Digital Portfolio (2019-2020)

What is hybridity? (copying notes from my sketchbook) Combinations of different art forms into piece Incorporating as many forms as necessary Allows for unexpected to occur Alan Becker Alan Becker is an animator I remember from my childhood, who created the Animation vs Animator series (which I will link at the end of this), and I definitely didn't expect to see him in my high school art class. The most unique part about his animations is obviously the sentient animations he creates that fight against his cursor. The animations eventually evolve and start to make the browser come to life, as well as things like Minecraft and League of Legends. This was all fascinating to me when I was younger because I didn't even think something like that could happen on video, and I was watching a computer screen similar to mine be filled by stick figures fighting each other and Firefox becoming a legitimate fire fox. The animation to this day is still kind've incredible t...

I thought about it and realized I didn't know how to set up a proper script, so I decided I'd go ahead and investigate. This blog post will be a bit more sloppy and disorganized since it is moreso for me and something I can go to to read and get help for creating my script. I will also only be using one site for this. Script Language and Where To Use It First Page of the Screenplay: " The top, bottom and right margins of a screenplay are 1". The left margin is 1.5". The extra half-inch of white space to the left of a script page allows for binding with   brads , yet still imparts a feeling of vertical balance of the text on the page. The entire document should be single-spaced. The very first item on the first page should be the words FADE IN:. Note: the first page is never numbered. Subsequent page numbers appear in the upper right hand corner, 0.5" from the top of the page, flush right to the margin." Screenplay Elements: Scene Heading: ...

What is Music? I figured a good way to start would be to talk about what music is, before going in to how to use it in film. Many authorities have tried to define music in the past but it's proven to be a lot more difficult than anticipated, and I don't plan on trying to say my definition is correct, I'm just going to do my research and do my best to explain it briefly. Most early professionals defined music as organized sound, but if you look in natural or even industrial places, you can always find organized there. Technically, even speech (which is different from singing) is considered an organized sound. Another roadblock in defining music is the fact there there are several languages that don't have a word for music, this problem is most common in Native American and West African languages. On top of that, according to m usicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, music and just plain noise are always going to be culturally defined, and it is likely impossible for there t...

Given the film that I'm interested in making I decided I'd investigate how to write a fight scene first, and then look at how you actually film and choreograph it. I decided to include some of my favorite characters with great action scenes, to give a little spice to the blog. Writing Starting off I found a website by a man called John August. It looks like a blog or merchandise sort of thing and looks like he does lessons on all sorts of aspects of filmmaking, so I'm sure I'll use this again at some point. He pointed out a few things I'm assuming he learned in his time as a teacher or filmmaker, or perhaps both. He recommended to keep in mind that you're not writing a screenplay, so write it as if you're trying to experience a movie. He also recommended to keep sentences short and use something called sluglines, which I didn't know about so I searched it up. Sluglines are not headings, rather they're just lines that bring attention to what is i...