tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623906596455146018.post9122978341786173903..comments2023-06-24T06:03:30.655-07:00Comments on Chrissie Peters: UNIT 2 - OGRChrissie Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09573993988008559179noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623906596455146018.post-78050588457428392942011-11-10T13:41:58.793-08:002011-11-10T13:41:58.793-08:00OGR 10/11/2011
Hey Chrissie :)
You've been v...OGR 10/11/2011<br /><br />Hey Chrissie :)<br /><br />You've been very patient - thank you! Firstly - an authentic OGR that doesn't stint on context or content and reassures in regard to your familiarity with the three stories - and the ideas that bind them. Your written assignment proposal is as reassuring in terms of its remit - and it's clear too that you hit the library early on - yes, books, real books! :)<br />Stylistically, I'd just lose the chatty-sounding bit about 'an interesting choice for investigation' from the intro, and include this fact instead as part of your main discussion as part of a bigger point about production design. You can also lose the contextually from 'discussed contextually' because the 'contextual' bit can be presumed.<br /><br />It's clear from your thumbnails that your still digesting the technical challenges of 'seeing' these spaces in the abstract. I don't know if you've look already at Nat's blog, but she's been investigating some interesting methods of visualisation - including making mini-sets and taking photographs. One way to start to be able to visualise perspective would simply be to take a camera and start getting all 'expressionistic' in terms of your angles - photographing real spaces, but with an emphasis on mood and composition - likewise, mucking about with lighting and making the camera 'see' ordinary spaces in different ways. <br /><br /> You know, in terms of the cellar, I think you need to sprinkle some artistic licence liberally about the place - think about combining it with an idea about an attic space - to give yourself more 'clutter' to work with. I must admit, that of all the descriptions from the Shunned House you've isolated, I love the one that describes the way the windows glow with a 'witch light' - I can imagine an exterior view of the house, with all its facade almost uplit by this strange illumination - greenish light from below, blue/silver from the moon from above - could look wonderful!<br /><br />http://www.bkthedj.com/images/whitehall_manor_wedding_lit_up_night.jpg<br /><br />(Obviously, nothing like this really, but you get the gist...) Maybe the cellar is a literal 'dead-end' for you, Chrissie - but there is the addition of all those roots too that might proffer some suitably creepy opportunities...<br /><br />http://www.planetware.com/i/photo/tree-roots-encompass-a-corridor-at-ta-prohm-temple-at-angkor-cam402.jpg<br /><br />Certainly - the House on the Borderlands calls for a sense of the epic - and, I'd suggest a theatrical, bold and expressionistic use of colour; sometimes combining bold colours can be a bit intimidating, but these colour scheme design packages might reassure you in terms of combinations:<br /><br />http://ucarochester-cgartsandanimation.blogspot.com/search/label/Colour%20Scheme%20Designer<br /><br />I think the Easter Island idea is a good one, Chrissie - worth pursuing.<br /><br />The Masque of the Red Death seems almost operatic in its intensity - and as I suggested to Steve Payne, perhaps you might consider looking, not at 'concept art' but rather 'scenic design' - it just seems to me that those spaces in Poe's story are like the pieces of colour glass in a stainglass window themselves - separated up by lines of shadow: Just some images found under 'scenic design'...<br /><br />http://fuckyeahscenicdesign.tumblr.com/<br />http://fredoniatada.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/conceptual-set-for-walk-b-copy.jpg<br />http://www.sinclair.edu/academics/lcs/departments/the/ProductionHistory/2003present/images/Richard%20III%20balcony.JPG<br /><br />Also there's something about all of these stories that remind me of deChirico...<br /><br />http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/de_chiricobio.htmltutorphilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11842833126210822641noreply@blogger.com