Writing Assignment: Asterios Polyp

I think the strong aspects of the author's voice in Asterios Polyp is definitely the use of purple/blue, as well as the integration of various little bits of geometry and other isometric forms of art.
On top of this, David Mazzuchelli likes to use the different fonts for the different people, as well as shifting the style of the panels to really read to the viewer what is going on.

My favorite examples of this is when Sterio and Hana argue/talk and it goes into the isometric forms for Sterio, and the sketchy, form-ish figure drawing style for Hana. The use of only three or four colors per panel, with the majority of them being blue/purple/pink is very indicative of this specific voice.

The integration of various forms of Greek mythology is very strong with this artist's comic, with it melding very well with the main character and the side characters that they encounter.

Author's Voice : Maya Deren

I'm writing this assignment on Maya Deren, which is who I chose to watch three films of.
The films I watched were:

- Meshes of the Afternoon
- At Land
- Ritual in Transfigured Time 

While watching these movies the thing that was always in common for me that I noticed were:

- There was always a blank, strange sort of opening when it came to starting the film out. Some sort of bizarre act would occur.
- They were all in black and white.
- They all had very lovely soundtracks.
- Each film had a very dream-state trance-esque feel to the films.
- There was a lot of symbolism with the themes of these movies.
- They all had a woman as the star of the film.
- There was a lot of abstract symbols and characters in the films. (Character with a face for a mirror in Meshes of the Afternoon)

Her voice seems to always have a sort of dream-like quality to her movies, as well as trying to tell a story with some form of self expression or feelings about a certain way things are going in a relationship, or in life. She loves to use symbolism for these movies especially, adding to the dream-like quality that always occurs in these films.

List of things in Common with Jim Jarmusch films

- Almost a film noire-like thing in all the films
- Two are black and white for that false old-look
- Have very moody or depressing themes/tones/attitude
- Teeter on the line of being almost too real of a situation
- There's always some sort of couple relationship in the movie
- Very complicated characters that have their own thing going on
- Multiple stories going on in one film (though sometimes only two stories)
- Traveling and running away from things
- People being put out of their elements
- Significant things always happen on the corner of a street/intersection
- Characters are all developed by some sort of unfortunate circumstance
- We never really see anything from a first-person point of view, we're always looking at the characters from the outside
- There's always a character that doesn't have english as their main language.

The Goose Father (In-class writing assignment)

Copy-pasted from our Google Docs session from class today.

Order of Things to happen:

• Views of newspaper talking about goose-fathers, Gilho’s daily life, eating junk food because wife/kids were in America, but he was better off with money and planning his life/fortunes. Scene of him hugging dirty baseball mit. Next would be putting out ad for tenant, to help with his lonely feeling.
• Show meeting Wuseong and introduce goose at doorstep.
• Show balcony scene of confrontation between Gilho and goose. Gilho was checking on plants.
• Show scene with pancake and then develop into montage where they start more separate but get a lot friendlier and close with one another.
• Show night going out to drink and do stuff, close moment, show Gilho slapping Wuseong, Wuseong disappears for a day or so. Show empty apartment, then show him getting visas, calling in sick, etc.
• Passage of time, show him drinking with other guys, show him bringing other dude home.
• Show them coming back and Wuseong comes back and he’s sitting on the balcony with the goose.
• Drunk guy tries grabbing goose feathers, gets bit, Gilho has another confrontation with the goose, eventually lets goose go after Wuseong talks to him.
• Gilho wakes up, new moon, sees Wuseong standing on balcony with goose-corpse-mom scene.
• Show visual representation of Gilho coming to terms with loving Wuseong with goose wings enveloping the both of them in a hug for end. To show the end of Gilho’s internal struggle with feelings.

Visual Important things:

• Bright colors for when Wuseong and Gilho are around each other
• Desaturated for when they aren’t around each other
• Normal Actors (Not an Animated Feature)
• Importance of Goose-mom scene, heavy visuals on this scene to imply importance of it.
• Lots of focus shifting for scenes
• Sharp cuts for most scenes; Fuzzy/soft cuts for passages of time.

Visuals (Locations and Theme?):

• Korean based still like original story
• More focused on the romance; less on weird goose corpse mom?
• Show even amounts of the backstory between Gilho and Wuseong since we’re learning about both of them.
• Definitely keep goose.
• Modern time (2016-17); It still keeps economic issues and also common theme of families staying apart and people staying, etc.

Writing Assignment: Costume Designer (Empire Strikes Back)

When approaching a script like this I feel that a lot of the elements of this movie could be very mysterious and strange looking, something that would invoke a sense of not really knowing what kind of creature or alien that the audience is looking at. I would approach this script with costume designs for the characters that would only be 'familiar' on the main characters, or even just the human ones, but for things like the aliens and mysterious monsters, they would have to have some truly bizarre looking designs and things to make them look almost in the realm of uncanny valley.

I would want my costumes to be really memorable, though I feel they might not age that well due to how exaggerated they would have to be to teeter on the realm of uncanny valley.