Your blog makes it clear that you're picking up on all the various themes/relationships between the brief, the 'unhomely cinema' and your own creative project - and your dust-sheet concept is strong; in composition terms, you might want to consider your use of foreground more; having seen Halloween on Monday, you would have noticed how John Carpenter really used the interplay between foreground, midground and background to create a voyeuristic and suspenseful tension throughout. Your concept painting keeps all the furniture in the 'middle' of the space; I wonder how the feeling might change if you were to put your 'audience' more within the objects - a more immersive and subjective stance? That is not to say that mid-distance can't have its own effect of 'hush' and 'silence', but you might want to explore it.
Another aspect of your environment to resolve is the time period of your scene; is it a post-war 'country house' as in The Others - or is more modern - or is it older than the 1940's? It's important to know this, because giving your digital set a time and place and prevent it from becoming to generic; from your drawing, it rather suggests that this is an old-fashioned room filled with old fashion things - I know you say you 'didn't want to use many references', but I'd argue that it is vital that you know do so to give your space the necessary crediblity; everything from the right width of floorboard to the right pattern on the wallpaper, to the proper proportions of the fireplace...
Please see the next 2 posts for general advice re. the written assignment.
Online Interim Review 15/12/09
ReplyDeleteEvening Jolanta,
Your blog makes it clear that you're picking up on all the various themes/relationships between the brief, the 'unhomely cinema' and your own creative project - and your dust-sheet concept is strong; in composition terms, you might want to consider your use of foreground more; having seen Halloween on Monday, you would have noticed how John Carpenter really used the interplay between foreground, midground and background to create a voyeuristic and suspenseful tension throughout. Your concept painting keeps all the furniture in the 'middle' of the space; I wonder how the feeling might change if you were to put your 'audience' more within the objects - a more immersive and subjective stance? That is not to say that mid-distance can't have its own effect of 'hush' and 'silence', but you might want to explore it.
Another aspect of your environment to resolve is the time period of your scene; is it a post-war 'country house' as in The Others - or is more modern - or is it older than the 1940's? It's important to know this, because giving your digital set a time and place and prevent it from becoming to generic; from your drawing, it rather suggests that this is an old-fashioned room filled with old fashion things - I know you say you 'didn't want to use many references', but I'd argue that it is vital that you know do so to give your space the necessary crediblity; everything from the right width of floorboard to the right pattern on the wallpaper, to the proper proportions of the fireplace...
Please see the next 2 posts for general advice re. the written assignment.