Can’t believe how fast time has flown and that year 1 of MACA is halfway through already! We’re now going to be starting the LIAF project, a client based project, where we will create idents for the 8 competition programme in groups.
I spent part of the Easter break working on my Unit 1 assessment because I took an extension and part of it taking a break that was much needed. I am now ready to move on to the next exciting part of this course! After doing some research over the past day or so, I have narrowed down my choices to two competition programs, Playing with Emotion and Being Human.
I really loved the 2020 ident that my peers made, which I thought was appropriate considering we are artists too!
This is a 2019 entry for Playing with Emotion:
I thought this film was really interesting with a very unique idea! It talks about the problems of global warming and how humans continue to ignore it, but by way of an emotional story of a heartbreak. The visual combination of live action and 2D is seamless, so much so I didn’t realise that the fridge that features is actually a cut out of a real one!
From watching the trailer, I was really intrigued by the story and the style of animation, it has a very quirky style to it and we can find out pretty much straightaway that its about social media. I wasn’t able to watch the entire film of 21xoxo, but I did find this amazing article about the film and what the thought process of the directors were behind making this film! The interview was conducted with the directors by Skwigly magazine. I’m just going to leave the link here: https://www.skwigly.co.uk/sine-imge-ozbilge/
I have also been inspired by Surrealism and Pop Art in general, two very colourful and fantasy driven art movements that have become a fundamental part of my artistic expression. From Dalí to Dorothea Tanning, Warhol to Claes Oldenburg. My appreciation for these forms of art brought the desire to work together with other intriguing contemporary creatives. The two upcoming Belgian artists Kasper De Vos and Wim De Pauw generously collaborated on the live-action scene with their striking artworks the sandwich ‘Smoske’ and the painting Shape of Things to Come. And last but not least, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Alice is for me a recurring inspiration and guides me through most of my artistic endeavours. You can see her presence also in my previous film The Three Ring Circus.
An excerpt from Skwigly magazine’s interview with Sine and Imge Ozbilge
This is such a beautiful film! I love that it explores the life of a single character throughout and that its very clear and concise! The music really adds to the emotion of this film; has a really sad but happy tone to it. When I first watched it, I got the understanding that she is someone who lives alone and is easily scared of people/has some form of social anxiety and that she finds peace with her plants. It is sweet that after she has passed, people bring back the flowers for her as a tribute, showing that her love lives on and she isn’t forgotten!
This was an incredibly touching film based on a true and very horrific story about the violent girl crimes that took place in California. The drawings are very striking with the red (usually noted as a sign of danger) attracting the audience’s attention to the girl (based on Xiana Fairchild). It’s such a moving film that explores how we are sometimes unaware as to what’s going on in someone else’s life and how scary this world really is. People we come across every day that we pass off as normal or just another stranger can actually be someone who is dangerous and that thought itself scares me, that we actually never really know who we live next door to.
Just a note that this video is age restricted and is for mature audiences only! I watched this film as I was going through the list of 2019 entries for the Playing with Emotion competition programme. A very quirky film based on a very mature topic. I liked the style of the animation but personally I thought the story was a bit too much for me. The topic of infidelity was explored in a very unique way and I think because culturally, I’m not very open to these kinds of films/genres, it makes it a bit hard for me to like these sort of films.