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Finally be the final

After we finding our poster be hanged on the wall, we are really happy and can not wait to see what degree we will get. We find, maybe the teacher hanged the poster by his feeling of colors. The same color style be put together.Really happy to see my work be put on the wall———normal stone.

Today i am busy with the submission.

I have to say i have a clear and good plan today, but! It not be finished. Because of the film’s format.

In the beginning, this is my plan: First, go to school before 11.30. Second, go to get the DVD and its case, and use the poster to design the DV cover. Third, print the poster, the DV cover. Forth, ask Mario about the format, make sure of anything is ok. Final, submit anything. Then come home to write more things on my working blogs.

But my plan stopped, because of the format.  At first i choose quicktime, then H264. It is right. But another format i choose quicktime, then uncompressed format. It is really big. My film has almost 20GB. So I go to ask Mario. Because the DVD only has 4GB. Mario finds i does not have the code named animation. But finally i find i have, because it is in chinese and my english is not good, there will have some misunderstanding. Then i choose to come out the animation format. It has 28GB. I can not believe my eyes. By the way, PR stops working during waiting. So i try twice.  When Mario takes me to get the frame of the poster, i ask my curiousy. Mario said it is ok, big or small it depends on the files. But almost one afternoon has passed.

Luckily, i have finished all.

But!!!!! The fast folder also closed, when i finished them. I am afraid tomorrow the time for me to update my film to the school will need much time. Because One video is almost 28 GB.

Steve Cutts

The first time i watched his animation is when i arrived Uk and download the Youtube. I don’t remember which viedo i watched that time but after that video.  Steve Cutts’s short film named Man began to show by itself. And it appealed to my eyes. After watching it, i always think about  the plots of that short film.

So this wasthe first time i began to know his work, but not his name.

After many days, i watched his another short film named In the Fall on the YouTube.

And recently， i watched his another short film named Are You Lost In The World Like Me?

I find they have the same style of drawing, so i want to research them. What amazing is when i am researching them,  i find they have the same animator——————–Steve Cutts.

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Just like the remarks of the magazine above, this man is really good try to use animation to show the ironical situation we are facing now.  Sometimes use animation to show some thoughtful things will be much better. Because animation can exaggerate some emotions, feelings and actions. That will give audience a deeper effect. So let us see, how this animator show ironical situations to audience.

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Virtual Information Time:

With the development of phones and computers, no one can leave digital media products. If someone does not answer the phone and does not update his lives on the Internet, most of people will think this person has some bad things or even died. In the past, we only have fixed telephone in the house, we have to wait for the phone and can not leave the house. That is inconvenient. Now, we are convenient, but there are also many problems.

The animator tries to focus on the people’s numbness and apathy in the real world. And they try to live in the virtual world. They do not care about other people who around them. They try to make themselves look good in the virtual world, not care much more in the real world. This short film has a style of Disney.

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Human and Environment:

This is also a hot topic since we have industry and pollute the environment. But the animator give a new way to show them.

 

The story began in the 500,000 years ago and ended in the future time. There is a man he is always walking in the animation, so happy and relax. However when he is walking, he will do some bad things to the lives in the earth. In the beginning, he stepped on a worm, use snakes to make shoes for himself. With he walking longer and longer, his desire be bigger and bigger. He ask more and more things and lives from the earth. Finally,  he is a king in the rubbish and the aliens come to the earth, they feel angry about this man. In the end, they kill the man.

I really like the way of talking story. Happy characters do bad things make the story more ironical.

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Dull Work: 

This topic is also hot. Because more and more people works like a robot. Their work does not have many chances to think, they just repeat, repeat and repeat. I think this job named ‘robot job’, because you do not know when, you will be instead into robots and lose your jobs.

 

The man accidentally fall from the building. At first, he is afraid of death and want to be saved. But in the fall he thinks about his whole life’s best bits, he find his life be the same after he beginning to work. In the end, he thinks death maybe not bad and peacefully waits for the falling’s ending. So death is not terrible, what’s terrible is boring life. This is a really interesting short film idea.

