hunt to Kill’s generic plot involving a border patrol agent (Austin), stolen money and a band of thieves scrambling through the woods doesn’t exactly set the heather on fire. Additionally, an appearance from Eric Roberts and a sulky teenage daughter in peril help to cement this solidly in ‘cliched action schlock’ territory.

Despite this, it’s directed with competence by long-time Seagal collaborator Keoni Waxman and the action is well-shot enough to put this a notch above where it should be, serving as a passable Saturday night 90-minutes with a crate of beer.

The typically handy henchman comes in the form of B-movie icon Gary Daniels who has fought a plethora of action guys in often under-baked fights including his short-lived, one-sided scrap with Seagal in Submerged, choppy brawl with Statham and Li in The Expendables and repetitive rumble with a sleepy Snipes in Game of Death (not a remake of the posthumously released Bruce Lee flick by any means).

Here he fights a clunky Steve Austin, who throws his big meaty fists around with the agility of a battle tank; but Gary Daniels’s best high kicking, Austin’s ability to take a hit and a satisfyingly mean end for said henchman make this a welcome 3-minutes in an otherwise pedestrian action flick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHzcL487dX8  (excuse the German dubbing!)

Parker – Jason Statham vs Daniel Bernhardt

The next entry features another B-movie bad guy who has made a career out of playing the sneering henchman. Daniel Bernhardt has challenged action icons Chuck Norris in The Cutter, Keanu Reeves in John Wick and Jean-Claude Van Damme in soon to be released Kill ‘Em All. But here, he’s fighting the Stath in what is one of the least memorable movies of Jason’s career.

However, there are a few standout moments in this largely forgettable crime thriller that sees Statham play Parker, (the same character Mel Gibson’s role in Payback was based on) and his fight with Bernhardt is one of them, coming out of nowhere with pacey aplomb. The other is Jennifer Lopez doing a bit of a sly striptease.

This fight earns extra points for sheer brutality, and just when you think it’s over it hits the gas one more time. After smashing each other into everything in sight in a high-rise apartment, utilising the television, the shower curtain and even the toilet cistern, the fight ends with them baying around out on the balcony and Statham enduring a painful self-inflicted knife wound in order to save himself. If the conclusion of the fight doesn’t leave you wincing a little, you’re probably the devil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHFZGDFdovU

The Raid – Yayan Ruhian vs Iko Uwais & Doni Alamsyah

Insane on every level, this brings back memories of both Bruce Lee and early Jackie Chan chop-socky slugs but with added punch, uber-violent dynamic and a sense of tension and panic arguably never reached before by any on-screen martial arts bout.

Asian action triumph The Raid is excellent as a whole but the final two on one battle featuring terrifyingly agile villain ‘Mad Dog’ is the ultimate final gift of an already jam-packed spectacle. Lasting an entire 5 and a half minutes and set in a minimally dressed room, so grey that it blends with the actors’ clothing, it impresses without the use of extravagant or contrived props or gadgets.

No, it’s just a solid flow of hundreds of perfectly timed hits, barrages of genuinely painful looking landings and editing fluid enough to keep your eyes focused on the fight without having to dissect a collage of murky choppy cuts ala the Bourne franchise, to figure out what’s going on.

The last time I witnessed such a high-stakes two on one battle was Mel Gibson and Danny Glover duking it out with the lightning-fast Jet Li in Lethal Weapon 4, in a fight that was both as violent as the original movie and made the audience fear for the charaters’ lives thanks to a flawless portrayal of the bad guy’s skills.

Here is no different and upon first watch I was on the edge of my seat and borderline hollering at the TV for the good guys to win. They just can’t keep Mad Dog down, every time you think they have the upper hand it is snatched away from them and that’s what makes for such a thrilling battle.

To make a good fight, you have to make it look like the underdogs are going to lose, so that the win is much more of a relief and it’s a major relief when the two heroes finally stop taking a pummelling from determined, relentless Mad Dog. Sometimes it’s as much about the narrative or the stakes as the technical ability itself. The Raid final fight has both. Outstanding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpQNSW3S5Dg

#Indie #House #Film #Festival #Nathan Shepka #Fast #and #Furious #The Raid #Fight #Movie

[sw0lleneyesthefuture]

Research

What ideas and inspiration did you get from your research?

