So one week to go till deadline day guys!!
Surprisingly there has been very minimal swearing on my behalf. . . .i say minimal not none.
You may know that we and Ryan have been a bit more pushed for time with him having a new job and also going on holiday on Monday so we have worked pretty hard to keep things on track and get it almost finished for, today actually. :-S.
But surprisingly we've kept up to date with everything and i am happy to say we should be able to hand everything in by Wednesday! yeahh!
Overall im very pleased with this whole thing. i have worked well with Ryan as a team and we have tackled problems and time limits together with minimal problems. I have enjoyed focusing on the marketing side of the industry as it's the area i hope to advance into. it's nice to get to figure out how your own work will have an effect on the public and figure out an entire campaign that is purely your own work.
At this stage we are finalising our flier designs and designing our mount boards, hopefully, if not i will be tackling that on Monday, then as always it's tying up loose ends in my sketchbook and handing it in :-D
Post next week x
05 February 2010
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04 February 2010
league table
well folks, it's that time again, when i upload the monthly league tables:
a pretty quiet month all round from you lot. apart from jimmy and alex A swapping places, there's not been any movement at all. surely the title race cannae already be over, at this early stage of the season?
a pretty quiet month all round from you lot. apart from jimmy and alex A swapping places, there's not been any movement at all. surely the title race cannae already be over, at this early stage of the season?
Review of the film 'Tideland'
This film was released in 2005 and directed by Terry Gilliam
This has to be one of the most mesmerizing and disturbing films i have ever seen!
The main character is 'Jeliza-Rose', a young girl whose parents are irresponsible drug addicts. When her mother dies, she and her father flee to the countryside and reside in her grans eerie and desolate house. I didn't really know the outcome of the plot before watching this film and I'm so glad because it completely took me by surprise. The film challenges viewers and pushes its boundaries to the limit - touching on subjects of death, drug use and sex all in front of the eyes of a child depending on herself.
The film has surrealist conventions, yet the plot still runs smoothly enough for us to understand. The outcomes in the narrative take us by surprise, it made me cringe and laugh at the same time. The portrayal of Jeliza-Rose makes viewers empathize with her, however it seems she is oblivious to what is going on around her and is happy enough in her own fantasy land where she only has her doll's heads for company. This character is innocent enough but seems to be too 'sweet' and actually comes across as quite creepy. I can imagine a lot of viewers wouldn't be comfortable watching this film however, and compared to Gilliam's older works that maybe he has gone too far.
My favorite character was 'Dell', a mad old woman in the house nearby who reminded me intensely of the witch from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. A nasty character who we at first dislike, but when the film moves on we see this strange woman had a point to being in this and that is to help Jeliza-Rose, even if she didn't want to. Some of the scenes are mentally disturbing and are not easy to watch (e.g. preserving the corpse of Noah) etc. The film does end, and surprisingly i felt that it had ended (the house was cleaned from top to bottom and left to Jeliza-Rose), not a conventional ending and not giving an end to the drama that this character is in, yet we as viewers are cut off from this.
Overall i would definitely recommend this film, yes its disturbing/cringe making/shocking, but personally i prefer films like that - the film industry can be so repetitive and just provide us with mainstream rubbish that has no real impact on us. Tideland is one film that will stay with viewers for a long time and maybe its about time people were shocked every once in a while, it makes life a lot less dull!
This has to be one of the most mesmerizing and disturbing films i have ever seen!
The main character is 'Jeliza-Rose', a young girl whose parents are irresponsible drug addicts. When her mother dies, she and her father flee to the countryside and reside in her grans eerie and desolate house. I didn't really know the outcome of the plot before watching this film and I'm so glad because it completely took me by surprise. The film challenges viewers and pushes its boundaries to the limit - touching on subjects of death, drug use and sex all in front of the eyes of a child depending on herself.
The film has surrealist conventions, yet the plot still runs smoothly enough for us to understand. The outcomes in the narrative take us by surprise, it made me cringe and laugh at the same time. The portrayal of Jeliza-Rose makes viewers empathize with her, however it seems she is oblivious to what is going on around her and is happy enough in her own fantasy land where she only has her doll's heads for company. This character is innocent enough but seems to be too 'sweet' and actually comes across as quite creepy. I can imagine a lot of viewers wouldn't be comfortable watching this film however, and compared to Gilliam's older works that maybe he has gone too far.
My favorite character was 'Dell', a mad old woman in the house nearby who reminded me intensely of the witch from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. A nasty character who we at first dislike, but when the film moves on we see this strange woman had a point to being in this and that is to help Jeliza-Rose, even if she didn't want to. Some of the scenes are mentally disturbing and are not easy to watch (e.g. preserving the corpse of Noah) etc. The film does end, and surprisingly i felt that it had ended (the house was cleaned from top to bottom and left to Jeliza-Rose), not a conventional ending and not giving an end to the drama that this character is in, yet we as viewers are cut off from this.
