D&AD Film Brief

 

 New Graphics Brief- D&AD Create 3 film posters in the style of a director. My chosen director is Texas born Wes Anderson.  

 

Wes Anderson’s style is unique and absurd. His films often don’t have a plot or a fully understandable story but they are always a 100% joy to watch.  Every second of Anderson’s films are like a perfect photograph, the camera work and direction makes every scene a beautiful one and that is something that I feel is pretty unique to Anderson’s style.

The Grand Budapest Hotel – 2014

Something that is very unique for The Grand Budapest Hotel is that fact that it changes aspect ratio according to the time period the film is in at the time. Not many people will notice this format change but I think one thing Anderson is is a perfectionist, it doesn’t matter than people will or won’t notice slight changes.

Moonrise Kingdom – 2012

All the characters in Anderson’s films use language that seems to be individual and unique to each other this is something i think i could use when create the film posters. The brief is focused around typography so I think using each character’s way of speaking could form a poster.

The image created with different coloured words and letters.

 

The colour Pallets of Wes Anderson Films

City Centre Ruins – 2018

2018… (A cynical person’s view of the aftermath of 2017)

My entry to the Ferens Open Exhibition 2015. The title of the image is 2018, i.e. year after the city of culture. This photo reflects the views of the cynics and the haters. Hull as a post apocliptic waste land after all the glitz, glamour and money has gone…. Not that I think this will be the case at all.

The image is created with own images and 4 copy right free source images. By creating the landscape with real everyday images I think it creates a certain believable realise that drawings and paintings might not have.

Taking around 30 hours the images where placed and manpulated using photoshop and a LOT of groups and layers.

A2 Print

Within my photography I like to create surreal, odd, magical scenes with locations that people still recognise. My main drive for doing this comes from often I hearing that Hull is boring or uninspiring and dull and I guess within my work I’d like to prove the bored, uninspired haters wrong.

(And also I absolutely love creating my own manipulated realties).

 

 I think the themes of this work could both fit in with the everyday and also gothic.

Everyday = Using everyday images to create a work.

Gothic = Decay, dread, ruins melodrama & mistrust.

 

 

18th Century Gothic

The age of enlightenment started in Western Europe in the 18^th century. It was an intellectual movement focused on reason and science in philosophy and the study of human culture and the natural world. People at this time believed that knowledge leads to fulfillment and happiness and that religion was only superstition. Science requires proof therefore it can be believed unlike superstitious religion.

An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768

Not everyone agreed with the age of enlightenment (or also known as the age of reason). Reason was about law, order and hierarchy. Philosophers Vico and Herder could see the problems, the rationalists needed the irrational to survive. After all you can’t have rational without irrational and so Gothic was born.

Gothic loved rebelling established authority, it was the opposite to the age of reason. Gothic focused on subjects such as power, decay, dread, anti God’s law, schlock, melodrama, mistrust and sado-masochism.

Decay 

In architecture a fascination for old ruins and new ruins made to look old. Then moral decay, bodily ruin and emotional ruin.  Ethical decay, today we have graffiti, terrorist bombings and ruins of shops and businesses failing.

Saturn Devouring His Son – Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 1821

 

Dread 

Dread was believed to encourage fear and therefore respect. The Gothic embraced autocracy. It thrived on monsters, vampires and the evil within. The opposite to what the age of reason wanted.

The Nightmare – Henry Fuseli – 1781

 

Anti God’s Law and Sado-masochism 

Fetishist decoration and mutilation of the natural order. Domination and submission, master and slave, superiority and inferiority.

We are Making a new World- Paul Nash 1918

Juliette a novel written by the Marquis de Sade. Published 1797

Schlock 

The gothic style perused schlock for its own distinct atmosphere, vocabulary and furniture.

Melodrama & Mistrust

Dramatic, theatrical, fantastical and staged.  Gothic yet again is everything that the Enlightenment age was trying to avoid.  Everything is false, nothing is real or what it seems to be.

Sleeping Venus – Paul Delvaux 1944

David Emin – The Modern Art Mouse.

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Tracey Emin on being told that her bed isn’t art –

” just screamed louder and said yes it is, its my art”

I liked this idea that by being an artist you can clam anything is artwork, so I took it to the extreme and had fun with the idea that if I were an artist I clam everything as ‘Modern Art’.

And to make sure that everyone knew these things were modern art I began to put sticky notes everywhereeeee!  Buses, walls, people, signs, pretty much anything I came across had been given the title of Modern art.

Shortly after my sticky note escapades I came across David Shrigley‘s work and loved his tongue in cheek attitude.

Well within a few days it was my cousin’s 16th birthday and she give me the task of getting her something different, that nobody else would ever get her. Of course I accepted this challenge and immediately searched eBay for a taxidermy creature.

 One of my favourite works by Shrigley was the animals with signs, and what could be a more perfect gift for a girls 16th birthday?! And yes I know that this idea isn’t original and is stolen from Shrigley but as a gift I think it is fun and had to be done.

And of course I named him David Emin to honor the artists that I stole from to create him.

The Sense of Self

In the book Philosophy bites again Galen Strawson and Nigel Warburnton talk about ‘The Sense of Self’

 

“’Know thyself’ was a popular aphorism with the ancients, but it isn’t that clear what this means. What is the self? Is it fixed? And should we spend our lives trying to uncover its nature? Is that being true to oneself? Or is the self, as the existentialists believe , something we create and revise as we go along? And what is the link between the self and character?” – David Edmonds asking the question of what is self?

 

Strawson on character says –“ Imagine that you are wearing pink spectacles through which you view the world, and you just assume the world is pink – it doesn’t occur to you that you’re wearing pink spectacles. I think your own character is a bit like that. It’s something you see the world through, and so it doesn’t really feature as an object of experience for you. It just conditions everything and it’s invisible to you.”

 

Warburnton- “and yet people around you are likely to make all kinds of attributions about your characters and believe that you’re an angry person, or that you’re a kind person.”

 

Is our own sense of self in other people’s opinions of us? I think if this was the case it would be a very superficial self. Our character changes depending on who we’re interacting with, where we are and what is happening. So how can anyone really get a full sense of who we truly are on character alone? I don’t think so.

Yorkshire Tea Landscape

For the YCN graphics project Yorkshire tea would like to promote itself to a younger target market by re-imagining their product, concept or design.

When I see Yorkshire tea packaging the landscape make me feel at home, relaxed and calm. It gives off a sense of tradition and old fashioned values.  I think it could be the old fashioned feel that is preventing the younger buyers, but also I can’t completely over look the loyal older buyers. Hmmm.