Throughout the course of our last project I found it to be a challenging piece of work. This may have been because it was my first project as a university student but it was mostly because I wanted our final piece to be perfect. I enjoyed the process of filming considerably as this is where … Continue reading
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Life, interrupted… (Finished Film Piece)
This is our final moving image piece made by myself, Hannah Mew and Hannah Lees. Here, we are attempting to capture the normality of everyday life as well as the fragility of life. We are trying to challenge the conventions of a ‘safe’ and comfortable lifestyle and how one can break free from these conventions. Continue reading
Sight and Sound
When it comes to sound and image it is crucial to make the sound and image match to make it believable for the spectator. But there is a certain degree of leniency to what makes that sound, especially if the sound of something else seems more realistic than using the instrument shown. A well-used example … Continue reading
Reality’s demise
Virtual as a definition means it is completely at the end of the spectrum of reality but what about when the two collide and create ‘virtual reality’? A virtual reality has become a norm within today’s society with the introduction of games, programs and even chatrooms. In these virtual realities there is a sense of … Continue reading
Objects within a dream
Zizek states that everyone has a fantasy but it is not the scene of the fantasy that attracts our fascination and desire, it’s the invisible gaze watching us pursue it that excites us. Therefor according to Zizek the only thing that makes our fantasies come to life is the potential exhibitionism. “All the world’s a … Continue reading
Technology and development
Considering the technological advances made during the 20th and 21st centuries it seemed only logical that we had a lecture on these developments. We began by watching a – slightly outdated – video about the rising popularity of the personal computer and games consoles up until the 90s. It explained how the products had advanced … Continue reading
Little Boy Blue
Throughout the duration of our first media lecture we explored the conventions and restrictions within consumerism. We especially focused on the gender divide between male and female products. This would appear normal if directed at adults but is that normality a result of our conditioning as children? We began by watching a short documentary on the well … Continue reading
Freaks
The subject of one of our more recent media lectures was based around Tod Browning’s 1932 film ‘Freaks’. The previously banned and subsequently altered film depicts a group of circus freaks living alongside ‘normal’ people in, well, a circus. It shows just how cruel some people are and how far they would go to make … Continue reading
Challenging The Everyday: Final Group Proposal
Group: Hannah Lees, Hannah Mew & Myself. After a lengthy time of deliberation, we finally decided we wanted to make a statement on the idea of routine and how we find ourselves trapped in a constant, mundane cycle. We want to portray this idea that we put ourselves through education with the promise of a … Continue reading
My Short Film Proposal
My idea for the filming project is to portray a young person living a double life. They would appear at first to have a normal life, this would soon be disproved by the night time transformation into the local vigilante. I want to draw attention to the idea that life contains both the ordinary and … Continue reading
Becky Alicia Ridley 