Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Album Cover
We have decided on this image of Adash for our Album cover, however we now have to work out the compostion and the title. We have to crop the photo into a square format for the Digipak, which means that we are going to have to get rid of some of the overal image, abover and four different crop variations. For the typology we liked a clear bold font, initally we liked a nude colour however after experimenting with white we found that we liked that as well however we found that particular colour a bit too garish. I like the bottom left for the cropping however the top right has a nicer positioning of the font, although I would prefer it in either white or a more aesthetically pleasing nude, with less pink.
Jellyfish at The Dalas Aquarium
I visited Dallas over christmas, on my trip I visited the Dallas Aquarium which has an extrodinary collection including, Crocidiles, a panther, minature penguins, manatees and of course Jellyfish! I took these photos for my digipak, however they are too low a resolution to use as a main pannel, but I could still use them as a layer or an overlapping feature.
Editing
In todays lesson we edited the music video, we have decided to cut out the shots of Adash in the park in the opening as we think they are incongorous with the rest of the piece. However, we all really like the clip of Adash laughing in the opening and don't want to delete it if possible, a suitable alternative however would be to find a similar clip but with jellyfish projections instead of in the park setting. We worked on transitioning Adash and the Jellyfish by using multiple layers to show Jellyfish in the sky before moving on to a shot of Adash with jellyfish projections.
Monday, 13 January 2014
Violence and classification- Ken Park
In the role of a BBFC examiner, I imagined that I was requested by the distributor of the film Ken Park for a certificate with a lower age rating, Giving examples of three incidents/scenes I would cut/reframe. Ken Park directed and written by the controversial duo Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, creators of Kids, Gummo and Spring Breakers has received an overall rating of 18 with some exceptions including being banned in Malaysia.
My first request as a BBFC examiner would be to cut the scene where a dogmatic father upon finding his daughter having raunchy and unsimulated sex beats the boy almost to death. My reason for requesting this scene to be cut is that I believe it is the most disturbing scene of the film, that it is unnecessarily explicit in showing both sex and violence and that it adds nothing to either the narrative or the artistic aspect of the film.
My second request would be to cut the use of profanity by at least half, the word f**k is used over a hundred times.
My last request would be to reframe or cut shots including nudity by 60% because mostly the nudity appears only as a tool to 'shock' the audience and depicts an unrealistically negative and unhealthy view of sex. Ken Park has an almost impossibly high incidents of nudity and sex throughout in continuously bizarre and disturbing ways with often underage participants including one scene where A boy is seen masturbating to a tennis match, with a cord around his neck, his erect penis is shown & he masturbates to ejaculation, which is shown.
As a distributor, I would not even after these alterations give the film a lower classification however I may lift the banning in Malaysia.
My first request as a BBFC examiner would be to cut the scene where a dogmatic father upon finding his daughter having raunchy and unsimulated sex beats the boy almost to death. My reason for requesting this scene to be cut is that I believe it is the most disturbing scene of the film, that it is unnecessarily explicit in showing both sex and violence and that it adds nothing to either the narrative or the artistic aspect of the film.
My second request would be to cut the use of profanity by at least half, the word f**k is used over a hundred times.
My last request would be to reframe or cut shots including nudity by 60% because mostly the nudity appears only as a tool to 'shock' the audience and depicts an unrealistically negative and unhealthy view of sex. Ken Park has an almost impossibly high incidents of nudity and sex throughout in continuously bizarre and disturbing ways with often underage participants including one scene where A boy is seen masturbating to a tennis match, with a cord around his neck, his erect penis is shown & he masturbates to ejaculation, which is shown.
As a distributor, I would not even after these alterations give the film a lower classification however I may lift the banning in Malaysia.
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