Toy Hack Reflection

a. If i were to box my toy and try to sell it, my purpose would be to give aware that people are harming animals just for money. Hence why there are different parts of the animal attached to a human doll to represent animals being destroyed by humans and the toy is dressed up with a tie representing money.

b. What i liked most about my doll would have to be the way i transition my animals. I also liked the way i captured my purpose in a abstract way. I tried to really make my toy with random animal parts to represent different animals being hurt.

c.What i liked least about my toy is how it doesn't move. If it moved it would capture the fact that animals have voices too and they also have rights towards everything, especially about dying.

d. I would try and make my toy move to make it more interesting. I would also try and make my toy speak to represent the hurt feelings animals have to go through. I would make my toy more detailed also to make it look like legit.

Reflection Questions

      I called my video Fire. It is about a man who purposely sets a music festival on a rampage when he sets the inside of the building smoking. In my video I started with a video clip with the effect of noise and grain, to make the clip more interesting to the eyes. For the first transition, i used the transition of fading to white and then showing the next video to seem like the clip is a flashback. For my other transitions i used the normal fading. For my clock clip, I blended another clip in the background.  My idea for my video changed throughout the process. At first i wanted to do a video strictly about dancing, and i would use video clips such as the workout videos. I decided to change the plot of my video because i felt as if this would be more interesting to me. My old plot was more broader than this plot. I wanted my video to interest me.Something that influenced me to make this plots were all the detective shows i have watched. I have always been interested in detective shows and mystery shows. Those stories influenced me to make the plot more suspicious. The background music made the video more intense with how the beat drops and how well it goes with the video. The elements i feel that are interesting were the blending in the videos and the way that it transitions to real time and then flashback to make the video more artsy and a bit confusing. The part that surprised me is how well the music went well with my video. It made the video more dramatic. The thing i would improve next time, would be finding more interesting videos to go with the plot, more dramatic scenes and sound effects, and adding more transitions and more blending with the videos.

Art Video Brainstorm

My Favourite Parts
My favourite part of Deadman Don't Wear Plaid was in the beginning when the car barely stops and he gets out of the car when it is moving. I like this part because it shows that he is in hurry to do something, which means he's up to something. I also liked the part where the detective passes by him as he is looking at something in the safe, I liked this part because now he is suspicious that someone is following him.
My favourite part of Metropolis was when the smoke came out of the building. I also liked the part when the girl comes out and sees what is going on and doesn't really do anything.
My Favourite part of Battleship Potemkin was when the baby was rolling down the stairs .




Video Idea
For my movie, I want to use the beginning clip from Deadman Don't wear Plaid where the guy walks into the building. I then want to transition into a flashback to a concert. I want the story to be as if the guy walking into the building set the building that the concert was being held in on fire and he's trying to runaway from what he had done. I have a clip of a concert (flashback) and in between that clip i have clips of the person who set the concert on fire and the way he is trying to get away from what he did, he is the suspect. I then have clips of people running in terror out of the building where the concert was i will use clips from Battleship Potemkin where people are running out of the building, in between those clips i have clips of the suspect. I then end with the guy going into the train as if he is running away from his problems. I want the video to be sort of like a flashback and then real time.

Art Video

Music Used for art project.

How is Hero an Art Movie?

1.By looking at the explanation of an art movie above, please describe at least three
ways (three sentences) that you think Hero could be considered, at least in part, an art movie. 

     For a movie to become or to be known as an art movie, it has some characteristics. Hero, would be could be considered as an art for a few reasons. In particular, the movie has a serious plot line, which is one of the characteristics of an art movie. The plot line involves more serious situations such as assassinating the King, or assassinating the assassins that are trying to kill the King. There are also no comedic moments which makes the movie even more serious than other non- art/indie movies. Art movies usually focus on the thoughts and dreams of a character or characters. In Hero, we focused on the thoughts, feelings, dreams of the assassins, Sky, Broken Sword, and Flying Snow. For example, Flying Snows dream was too kill the King she was also angry at Broken Sword for not killing the king when he had the chance.The last characteristic for a movie to be considered as an art film is that, the film is a bit confusing and may be hard to follow because sometimes the director wants the viewers to have a more artistic experience. In my opinion, when I watched Hero, I mostly focused on all the colours and colour pop, also how the director focused more on the artistic parts for example, the scene in the gold forest, when Snow killed the assistant the gold trees turned into red trees marking blood and death.

2. How does the director also make this movie for everyone, so that it's not too artistic or alienating for the average viewer? Please explain in at least three sentence.
    
     The director made this film for everyone by having a plot line that was supposed to be difficult to follow but wasn't because the calming of the colours and artistic structures really distracted the viewers. It was if the director balanced the movie, by having a confusing plot but saved it by having a beautiful movie.

3. Did you like this movie? Why or Why not?

     In my opinion, I liked the plot line of the story and also the artistic scenes, but I didn't like how I didn't speak Chinese and I wish I could. I liked the plot of story because it had a lot of not expecting scenes that played with my emotions. For example when Nameless didn't kill the King when he had a chance too made me proud of him, but then the King had him Killed because of peer pressure which made me angry.  I really liked all the calming artistic structures, what really stood out in my mind were the green drapes that were hanging in the temple or castle when Snow and Broken Sword attacked the King. I don't know why it stood out for me, I guess it was the way it hanged in a dark place, and how green and lack are really vivid to me. I didn't like how it was in Chinese, it was hard for me to follow but it was still beautiful. The music also made me like the movie. The way the violin was played throughout th

4. Sequences in the film are ' colour coded', enabling Zhang Yimou to offer his audience ravishing and memorable images which enhance his action sequences. Write three sentences about how Zhang Yimou has used colour to emphasize or enhance aspects of the narrative.

Select one of these sequences 

•  the fight in the rain
• the Golden Forrest 
• the attack on the calligraphy school at Zhao
• he Library
• the Combat at the Lake
• Broken Sword and Flying Snow's attack on the King

     Zhang Yimou used the colour coding  gold and red in the beginning of the Golden Forrest scene. In the beginning of the scene the two girls were wearing bright red in a gold forrest, a gold forrest where it was constant gold colour meaning that the bright red really popped. Bright red is also a colour that is really difficult to forget. The colours really emphasize the way of fighting for the people you love and revenge. We see at the beginning the colour that really out stand was the red, at the end when Snow stabbed the assistant the leaves turned red as her blood dripped on the leaves, the same colour as the robes the girls were wearing. Therefore I think that the Bright Red stood for being hurt. Snow was hurt that she killed the person she loves and the assistant was hurt because her leader she looked up too died, they both were hurt in a sense of way.
     

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