From my research, I was inspired to colour block the background and combine different graphic styles. I knew that I wanted a basic style for my illustrations since I’m just a beginner. I was also inspired to try shading and highlights because I wanted to develop my drawing skills instead of just drawing lines and colouring them in with one solid colour.

What ideas and inspiration did you get from the world around you?

I was heavily inspired from the environment around me. My pieces are based off litter on the beach and marine waste and how it affects the marine life and even humans.

How did your research influence the development of your project work?

Finding different photographers who include bight colours and colour schemes in their images inspired my own choices. I didn’t have a particular scheme but I wanted to keep to bright colours.

Do you think you researched widely enough or in enough depth?

I always think I could do more research but I tried to go more in depth this time by adding facts about marine waste and looking into articles.

Concept

What is your work about?

My work is about marine waste and how it affects marine life and how it ends up being consumed in small amounts by humans.

How did your ideas develop and change?

I had a very clear vision in my head about what I wanted to do so not much changed apart from changing colours in my illustrations as I went along. Such as adding gradients and altering the background colours.

How well did the work you produced communicate the ideas behind your project?

I think it communicated the ideas behind my project very well. My message is very clear in my illustrations.

Core Skills

What English and Maths skills did you use/improve with your project work or photography skills?

I’ve used English throughout my blog work when doing research and writing captions for my posts. I used maths when I was finding out my carbon footprint and interpreted my dath that was produced.

Technique

What new techniques (eg. Camera work or photoshop) did you learn/experiment with?

My whole project is full of new techniques. A few examples are stop motion, time lapse, editing in premiere, illustration as a whole and HDR photography.

Did you push yourself to try new things?

I did push myself very hard to try new things.

Character Development

Comment on what you learnt about yourself and where you think you have developed/used your abilities in terms of the categories on the character matrix below:

RESPECT Understand respect (Taking care of others 11) Understand professionalism (Taking care of others 11) COMMUNICATION Understand views and how to contribute (Taking care of yourself 9) DRIVE Understand motivation and engagement Understand barriers and how to overcome them (Taking care of yourself 4) RESPONSIBILITY Understand responsibilities as a person and as a student.   (Taking care of yourself 9) Understand personal voice and freedom of speech.  (Law and State 1) PEOPLE Understand why we work with others to achieve goals (Employability 6) GRIT Understand pressures and expectations of being a student How to meet deadlines, manage time and understand consequences (Taking care of yourself 4)

Include:

How did the assignment help you develop yourself (e.g. Respect, Communication, People)

The assignment helped me develop my respect because now I am more aware of respecting the environment and how everything I do affects the world around me. I developed my communication because when presented with the brief I had to understand what the client wanted and listen to them and their needs. I understand my responsibilities too. Everything I do I am responsible for, such as littering, not turning lights and electrical devices off, taking transport when I could just walk somewhere. I understand why we work with others to achieve goals. I worked with the devon wildlife trust to produce illustrations about the environment and bring awareness to issues around marine littering. I kept myself under pressure to push myself because if I don’t have any pressure I tend not to do my work to the maximum potential and slack off a bit.

How well did you manage your stress levels?

I managed my stress levels well. I tried to stick to my plan so I wouldn’t go off and do something that wasn’t relevant and waste my time.

How well do you think you did in terms of: meeting deadlines, time management, punctuality, attendance?

I kept to my time plan even though I missed a couple of days but even then I tried to do some research. I’ve met all the deadlines and produced my work for when I needed it.

How much effort did you put into your work?

I put a lot of effort into my illustrations but I will admit that I didn’t put as much effort into my blog but that is because I wanted to be proud of my illustrations since I had never done it before and I am used to doing blog work now so it is becoming more natural and I’m improving it and developing it every project.

Did you take care and pride in the presentation of your work?

I did keep pride and care in the presentation of my work. I always try and keep it to the same format to keep it consistent and clear.

What challenges did you face? how did you overcome them? What did you learn from them?

