Friday 16 January 2009

Digital Environment Project - The Concept Art Showing My Intention

I had the flu and have only come back to do the crit so at home i did not have photoshop or a pen pressure tablet so i was unable to create something up to alot better standard although i am very proud that i managed to created a piece like this without the use of photoshop, pen pressure and a table

Digital Environment Project - The Essay

The Uncanniness Of Replication

- Relate to freud
- Explore both positives and consequences of replication
- Explain why they are uncanny
- Explore all different types of replication - dolls, money, guns, props

Digital Environment Project - Original Idea Tests

The kitchen with a look through to another kitchen or a reflection




A Corridor where there are lights but no sources

Thursday 15 January 2009

Digital Environment Project - Chosen Idea and Development

I chose to developed the idea of boxes in the middle of nowhere because I think it has the most mystery behind it.

I have decided to change it in many ways

- I have taken out the road
- The boxes have become possessions but without a home unlike boxes usually mean are going to a home
- The possessions have been laid out in the form of a house as if someone lives there

Digital Environment Project - Original Ideas


- A kitchen looking to a kitchen – you will not know if a mirror , a hatch or a window



- Road in the middle of a desert leading to a pile of boxes – what do they contain and why are they there





•A room with what it looks like 2 windows but they contain different scenes so one must be a picture and one must be the actual window


•A cabinet of weapons open with a doll stand without a doll and a shadow on the floor – is it the doll fallen or the owner

Digital Environment Project - Analsis of Uncanny Films

The Birds – that was totally uncanny in my view as there was absolutely no clues or definition of why it happen, I thought that it could have been something to do with the dead dad and god and him controlling nature to make sure his wife is always looked after but then why would he want his son to be unhappy. I thought this as it only started happening when the women became involved in his life but there was no proof. The things that made it uncanny was the unusualness of the idea and the timings of the scenes containing the birds and this keeps you in suspense throughout the whole film.

Walkabout – I found the story actually quite good but what made it uncanny to me was the cutting to snip-its of our scenes then returning e.g. when the aborigine cut up the animal but it cut to a scene of a butcher. I think the whole film is showing the uncanniness of how many things are similar between man-made civilisations and nature.

Picnic at hanging rock – I did not find this film uncanny apart from them taking the trip to a place that is not exactly that good ; it is muddy and overgrown and it is a private school so they surely would be able to afford a lot better trip. This is the only part as it has a perfectly plausible plot and gives across clues and ideas about what happened and to me it just feels like an unfinished film that is in production.

Long weekend - I found some parts of this film uncanny because the some parts of the film did not go with the expectations i had of what was going to happen. I thought overall though the film had a good plot as we never see the point of view of what we are harming which I suppose is uncanny because it has been juxtaposed

Digital Environment Project - The Uncanny

The uncanny is when something is familiar yet it is foreign at the same time,
resulting in a feeling of it being strange and making you feel uneasy and
uncomfortable.

Things that are uncanny to me - opposite to expectation / juxtaposition
- open doors and windows
- shadows
- missing objects
- objects that shield identities
- extremely enclosed or extensively open
- unnecessary items
- unclosed