Month: March 2022

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WK 1 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick 1968) 🛰

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Originally tweeted by Boswell’sBrain (@BoswellSbrain) on March 3, 2022.

I mainly looked at parallels in our world today and in the films that were inspired from 2001: A Space Odyssey. My peers were able to show me things I may have missed about production and techniques – silent film and SFX. A discussion from my tweet showed we were discovering the same thoughts. Finding parallels in modern film and television was just the beginning of this filmsvinfluence in our modern world. Technology and fear of, always seem to go hand in hand, and this was the perfect film to get us in the mindset of that, and to question it!

WK2 – Westworld (1973) 🔫

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West World a film that on the rise of AI in a Sci-Fi\created future where AI will eventually turn on humanity. I always keep an eye out for visual elements and how they have influence in modern design and creation. What I found interesting, as well as in the prior film, is how much Disney influence can be found in looking at; what makes humans human, computers and consumerism. This viewing took me to many discussions of humanity, and how its represented – if it’s unfair to side with humans because thats who we are. And if it’s wrong to look down on AI.

WK3 – Blade Runner (1982) 🌃

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Knowing I had never viewed Blade Runner I wanted to see what my peers had to say so I could participate in discussions. The film questioned ‘what makes a human, human’. We discussed the depiction of the future and deception.The film shows the audience who is Human and who is a Replicant, which makes us wonder how we put ourselves above AI, because of fear? because their made to serve man? Reoccurring themes, biblical themes and visual cues have also been seen in all films we’ve watched.

WK4 – Ghost in the Shell (1995) 🧑🏻‍🎤

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This anime film showed a woman who has been augmented to be part AI (cyborg), and works to hunt down another AI, who has wrongful intentions. A few fellow female peers found that she had been heavily sexualised for no main reasoning. But what was interesting in the notion she was part robotic, is she always felt human, in her mind. My findings allowed me to question emotions and what makes humans ‘unique‘ – technology dependance is what is foreshadowed.

WK5 – The Matrix (1999) 📟

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The Matrix create an invisible perspecitive (Cybernetic system) that conditioned the characters. And makes us wonder what we are conditioned to believe. Colour and perspective tell us what is “real”. “Cybernetics is a cornerstone of modern computational and communication technologies.“, the film shows the trancending of time and space as an extension of reality with colour themes and representation as well as biblical refrencing , mythology and rebirth.

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It’s interesting to see other students projects, when you begin the process of picking a DA you feel like you have nothing, or too many choices until you whittle it down to your selected DA that will eventually change through the FEFO stages and ideating process.

I found from Jessica’s blog she took an approach that combined the process of research and planning which is an approach similar to mine. What I learnt from giving her advice, is that I also need to broaden the scope of my project, yet hone into more specific topics and ideas. In my pitch I played around with the idea of adding a second platform to my blogging, but I really do need to do several project because If I am just to do one, I am limiting myself to the opportunity of the feedback loop and vastness of the internet. I also spoke of talking about various topics, but in order for my project to have the stability it needs and impactful content, not waffle.

From Julia and Ruby’s blog I gave them links and ideas of different topics to go into for both idea of the “future of genres” and “DODA”. I suggested several, because if they were just to cover one it would be boring wouldn’t it? Which is what I need to impliment into my own DA. I do want to cover topics but i havent decided which ones. I need to start a feedback loop already to know how to go into the DA with detail topics and areas to research. If i just brush on the surface of several topics it wouldnt be enough.

In Julias blog I suggested looking at the future of dating/romance with advancements in A.I. as seen in Ready Player One and Black Mirror. Black Mirror is a great starting point for looking into Sci-Fi and its influence on our current future (The Future is Now) and the progressions that will be made even further from this point. I may need to do extra viewing sessions aside from the article research I intent to do. Media is my future, particularly in my career, I need to be at not only a variety of articles but a variety of sources.

In Ruby’s I suggested she look at covering other social platforms other than her selected one, as well as looking at the lecture content in relation to how science fiction has mythologized the scientific and technical concepts into the spectrum of human interests and behaviours and how that then related to the way technology is viewed in art.

I believe all three of the girls blogs adressed the social utility. Which I also mentioned in mine, but on reading their DA’s it’s make me reflect on how me talking about myself will truly help others, which is something I have to be weary of when writing my blogs and creating my DA. Gaining feedback and giving feedback has allowed me to see how broad my DA has appeared, and how careful I have to be with my approach.

