In this season we get to know these women a little better. They are not just harmless women who have been locked up and are only capable of knitting and crochet (although they do have great skills at this). These are dangerous women, more dangerous than many of the other inmates. Remember, Litchfield might have major faults in its administration but it’s a minimum security facility. These ladies started off in maximum security and have been moved up for good behaviour. Yes they look frail and helpless but they must have done something once to get themselves locked up for so long! We get to see this in action in Season 2 Episode 9 when Frieda, Irma and Taslitz attempt to threaten the kitchen crew in order to obtain food items that had been promised to Red by Gloria. At first, Flaca and the rest of the kitchen staff don’t take the threat of a couple of elderly ladies seriously until they are held at shiv-point. It is then that it dawns on both the inmates and ourselves that these women are bad-asses, they are capable of some scary shit (chopping off their husband’s appendages for one) and they are not frightened to carry out their threats. Indeed, they later discuss how disappointing it is that they are always underestimated just because of their age. However, there are drawbacks to being an OAP (Old Age Prisoner in this case) and we see this clearly in the plan to attack Vee in retaliation for the discontinuation of the gardening club. Taslitz is obviously very capable of holding her own and stabbing someone, it’s just a shame that her eyesight isn’t great and she stabs the wrong person. It’s a wry glance at how the elderly get overlooked, but sometimes they really aren’t as capable as they once were. (https://mrshbookworm.wordpress.com/tag/orange-is-the-new-black/)

When I watched Orange Is the New Black, I did not find the characters in the least cuddly, nor lovelorn damsels wistfully whiling away their time in jail. The show does not for a moment delude you into thinking that the women are anything but criminals, nor does it obscure that many of them are capable of real violence and otherwise fucked-up shit. Think of last season’s portrait of Miss Claudette, a woman who not only was actively involved in the child labor trade, she murdered a client. (http://www.bkmag.com/2014/07/01/stop-trying-to-make-orange-is-the-new-black-about-mens-issues/)

"It is absolutely true that in society, women aren’t seen as being capable of violence to the same degree as men. I’m glad that the author addresses stereotypes like that." 
(http://curryforyourthoughts.wordpress.com/tag/orange-is-the-new-black/)

Anyway, back to my project. This is all related to my project, but I'm concentrating on music. These TVCs are basically going to start out with a female character, doing all sorts of feminine things that they're expected to do in a 50s 60s context with background music that gives out a very feminine feel. This has to be a song from that era though, because it makes sense. Also because songs back then were very nice. Basically everything is going to be very girly, womanly, whatever you want to call it. Ladylike? Yeah, that's probably the right adjective.

And then there will be a 'transition' scene where, for example, they would turn on the radio, or put on a record, etc, the music immediately changes to a heavy rock song by female bands from the new generation. It needs to be a heavy rock song so as to show contrast with the previous song. This will emphasise the whole point. You think women are just pretty little creatures who do all these women-things, but in fact they are capable of being crazy rockstars who make awesome music too.

When the music changes, there will be a series of scenes where I will make use of a lot of pretty little props to show the names of the bands who are performing at the all-female tribute concert. I'm thinking of calling it THE FEMININE COMPLEX. Named after an actual all-female rock band from the 60s. I was also thinking about KITTIE RIOT, inspired by that Russian feminist punk rock protest group who go by another name that's um... sort of inappropriate.

These props will have a theme of course.
The keywords are: 50s, 60s, Patterns, Floral, Bright, Contrast, Girly, Colorful, Retro, Vintage.

I collected some visuals on a new Instagram account I made for this project. I think it helps a lot.

This is a new board I made on Pinterest. You can never have too much inspiration.

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      the idea

I propose on creating a video with complex (keeping in mind that I possess very limited capabilities in this field, after all, I am not an IMD student) editing skills. I am planning to learn these skills by watching a range of tutorials online in the form of videos as well as in written form hoping to actually get the gist of it all. This video aims to inform its audience of the fact that all-female rock bands have existed as early as the 60s. Most people would have probably thought that they had only begun their existence in the 80s, which is not true. This video will be in black and white to act as a, sort--of--visual cue to indicate that this is about something old. This would be an advantage especially in the case where a potential audience only starts watching it halfway into the video as they would know nothing about it, but due to this visual cue, they would at least know something. Apart from this, the girls who will be acting in this video will be wearing costumes from the particular timeframe, with hairstyles and props that will also give hints to the audience. The unique thing about this proposed video is that it will look like it is old due to its black and white state, or --for the sake of sounding professional--due to the Mise-en-scène, but at the same time, it will look current as the overlays will be in color. The video, as a whole, combines old and new visual styles so it would be interesting to watch, along with the fact that it actually has a message. Therefore it is both entertaining as well as informative. I have already showed what the visual styles are going to look like through my inspiration videos on my previous posts. To add, as far as how I am clearly going to indicate that it is an informative video, I think it would be interesting to make it in the style of those classic instructional videos. If you're not sure about what I actually mean... it's these kind of videos:

