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This is a whole new and interesting subjectfor me which I’m somewhat fearful of inmy desire to ‘get it right’. Obviously thewhole idea of the uncanny is something

that is out of our comfort zone but it has a

strong logic and psychology behind itwhich I’m using as my driving force. I’vefallen behind my usual standard (due to

what can only be described as Sammy-plague) butit shall not remain so.



I’m stuck between a two ideas. Worriedabout taking one further in case it’snot right. This is my thinking behind

them...

Childs Bedroom: Sound quiteconventional maybe but I wouldn’tstick to the obvious (which would be

like lurking, giant clowns and dolls in aclaustrophobic environment). My ideais that of stillness, time being pausedby a grieving parent. I like the idea ofplacing the ‘camera’ outside of theroom looking in as the room it’s is ‘outof bounds’ and out of reach. I wantthe room to look like a perfect,beautiful room but yet everything is

covered in a thick dust. I introducedthe idea of having a puppet figure asthe focus object. He’d represent theabsent child and so wouldn’t be ofnightmarish design but how he is inthe thumbnails, quite sweet, but in aposition that suggests he’s morehuman than he is.



Train Station: This, if I could

do it really well, could bequite powerful perhapsbut if it falls short it’s quiteboring. The idea is for abeautiful, amazinglyarchitectural train station,I’d use shadow to suggestits busyness but in the

centre or the focus of theimage would be a singlepiece of unattendedbaggage. I thought thatrather than have theluggage red, which wouldbe a bit ‘LOOK HERE’, I’dcompose it so the mise en

scene drew the eyesubconsciously to theluggage and have a redor brilliant white label thatwas face on.



Studying the performing arts I’ve seen, performed and studied different types of theatresome of which are going to be really useful for context in this unit. Just thought I’d do aquick post so you can see the sort of thing already flavouring my Unit 3 work.

The Theatre Workshop

A theatre company that formed post war that is now a fancy training company but myfocus is on their work with Joan Littlewood from 1945 onwards. They performed mostly ina Brechtian style but also know as political theatre... and the politicians didn’t likethem... at all. How they relate to this unit is because of how they worked. When theywere creating a new production mostly they established an idea for a scene thenimprovised around the idea. But a one of their methods was to take an image they hada certain look or feel to it (like a Tableaux Vivant) then they’d position themselves intothat tableau then improvise a scene from that. In all Brechtian theatre the tableau isoften used. Sometimes half the stage may have performers in tableau while the other half performs or they begin or end with it. It’s a way to implant an image into the eye ofthe audience. Movement may be hard to remember but a powerful image can implantitself in the mind. (It’s a powerful tool and so much more complicated then I make it

sound). But for this unit’s focus on mise-en-scene to evoke a deep emotional/pensiveresponse this past study should aid me.

Similarly I’ve done a lot of physical theatre which, like the tableau, requires the ability toconvey meaning through shape, position but also movement. I’ll use my study in how tovisualise meaning to an audience for Unit 3 but it will be interesting to explore the ‘use ofabsence’ side of tableau.



Melanie Pullen – High fashion crime scenes

If I went with my train station I’d use her style to influence me.Her theme is crime scene so the environments aren’t out ofthe ordinary or particularly elaborate because then the shot

focus, the top fashion victims, are more out of place. In a fewshe has a suggestion of movement so the unwavering stillnessof the corpses is more chilling. She focuses on one colour or one panel of colours for the environment then the corpse is

sometimes the exception. (an example is in her image ‘stairs’the spiralling stairs are an oddly glowing yellow but in the

centre is a body in a red dress.)

Bernard Faucon –

This time looking further into his work that doesn’t focus onpeople or dummies but on environments and objects that

feel like they have a connection but also look out of place or wrong in some way or just odd. It has the effect of puttingstrange ideas in the viewers mind. I’d look to Faucon if I

chose the child’s bedroom scene. A lot of his photos havethis paused effect of something having just happened, like

post event. One shot in particular is very relevant to my idea.The projector is something that can be related to showing oldhome made videos, so the projected image of a young boy

in an abandoned room is quite telling and upon closer viewing, the classic height measurements marked on the

wall.



In my experiment with takingmy own tableau vivant stylephotos I found that having justone significant colour can bereally effect. Desaturatedimages, because the colouringis surreal, I feel draws it

audience in as they can’tdecipher the image at firstglance. Gregory Crewdsonseems to use a limited colour pallet; though the colours arenaturalistic any great contrast iswashed down. This is the kind ofstyle I want to go for or maybeplay with being as close to

greyscale as possible whilekeeping just a few pastelcolours like in this image...



Puppets – focusing mainlyon marionettes andwooden puppets butresearching across theboard into animatronic

puppets and also whysome puppets areacceptable. I’d use the‘uncanny valley’ theory toassess how they can visuallyfall into the valley andFreud’s theories to assess

their mental connection tothe uncanny within thehuman mind.



Otis to Sammy – on ‘life drawing’ Hey Sammy =] I'm Otis, one of your creative partners. there are some very nice pieces of work in this blog, well done. if

there is anything you need help with, I'm always here giving a helping hand =P see you round! Otis to Sammy – on ‘thumbnails 1-16’ Hey Sammy :) nice thumbnail sketches, i think figure 1, 6 and 12 have a lot of potential and i think they would look

great as final pieces. I have to finish unit 1 before i can start properly on unit 3, so there will be work up soon x

Chrissie to Sammy – on ‘Tableaux Vivant photos by me’

2nd from bottom...I love teddies but this is just freaky!

Tom Beg to Sammy – on ‘Tableaux Vivant photos by me’ Great idea! This feels the strongest of the lot to me: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8pswQS2Drd4/Tt-

kuuvJYDI/AAAAAAAAAkU/vvP14JPO47c/s1600/Mask.jpg

Otis to Sammy – on ‘Maya: Texturing’ This is looking nice! try using different angles, this makes coins shine more and become more focused, check out mine

:) keep it up!

Sammy to Otis – on ‘Inspiration: The Chernobyl Disaster 1986’ :o these pictures are amazing. I wonder if the photographer moved the items around to get the shot because their perfection in how their organised amongst the devastation is what effects me the most. really interesting :)

Sammy to Ilmi – on ‘SECONDARY RESEARCH’ Howdy Creative Partner :) This picture’s really nice because when I look at it I just assume the colour of the liquid is red.

Could be any dark colour really... red puddles on the floor are a bit direct perhaps? but what you can also seeare the footprints. That could be something to explore maybe?