WOAH THERE!!!!

THE SWEENEY

This amazing peice of moving image was by the great Will Sweeney I've been a fan for a long time but not as active as i'd like!

FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL

missed it! AMAZING TRAILER

THE CLANGERS

WOMBLING FREE

Wasn't keen on the wombles as a kid, but can now appreciate it's brilliance!

FOR ME?

This couldn't be more relevant to my project or myself and my interests if it tried! and it's trying hard. I gasped so loud when I found this in the library, I had to restrain my joy.

ART ATTACK!

It's all gone a bit art attack, which I LOVE

Haha It's not the same without Buchanan.
I used to love Tony Hart too.TRACY ISLAND!

BACK TO BASICS

I have been researching elements of Mise-En-Scène in order to understand and make better choices. I do not want to create something that is too dark but then in animation B i do want an element of darkness. I have looked at this book by John Gibbs and selected parts of case studies in order to help myself with different elements of Mise-En-Scene. I've done a lot work around this in the past but it's nice just to refresh my memory so I can get clearer ideas of specifics in my head rather than just going off and picking up a camera not necessarily thinking about what i'm doing...



This is an early and famous example of a piece of film which demonstrates concepts of Mise En Scene successfully and clearly to it's audiences. It's a horror film from the 1920 directed by Robert Wiene.

The demonstration of Mise En Scene is just as important in Animation. Here's an example of an animation from a similar era, which i feel encompasses a good sense of Mise En Scene...


From around 4 minutes in there's some really nice closeups of the characters and scenes of a forest or jungle. Although it's black & white and can't project colour at all, it still uses other areas of Mise En Scene to evoke empathy with the characters and a sense of their surroundings. I particularly like around 6:20 where Betty Boop dances next to the waves with the sunset in the background. It's framed really nicely and doesn't have to have much movement in the background as she takes up most of the shot with her dancing

"Is anybody lookin'!?" Awww, amazing.

STAY AWAY FROM THAT TRAPDOOR

...'Cause there's somethin' down there!

What was down the trapdoor? I can't remember. Amazing animation but it only ever last about 5 minutes. This is a whole episode!!! It's actually pretty amazing for 5 minutes long! Its such a good little story. I like the mixture between illustration & 3d stop frame in the intro. The voices too, is Burke from Dorset? haha

HOLY MOLARS!

Found this 'Gourmet Paper Mache Fishwichwich" (what?) on Youtube. He's amazing. Awful music though, "DanMonster Man". Get up to date a bit and he'd be a sensation! ha. he would, i think.