Journal Requirements

Exercise 1: Exit Through The Gift Shop reflection

Banksy is a pseudonymous English based graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine both dark humor with graffiti done in a distinctive stenciling technique. Artistic works of social and political commentary have been featured on walls, streets and bridges and cities. Throughout the world Banksy’s  work was made up of the Bristol underground then which involved collaboration between musicians and artists.

 

This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results.

One of the most provocative films about art ever made, Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence. By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale... with bolt cutters.



Exercise 2: Street Art

Scarface… this photograph was taken next to the Aldi wall on the corner of Grimshaw Street, Plenty Road, Bundoora, Vic, 3083. I think the character is representative of Scarface because of the scar on his cheek and I can see the word written next to him.

Scarface is an ’83 American crime film which is directed by Brian De Palma and stars Al Pacino as Tony Montana. It was a remake of the 1932 film with the same name and is a story of a Cuban refugee who came to Miami in 1980 during the cocaine boom of the eighties.



Graffiti of Scarface



Al Pacino as Scarface

Exercise 3: Pop Art Influence:I think that the  three photographs aptly define Pop Art:
Pop Art is an art movement to have emerged from the fifties in Britain and in the late fifties in the U.S.A Pop Art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art and included imagery from popular culture such as news, advertising and so forth. In pop art, material may be visually removed from the known context and then combined or isolated with unrelated material. Pop Art refers not as much to the art but rather to the attitudes which led up to it. Pop art employs components of mass culture which includes comic books, advertising and culture objects which may even appear mundane!!!

 












Exercise 4: Helvetica reflection
Helvetica is a much used sans-serif typeface which was developed in 1957 by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffman at the Haas Type Foundary of Munchenstein, Switzerland. Haas set out to create a new sans-serif typeface that could compete with Akzidenz-Grotesk in the Swiss market.The aim of this design was to create a neutral typeface without clarity, no intrinsic meaning to its form and to be used on a wide variety of signage.

Exercise 6

CREDIT SEQUENCES

Analyse the credit sequences to these four films: Ed Wood (Tim Burton), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher, US remake); Seven (David Fincher); Goldfinger (James Bond film from sixties)

Ed Wood(Tim Burton)

Director of batman, Edward Scissorhand made movies like nobody else. Do you know about film production? Well, he had an eye for talent and a passion for storytelling and a secret he could not hide. He liked dressing in women’s clothes and in the true story of an unforgettable film maker, a legacy that will live forever, Ed Wood, a Tim Burton film, touchstone pictures presents a Burton/Di Novi Production, Tim Burton film, Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones and Bill Murray. The executive producer is Michael Lehmann, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, produced by Denise Di Novi, Tim Burton, directed by Tim Burton.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo HD Trailer-David Fincher Version

This is the first trailer for the David Fincher version of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” based on the novel, With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher, US remake).She is one of the best investigators he has. She asks, anything wrong with report? He had a long standing sexual relationship. He says, I need your help, you will be investigating, you will meet my family. Someone murdered Harriet and for past forty years has driven me insane.  How many partners did you have in last month. Why don’t we start with me. He needs a research assistant. He says, you don’t think we would hire anyone for something like this.

It is a film that he went to at a film festival as they were talking about remaking it. He thought, no way, they should not remake, he hated “Let Me In”. No don’t make it, well there is a huge remake scene and seeing the original one, you know what is happening.  For him, he said, don’t do it, it will be horrible, he thought, give it a chance and he suggests to see the Swedish film. The new girl, Rooney Marra is naked throughout most of the film and she is beautiful, she has tattoos and piercings and everything they did to transform the role. She was a sweet looking American and now she lost 20 pounds for the role, coming down to character and motivation, Fincher built on relationship. The girl with the dragon tattoo, Elizabeth is making an investigation. She does not follow investigation, they say he is at an island and cut off from the rest of the world. This is the new dragon tattoo, it is stand-alone, the girl with the dragon tattoo, Elizabeth is investigating linear magazine, he is being sued, he created a slanderous story as he said that someone’s practices were illegal, we meet with him, getting out of court and he gets hired by another rich guy to investigate a murder that has happened in his family. The niece has been missing along time and he wants the editor to find the killer.  He offers redemption as he has information on the guy who took him to court that  can prove that he is correct in saying his practices are illegal. They work together to try and solve crime so it becomes intense, the film is 2.5 hours long, it was great, if you have seen the Swedish films, revisit this. Fincher plays to you. He did a better job of creating the story between the two. In the Swedish version it is very on-off. You understand more of what happens in the final form, he is going to have this as a standalone film, the way it ended, as we have seen the other two films we see where it goes from here.  This movie makes so much money. The opening sequence, the cover of Led Zeppelin is direct reference to James Bond. There is a James Bond montage; there is oily substance and a dragon coming out of her back. 

Seven is directed by David Fincher and starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow. Detective Summerset is looking for a way out. Mills is looking for a way in. Now they are caught in a game, the body was found on Tuesday morning, this will be the very definition of strict justice, this guy is methodical, exacting and patient, he is two murders away from completing his masterpieces. Freeman Paltrow  in Seven. Let He Who is Without Sin Try to Survive.

Goldfinger, (James Bond) Title sequence from Guy Hamilton’s 1964 film “Goldfinger”, starring Sean Connery as James Bond. Many of the iconic aspects of a typical James Bond were established in Dr. No, beginning with what is known as the gun barrel sequence, an introduction to the character through the view of a gun barrel, and a highly stylized main title sequence, both created by Maurice Binder