Lit Episode Set References

Windmill:

Steamboat:

Also so much free clip art: http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/index.htm

Vegetables

Oedipus

Like veggie tales, but sort of disturbing?

This uses characters with minimal movement and no expressions to convey a dramatic story. The vegetable puppets move with a sense of weight that's really nice, especially in the fight scene and the tavern place. The lighting in the tavern is really nice, too!

painted people, puppets, personalities

Alexa Meade paints people on people. Athena in the literature episode? Maybe more?

Also, shadow puppets!

Also also, here is a list of 16 personality types which we might use as a jumping off point for our two main characters.

link!

My suggestion:

Oscar: ESTP

Friendly, adaptable, action-oriented. "Doers" who are focused on immediate results. Living in the here-and-now, they're risk-takers who live fast-paced lifestyles. Impatient with long explanations. Extremely loyal to their peers, but not usually respectful of laws and rules if they get in the way of getting things done. Great people skills.

Lucy: INTP

Logical, original, creative thinkers. Can become very excited about theories and ideas. Exceptionally capable and driven to turn theories into clear understandings. Highly value knowledge, competence and logic. Quiet and reserved, hard to get to know well. Individualistic, having no interest in leading or following others.

Thoughts?

Image Sources

The Communication Arts Department apparently gives its students access to a couple of huge artwork imaging databases: This is the VCU page explaining the different sites. I'm not linking to the actual sites because I think there's some hoops you have to jump through to make sure you're allowed in - just check them out via that ^^^^ link. 

There's ARTstor, which is something the school (as a non-profit?) gets access to, and the VCU Digital Image Databank. There's also the Cabell Library stockpile of art books and book art.  The VCU DID appears to be not just an image source but also a program for presenting images as well... idk. 

Anyway, these are probably super-handy things that we have access to - getting images from a legit website/database is a reassuring option compared to google searching things and hoping we're allowed to use them and that they haven't been tampered with. Plus, maybe whoever's in charge of these two things would be able to help us wade through any copyright issues?

yay school resources!

Paintings as Backgrounds

We haven't discussed the technical aspect of scenery building very much, but these photoshopped paintings are exactly what I had in mind.

We should

-find high resolution scans of paintings (which we'll have to do no matter what)

-decide if we want to

-print the paintings out and arrange them in mock 3d for our puppets to explore

-figure out how to do this in photoshop or and use a green (blue?) screen to place the puppets into the scene or

-do something else?

-decide when to tour the van gogh wing of imagination world. wow.

The slideshow continues here>> http://www.artcyclopedia.com/hot/tilt-shift-van-gogh.htm

How did everyone else see the paintings represented?

Winnie the Pooh

Forget the Disney version--I'm talking about the original text by A. A. Milne and the illustrations by Ernest H. Shepherd. I recently found a copy of the complete stories in my house, and I think that it's a great resource for us.

More Excellent Color

Rice Boy by Evan Dahm is an epic webcomic, as is Tiny Kitten Teeth by Becky Dreistadt and Frank Gibson. Both use bright colors really well, particularly to emphasize the different moods of different locations/events/characters. (In Tiny Kitten teeth, I'm talking more about the storyline pages than the random single-panel paintings of Tigabuttah & co. You'll see what I mean if you follow the link :)

Examples after the jump.

Surface/Texture/Color

Brendan Monroe:

Cynthia Camlin:

Also check out:

Brian Bress.

http://www.brianbress.com/

He's coming to VCU in the Spring as a visiting artist in AFO.

Pilot

Matt Notes:

Ok, so think of the first episode as your "pilot." It can be longer than the other episodes (think: "The LOST 2-Hour Season Premier Event" so it fits better into the Short-Film Category and feels less like TV. 20 minutes would be great.

I'm curious about the timing of the Film Festival. When do you submit the film? When do you find out if its accepted? I'm assuming its not a guarantee. There's a jury? Do you know what percentage of submitted films get screened? And when is the actual event?

I'd suggest trying to talk to faculty in KI and Cinema about the permissions question at the very beginning of next semester. I spoke last night about it with my contact who knows a little about this issue, but she was unsure. You should have a list of which artists/works you would want use, and how you want to use them. Try to figure this out between now and when we meet next.

Here's a link to my friend's project that you might find interesting:
http://www.vibrantfuturesmovie.com/ The website component itself is worth considering.

Also, look at the early works of Tony Oursler.
You can get these from the VCU Library:
Cabell Media and Reserves DVDs PN1995.9.E96 O853 2007 DVD Loan
Cabell Media and Reserves DVDs PN1995.9.E96 O855 2007 DVD Loan
plus any books on him.

And here is a fun animation link that Liz King just sent me:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_rifkin_on_the_empathic_civilization.html

Also, look at old episodes of:
Land of the Lost
Captain Kangaroo
Pee-Wee's Playhouse