My short film finally finished

My short film finally finished, my year in this university finished. I have many touching things to say:

I have to say this short film gave me a lot.  I learned many things in China, and the final year i go to this university. In the beginning, i think this will not help me a lot. But when i view back what i have done in the university, the most busy, precious, meaningful time is this year in the University of Central Lancashire.

In china, our class students’ drawing level is not good than other classes. At the same time, one teacher should teach more than 100 students, so we are not be payed attention to. And the way of teaching is not open, the school does not give enough study materials, sources, rooms for students, even it is a good university in China. But it still has some interesting and helpful teachers there, for example, Longjuanjuan teacher. But she is busy. So the teachers like Mario and Pete is really good for us. They gave us a lot advice. And the school although it is small but it really helps students a lot to finish their works.By the way, i really like the sports center, when i am not busy, i often go to that place to have Zumba lessons (a healthy dancing). And it is free. That makes me relax when i am busy on the deadlines.

This film and the last term’s book give me a lot. How to make a plan and follow the plan. Modify works repeatedly, experience many troubles and try to solve these troubles by teachers, classmates, friends, Internet and myself.

My friend ( Amber Zhao ) is really a good ‘friend teacher ‘ for me. She knows much more things than me and has a good taste of pictures. Her advice often make me have a big improvement. My friend ( Cecilia Feng),  she also has a different meanings for me. We often study together. For example, yesterday, we were up all night in the library to study. Her company makes me work hard. You know, fight a battle lonely is really terrible and difficult. She is my ‘allied forces’. Both of them are important parts on my works this year.

This is a really good year, really busy year, really meaningful year. Thanks to them, thanks to my families and thanks to you.

Changings between images

i really like changes between images. And the changes add some interesting sound effects will make the animation be really interesting and powerful. At the same time, it makes the animation has much more imagination.

This film gives a good example of how to change images into images.

I really like this part of this short film, because the line is also changing and moving. It gives the animation a feeling of science. I think if someone want to draw something about science, she or he can use this way to show his plots. Sometimes changes are easy but having dynamic changes is not easy.

If you watch clearly, you will find the changes also need laws of motions. Some thing from the big thing to the small thing, that can have a bomb. And the somthing wants to from big and maybe fat to thin and long( like the snake). It can use pulling, after pulling there should have a rebounding. Just like rubber bands. And if these actions add sounds effects, that will be perfect. I think i should learn more about the laws of motions.

I find many Disney animation have some actions which is cyclic. In this short film, you can also find this. For example, the big shear cut dogs and the soup ladle knock eggs and birds fly otside the eggs. Many examples. That gives the film make more interesting. I think i can try this cyclic animation.

 

Nono-chan

This is also a film by Studio Ghibli, the film was adapted from Cartoonist Hisaichi Ishii. I really like this film. But this film was not a huge box-office success. I think maybe because the audience in that time like to watch the Luxuriant pictures and some exciting plots. This film talks abot the family of Yamada family. This family has grandmother，dad, mom, brother and sister. It is a traditional normal family in the Janpan. 

Just like what you can see from the pictures. This is this film’s style of characters and scenes. The characters keeps a comic style, they have clear and relax lines. The colors all use water color to draw, and the color is not dark or showy.

The scenes also follow the characters’ style. Not complex but clear and has a different fresh, clean, normal feelings. I like this feeling, because this film talks about the normal ,interesting and warm life in this family. This style can make me feel peaceful and simple just like a feeling of home. I think this film really has a big courage to do like this. As we all known, the Commercial film is really popular, but it doesn’t like characteristic and the plots are all look the same. This film like a clean water in the film. And i think, this film is not only for the children, but also for the adult or even older you can also watch this film. Different stages will have different ideas about the topic after watching it. This film uses many clips of this family’s life to show different small topics of the family.

