I really like this video, such an interesting idea, and it makes me think more about what I am doing in the videos which I create.
I too have hand held props, which are quick and easy to produce, and do the job- but they add more personality I feel. I like that the hands can be seen turning the numbers and holding the words along the bottom.
If I'd have seen this video sooner, my work would be rather different, and visually better. Although I have thought about most aspects, I forgot about the backgrounds, until it comes to the production part, where I make changes using Photoshop if I need to, but I could have done so much more. There would have been backgrounds, as at the moment I just have plain white screen behind me, there would have been more thought going into the idea behind the work.
I will use this video for developmental ideas or future recommendations.
Clap Your Hands
All of Sia's music videos are experimental and visually stunning, but this one is my favourite; I think that is down to the puppets.
With shows such as BUG and The Countryman, Buxton is a comic genius;
creating characters, inventing personalities and voices for YouTube users, finding comments which are hilarious, but made even more so when Buxton highlights the spelling mistakes and pointlessness of them! Visit his website on the link directly below,
or to look at the
BUG MUSIC SHOW TEASER TRAILER, click the second link below.
This is a quick video from one part of the show, really amazing technology, allowing people to contribute towards a music video, drawing onto the original stills from the video.
Visit to Redbrick Mill, 218 Bradford Rd, Batley, West Yorkshire WF17 6JF.
The Rimini ceramic range was created in the early fifties by Aldo Londi, the former art director of Bitossi. These desirable pieces of design are characterised by their irregular texture and vivid blue colouring. The Aldo Londi animals are handmade by ceramist masters and coated with precious glazes. Small imperfections that may be noticed are a proof of the hand processes involved in the manufacturing.
In preparation for my own spot advert, I am researching which TV adverts I remember most, looking at the differences between them, picking out which parts work best, and duplicating these in my own advert, in my own style.
Since I have chosen 'Freederm' spot products to use in my film, I will start with this brand.
2008
I am most drawn to the illustration section in this advert, I assume this has been produced using stop motion, which is what I use in my videos.
2011
What I like most in this advert is the guy holding up the screen and the spot is animated through it's 'cycle', something that I am trying to achieve in my work.
2013
This newest advert from Freederm keeps my attention as it seems to be telling more of a story than previous adverts. The screen/page turning effect is great, and makes me feel somehow more connected, as if we are all part of the narrative, which I'm sure they are trying to achieve, as I am within their target market age.
I like this advert for it's characters and their cheekiness.
'Clearasil Pizza Face'
This one has the voice over which ALL films these days seem to include on their adverts, a deep and dark voice, bouncing off of the young teens voices, I like this contrast in sound..
I came across this video whilst looking for other spot treatment adverts, its great!
I am unsure about whether its intentions are to make people laugh, or if they are purely to make us, the consumers, realise what actually happens in celebrities/models photo-shoots, but that's beside the point. It is a brilliant way of making women feel better about themselves, and a fresh outlook on what is currently occurring in the media.
Here are some artists which I made note of in the back of a sketchbook,
but forgot about until now.
From London's National Portrait Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery and The Cartoon Museum.
Sylvia Sleigh
Sylvia Sleigh was a Welsh-born naturalised American realist painter. Sleigh was born in Llandudno, Gwynedd, Wales. After studying at the Brighton School of Art, she had her first solo exhibition in 1953 at the Kensington Art Gallery.
At The Turkish Bath, 1976 Oil on Canvas 76” x 100” Collection of The David
and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.
Felicity Rainne Reclining, 1972 Oil on
Canvas 42.5” x 60” (107.3 x 152.4 cm) Private Collection, New York.
