This could be your final chance...

This SATURDAY (5/8) @ 4pm DSC documentary classes THE APPROACH is showing @ The
 Eccles Fine Arts Center as part of DocUtah.  Please cpme out and support local film makers. 

Visceral Response

This is one of the most effective movie posters I've seen.  When I first saw it hanging on the wall at the movie theater I was awestruck by it.  Using the Gestalt principals I believe I know why.

 The picture for the most part is dark, but when I first look at it my eyes are drawn towards Captain America's face, then the star on his chest, the title of the movie, and finally the red of the shield.  This is an example of the Law of Continuity.  The eye follows the smoothest path available.  It does this because of the brighter colors used in these areas of the image.

The Law of Closure is the biggest principal at work here.  First we see it in the shield.  Almost half of the shield is cut off of the poster, yet we know that it is disk shaped shield.  Also the star on it is cut off, but we recognize the shape immediately.  Moving up to Captains head you see that the the top of his head is loped off, but again we fill in the missing information.

The finale thing I want to point out is the contrast in colors between the background and Captain America as a whole as well as the shield.  The difference in color makes Captain really stand out, also making the most iconic element, the shield, stand out even more.

I love this poster and was actually lucky enough to have the very one that I first saw.  It now waits for the day that I have an office to frame and hang it in.

An Awful Movie.

Monday night I had one of the most awful experiences in my life.  Because I work at a movie theater I am privileged to see movies in advance.  However, this week I chose to watch The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure.  Now some of you might be saying, "Why the heck would you do that?" Well, in recent weeks I have watched movies like Diaries of a Wimpy Kid and Step Up: Revolution, and they were great.  Okay, the movies aren't great, but the atmosphere I watch them in is.  A group of co-workers yelling out funny comments through out the whole movie. But this movie was so bad even that was lost.  To boot it had some great actors casted in horrible roles.  The most notable one is Christopher Lloyd.  I fell that he needs to get in the DeLorean travel back in time and stop himself from doing this movie.

Location, location, location.

This weekend marked the next big step in my Capstone project.

I went to our family cabin up in the woods to take location pictures of the two cabins and forest around them for my movie this weekend.  It was a lot of fun up there with my brother and uncle.  The best part was being in that environment really got my creative juices flowing.  I must have spent hours just wondering around our tiny cabin placing imaginary props and playing out the movements of actors.
When we got up into the woods the scenery was exactly what I needed for the scene I had written.  The big opening inside the trees with a small ravine to one side, inside the ravine an overhang where roots have created a shelf of dirt deep enough for someone to sit in, it is perfect.  So now that I have talk some much about how great these locations are, I guess I’ll tell you a little about the movie.

“A group of college students intrigued by an Internet video of a Skin-walker attack find themselves stranded in the mountains with a crazy old hermit.  After an unexpected turn of events the five must fight their way out of the hermits cabin and past the Skin-walker.  But, when facing the supernatural with little understanding of it will the determination to survive be enough?”

I’m so excited for this movie to become a reality.  I hope that anyone out there is excited as well.  I can’t wait to get my cast and crew up there for some great times.  Thanks everyone for your support and interest.

My first movie trailer.

I think that I may have a knack for music video editing.  Hopefully it crosses over to narratives.