Jesse Van Dijk

I found this artitst while looking through a book called "Exposé 6". When I saw the top image of the maze it caught my eye, it just look very realistic. Jesse Van Dijk mainly does very detailed digital art.

The Haunting

The Haunting is another film I enjoyed watching. I loved the subtlety of it, I'd hate to see the remake. After watching the film it reminded me alot of a play I saw in London with my old drama group called "The women in black". It performed by two men and it's very much like a ghost story. I was fortunate enough with my Drama group to go there early when noone was in and got a quick drama lesson on scarying people. They showed us how a door can create an atmosphere. The play is incredible with only two characters on stage everything is suggested, there is nothing obvious about it which I feel scares people alot more. I think that when something is all in someones mind it scares them more than seeing things in front of them because they can proves that exists, when its in your mind its alot more scarier. I feel that the haunting has used quite theatrical techniques like the women in black to suggest there being something there when there isn't.

The Night of the Hunter

I enjoyed this film quite alot, it had a very unusual feel to it. I feel like it was best that it was in black and white because it gave the film a painting quality. The nursery rhymes within the film gave it quite an eery feel, although the movie in an old film I never really crossed my mind during the film that I was watching a black and white movie. I know this may sound odd but the scene with the mother underwater was just so beautiful and graceful it was such a silent image but I was shocked at how much it looked like the actress especially when more modern day films that use the same shots, for example in Harry Potter and the goblet of fire they do an underwater scene quite similar, aren't as realistic. I also loved the scene with the kids on the boat it was so calming watching them float down the river. The most amusing part of the film was how the children seemed to be the only ones talking sense seeing as all the adults were being brainwashed.

Essay Film

Okay so some people might think it's typical that I would choose the Nightmare before Christmas as the film I want to explore in my essay but I have my reasons. Just like Edward Scissor hands there are two different sets with very different atmospheres. Most of the film is set in Halloween town which is very dark, the buildings aren't straight just like in The Cabinet of Caligari, it has a more expressive feel. In comparisson when Jack gets lost and ends up in Christmas town the atmosphere changes dramatically. Christmas town is full of bright light and colour and has an all round happy feel to it. The beauty of the film is that the sets are built from scratch, they're not CG.

Labyrinth

Right, I decided to look at the film the Labyrinth because the beggining chapter in my book describes a maze of flowers before getting to the ivory tower. Another reason for looking at this film is because I love the alternative world amongst our own which the never ending story has. I dont really want to look at stills from the never ending story because I want my art work to look completely different and I dont want anything to influence my imgination, so my solution is too look at similar films instead.

The Labyrinth has these sets that gives each part of the film a different feel to it. From the start to the bog to the forest and even then at the beggining in the home. I was trying to see if I could find some concept drawings or film stills but I didn't have much luck.

James Clyne

Right I love the concept art that James Clyne did for the film "Fountain", it's full of forest scenes which I think is quite relevant to the never ending story. The concept art for Fountain seems to come from another world although keeping this realistic feel that we do have forest it's not futuristic but also not natural in some sense. I do wanna find some images from the film "The magic sword: quest for camelot" because the forest scenes from that film are also other worldly but I'll keep posting but I need to read the other chapters.

Unit 2: Space

Right lately I've been neglecting my blog (not good) and scarying Phill lol but I just didnt wanna clash projects but here it goes. I've finally managed to print out my chapters of my book and I have got the never ending story. I've managed to read the first chapter so far and describes alot of forest scenes and labirynths etc so I've been trying to find some concept drawings from the film Labirynth but was unsuccessful and because of the film finding info on the never ending story is abit hard because this from the film come up so may have to resort to the library.