Ben Bonham FST 302

I had a lot of fun completing my self-portrait.  At the beginning of the project I was really excited and filled with ideas and then I realized I was having trouble sticking with a single idea.  I feel like my self-portrait represented me in the fact that it had elements of many ideas but couldn't just stick with one.  Sometimes less is more.  I really wanted to challenge myself production-wise which I did but I didn't spend enough thinking about the mise en scene.  I knew I wanted to practice using masking methods to include multiple "me"s at home with my girlfriend and dog but I feel like that was just a little random. I'm not really sure what my expectations where but I feel like it all worked out in the end.   For our up-coming music video assignment, I am very excited and confident our group can work well together and I also believe we have a lot of talent in our group.  As the producer for this assignment, I feel the weight ...

After reading From Art House to Microcinema it became clearer to me that local cinema society is important in the development of a progressive cinema industry.   To me, it seems that progress has to happen within a smaller group of people before a larger society adopts it in. I found this article to also be inspiring by the fact it talks about how “underground” cinema is important as well. Considering I am a senior and about to be thrown off into the world, I have been trying to create as many things as possible to practice and prepare myself for whatever lies ahead. Although my ambitions by seem a little far-fetched, I would love to prepare local screenings at my house and offer new opportunities for local film fanatics in my own town. I want to be a business owner one day and I believe this would be a good platform for me to practice as well. For the presentations, I think all three of the presenters did well.   Maggie’s presentation on Marlon Riggs was f...

I thoroughly enjoyed Dylan's presentation on Jan Svankmajer.  I thought Dylan's opening was entertaining and awakening (pun intended) and was also a good introduction to Jan Svankmajer.  I also thought it was ironic that Jan Svankmajer was the Filmmaker given to Dylan, possibly because he may be able to pronounce his name better than anyone else in the class.  Jan Svankmajer seemed to be an extraordinary person with a unique style and set of ideas. I took one sculpting class in high school. Although I thought I was pretty good at sculpting clay, it is definitely underestimated as to how difficult and time consuming it is to make a face look like a face. The detailed accuracy and intense reconstructions of the clay is very impressive to me.  This may be the reason as to what made Jan Svankmajer so interesting to me is because he was obviously talented.    Another aspect about Jan Svankmajer I found interesting was his interest in the grotesque and absurd. F...