Julia Walker

Julia Waker teaches Art History at Savannah College of Art and Design. She explained "Modern Architecture" is bad for the environment. She suggests we should build with materials that are environmentally conscious.

Shahzad Roy

Shahzad Roy attended MCA.

In Pakistan, it is not common for men in his culture to make art or have no beard or mustache.

42 lashes and five years in jail is the punishment for the possession and consumption of alcohol in Pakistan.

Shahzad plans to run for election in 2013.

People got on his case for projecting western values.

Filming and editing

Filming was long and tiresome, but successful with a few breaks. Didn't really have any problems with the shoot, which was good. It helped to refer to the rehearsal footage as a did the final shoot to help move things along. Personally, I think the film is quite humorous. The attack scene was the hardest to shoot, but it is my favorite part. Now I look on to my final edit and getting this thing wrapped up. I can't wait to be finished. It's been a lot of hard work.

Rehearsal Notes

Rehearsing went pretty smoothly. I felt very comfortable just working with my camera and getting ideas out my head for once with out worrying about equipment. Moving the pumpkin around without hands and fingers being seen wasn't too hard. I need to buy some of those long, yellow dish-washing gloves for the pumpkin to use as its own hands. At the end of the shoot, the hand-held camera approach worked out effectively b/c it need a lot of point of view shots towards the end. The slashing scene is pretty chaotic so it all worked out with hand held. My actor was in reality freaked out by a knife being jabbed towards her, so I think her fear will appear valid in the final piece. For that scene, I'm thinking about how I will do the sound. I will record sound as I film, yet I may have to record extra sound for when it comes time to edit screams and such. I need to find a way to make fake blood and create a fake cut on my actor's face. While filming the carving of the pumpkin scene, I noticed that pumpkin juice oozes from a cut to its flesh. I really want to get a neat shot of that in my film. After rehearsal, I already know where I want my lights to be. Even without the lighting and with a crappy camera, the footage looked really interesting the way it was lit. I will definitely be referring to this rehearsal footage as a storyboard and guide for my final shoot. I had a lot of fun rehearsing, and I'm looking forward to the final shoot.

Bill Plympton

"The Bill Plympton Show" was awesome. It was the most inspiring and interesting lecture I've ever been to.

I learned that cheap, short, and funny is good as it is good to "keep it simple."

Plympton grew up in Portland, Oregon.

He moved to New York City and became an illustrator.

He learned how to think up ideas fast and draw fast.

In 1985 he directed and drew his first animated film Boomtown, a blend of humor and draftsmanship.

His work was a big hit and he made big hits on MTV and all over the world.

He tried live action films but they flopped horribly.

I am interested in his style, the simplification, and the extreme angles he uses in his animation. As Plympton stated, I believe animation is the greatest art form there is because in animation you have total freedom and no limitations. "You gotta have the passion. You gotta have the love for it," says Plympton.

I know I do.

really rough story board part II

really rough storyboard

really rough story board is subject to change

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