Wednesday 30 September 2015

Notes on Locke


  • Using fades despite time not passing
  • yellow and blue
  • welsh accent not perf
  • Whilst talking to mistress hand brushes against face - showing wedding ring
  • Wife being nice - football, sausages, son answers phone - family
  • male voice calming hysterical female on phone
  • help for heroes on outside of car - goodness on outside
  • police car whizzing past illustrating speed limit
  • Ivan corrects 10 years to 9 years
  • describing on phone ' im here in the dark in our bedroom'
  • Driving away from usual responsibilities
  • slip of concrete like his relationship mistake
  • when puts hand to his face see wedding ring 
  • he supporting her in her weakness fear
  • both work and family breaking down
  • cant control people
  • bethan has gas donal has cider - everyone going out of control, putting themselves in the hands of substances
  • instructor pacifier
  • angry on his own - never on the phone, maintains around other people
  • straight unending road in sat nav
  • 'you have a call waiting'
  • wont say i love you
  • 3 different situations can't be stopped
  • uses previous rep
  • dad in back seat - a;ways behind him
  • only voices not faces
  • silence of shock
  • his son loves him
  • ends with baby cries
  • his children end the film - lost everything else

Monday 28 September 2015

Grading Basics

Gamma - shadows

Pedestal - mid tones (over tone)

Gain - highlights

Sunday 27 September 2015

Wallace Stevens

Where from:

  • Pennsylvania

When:

  • 1879-1955

Interesting Facts:

  • Harvard
  • lawyer
  • worked at insurance company until death
  • inspired by romantics

Themes:

  • duality
  • sensual experience
  • anticlerical, aesthetical

Works:

  • Transport to Summer
  • Harmonium
  • The auroras of autumn

Saturday 19 September 2015

Ideologies in GoFighting


in Episode 11
  • Sponsored by brands - drinks bottles
  • Use new 'virtual reality' software
  • Haung Lei given more info than others - information creating heirarchy
  • Mole within the police - bringing everyone else down - would be stronger if putting needs of group over individual
  • water fight - moments of brevity between info - underlying brotherly bond
  • outside law/army as special agents
  • tv is branded
  • wang xun as weakest gets teased
  • 'transportation'
  • traitors creating tension amongst audience
  • using each other to distract guards
  • using authority as celebrities
  • Discussion of how much the guards earn - leads in to Hong Lei taking control over them
  • Force of personality
  • gets clue from prisoner
  • Have to sneak past/outwit guards, disguise as workers
  • keeping look out
  • clue in chinese calligraphy
  • have to snitch on others
  • show interrogates themselves - show not managed by person/single presence
  • police using physical methods

Wednesday 16 September 2015

Charlotte Bronte on Jane Austen

she rejects even a speaking acquaintance with that strong Sisterhood; even to the Feelings she vouchsafes no more than an occasional graceful but distant recognition; too frequent converse with them would ruffle the smooth elegance of her progress.

Tuesday 15 September 2015

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver

Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.