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Week 4 Thursday Lecture Task

Generation – A experimental short film

  • Categorisation

Generation is a unique two-minute experimental animation that manages to provide a thought-provoking reflection on life, while also showcasing how AI technology can be used to good effect. A mixture of animation and dance, soundtracked by a celestial voiceover.

  • Form and Function

Opening on black, as we hear that aforementioned narration declare “and then she opened her eyes again”, Generation then cuts to its lead character, who at first we believe to be a “normal” woman, before discovering she’s actually much more. On the 17-second mark she starts to mutate and it’s just another 10 until she has exploded totally and transformed into an ever-changing jumbles of lights, particles and textures. The voiceover helps us to understand all that she represents, but it’s the combination of all elements of production that make this such a powerful watch.

The artist’s intention was to design a film with an infinite loop. Because of the amount of content in each frame, the author wanted the audience to watch it slowly.

  • Process

The whole short film uses dance as the main subject, the author has made a secondary drawing of the dancer and filled in her silhouette with animation and film footage. This is complemented by the use of AI technology, which is used to create detailed and complex illustrations for each frame.

  • Formal Elements

Generation uses a lot of extended space to control the rhythm of the film, using animation and AI to constantly change the image to present different compositions and colour&light contrasts from second to second. The movement of the dancers and the narration are used throughout the film, but also provide an extremely compelling experience.

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Week 3 Thursday Lecture Task

My favourite film——The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

If the clocks were turned back and the clock turned backwards, a person would go from being born old and decrepit, gradually rejuvenated and rejuvenated, through adulthood, youth and adolescence, until he or she would return to the form of a baby in swaddling clothes and say goodbye to the world in ignorance. What are the expectations of such a life? What are the differences in perceptions of the world and of oneself, and what emotional connections should be made with others?

The seemingly absurd setting, which of course only exists in fiction, provides good material for exploring the true nature of human nature. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, directed by David Fincher, is a film that uses such an inversion of life to illustrate a profound understanding of life, growth, dreams and love.

About 8 stages

You:

Benjamin Button was born on 11 November 1988, shortly after his mother, Caroline, passed away. Benjamin was abandoned by his father because he looked like an old man when he was born.

Need:

Benjamin grew up in an orphanage, curious as all teenagers are about all things new. He met his playmate, Daisy, at Easter 1930.

Go:

In 1936, Benjamin decided to work with Mike Clark on a permanent basis and travel around the world.

Search:

In Murmansk in 1941, Benjamin became infatuated with Elizabeth Abbott, the wife of the British Minister of Trade. Their affair eventually ended, leaving Benjamin heartbroken.

Captain Mike was serving in the US Navy when Captain Mike crashed into the submarine and the resulting explosion sank both. Most of the crew died, except for Benjamin and Rick Brodie who were rescued the next day.

Find:

In May 1945, Benjamin returned to New Orleans. He reconnects with Daisy, who tries to seduce him, but Benjamin refuses and she leaves. Benjamin visits his terminally ill father and learns the details of his birth and family. Before he dies, Thomas hands over his button manufacturing company to Benjamin.

Take:

In 1962 Daisy returned to New Orleans and reunited with Benjamin. Now of equal physical age, they fell in love. Benjamin sells his father’s house and the two live together.

Return:

Daisy told Benjamin that she was pregnant. Their daughter, Caroline, was born in the spring of 1968. Benjamin, believing himself to be too old to be a proper father, sold his assets, leaving the money to Daisy and Caroline, and travelled alone in the 1970s.

Change:

Daisy is now married and Daisy introduced Benjamin as a family friend to her husband Robert and Caroline.

And Benjamin shows signs of dementia. The story of Benjamin, who eventually died in Daisy’s arms.

Breakdown the characters in to their archetypes

Daisy and Benjamin are both dynamic characters

Inside Daisy lived a soft and sensitive little girl. She would spend every weekend with her grandmother, and also the stories would be touched by illustrated tales of the world.

Benjamin, too, had a curiosity about the world at this time, but no one to talk about it, and his frail health limited his mobility. Perhaps Daisy saw a timid longing in his eyes and approached him to learn more about the world together.

This was the beginning, they met as friends. It was mutual acquaintance.

In between Benjamin went to sea, he experienced adventure, war, women. And Daisy dances the ballet and comes out more and more beautiful and dazzling.

Benjamin returns as a handsome older man with experience, and the two men’s astonishment at seeing each other gives the relationship an ambiguous undertone. Benjamin is not like any other male around Daisy, he knows her, he knows her inside out, they have grown up together.

Daisy thought she was the kind of person who valued sexiness in the head more than sexiness on the outside, and her knowledge of the opposite sex made her think that sleeping with Benjamin at this time was not outrageous.

But Benjamin still thinks he’s too old to be with the fabulous Daisy. It was love-shyness.

By this time Daisy had developed a heterosexual crush on Benjamin, and Benjamin had figured out that he liked Daisy when he was young and ignorant of his feelings.

Then later Daisy could no longer dance, which was the first major setback in her life. This setback made her less frivolous and she began to appreciate things she had deliberately ignored before. Including Benjamin’s genuine concern and affection.

They met again. It was no longer just an exchange of ideas, but two young, energetic bodies, full of sexual attraction.

Love was the natural order of things.

Create a timeline for the main character starting before the film start.

In 1947, Benjamin visited Daisy in New York without prior notice, but left when he saw her falling in love.

(Original story line)

After his first love affair and his experience of life and death, Benjamin is determined by his inner choices. When he visits Daisy, he realises that she is in love, but Benjamin is in no hurry. He waits for Daisy and returns with intense affection, and Daisy is impressed by Benjamin’s persistence, and they manage to live together. But thanks to Benjamin’s care, Daisy does not have a car accident, and Daisy is unable to change her frivolous nature. In the end, they fall in love but do not make it to the end. Benjamin misses Daisy in an orphanage while he waits for time to pass. Daisy is separated from Benjamin and finally realises her own inadequacies. After finally achieving the desired success in ballet, Daisy gives up everything in her life to find Benjamin. Eventually the older Daisy and the younger Benjamin spend the last days of their lives together ……

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Week 2 The influence of the core of cyberpunk culture on youth

In today’s society, Cyber culture, as an emerging culture, often has a strong sense of identity and a distinct visual cultural identity. It appeals to today’s youth and generates positive or negative thoughts about them. I will try to analyse and explore the influence of these works on modern young people in different types of works.

Key words:

Youth subculture

Visual culture

Cyberpunk

Self-identification

future world

References:
1.Cheng Q, Xie K, Chen S. Exploration and Analysis of Cyberpunk on the Self-identification of Juvenile from the Perspective of Visual Culture[C]//6th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities.(Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research)(ICCESSH 2021). Atlantis Press, 2021: 123-128.

2.Sun J, Zhou Z. Impact of the Game Cyberpunk 2077 on Cyberpunk Culture[C]//2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021). Atlantis Press, 2022: 640-643.

3.Gottesman Z. Tetsuo and Marinetti: Akira as a cyberpunk critique of futurist modernity[J]. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 2016, 8(2): 104-126.

4.Park C H. Orientalism in United States cyberpunk cinema from” Blade Runner” to” The Matrix”[M]. The University of Texas at Austin, 2004.

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