Knowledge for my third year: Week five and six

Week five and six

Both films Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Film Northwest by Northwest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEpT9QC3CNU & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbpUcAI86MY

Film Sabotage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qukz70OaYf0

I was influenced by Alfred Hitchcock storyboard artwork of Sabotage

In these weeks I was given scenes of Alfred Hitchcock movies. These films were North by Northwest and Sabotage. The main focus of these scenes was to see how the layout of the camera shots and the emotions it is betraying in the shot. This exercise is to help us understand how the layout of illustration effects a whole scene and creates the emotions of the scene.

The first movie that I looked at was North by Northwest. This film scene that we looked at was the main character waiting for a bus. The shot that they used to opened with was a wide long shot to emphasize the feeling of being alone in a dessert. It was also clever with when a new object came into the set. They would then turn the camera to the first person camera shot. This was to give the view a feeling of hope think that the bus was coming. But beside the camera shots creating the emotion, it was also presented through character movement such as when another man comes into the set, you can read his body language that he does not want to speak and clearly his face shows discomfort with talking to the gentlemen. The next bit that I want to take about relates more to comic layout but it would be a good note to take down and this aspect is the time. Time sets up the pacing of the movie and I loved how it was building up to the plane in the background by constant showing it in the background and then it starts chasing the main character.

The next movie was Sabotage and the scene that we watched was about the boy carrying a bomb through a city. Most of this movie is a mixture of close-up, wide shots and extreme close ups. They include these shot by showing a large crowd, zoom in on the boys face and the movement on the clocks hands. This film scene is mostly build up suspense. This is shown by the camera shots which go in an order of wide shot, close up and then extreme close up. The thing that builds up the expense is the order speeding up. The things that provide the emotion to the film is the boys face because as an audience member, you now that he is carrying a bomb but his face expression show that he has to just deliver a package. You feel sadness and scarred for the boy because he does not know about the bomb and you do not know if he is going to get there or not.

With the films given, I had to then look at Alfred Hitchcock storyboards which were amazing to look at because the present the shading that he want from a scene, what he want to show and with intense detail. This overall is a good example to follow when creating my illustrations in the future.

The little drawing projects that I had to do with information were to create a storyboard from my own work. I decided to go for my animation project because I needed to create the storyboard. My story is about a satyr following a dryad and confessing his love to her. With this in mind I looked at the pacing of Sabotage because I want this animation to be about emotions mostly through facial movement but I also want to use the emotional body movement like North by Northwest. I also did quick little thumbnails of Sabotage to show the scenes that showed the used type of a Camera shot.

The next drawing assignment was to look at a painting of a couple reunited. The scene is quite emotionally because it shows a wife paying for her husband bail, and the sadness and relief is mostly shown through the body movement such as the husband not showing his face which is resting on the wife shoulder. With this picture we had to create a camera shot with the types of shots given to me, to emphasise the emotions of the painting. I decide to do a close up on the wife face with the baby and husband because it show the strength of wife and mother in her face expression and the sadness of the husbands face. I also did a scene based on the piece because I wanted to show the scene in which gave the husband freedom. Overall this exercise was very useful because it showed the uses of layout your illustration and what it can do emotional to the scene.