Hotel Chevalier

I know we're not anywhere near film compositions, but iTunes is offering "Hotel Chevalier," a short film by Wes Anderson for free.  

It's meant to be a prologue to The Darjeeling Limited film, but as a standalone, contains some fantastic use of color and shot composition.  The one section that really caught my eye (and sort of fits with our current theme of transformation in class) is around 3:30 with the horizontal moving camera right after Natalie Portman enters.

As a warning, there is language and nudity (nothing terribly graphic) so if you intend to download, be aware.

I'm sharing this now-rather than later-in the off chance that they stop offering this for free.

Here is the link to get it (provided you have iTunes installed).

On Gregory Crewdson

As you prepare to extend your single composed images to five image sequences, check out this Boston.com slideshow from a recent shoot by Gregory Crewdson. Crewdson is notorious for large-scale expensive shoots that result in a single image.

Assignment for October 4

1. Join class blog if you have not!

2. Sequence #1: Revisit your Composition #1 assignment by extending the idea within the image to a five image sequence to present in class. Stretch yourselves!

Tuesday evening make-up class

Okay -- it's looking good for our Tuesday evening make-up class in Ryder 460 at 7:45 pm.

I've confirmed with two out of three people, so I will update this post with final confirmation.

Again -- we'll keep it to one hour.

And THANKS all for being so flexible when you hardly know me!

UPDATE: I've confirmed with all "powers that be" so we will be meeting at Tuesday. Please bring your composed images.

Images from first class

If you want to look at the composition examples from last night's class again, you can view them on my del.icio.us page at:

http://del.icio.us/ravidjain/DM3225_01

Assignment for September 27

Reading: "Principles of Two-Dimensional Design" handout from Launching the Imagination.

Assignment: Composition #1: Compose and shoot images that convey the theme of “transformation”. Choose one image to present in class.

Email me so I can invite you to join this blog.

Our "official" class page

For what it's worth, the official listing of our class.

Syllabus posted

I've posted our syllabus at:

http://ravijain.org/dm3225/