Proposal

Name:

Hollie Smith

E-mail:	hs109802@students.leeds-art.ac.uk

SUBJECTS OF CONTEXTUAL RESEARCH ALREADY UNDERTAKEN

Level 4:

Semiotic Analysis of Characters in The Simpsons

Level 5:

Value of Digital and Analogue drawing techniques

AIM AND/OR OBJECTIVE OF YOUR PROPOSED C.O.P.3 PROJECT

Analogue and Digital Visual Effects in Film and TV

1.     What research needs to be undertaken into the general and specific contexts of your practice? Watch a variety of movies and TV shows with varying types of visual effects throughout history of cinema, where it began, where it is now and everything in between. Watch commentaries Watch videos about effects, cgi, props, how they did famous scenes that were pre-cgi, Find texts about visual effects in cinema, academic, ones about value of image Drawings relating to research

2.     What approach(es) will you take and what processes, methods, materials and  tools  are to be involved in research into your practice?

Drawing things from films to start Perhaps making visual effects through analogue means of my own Combining analogue and digital again, in response to the combination of the two in films

3.     What preparation or investigations do you need to undertake for your creative practice to take place?  I will start by researching prominent instances of visual effects and milestones, and then I will watch these movies.

4.     What research do you need to undertake regarding who your creativity is for? Research what movies people are watching and like, and where fans think that effects have been notable in a movie. Fans of  movies, especially ones who consider the effects in great detail and perhaps have an interest in how visuals are made on screen.

Primary Sources of Information
1.         Description	See movies
Location	Cinema, my house
2.         Description	National media museum
Location	Bradford
3.         Description	London film museum
Location	london

Secondary Sources of Information
1.	Watching movies from past, now, and combo effects
2.	Researching fans opinions of effects on forums and in videos
3.	Books about effects in library
4.	Look into illustrators who make work about films and see how they work with existing visual imagery
5.	Imdb and other moderated film websites
6.	Film commentaries, interviews with directors and special effects people

Perceived problems or difficulties: What to draw that’s not just drawing film scenes. Similar problem to before of working with existing visual imagery to make visual imagery.