Sunday, February 21, 2010
Becca
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Movie Week
For movie week, I watched Oh Brother, Where art thou? One Hour Photo, and Pecker.
First off I watched Oh Brother, Where art thou? It is one of my favourite movies. I find it to be so witty and funny. I love the creativity in the film. It's so original in every way. I had never watched the way they made the film into the desaturated look before. I found that very cool. Scanning each frame and turn it digital and editing the colour. So cool! I love the colours in the film. So golden and dry, it works perfectly for the time the film is set in. My FAVOURITE photography moment in the movie, is when the three main guys are laying in the hay in the barn. The light is shining threw the boards and just going on the three men's faces. LOVE IT!
The second movie I watched was One Hour Photo. Super creepy movie. It was cool to see some of the things they use to develop rolls of film in a one hour photo place. The movie makes me wonder how many creepers actually do that with your photos. Freaky! I really liked the way they made the lighting so different for the different places. In the store, so bright and happy and open and then at the families place it's nice and warm colours, very natural. And then the creepers life outside of the store is very weird colours, everything is just a little off, there are greens where there shouldn't be. Not my favourite movie, but a good one.
The last movie I was saw Pecker! And it was hilarious. Definitely not for everybody, but totally my kind of humour! I loved all the hidden little innuendoes. My favourite was after Pecker went to New York and was hating how things were going, they showed a shot of his house and there was a sign right in front, looking like it was hung on the house almost, and it said Dead End Street. It was awesome! One thing that REALLY bugged me about this movie, was the Pecker was never taking vertical shots with his original camera and then in his show he had all these vertical shots. I mean he could have cropped them, but it really bugged me. I love how they referenced the Migrant Mother image, with the dad in the newspaper and the newspaper making up this big story about how he is suffering and has no money. That was very funny. Well done. I also liked the different perceptions everybody had of Pecker's work. The people from his home thought they were just images of them in their normal lives, but the people in New York thought it was a totally different world, and thought Pecker was actually making fun of the people. Which he wasn't at all. It really shows how people can see things totally differently.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
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