Kinetic

William Kentridge is a South African artist whom has done many things involving, prints, illustrations and animated films. truly an inspiration.

Currently on stage one for our new film project, me, Rachel and Lily have been discussing the storyboard process, along with the script I’m currently writing up. 

We’ve come to a solid conclusion that it’d be inspired by 1920s silent films especially Charlie Chaplin, my legend and idol! I’m very excited for the official outcome. Though it’d not be professional, I think it’d give it a touch of our own. This will be mainly a comedy!

Based on the 1986 horror novel by Stephan King and 1990s movie, interest sprung worldwide as the 2017 ‘IT’ movie was released, thousands and millions of cinemas being filled with excited Stephan King and IT fans, me being one of them.

 Seven young outcasts go on a journey to overcome each of their fears as a shape shifting evil clown, Pennywise, emerges from the sewers as he does every 27 years to prey on young children. The film begins with Bill and Georgie, brothers who met an unexpected terrible fate, as Pennywise got to Georgie before anyone else could. With that, Bill was determined to find his brother, along with six more determined kids.

 At first I wasn’t quite sure on what to expect when I first stepped foot into the 4DX showing, I was sort of expecting an exact cover of the 1990 film, but this time with moving chairs and steam. But throughout the showing, I was surprised to find myself being pretty much glued to the screen at all times (the only time being distracted was when the chair itself jolted forwards giving me multiple heart attacks.) When I’m glued to a movie, you know it’s good, because I get distracted and bored easily whilst watching movies.

 By the end of the showing my almost immediate reaction was ‘I NEED MORE’ A reaction you’d never get from someone with a short attention span. The movie as a whole was a wild rollercoaster with many plot holes that would be filled with either angst or horror, over the span of 2hrs and 15 minutes you’d get a pretty big snippet from each of the kids from the loser club, which I thought was insightful as I adore fictional characters and learning about them. My ending views on the entire thing, was mostly positive, as the emotions were nicely spread amongst the plot itself. There wasn’t too much thrill, too much humour, too much angst etc. Which I thought layered the whole thing out nicely- Just like a cherry on top.

As I started using a dslr camera to record the process of my eggtastic stop motion video, I found it unusually easy to use at first, but it soon became a pain as it would lose focus whenever the egg was slightly moved off to the side. But overall it was pretty simple if you read the instructions and such, as was taking quick shots of a each frame.

Stop motion is a form of animation in which you are able to psychically manipulate an object to make it move, and when you put all the photos together you can see it gradually move, which is altogether very Intriguing and very time consuming. 

An example of a very famous stop motion will be Coraline, an 2009 American movie based on the novel by Neil Gaiman, The film took an almighty 20 months to produce.

Most of my posts, reblogs etc, are indeed GIFs. 

So what exactly are GIFs? Some people under a rock may eventually... ask. 

It’s a computer file that is used on the Internet for sending moving images. GIF is an abbreviation for 'Graphic Interchange Format'.

An example of a GIF I made a while back, see how it’s infinitely looping back to the beginning, so it’s far from a video.(The animation itself is incredibly old, pls don’t judge.)

GIFs can come in many different styles, from artistic to humorous the possibilities are endless :D