Julias Blog:
https://justjules.travel.blog/2022/03/18/bcm325-pitch-genres-of-the-future/https://justjules.travel.blog/2022/03/18/bcm325-pitch-genres-of-the-future/comment-page-1/?unapproved=241&moderation-hash=613d0c85c62a8b43f3c105e445ae0892#comment-241

Ruby’s Blog:
https://rub33j.wordpress.com/2022/03/17/digital-depictions-of-technological-advancements-dota/comment-page-1/#comment-316

Jessicas Blog
https://jessajenkinsblog.wordpress.com/2022/03/18/trying-to-understand-the-future-of-climate-change/

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In the “Night of the Demons” 1988 (NOTD) animator Kathy Zielinski, used simple 2D drawing and brought them to life with simple the primary object motion and pauses of different characters of ghosts and ghouls. She uses secondary (camera) motion techniques to make the 2D drawings come more alive. Framed mobility is used across the graveyard and moon. As well as when different elements move off and on camera, it feels like a Whip Pan as if the screen was doing the motion of your eyes for you. Tracking can also be sequence, particularly when we as viewers “enter” the house. The timing feels a bit off and abrupt at times, but it gives us enough time as views to read the names on screen, which is desired for an opening credit sequence. But often some ghouls move too fast across the screen to get a good look at them.

The “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” 2018 (CAOS) sequence draws and pays homage to the original piece with the clear idea of 2D imager coming to life and moving. Robery Hack, the illustrator based his art for this sequence on the CAOS comic books, and thought it used more colours than the 1988 sequence theres still a unique and distinct colour sequence and similar atheistic. Non-design wise, the music track in the background also seems to be inspired by NOTD, especially the first few opening bars.

The typography is very similar, both sequence are able to uses make themselves spooky but playful at the same time. The timing is also similarly fast in this sequence, quick enough for viewers to read the text but better than the early one as we have time to see the illustrations on screen. The digital technology allows more movement to been scene in the lays of these credits. Not only is the main focal design moving ever so slightly but also are the text, the background itself and a middle layer also (rain, bats, blood splatters.)

The obvious interpretation is the the digital method used in CAOS is a lot smoother and offers more colour than the NOTD. But it’s important to note a lot of the motion design in NOTD would have been done manually and in more of a meticulous way than that in CAOS. Both share this had drawn style but the NOTD would have had to have been drawn frame by frame. And the movement across the screen were hand cut and had to be used with a physical camera, not just a program on a computer. Kutchaver “embarked on a painstaking process that involved partial animation and filming of cutout figures using an Oxberry camera” In the NOTD things were manually moved across the screen after being hand made.

The only title sequence that came to mind for me was the opening to the 60’s animated Scooby Doo series. Many sequence show multilayers animation and motion, with the same effect as the NOTD is used with different ghosts and ghouls.

References:
Lang, A, 2019. Night of the Demons (1988) . Art of the Title. https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/night-of-the-demons/
Art of the Title, 2018. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina/
isuskill (YT username), Posted 2011. Scooby Doo! Where Are You Season 1 Intro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTq6nwO4oJU

the future of me [BCM325]

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my methodology

In my blog and vlog series, I will explore those topics mentioned in the video pitch, as well as the lecture and class topics, and becoming a self reflection of myself more so through the small video reflection vlogs on how I have changed through the years in my own methodology for planning and thinking towards my future. In the early prototyping stages of my DA I will do both the blog and vlog but i may find one more effective than the other and opt to do one instead of two. I won’t know this until I begin creating and researching. 

production timeline

I have create this timeline to keep myself accountable and on track for my project. I intent to do a series of six blogs and three reflection vlogs that explore different topics. I’ve broken down the vlogs into ever second well and the blogs I have kept as weekly also planning for a final concluding piece for both. I’ve given myself submission week (WEEK 12) to edit these blogs and videos again.

My DA works under the FEFO and FIST concept:

FEFO:
In posting my blogs earlier I hope to create a big feedback loop that I am able to reflect on in the final week and in my final submission.

Fast – I can create fast videos that I feel reflect myself and my feelings. As well as my blogs i’ll be able to say what I need to say
Inexpensive – I won’t be spending anything but time on my project to get it to completion to my standards
Simple and Tiny – My blogs will be accessible and not too long. And the short reflection videos are easy to watch, and i could also post them to TikTok as well as alone on my blog.

I believe it connects to the subject of future cultures in the way we’ve differently viewed humanity and technology and their connection, but what about humanity and humanity, and humanity on themselves. The world is ever-changing, the future is now, and I still don’t know where I fit in.

references:
– B. Petra, 2021, Women in Information and Communication Technology , Delegate Group, https://delegate-group.com/women-in-information-and-communication-technology-2/
– Bolt, Laura, 2020, AOGA Eye on Design, Women Make Up Over Half the Design Industry—So Why Are There So Few at the Top?, https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/women-make-up-more-than-half-of-the-design-industry-but-how-do-they-get-to-the-top/
– Williams, Blair, 2021, In Australian Media Women’s Voices Are Still Not Heard , The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/in-australian-media-womens-voices-are-still-not-heard-172060