I only really had two challenges. The first being that my first attempt at a panorama didn’t work because I didn’t take enough photos and they didn’t stitch together smoothly so to overcome this I re-shot in a different location and this time it worked and I learned from my mistakes.

The second challenge was actually choosing the right colours for my first illustration. I changed the colour of the ice cream and in turn the tentacles of the octopus got lost since it blended in so I just coloured it in a differently.

Professionalism

Did you learn anything about how to work professionally in the creative industries from this assignment?

I learned how to take information from a client and follow what they wanted. With the Devon wildlife trust we had a very open brief and only needed to produce something about marine life.

Working With The Brief

How does the work you produced meet the client brief? Did you consider their target audience?

I think my work that I’ve produced does meet the client brief since it is about marine life and waste. I tried to make my work for everyone. It is easily understood and I thought the bright colours would attract everyones eyes.

How does your work promote messages around sustainability?

I chose the devon wildlife trust not regen south west so it doesn’t relate to sustainability but it brings up issues about marine waste and how it affects the animals.

How easy did you find the brief? What were the challenges?

I found the brief very easy since it was extremely open and I could do whatever I wanted basically as long as it fitted with marine life and waste and being awareness to the issues.

Enjoyment/engagement

What aspects of the work did you enjoy/not enjoy?

I enjoyed all of the work since all of this project was experimenting with new techniques. I liked all of the work that was produced.

How well did you engage with the project and what helped you to/prevented you from engaging with the project?

I think this project I was the most engaged with since there was a lot to research and learn about. Nothing stopped me from engaging. I found it very interesting and informal.

High Points and Low Points

Overall, what are you most proud of? What are you least proud of?

I’m most proud of my final images since I put a lot of effort into them. I’d say I’m least proud of my HDR photo since it isn’t that contrasted to me but I can always go back and do it again if I wanted to.  

What are the key things you want to work more on next term?

I always think that I can improve on my research. In my eyes I can always do more.

What did the audience think? During your group crit sessions, describe the responses to your work.  Discuss what feedback you got, and explain why you agree or disagree with the responses.

See peer review feedback post.

Document how you managed your time on this first project.   How would you evaluate your productivity? (eg. Did you produce enough work? Could you have worked faster?). To help you do this: 
 - Firstly calculate the total hours that you personally spent on this project, and clearly show this on your evaluation.  
- Calculate the amount of hours spent on thinking of ideas, researching, and discovering. 
- Calculate the amount of hours spent planning, organising your production.
- Calculate the amount of hours spent practicing and testing skills, equipment, and software.   
- Calculate the amount of hours spent taking pictures.
- Calculate the amount of hours on the editing your pictures - Calculate the amount of hours you spent uploading posts to your blog or putting your workbook together.   - Calculate how much time the team spent working on the assignment altogether.

Take these figures and work out the percentages for each element.   Create a pie chart or similar diagram that accurately represents how much time you spent on these different elements.  

Percentages listed above. 

How I worked the percentages out. I added the total amount of hours up which totalled to 40 then I did 4 divided by 40 then times that by 100 when was 10%

If you were to charge a client, say, £15 per hour for your time spent working on this project, what would you be charging?

£15 x 40 = £600

4D Evaluation Task 4D Problem Solving Task – Evaluation In order to ensure that you are able to pass unit 7, it is essential that you evaluate your 4D work, answering the following questions:

1) How did you create a 4D piece? By using the time lapse setting on the Nikon D 7200 and taking a photo every 5 seconds on the Nikon D 70 What materials/objects did you use? I photographed moving cars, time lapsed flags moving in the wind and also cars going up and down a street with people walking past. How did you photograph it? Using a Nikon D 90 and a Nikon D 7200 How did you edit it? Premiere Pro CC 2) Evaluate how well you did it Were you influenced by any particular artists or 4D pieces? Tony Plant inspired me in my time lapse and films like wallace and gromit inspired my stop motion. What were the challenges and how did you deal with them (give specific examples)? I didn’t intend to do a stop motion but I had to since I booked out the wrong camera but the outcome was still good. What other ways could you have approached the challenge? I could’ve had a story line to my time lapse/ stop motion instead of a theme.