Overall i would definitely recommend this film, yes its disturbing/cringe making/shocking, but personally i prefer films like that - the film industry can be so repetitive and just provide us with mainstream rubbish that has no real impact on us. Tideland is one film that will stay with viewers for a long time and maybe its about time people were shocked every once in a while, it makes life a lot less dull!
03 February 2010
Critical thinking is the key to a success.
PROFESSOR LAYTON REVIEW
Just thought i'd post another review. This time it's on the game i'm hooked on at the moment. I'd heard of Professor Layton, but it was one of those things I didn't much care to bother with until I downloaded it for free and illegally mind you, off Romulation.net onto my emulator.
Just thought i'd post another review. This time it's on the game i'm hooked on at the moment. I'd heard of Professor Layton, but it was one of those things I didn't much care to bother with until I downloaded it for free and illegally mind you, off Romulation.net onto my emulator.For those not up to date with technology, an emulator is a device that you can store games on then put them on to your game system and play the games with out having to buy them. Technically it's just like an MP3 off Limewire only it's a game instead.
Anyways Professor Layton is a puzzle game about a Professor (the answer's in the question lmao) and his annoyingly cockney little scrote of a sidekick Luke. What you basically have to do is solve puzzles to proceed in the game. Pretty easy stuff, but for some of those puzzles you really do need to put your thinking caps on. This game is definately not for those who are impatient and dumb.
It's actually quite a good game once you get into it and the cut scenes are awesome. It's like you're watching an anime but on a DS! So yeah I love it and i've almost completed the first game and will soon proceed onto the next. So no spoilers here from anyone who's actually played it!
What I love about this game the most is that it has a very good sense of British. Even if it is the Victorian kind. The main protagonist Layton, is from London apparantly so even though the game is most probably Japanese, us Brits can relate to the game a bit better than say um the Americans? Okay i'm rambling a bit here but yeah if there is anyone here who's patient enough to solve a nice hard puzzle or 135 (that's exactly how many puzzles are in the first game), Play Professor Layton!
Till next time
A
x
P.S. Message to Ninja Alex: Stop trying so hard to type up a good review and what not. Just type the first stuff that comes into your head. That's what I do. So what if it's just a mish mash of complete crap? Nobody cares. lmao it's a Blog. You're supposed to talk rubbish. Answers in the title.
P.P.S. I wish I could write captions on this thing because that picture above would definately have the caption: OBJECTION! I've found a contradiction in your testimony! :-)
02 February 2010
Review: My own style of blogging
The biggest issue with Blogging is that it requires work. Despite what my mind tells me should be a relatively quick and painless task, blogging is, for me in fact, a long a laborious process. Mostly involving sitting in front of a screen racking my brain for something to write to make me seem clever, funny and witty, while ignoring the feeling of my left leg going numb for god knows what reason.
Maybe its just because I usually struggle to get my thoughts down on to anything more permeant then the fluffy clouds which float across the overpopulated nexus of creativeness that is my imagination. But I'm incapable of doing anything but a essay on whatever it is which catches my attention. I don't know what it is but though I try to write quick snappy posts I end up making yet another TL;DR (to long didn't read) wall of text.
Maybe because I normally branch off and talk about some other thought which occurs or maybe because I want the reader to be as clued into whatever I'm reviewing/complaining/complimenting/wishing didn't exist, I talk more about it. Its history, recent uses, whatever piss poor excuse for a plot it has or the bigger issues that it raises.
Whatever the reason I find that I just can't shut up...
Maybe I should just try video reviews instead. At least then I can't attach the TL;DR tag to everything I write.
Alex "Arashi" Burnett wishes he didn't review the most obscure things he could find down the back of the internet
Maybe its just because I usually struggle to get my thoughts down on to anything more permeant then the fluffy clouds which float across the overpopulated nexus of creativeness that is my imagination. But I'm incapable of doing anything but a essay on whatever it is which catches my attention. I don't know what it is but though I try to write quick snappy posts I end up making yet another TL;DR (to long didn't read) wall of text.
Maybe because I normally branch off and talk about some other thought which occurs or maybe because I want the reader to be as clued into whatever I'm reviewing/complaining/complimenting/wishing didn't exist, I talk more about it. Its history, recent uses, whatever piss poor excuse for a plot it has or the bigger issues that it raises.
Whatever the reason I find that I just can't shut up...
Maybe I should just try video reviews instead. At least then I can't attach the TL;DR tag to everything I write.
Alex "Arashi" Burnett wishes he didn't review the most obscure things he could find down the back of the internet
(8) Everybody was kung fu fighting! (8)
KUNG FU PANDA REVIEW
My elder brother mentioned to me in passing that Kung Fu Panda was really good and something i'd like what with me being into Oriental things so I decided to buy and watch it last night.
