Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Time distortion


  • The movies seems to happened in a really long time compare to the entire movie had been put into just two minutes
    • Hitchcock distorts time by using many pan shots to make the length of the movie longer, showing from place to another at the same time showing different actions happening at the same time. 
    • He sometimes use connection cuts during the conversation of the characters in the movie. 
      • ex: Hitchcock shot at one of the window and back to Jeffries face and then to another window and so on. That would make the scene seems longer. 
    • Compare to the clip of the entire movie had been put into just a two minutes long. If it wasn't Hitchcock editing, the movie would only last for 2 minutes. 

Thursday, 6 March 2014

Textured container



I first formed a cylinder with a mold. Then slip and score to connect the clay together. I used some of the texture square and also hand decorate to create the decoration on the container.


 The glaze that I used for my textured container body was Albany Slip Brown first layer and another Albany Slip brown layer for the half top container. 


I was thinking about making something fun for my container lid so I made a short braid to go on top of the extruded parts. The glaze for my lid was double layer of Smokey Merlot. 

Tuesday, 4 March 2014

"Movement" - Dirty Harry

A short clip from the "Dirty Harry" movie was about two man, one with a gun chasing the other (the injured one) in a stadium. The tension is built up even more in the dark night.

In the beginning of the clip, there were a few scenes where the two were running toward the camera. The camera was placed at a low angle when the injured one running by to show that he was moving fast. He was moving toward from the left to the right down the stairs. The camera was staying still except the director used a little of a pan shot and that he then moving away from the camera to emphasize he was running away and in fear. In the other hand, when the man with a gun moved toward the camera, the camera was placed just a little lower than a point-of-view angle and he stopped right in front of the camera showed that he was probably slower and moving behind the injured man.

The man with gun became more significant while the other became less significant toward the middle of the clip because the man with gun tend to only ran toward the camera while the other ran away from the camera.

Toward the end of the clip, the injured man was shot with a stationary cam and a long shot when he was running down the field. Based on what Giannetti says in his book, the longer and higher the shot, the slower the movement appears to be. After he got shot, he felt to the ground. Then, the camera was only placed at a high angle showed his lack of power. In the end, it was greatly ended with a helicopter shot flew away from what was happening showed the empty stadium in darkness covered by a foggy sky.

Monday, 3 March 2014

Pinch Pots

 Organic - High fired

I turned my pinch pot into a slanted pot with a few flower pedal on top.

Bellied - Low fired


This is my favorite out of three. I like the color it turned out to be as well as its shape. It was pretty symmetrical. I used some low fired glaze to decorate my pot and then i coated with a clear glaze to my pot. 

Footed - Raku fired


I added a little foot a shape of a cross. I like the green on this pot; however the burned smells really bad.