We talked over the deadlines for the Dissertation and what practical things I have been up to.
I'll have to continue with the environment studies as these went incomplete this week. I struggled a bit with them but I will continue.
We spent a lot of time discussing the concept of the project in terms of the theory and Case Studies. I felt a bit more inspired this week, I seemed to start understanding a bit more what it is I'm actually interested in.
I saw some videos like the one below at the end of last week which were quite inspirational.
I like the everyday nature of the premise: a man going about his day when suddenly he's thrown into this situation. The VFX establish quite a lot as well as benefiting from having a touch of the spectacular.
As I've stated, I started to feel like the ideas of diegetic and perceptual realism could be a way to drive the project forward. I mean diegetic in the sense of the cinematic world being produced, but it may have relevance to the method of storytelling as well.
We determined today that I might be talking a bit much about the production methods when it is the conceptual side of things that interest me regarding VFX.
Films that use VFX more passively don't strictly use them to actively contribute to the concept of the film or themes. I'd argue there are small overlaps as the creators build the worlds before us, but again these would be production method decisions not decisions that add to the concept.
Films like Scott Pilgrim vs. The World revel in their use of effects, and these reveal much about the world and actively drive the plot too.
Lynn confirmed my thought that it would be worth looking into storytelling itself. It was her suggestion that I see if there are any existing techniques in storytelling that I might apply to the VFX process.
So this week my Tasks are:
- Develop a Framework looking at narrative in relation to VFX
- Develop a couple of story ideas and do some thumbnails
- Continue Environment drawings
and next week we will go over these concepts and go over my blog.
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