Unit 3: Online Green Light Review

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Online Greenlight ReviewNicholas Baker

Unit 3: Environment

14/12/2011



Freud –The Uncanny

• SummaryThere was one quote from his essay that did interest me and gave me some ideas to go down a routeof a frightening and uneasy tableau vivant-style scene. “All one can say is that what is novel may well

prove frightening and uncanny; some things that are novel are indeed frightening, but by no meansall. Something must be added to the novel and the unfamiliar if it is to become uncanny”. (Freud, TheUncanny , 1919). This is the approach I would like to go with throughout my thumbnails andthroughout my progress to give and unfamiliar meaning for it to be uncanny to some of my ideas. Ilike the idea of something that shouldn’t be there even if you could see it or if the audience can feel

it. I have some ideas here are some of them:



Associated Artists

• Sven FennemaFennema is one of the associated photographers to my project by how her work has a major

relevance to what I am aiming for, her work is mainly about photography of lost places, for example

houses, hospitals, prisons. The way she perceives things and brings them to photos to me screams

uncanny for its something's out of place or something shouldn’t be here feel.



• Stanley Kubrick - The ShiningThe other artist that is associated to my research is Stanley Kubrick's production design for the

Shining. The way the hotel gives off an odd nightmarish feel for its long and huge corridors, the

colour patterns and lighting give it some sort brightness for such a place of evil with that twist, butwith these thoughts of a safe place it has an anonymous feel of dread to each scene of the corridors

or the elevators, I thought it would be good as another idea for my thumbnails just in case the

nightmare atmosphere does not work.



Visual Concept MapHere is my main

Visual Concept map

this map ranges

from the abandoned

buildings interiors of

the hospital,

hallways and

stairways.



Key ThumbnailsHere are my key thumbnails which I think are the strongest out of the ones that I have designed so far, I

know I need to do more but with the ones I have designed I am happy with but I’m always open to opinion

to improve my work.



Written Assignment Intro

• Uncanny: “having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond theordinary or normal; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeingtrouble”. (Uncanny, 2011). This assignment will be based around the investigation of theterm ‘the uncanny’ to Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ Sources include; Sigmund Freud’s ‘TheUncanny’. This will help get an understanding of Freud’s views of uncanny to compare tomodern day films and the film industry. Another source is; Michael Ciments interview withKubrick about the Shining. This goes into depth about the imagery and reasons for theproduction design for how it is and how it physiologically affects the audience. The final

source is; Michael Arnzens ‘The Return of the Uncanny’ . This will go into the physiologicaleffect in general of uncanny and how we perceive it as humans. With these sources theywill help to answer how uncanny has improved the film industries productions designs andhow successful it has affected the audience.

• Bibliography

• Arnzens, M (1997), ‘The Return of the Uncanny’ http://paradoxa.com/excerpts/3-3intro.htm (Date Accessed: 14/12/2011)

• Freud, Sigmund. (1919) ‘The Uncanny’ . http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf (DateAccessed: 14/12/2011)

• Kubrick, Stanley. (1987). (Interview by Michael Ciment , 1987) http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/interview.ts.html (Date Accessed: 14/12/2011)

• Uncanny. Definition 1. (2011). In: Dictionary.com.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/uncanny (Date Accessed: 14/12/2011)

http://paradoxa.com/excerpts/3-3intro.htm

http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/interview.ts.html




http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/uncanny







http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf






Creative Partnership

Jamie Tibbott to Me: “Nick! get some more stuff up on your blog!!! i want to see some ideas :(... please? :D”

(08/12/2012, 1:22pm).

Anita Gill to Me: “Hey Nick, your Photoshop and Maya work looks good. what kind of ideas have you got for your

project? I found the list of websites and artists on the brief really helpful. I'm not sure if you've had

a look at them yet or not :)”

(11/12/2012, 4:21pm).

Me to Jamie Tibbott: “Heya Jamie i really like thumbnails 10, 23, 29 and 36. If you are still going for that

nightmare approach to your work, a real fog scene with the wood panel fence would be

good, give the idea of a swinging gate in the fog, gives a spooky and unwelcoming feel to it :D.”

(12/12/2012, 12:44pm).

Me to Jamie Tibbott: “Heya Jamie, you're texture designs are coming along really well, I like the way you have

added the texture of rust to the road sign of the smiley face, gives it humor and yet a little

disturbing with the rest and the soulless eyes starring at you, good work mate.”

(12/12/2012, 12:45pm).

Me to Anita Gill: “You are showing everyone up with those texturing skills off yours lol loving the frame work if you

had like a Victorian house or maybe that sort of frame in a modern house living room that would

be odd and take the audiences attention straight to it, good idea for a thumbnail unless you

already have something like that lol :) btw i will have work up soon for you and Jamie to assess,

sorry for taking so long about it.”

(12/12/2012, 12:51pm).



Additional Work

• Photoshop

http://n1ck124.blogspot.com/2011/12/unit-3-photoshop-session-10.html


• Reviews

http://n1ck124.blogspot.com/2011/11/film-review-innocents-1961.html

• Maya

http://n1ck124.blogspot.com/2011/12/unit-3-maya-session-10.html























































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