Family is a fusion between men and women, between children, teenagers, adults, old people. This film shows the fusion by these families live together and experience together. There are many warm and meaningful words in different small topics. Some words even can touch you and make you think about family a lot and even cry. So I think this film is a successful animation film, but it is not a successful products. Sometimes because many reasons, some good works will get much more money from the audience, but this just can say they are successful products. If the works can touch people’s ideas, that will be a really different existing.

It also uses the way of voice over. The daughter’s voice talks about the plot and if there has dialogue, there will have different people’s voice. The daughter’s voice is really cute.

I can’t understand the film clearly, but i like the way of talking the story.

This film named The Bow / Hwal, the director and screen writer of it is the same people—-his name is Ki-duk Kim——–a Korean. He is really good at using pictures to talk the story. He has strong personal style of his works. He didn’t get the education of the film making. But he used 10 years to shoot 12 films. Many of them get awards internationally. But his work, maybe because of the topic, he was controversial. 

This film is be classified into plot, love, erotic. But i do not feel anything about erotic, maybe is the old man washed girl? But the pictures are not erotic i think. The story i think talks about a old man and a girl’s story. The old man has two boats, one big, one small. He used the small one to take the fisher to the big boat to fish and enjoy the view of the sea. 10 years ago, he brought a 6 years old girl to the boat. When he found the girl on the land, she was alone and didn’t have parents to company. The old man raised the girl on the boat, instead of that, the girl should marry to the old man when she was 17 years old. The old man’s age just like the girl’s grandfather. He took care of her. Some bad fisher will do bad things on the girl, the old man always uses bow and arrow to make alarms. The girl learned bow and arrow from the old man. She also loves the old man i think. But she never leave the boat since the 6 years old. One day a young man came to the boat. The girl maybe be interested in him i think. I do not think this is love. But the old man is angry about that. The girl began to hate the old man and want to leave. At the same time, the young man wanted to help the girl and fall into love with her. He wanted take the girl to the boat. The old man wanted to die, he wanted to give up killing himself, but the girl also giving up fleeing away. They got married, but the old man finally jumped into the sea, and died. The girl finally left with the young man. This is the main plot, there are also many details plots, for example the old man can prophesy by using the bow and arrow and many other things which have religion significance.

Why i think this film is really good, because there are only some words in the 90 minutes, almost every plot are showing by the actions and eyes. The main characters even didn’t say any words in the film. They look like two mute, but they are not. So i have to say the director is really amazing. And the actor and actress are really amazing. They use their facial preforms and actions to finish all the plots. Really amazing.

The scenes are also not complex, it is only sea and the old man’s two boats. Because they are almost no dialogue in the film, that gives audience a lot of imagination to think about the plot to taste the actions , emotions, things in the scenes and so on. Gave people a big room of thinking. Different people will have different view of love in this film. But you should use a day which you want to calm down and watch works. Because there is no dialogues, so maybe some people will can not calm their heads to watch. So the advantage is also the disadvantage, but it can make people remember it.

The voice has interaction with the animation

Back Then (Dir Diego Porral/ Spain 2016)

Do you remember this short film in the Manchester Festival? I really have a good impression with this animation. And my animation also try to follow this style———-the voice has interaction with the animation or you can also say, the animation has interaction with the voice. That is really good to make the voice has interaction with the animation, because this can make the plot be more interesting and let the audience understand the plot much more. This film talks about the little boy came to ask his father, how you and mom meet? Then the Dad began to talk about his memory, but the mom disturb Dad, because she had a different memory with Dad. Anyway, the plot is really interesting. The film uses the colorful world to be the memory world. So it is easy to distinguish past and now.

I really like the film’s interaction. For example, Dad and Mom have different memory of the dad’s figure and wearing. Dad has a different memory of the Mom’s dress color and her friend. I think Dad’s memory must be wrong, because he put his emotions in the memory and he wants he looks better in the memory to his child. But the process, the mom said no！you are wrong… is really interesting. And the animation is also interesting.