What I watched today

Today I have watched a documentary about Annie Leibovitz.
The reason why I was watching her documentary is so I can have a bit more understanding of perception.
The film show's what kind of person Annie Leibovitz is, what her photos contain and how she became a photographer.
After watching this I felt that I have learnt a bit more about Perception. Which is that photos need to mean more than just pictures, they need to tell a story or talk about the subject. But all of this is about the meanings in photos, what people think about when looking at them? And how does it make them feel?
When I was looking at the photos, Annie Leibovitz have taken, I really like how the colours set the mood of the picture, and the outfits the subjects have to were to make the photo that much effective.
All I have to say is that the documentary was really good and I felt it did helped me a bit on understanding perception on photographs a bit more.

My concept art 4

As you remembered yesterday, I posted a picture of this house



Well I did a sketch of it to help me think of the shape of a house, I tried using the two big light to make building out of them for my sketch, but they didn't turned out right so I just drew the shape of the building instead.



I need more practice in making buildings. I also think I need to re-read the story of The House of Usher to give more of the iddea of what the building look like.

My concept art 3

I found this picture in one of my borrowed library books and I now it's not old looking, but I just like the size and the length of the building.
With some editing to making this house look old and Gothic, it will be one haunted house.
sorry for the two whit pillars the took the picture with my camera.

The Haunting (1999)

When I watched The Haunting(1963) yesterday I liked it a lot. So when I heard about the remake I was quite interested to see how different it is to the original. Oh boy was I in trouble.
The story about the film is the same as the 1963 version but with a villain. Huge Crain, the owner of the house, is the one who is scaring people.
This is where the film loses to the original. The 1963 version only villain is the house and it worked because to everyone the safest place is one's own home. Seeing it playing mind games with you is what no one wants, but having Huge Crain as the bad guy made this film too predictable.
When I was watching this film I notice it used too much CG, and I had it admit at points I can see what they were trying to go for making the house as one big life form and it sort of worked, but at times it was silly. Especially the part when the house was trying to have it's way with Eleanor in her bedroom, at lest that's how I see it, and the whole idea of having Eleanor as a savior was stupid, I am dead serious. When see died in the end, she was in a pose like she was crucified. I rather have her as a crazy person. But What I find really disapointing in this film was the way the house look from the outside.



I mean it looks cool but it looks like an entire city or village just merged into one, how can any one live in that I have no idea, and it looks nothing like the poster. This film didn't feel like a horror film it felt like a silly action adventure with some scares here and there.
My advice if you want to see a film that have Owen Wilson in a sucky horror film watch it, other than that avoid it.

The Haunting (1963)

Yesterday I watched the film The Haunting (1963).
The story was about a Doctor who specialise in the supernatural wanted to see if the Hill house was haunted, so he gathered some subjects to see how the effects of the house will effect the subjects.
This film was fun to watch, when I heard it was a horror I thought the was going to be alot of killings, but there was only one. I won't tell you how died, you need to see it.
The Haunting uses a lot of fast zoom in actions, and have the main character, Eleanor, monologuing a lot to herself. There's also a lot of tension between Eleanor and another character Theodora, sometimes arguments and sometime friendly.
What surprises me about the film is that there are only four characters, the Doctor, Eleanor, who feels unwanted by everyone, Theodora, a subject, and Luke, the next owner of the house. There are some other characters here and there, but they don't stay too long.
But what I like most is how the house looks.



When I first look at the house it sort of resembled How I would imagine the Usher Housse, from The Fall of The House of Usher would look like. The structure the appearance and the present of it, all of what I thought the Usher House would be like.

my essay 1

I am still deciding on what to do on my essay, but last night I had a good idea of laying out my ghostbusters the video game essay, so today I was planning it out. I didn't do much I just started a brain storm, but I will work on it more tomorrow.
Here is a scan of what I've done, I also did a small sketch of what the Usher House would look like to me.





Usher House close up



I was going for a haunted house appearance for the house because when I read the title it felt like a horror story, that's was before I read the story.
I tried to give the house it's own character by making it look run down and a bit distorted (leaning to one side), it's just a sketch, but I think I will look at some more haunted houses or houses that reflect the personality of the owner.

help on my essay

Yeah I'm pretty stuck on what to write for my concept art essay.
For the game concept, I thought I could talk about one game that is based off one of my favorite franchises, Ghostbusters the video game. I thought I could talk about the concept arts for the stages and compare it with the in game stages, looking at the changes they made from the concept art, some of my own opinions on the game like what design from the concept they should of stayed in the final design.

For movies I thought I could talk about the black and white movie metropolis and the anime remake metropolis. seeing the different in concept design in buildings and robots, but if I need to pick one of them. I will pick the anime remake because I have watched that one first.

I am also stuck on my perception essay as well. I just don't know what perceptions is. I got the idea of what it is but I don't know how to write it in essay form. What research I should do, or what or how should I write an essay on perception.

I thought of talking to Tracy tomorrow but still I need a little more help on these essays.