See, being a production designer is hella fun but it's also hella difficult. Much like regular paint and canvas, a lot of planning has to come first and you have to think about the final product even though it's not right in front of you. After viewing a small video on the importance of props, I kinda sat back and laughed to myself because it was so incredibly true. Most of my life is surrounded by props; I even bought my boyfriend a prop from Twin Peaks just because he liked the show that much. Anyway, what I really wanted to get to was something that I found when I was just googling some stuff for gifts. After kind of letting the wind take me wherever on the internet, a method I'm trying to utilise more now that Arturo had mentioned something of it, I found a website called Popcorn Garage. Check it out~
It's pretty much just iSpy, which is always a good time waster, but the key to this game is to find the prop and then name the movie. It pretty much just solidifies the whole idea of an object just becoming as iconic as the film and that's pretty chill.
Hello everyone!
I wanted to share some great information with all the Ithacan's who are searching for props and other free items for films!
Take It Or Leave It, in Clarke Hall in the basement, they have a ton of free stuff! Also if you're looking to get rid of some stuff before moving out of Ithaca soon, drop off your unwanted things instead of throwing them away! It's supported by the Eco Reps on campus! It's a great program and I think we should all support them!
I didn't find a whole lot of props needed for my final projet but, I did find a whole lot of really good set dressing there!
I hope the spread of this information proves useful for TIOLI as well as my fellow art department people in Ithaca!
Game 2:
1: "I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too."
2: "I'm King of the world!"
3: "Rosebud"
4: "I've always depended on the kindness of strangers."
5: "Go do that Voodoo that you do so well!"
6: "No dice, soldier."
7: "You idiots! These are not them! You've captured their stuntdoubles!"
8: "GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE!"
9: "Shut the F*ck up, Donny!"
10: "Squirrel!"
Don't cheat!! ;-)
Also here's a trailer for the last movie I watched.
Breathless 1983 by Jim McBride
Meh, it was alright. I'm not exactly sure how this wound up in my instant queue. I watched it anyways and it was alright. If you're borred enough you could watch it and it wouldn't be a complete waste of time.
Hey everyone,
I've only watched a couple of good movies so far this thanksgiving break. One of them is called "Ondine"! It was produced in 2009 and directed by Neil Jordan, known for directing Interview with a vampire (favorite #113/124 films). The story is about an irish fisherman who finds a woman in his net and he believes her to be a selke (a water nymph). The story was very engaging and I couldn't stop watching it, it was in a way kind of intimate in the way you get to know the characters and feel for the relationship between them. It didn't place on my fav's list so far but who knows, perhaps years from now I'll come across it again and watch it and decide I really loved it. At this point I did really enjoy it and would recommend it to many.
Anyways, to get to a more interesting point, perhaps. I would like to play a little game! I'm going to post 10 movie quotes and you comment on the blog to reveal what movies they're from!
Here they are:
1: "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"
2: "May the force be with you"
3: "E.T Phone home"
4: "A census take once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."
5: "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
6: "I see dead people"
7: "Stella! Hey Stella!"
8: "Here's Johnny!"
9: "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown"
10: Striker: "Surely you can't be serious."
Rumack: "I am serious... and don't call me shirley."
Well those should be easy enough! Guess away friends!
Tata for now!
Recently, I was asked to help out with a senior thesis horror film that required some special effects make up! I have done make up before but nothing all that complex. So far this is the most complex make up job I've ever done and it turned out really nicely.
I was specifically asked to create a slit throat on one of the actors. I was intrigued and really excited to figure out the best ways of going about this! First I looked up a few video tutorials on YouTube...
Both of the one's I viewed required liquid latex. I was extremely crunched for time and luckily found out that someone was letting us use their make up. They had liquid latex. HALLELUJAH!
I didn't even get to play with it until I was on set but it was really fun and really useful, you can easily make a scar with this stuff. It's awesome! I plan on getting my own stuff someday. I really enjoyed the opportunity to play with it and the shoot turned out really well! Everyone was really thrilled with my handy work! The actor himself really got into the character (if you can call being dead/dying a character).
As you can see above, I also played around with my hand. No, I'm not kissing him!
I'd like to have more opportunities to do this kind of stuff, actually. I think I could do better eventually after figuring out the nature of the materials and such. It's very exciting to be able to figure out this kind of stuff out.
Also just another fun plug I just recently watched The Game by David Fincher. The film was made in 1997 and in my opinion is very much comparable to the possibilities we have now in epics like this. It was a very mind blowing experience! It was mind blowing in a sense that you are caught off gard a lot and you don't know what to expect the entire time. It's crazy! But it's not one of those confusing movies that you would have to watch 2,384,903,802 times in order to understand it at all. When you get it, you get it but you'll be surprised how you got there. Go watch it!!! It's on Netflix!
