Wednesday, 31 October 2007

Assignment: Example of Reflecting

I have been watching lots of movies and series on the computer for the last four weeks, and I must say that they make one of the best ways for me to get inspired. I believe that watching already-made production helped me and my group utilize the time and diminish the trouble on our work more efficiently. As watching movies, is enjoyable I am able to make breaks from work and still not lose any opportunities to expand my knowledge.
We always think about ways to reflect any thoughts or experience in our every day lives. However as this Assignment requires examples I can simply try and explain some. For instance I have been watching a great amount of mystery stories (Agatha Kristy, Monk, Colombus, Hercules Pouaro). These movies have helped me to see things with a different point of view using the perspective of what is and what is not. What is true and what is fable. I’ve applied this by watching my work and thinking if someone can understand what the point is or if my way of presenting it does not reflect my idea.
Another example is that I have also watched some of the BBC planet earth documentaries, for which I admired the fact that they have used high quality techniques in the making of a documentary and that they make a stop motion clip which shows the transition from one season to the other. I wanted to recreate something like that so I did a small experiment of stop motion with a flower, which you can also find in my blogger.
“The Graduate”, also one of the most famous movies in my house, made me thinking about its soundtrack. When you hear the “Mrs Robinson” song you get the feeling that the movie was based on the lyrics of the song rather than the song made for the movie. I used this idea for choosing a song for my animation for the pixelation project and I came up with Matthew and Son by Cat Stevens, which I believe reflects my original idea that I had for the story

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