Audio 29/5

I left my hard drive at home so I ended up working on my 3D character that was due in at 5pm today. I dont have too much left for my tutorials to hand in next week which is good, thanks to the homework over lockdown.

Drawing 28/5

Student draw-offs, first pic is trying to imitate the reference picture, 2nd pic is drawing it in our own style.

Round One - Ichigo from Bleach

Round Two - Xerneas

Round Three - Bob from Bobs Burgers in own style

Research 25/5

Everything must be submitted by midnight next monday (1st june) for installation on 2nd june. We have decided on the artsteps template for the virtual gallery and wix for the website. 

Emma is currently working on setting up the pages for all our links and video hosting. We need to make a decision on what image frames to use and whether individual ppl can choose or keep them consistent.

So far the majority are submitting images, at least 5 of us multiple images. I think having the artist statements on the wall could work, although it will be a lot of text so perhaps the other idea the group had of a small image(or maybe the avatar) and then the artist statement pops up when interacted with. Not much else we can do at this stage until projects start getting sent in to the class email.

Screen Arts 25/5

Infamously Bad Directors

What makes a movie bad? You cannot assess a movies value on critical or financial success. Batman vs Superman(2016) only scored 27% on Rotten Tomatoes but made $850 million worldwide. Ridley Scots Bladerunner(1982) was a commercial flop and barely recovered its $28 million budget. This movie is now in the US Library of Congress for preservation. The Golden Raspberries is the counter to the Oscars, created in 1981 to celebrate the worst movies in the film industry. Anyone can join and there is even a buy one get one free membership. Movies like Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey and the Emoji Movie have all won raspberries. Sandra Bullock won a golden raspberry for All About Steve the night before she won an Oscar for The Blind Side. She accepted both awards in person. 

A Good bad movie, like an unscary horror movie can switch genres into comedy making the film more enjoyable to watch. Ultimately its completely subjective.

Tommy Wiseau's The Room(2003) cost $6mill USD and grossed $1900 in the 2 weeks it played in the two theatres it debuted in. Cumulative gross worldwide as of 2007 is $7,840,034 total. He inspired a book called The Disaster Artist starring James Defranco. This movie won golden globes for best actor and best motion picture-musical or comedy. It also won an oscar for best adapted screenplay.

Roger Corman was known as the "Pope of Pop Cinema". He has 395 films to his name including Sharktopus, Dinoshark and Piranhaconda. He gave a number of Hollywood stars their first break inc James Cameron Avatar, Martin Scorsese Taxi Driver and Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather. Scorsese had been working at editing when he was asked to direct the sequel to Bloody Mama. Corman gave Scorsese complete freedom on the movie Boxcar Bertha but he had to work with only $60,000. Carman was considered the best post grad training you could have in America. He is considered as incredibly generous and gentle with newcomers. He won an honorary award in 2009. 

Ed Wood Jr. was born in 1924 and died in 1978. He was affectionately knows as the world's worst director.  His trademark wad sci-fi and horror with cheap props and visual effects. Orson Welles is one of his heroes and despite trying to emulate Welles triple threat(writer, producer, director) he was terrible at all three.

Russ Meyer. Born 1922 and died 2004. Meyer served as a combat cameraman in WWII for the US army. After the war he spread out into photography doing glamour shots and playboy spreads. He is known for Vixen!, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

Lloyd Kauffman was born in 1945. He began his career in shock films. In 1975 he funded an independant shock film studio. This studio published Patricks movie Offensive Behaviour.

In 2005 Patrick Goldstein wrote a piece in the LA Times about Hollywoods failure to produce ocscar worthy films. He claims that Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo was oscar worthy. On feb 2005 Rob Schneider bout a full page ad in the Daily Variety stating"Maybe, Mr Goldstein, you didnt win a Pulitzer prize because thy havent invented a category yet for Best Third-rate, Unfunny pompous reporter.

After reviewing Deuce Bigalow, Robert Ebert speaking as someone who has won a Pulitzer prize, stated that in his "official" capacity, "your movie sucks"

How Did This Get Made is a podcast that features a bad movie each

What are some movies that you consider bad?  Why?  

What are some movies that you consider to be so bad they're GOOD?

What are your thoughts on the sexism and politically-incorrect material prevalent schlock/exploitation films?  How do you think schlock/exploitation films have evolved over the decades?

Screen Arts 18/5

Proposal

Audio 15/5

https://youtu.be/GEG6RYOMyhA Music Replacement link

Research 11/5

Virtual exhibition examples - https://www.artsteps.com/

"Secret"

https://www.artsteps.com/view/5e7b310389f83a18220d19c0

"Titanic's Museum"

https://www.artsteps.com/view/5c51875682dc6d6a175eb81e

"Thea Hicking Gallery"

https://www.artsteps.com/view/5b968c997c47144a75fa55c7

Visual Install team - Ben, Emma, Ian, Vinnie and myself

Things to do as at 11/5:

- Get a list of what size area people want for their exhibit
- Who has physical installations that need to be digitized somehow
- How to display artist statements: embedded in the exhibit photo or as a separate image with Artist Statement to click.
- Neutral walls: white/light grey, wood textured floor?
- Artsteps for virtual exhibition or alternative?
- Wix for gateway website?
- Single room or sections
- Get logo from Marketing for Artsteps/Wix (when they have it)