Trying to start my effort in doing some research about how I will get around applying a similar kind of effect to the video inspirations I've shared in the blog earlier. The first step is obvious--Googling it. I did ask Mr. Ben about what key words to actually use when I come to the point of looking for tutorial videos for these particular styles of 'overlaying' - which I wrote on a piece of paper somewhere (I hate it when I forget my sketchbook on important days). But I do remember him telling me to look up how to properly film with a green screen and editing them out when I come to the post-production stage of the film process. Apart from this, I also seem to remember him mentioning the term  'Colorisation'. Below are some videos that I think are useful for my learning process for this proposed video:

That's all I've got so far. As far as in written form. I found these, which are actually useful. Don't laugh.

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"As movies move further into the digital realm, the job of animating the lightsabers gets slightly easier, but not much. In a digital world, each frame of the movie is scanned into a computer at extremely high resolution so that each frame can be manipulated on a computer screen. To make the lightsabers look real, the special effects artist looks at each frame on the computer screen, outlines the broomsticks, colors the areas and diffuses them (frame by frame by frame...). Instead of being done on a plastic cel, it is all done on separate "cels" in the computer's memory and then merged digitally. However, there is no way to get around the fact that the animator must look at each frame and outline the lightsaber blades one by one."

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Framing/Filming Visual References:
WES ANDERSON


http://youtu.be/gYMfEKELveQ
(THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Featurette: "Creating a Hotel")

http://youtu.be/7wTcFeSYQ18
(Mise En Scène & The Visual Themes of Wes Anderson)

http://www.123inspiration.com/centered-an-exploration-of-wes-andersons-symmetrical-film-styling/
(Centered, An Exploration Of Wes Anderson’s Symmetrical Film Styling)




Stocks I may want to use:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unPzw8qSu0E
(TV White Noise Sound Effect)



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkyZuUNQRNc
http://youtu.be/i-Yys0rhPNQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDR3hSeQ8pk





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In this season we get to know these women a little better. They are not just harmless women who have been locked up and are only capable of knitting and crochet (although they do have great skills at this). These are dangerous women, more dangerous than many of the other inmates. Remember, Litchfield might have major faults in its administration but it’s a minimum security facility. These ladies started off in maximum security and have been moved up for good behaviour. Yes they look frail and helpless but they must have done something once to get themselves locked up for so long! We get to see this in action in Season 2 Episode 9 when Frieda, Irma and Taslitz attempt to threaten the kitchen crew in order to obtain food items that had been promised to Red by Gloria. At first, Flaca and the rest of the kitchen staff don’t take the threat of a couple of elderly ladies seriously until they are held at shiv-point. It is then that it dawns on both the inmates and ourselves that these women are bad-asses, they are capable of some scary shit (chopping off their husband’s appendages for one) and they are not frightened to carry out their threats. Indeed, they later discuss how disappointing it is that they are always underestimated just because of their age. However, there are drawbacks to being an OAP (Old Age Prisoner in this case) and we see this clearly in the plan to attack Vee in retaliation for the discontinuation of the gardening club. Taslitz is obviously very capable of holding her own and stabbing someone, it’s just a shame that her eyesight isn’t great and she stabs the wrong person. It’s a wry glance at how the elderly get overlooked, but sometimes they really aren’t as capable as they once were. (https://mrshbookworm.wordpress.com/tag/orange-is-the-new-black/)

When I watched Orange Is the New Black, I did not find the characters in the least cuddly, nor lovelorn damsels wistfully whiling away their time in jail. The show does not for a moment delude you into thinking that the women are anything but criminals, nor does it obscure that many of them are capable of real violence and otherwise fucked-up shit. Think of last season’s portrait of Miss Claudette, a woman who not only was actively involved in the child labor trade, she murdered a client. (http://www.bkmag.com/2014/07/01/stop-trying-to-make-orange-is-the-new-black-about-mens-issues/)

"It is absolutely true that in society, women aren’t seen as being capable of violence to the same degree as men. I’m glad that the author addresses stereotypes like that." 
(http://curryforyourthoughts.wordpress.com/tag/orange-is-the-new-black/)

Anyway, back to my project. This is all related to my project, but I'm concentrating on music. These TVCs are basically going to start out with a female character, doing all sorts of feminine things that they're expected to do in a 50s 60s context with background music that gives out a very feminine feel. This has to be a song from that era though, because it makes sense. Also because songs back then were very nice. Basically everything is going to be very girly, womanly, whatever you want to call it. Ladylike? Yeah, that's probably the right adjective.

