Sunday, 12 October 2014

Presentation 1

I delivered a presentation on the progress of the project to the class and it went fairly well.
The meeting with Lynn certainly helped to get to the bottom of some things and I think this came across.

The hardest thing for me, as I've stated before, was simply trying to articulate for myself and others why it is I want to investigate VFX as a topic.

To summarise my presentation: 

  • I find the use of VFX in TV and Film makes the experience that more believable to the audience
  • James Cameron described it as "The seduction of reality"
  • Stephen Prince talks about this in his book (subtitled the same name) - describing VFX as more integral to the core narrative of film than people may think
  • To look at the extension of reality - expanding real life locations.
  • Compositing into images/video objects and items.
  • Historical dramas etc are good for reference in how they alter real locations into different time periods
  • Final piece will probably take the form of an environmental piece.

To sum up the feedback given, Brian talked about the presentation and the different levels: how I talked through philosophically about the parts of making things more believable before going on to talk about the genre interests I like and adding to real life.  To him, the key now was to think about what it is I might want to be saying and trying to communicate that/make people believe that.

Lynn described the idea of trying to iron out the pipeline while carrying out practise

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