Figure 1. Kill Bill Movie Poster (2003) Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill (2003) is a crime and mystery film that is iconic for it's postmodern film design due to the use of many different film types combining together to create the film. 1. Intertextuality - Kill Bill is created using film conventions from many different films. This is shown through Tarantino's use of Japanese style fighting scenes and mystery. Figure 2. Fight scene 2. Non-linear narrative - There is a strong use of non-linear narrative through the film, meaning that the film's story line and narrative are disjointed. This is shown in the film with flash backs, for example, when 'The Bride' (Uma Thurman) see's Vernita Green (Vivica. A. Fox) and the siren sounds. Figure 3. Flash back 3. Challenging gender stereotypes - The main character in action films are usually muscular men with a woman as either their lo...
You may have seen some of your classmates using simple sets of clean simple silhouettes, and combining them to create more complex structures - I think, given Chilhuly's forms, this might work for you too, because I think it will encourage you to make more 'complex' asymmetrical forms (more truly organic) without breaking the 'simple' quality you need. Can I suggest you create some clean organic forms using the shape tools in Photoshop which mirror your artist's vocabulary of shapes (so petal shapes, spheres, teardrop shapes, ellipses and so on) and then, once you've got an alphabet of these simple forms, start combining them (two shapes at first etc) into new iterations - and then build up from there - I think this will give you some strong forms to work into. If you think about Chilhuly, his more complex forms are collections of simpler elements combined - and I think you could try working in the same way :)
ReplyDeleteOkay thanks Phil :)
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