Artefact 3 – My 15 pictures about ‘Spectacle’

28 11 2008

I like travelling, I had been to many places in China. And I like the buildings, different buildings will give you the different feeling. Actually I like any kind of the view, because I think i can make them a photo, and each of them will has a story.

This is my second time in UK, in Coventry, I like the church and the buildings in Coventry, I think they are different from China Hangzhou(my hometown), I think Coventry is so lovely. So I had took a lot of pictures of Coventry.

And i had been to London, Birmingham and Stratford and so on. I think there are some differences bettween these cites.

Place: Coventry, London, Birmingham, Stratford

Camera: Nikon D80

Tool: Photoshop CS2





Artefact 2 – My 15 pictures about ‘Power’

15 11 2008

Generally speaking, ascendence and money is most powerful in the society. Of course there are so many other things are powerful. Just like love, lilies and roses, purpose, and charity.

If the ascendence and money make the world cold, the love and charity can make the world warm and peace.

Our love and charity incarnating on many side of the life. You love your parents and lover, you love your pets, you love your job, and so on.

Not only people have power, the animal have their power too, they’re lovely and cute, and very devout.

So, there more and more people keep pets, more and more people protect animal.

My artefact this time are the pictures of cute dogs. Just feel their strong power. If everyone love them, take care of them, everyone is a charity people. The world will filled with love.





Idea of 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

15 11 2008

This the best part of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony in my opinion. When i first saw this, i was consumingly convulsed. The idea was sooooo cool. This part was showing the stationery and the landscape in China from ancientry. It use a huge picture as the stage, and showed the crockery, bronze, and the other age-old’s things in China thousands years ago.

Then the dancer walked in to the picture, use their body as the brush, dancing and drawing. on the other stage there was a executant playing the Gu zheng, a kind of chinese musical instrument. The chinese music with the picture and the dance make up the final picture, a contracted landscape. So great.





Idea of advertisement

15 11 2008

This is a advertisement of Honda car, I think it is so perfect for it’s idea, although it takes 2 minutes, but i will pay attention to watch it. In my research, this AD has no stunt in it, every shot is ture. The producer took hundreds times of examinations, then the AD came out.

It uses the accessorys of a car to show the car’s capability, after the 2 minutes, the Honda was showing on the TV, bring forward the theme.





Black fairy tale – Little Otik

14 11 2008

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Director: Jan Svankmajer

Cast: Veronika Zilkova Jan Hartl

Footage: 125min

Year: 2000
 
Based on an old Czech folk tale.

Karel and Bozena are a married couple, and they desperately want a child. But it have been unable to conceive. One day, Karel is digging up an old tree stump when it occurs to him that the roots look a bit like a baby; He brings the stump home and carves it into the image of a child. They name their new child Otik. Bozena’s maternal longings transform the stump into a living creature with a monstrous appetite that can’t be met with baby formula. Otik begins eating stray animals and even people……

Jan Svankmajer was born in Prague, 4th September, 1934. He loved surrealist film from he was studing in the school. Then he studied the Europe puppet show, the living theatre, poem writing, and the film production, and so on. His artefacts always using any kinds of element: bread, wood, crockery and so on..

‘Little Otik’ is one of his famous films, it is not only a surrealist film, but also a animadvertion film, very bitingly and profundity. It reflect the human’s desire and the other relism issues. Everyone do everything in order to get what himself or herself want. Just like Karel in the film,  she always protect Otik, she knows Otik eating people clearly. And the girl in the film, she just care about the sex. And the father in the film, he hadn’t kill Otik, because he think Otik is his son, although Otik has no kin with him.

We can find the love and the seamy side of people in this film.

And Jan Svankmajer hadn’t use the high-tech of cartoon produce in this film, he just want to show the actual side and compact menu. He took a lot of close shot and close-up, just want to give the viewer to see the Otik clearly. Not just see Otik, but see the love and seamy side of people.

I think this film make me unhappy, but indubitability it’s a good film, for the way of production and the conceive of Jan Svankmajer.