Some photos that inspire me...

While I was growing up, I had no clue about graphic design until I got a bit older and started to check out cool creative posters and began to love those kinds of stuff. I even have some graphic design posters, for example, the cat and the dog singing...Some photos are the examples that inspire me to do graphic design. Seeing those photos and many other manipulation photos showed a lot of interesting ways to show and the way they are structured, the light affecting on them, the colors in them...

I would like to mess up the photos and be creative with them. I definitely want to make the most funniest posters ever. I mean I really love funny posters..I would like to make people laugh and make them want to buy them and cheer them up when they are down or whatsoever. :)

Truth

I have seen the poster of three little kids when I was a kid somewhere. I couldn't stop staring at it for a while. When I see it, I wonder why this boy chose the girl over the adorable girl. But anyways, it struck me to what the truth is like. Love hurts sometimes just like this photo.

I have a poster of this one below at home. I just fell in love with it so much. I learned that the moment they heard the war was over, the sailor would grab a nurse and kissed her as the photo was taken. I thought it was beautiful. The photo looked like it just happened right away! Just like the truth, like the everyday thing.

Those photos are like the real thing. They just happened to be taken that way. No manipulations the way I see them. I don't think lighting is involved. Good compositions of them. And as you can see, I have a thing for photos with kissing involved. :)

My flowers..

I took this with the 35mm Pentax camera. I thought this photograph is one of the best ones I ever taken. :)

Introduction to Avant-Garde Film By Scott MacDonald

I don't know which movie was my first avant-garde film. Before I chose film studies major, I had no clue what avant-garde film looks like until now. I had to research what movies are really avant-garde. I found out that Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was one of the avant-garde films and I never thought of it as something like this. I guess Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was my first avant-garde when I was young. When I took film study course or world cinema course, I saw weird films like un chien andalou or ballet mechanique. I realized that they must be avant-garde films or experimental films.

I remember watching some avant-garde films and I had no idea what they were talking about. Scott MacDonald was talking about the first response from viewers, like "this isn't a movie or you call this a movie!" I believe that I was one of the viewers who would think like that to the avant-garde films. I didn't really understand what MacDonald really meant by describing about certain feelings or thoughts about viewers toward the avant-garde films. But I understood the later parts about the history and Muybridge and the Lumiere brothers.

I have enjoyed reading the histories of European countries creating early avant-gardes and then Muybridge's invention of the Zoopraxiscope and early motion studies. I have seen his Zoopraxiscope on a racing horse. I also saw "The Horse in Motion" that were taken multiple photographs from the multiple cameras on the grid (like a set of lines) and showed the hooves off the ground and on and back and forth. I'm glad he did this so that it would lead people to creating motion picture movies.

And I remember watching Lumiere brothers' films such as a train arriving or the parents feeding a baby or an interesting part about an older guy watering the garden while a young boy makes fun of him. It was amazing how the brothers created a single shot of people or anything back then with an old camera. Anybody can do that of course. :)

What I learned....

What I learned was: I learned how to use a 35mm Pentax camera and also a sekonic light meter, which I never used before. I had been taught a few times how to use it. I messed up two films and had to start over. I wasn't used to the old camera. It's a tough camera. I looked around objects and people and animals and nature. My ideas came flowing into my mind when I see each one of them. So I took a lot of amazing photographs and I hope people enjoy what I have took. Most of the pictures I took are mostly based on art, nature, patterns..lots of repetitions..I just like to take pictures of beautiful patterns..I used three rolls of films with 1/60th shutter speed and used three different f-stops from one same shot to another (bracketing). The fourth roll was created with any shutter speed. I have tried to use double exposure with a few pictures on the fourth roll and some of them got messed up. But one of them turned out to be cool. Most of the pictures turned out to be very well. Enjoy!

Film as an Original Art Form by Hans Richter

Hans Richter states questions to what one considers film as an original art form. So he used Pudovkin’s quote, “What is a work of art before it comes in front of the camera, such as acting, staging, or the novel is not a work of art on the screen.” I would say that Pudovkin means that a film is not a part of a work of art, only theater or novels are. I just think any films even Hollywood films (entertainment films) can express art in a way the same as theater and novels.

D.W. Griffith was one of the people who actually showed what a film was like. It seemed to me that his films were almost art because he used different angles. Also, he used interesting close-ups shots and crosscutting parts that matched to other people’s reactions. That was enjoyable even in a silent film.

Also, I thought Frank Capra was one of the people who would show interesting things. I watched Mr. Smith Goes to Washington the first time like last week and I loved it. Even though it was an entertainment film, I thought the movie showed art too because of different angles, different crosscutting, and reactions of different people. Even showed politics and history. But that's just me. :)

As I was reading through pages of 16-17, Hans Richter has been questioning 'whether film is essentially theatrical, literary, or fine arts with the doubt in the minds of film historians and film critics to what they think of film as an original art form.' I believe a film can be all of the above. But then I read the part about the film in two styles: documentary and experimental. They are described as original art forms. I guess I would say that they are because to me they are more like independent. The artists can make them freely and they can do what they want them to do. After all, film entertainment and film art can be the same.