My elder brother mentioned to me in passing that Kung Fu Panda was really good and something i'd like what with me being into Oriental things so I decided to buy and watch it last night.Overall it was a pretty good film but not as good as films such as Shrek or Finding Nemo. Jack Black pulled off a good part as the big fat panda Po though. Most of the time it seemed to me like the panda was just a caricature of Jack Black himself.
This film was very good at spoofing many of the old martial arts films which I liked.
The story basically is of an average panda that wants a more awesome life than the life he leads helping his dad (questionable) at his noodle shop. Turns out the panda unintentionally ends up becoming "The Dragon Warrior" a kung fu title only passed on to those who deserve it and so begins his adventure of actually learning kung fu. Things aren't all plain sailing though, because at first the famous five (that's the five legendary Kung Fu styles to those that don't know: Mantis, Crane, Tiger, Monkey, and Viper) don't like him but they gradually warm up to him and he becomes the Dragon Warrior of legend.
This is a good film if you want a bit of escapism and the Chinese proverbs in it are quite memorable. Like this one for example: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
Anyways as far as jokes go it's pretty flat but the dream sequence and the fight at the end make up for that fact. Also the fact that Jack Black is the voice over makes this animation more fun.
If you like pandas watch this.
Till next time
A
x
01 February 2010
The diary for those lacking t' studio - Cartoon Network
It seems like a while since I have written in the blog, what after the abundant entries just a few weeks earlier. And longer still since I have written anything resembling a studio diary. I guess I need to develop that particular area of my blogging activities.
To start off with, I've been working on the YCN Cartoon Network brief, which is an ad campaign to encourage the imagination, as some of you may or may not be aware of. I've admittedly dithered a little in the last few weeks, after getting the basic research down to the ground I just found that I had not explored the full potential of what I could do with the brief.
I've settled upon an idea that will hopefully not only encourage the target audience of the Ad to briefly peel themselves away from the ol' box long enough to do something a little creative, but also should give Cartoon Network that little more exposure and web site traffic. In essence, my ad campaign is split into two halves - The first part presents a challenge to the audience, and via a competition the second half will have a winner's idea incorporated as the solution to said challenge. There will be a variety of these challenges, to cover a range of different creative and crafts skills.
At the moment, I'm just trying to decide whether to create a young character to front the campaign (with interactions with the current stars of the Cartoon Network channel) or to use one of their established characters - It is really a case of what is feasible versus having someone that can readily typify the intended audience.
All in all, I'm still enjoying the brief, despite the fact that many of the animation group know about my attitude towards children. I just need to keep remembering that I may not entirely appreciate the shows they watch, but when I was but a wee bairn, I too was watching and enjoying the sort of shows I generally roll my eye at nowadays. Yes, I said eye. And I'm not scottish.
In other news in the pig sty I call a bedroom and studio, I've been working on ideas for the upcoming open brief, with the intention of using the opportunity to promote myself as an animator/illustrator. Rudimentary ideas are forming, and I just think that something like this will help me prepare for the harsh, harsh world when I am jettisoned out of college at the end of this year.
To start off with, I've been working on the YCN Cartoon Network brief, which is an ad campaign to encourage the imagination, as some of you may or may not be aware of. I've admittedly dithered a little in the last few weeks, after getting the basic research down to the ground I just found that I had not explored the full potential of what I could do with the brief.
I've settled upon an idea that will hopefully not only encourage the target audience of the Ad to briefly peel themselves away from the ol' box long enough to do something a little creative, but also should give Cartoon Network that little more exposure and web site traffic. In essence, my ad campaign is split into two halves - The first part presents a challenge to the audience, and via a competition the second half will have a winner's idea incorporated as the solution to said challenge. There will be a variety of these challenges, to cover a range of different creative and crafts skills.
At the moment, I'm just trying to decide whether to create a young character to front the campaign (with interactions with the current stars of the Cartoon Network channel) or to use one of their established characters - It is really a case of what is feasible versus having someone that can readily typify the intended audience.
All in all, I'm still enjoying the brief, despite the fact that many of the animation group know about my attitude towards children. I just need to keep remembering that I may not entirely appreciate the shows they watch, but when I was but a wee bairn, I too was watching and enjoying the sort of shows I generally roll my eye at nowadays. Yes, I said eye. And I'm not scottish.
In other news in the pig sty I call a bedroom and studio, I've been working on ideas for the upcoming open brief, with the intention of using the opportunity to promote myself as an animator/illustrator. Rudimentary ideas are forming, and I just think that something like this will help me prepare for the harsh, harsh world when I am jettisoned out of college at the end of this year.
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