Overview on progress filling the map structure
I wanted to see how I was doing on my film by putting the latest stage of each cycle on top of the map/structure of the piece. Getting close to the end only a few weeks before picture-lock.
Tag: MFA Thesis
Causal Loop Diagram
Found this wikipedia article on causal loop diagrams and thought of the parallel this idea seem to have with the map I’ve created to structure my film. This is helping a lot to find ways on visualizing how things develop in time on such systems. At the end this is what I am trying… Read more »
Jules Engel – "Accident"
I first saw this film during my first year at USC in Christine Panushka’s animation history class. I usually get excited to see animation by independent artists but experiencing this one projected from a film print was very moving and inspiring. I was fascinated by so many aspects of what seems to be a very… Read more »
Clint Eastwood – "Gran Torino" (Man up scene)
Here is a wonderful scene from Clint Eastwood film “Gran Torino” that comically illustrates an interesting idea in which Thao is being thought how to talk and behave like a “man”. What interests me is how vulgarity can be both synonymous of great understanding for the other, honest friendship and at the same time violent… Read more »