And then there will be a 'transition' scene where, for example, they would turn on the radio, or put on a record, etc, the music immediately changes to a heavy rock song by female bands from the new generation. It needs to be a heavy rock song so as to show contrast with the previous song. This will emphasise the whole point. You think women are just pretty little creatures who do all these women-things, but in fact they are capable of being crazy rockstars who make awesome music too.

When the music changes, there will be a series of scenes where I will make use of a lot of pretty little props to show the names of the bands who are performing at the all-female tribute concert. I'm thinking of calling it THE FEMININE COMPLEX. Named after an actual all-female rock band from the 60s. I was also thinking about KITTIE RIOT, inspired by that Russian feminist punk rock protest group who go by another name that's um... sort of inappropriate.

These props will have a theme of course.
The keywords are: 50s, 60s, Patterns, Floral, Bright, Contrast, Girly, Colorful, Retro, Vintage.

I collected some visuals on a new Instagram account I made for this project. I think it helps a lot.

This is a new board I made on Pinterest. You can never have too much inspiration.

x

      the idea

I propose on creating a video with complex (keeping in mind that I possess very limited capabilities in this field, after all, I am not an IMD student) editing skills. I am planning to learn these skills by watching a range of tutorials online in the form of videos as well as in written form hoping to actually get the gist of it all. This video aims to inform its audience of the fact that all-female rock bands have existed as early as the 60s. Most people would have probably thought that they had only begun their existence in the 80s, which is not true. This video will be in black and white to act as a, sort--of--visual cue to indicate that this is about something old. This would be an advantage especially in the case where a potential audience only starts watching it halfway into the video as they would know nothing about it, but due to this visual cue, they would at least know something. Apart from this, the girls who will be acting in this video will be wearing costumes from the particular timeframe, with hairstyles and props that will also give hints to the audience. The unique thing about this proposed video is that it will look like it is old due to its black and white state, or --for the sake of sounding professional--due to the Mise-en-scène, but at the same time, it will look current as the overlays will be in color. The video, as a whole, combines old and new visual styles so it would be interesting to watch, along with the fact that it actually has a message. Therefore it is both entertaining as well as informative. I have already showed what the visual styles are going to look like through my inspiration videos on my previous posts. To add, as far as how I am clearly going to indicate that it is an informative video, I think it would be interesting to make it in the style of those classic instructional videos. If you're not sure about what I actually mean... it's these kind of videos:

Trying to start my effort in doing some research about how I will get around applying a similar kind of effect to the video inspirations I've shared in the blog earlier. The first step is obvious--Googling it. I did ask Mr. Ben about what key words to actually use when I come to the point of looking for tutorial videos for these particular styles of 'overlaying' - which I wrote on a piece of paper somewhere (I hate it when I forget my sketchbook on important days). But I do remember him telling me to look up how to properly film with a green screen and editing them out when I come to the post-production stage of the film process. Apart from this, I also seem to remember him mentioning the term  'Colorisation'. Below are some videos that I think are useful for my learning process for this proposed video:

That's all I've got so far. As far as in written form. I found these, which are actually useful. Don't laugh.

+

"As movies move further into the digital realm, the job of animating the lightsabers gets slightly easier, but not much. In a digital world, each frame of the movie is scanned into a computer at extremely high resolution so that each frame can be manipulated on a computer screen. To make the lightsabers look real, the special effects artist looks at each frame on the computer screen, outlines the broomsticks, colors the areas and diffuses them (frame by frame by frame...). Instead of being done on a plastic cel, it is all done on separate "cels" in the computer's memory and then merged digitally. However, there is no way to get around the fact that the animator must look at each frame and outline the lightsaber blades one by one."

---------


Framing/Filming Visual References:
WES ANDERSON


http://youtu.be/gYMfEKELveQ
(THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Featurette: "Creating a Hotel")

http://youtu.be/7wTcFeSYQ18
(Mise En Scène & The Visual Themes of Wes Anderson)

http://www.123inspiration.com/centered-an-exploration-of-wes-andersons-symmetrical-film-styling/
(Centered, An Exploration Of Wes Anderson’s Symmetrical Film Styling)




Stocks I may want to use:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unPzw8qSu0E
(TV White Noise Sound Effect)



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkyZuUNQRNc
http://youtu.be/i-Yys0rhPNQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDR3hSeQ8pk





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