'You need to understand what you want to get out of the tools a lot more than how to go about achieving the sounds technically' (1)
Rob's 'Roomtones' project, 'involves collecting room-tones from various intereszting spaces,.and augmenting those recordings with some subtle rhythmic interface and tonal elements.' (2) Inspired by Chris Watson.
Rob's Inspirations: Ren Klyne, Tom Colvin (Ninja Theory), Kenny Young (Media Molecule). EA's Don Vecca, Randy Thom.
'Tanaka is feverishly imaginative, like a blend of some of the best characteristics of Katsuhiro Otomo, Masamune Shirow and Jean “Moebius” Giraud.' (1)
'creating darkly cinematic moods and otherworldly atmospheres.' (2)
"I have a phobia of movie lights," says Noé. "I dont't like having equipment on the set that would prevent me from turning the camera around. Benoit and I had an agreement on irreversible and on this film that there would be no movie lights on set." He concedes, however that exeptions were made on Void in order to create the strobe lighting for the night club, and to allow some impressionistic wahses of colors." (1)
"The danger when doing a very colorful film," he continues, "is that it can become a little gaudy. I wanted us to stay in a restrained color palette - the range is more or less between purple and orange or yellow> We tried to keep a unity to the colors." (2)
Reference: (1) Benjamin B, Oct 2010, Contemplating a Coloful Afterlife, American Cinematographer, Vol. 91 No.10, p18 (2) Benjamin B, Oct 2010, Contemplating a Coloful Afterlife, American Cinematographer, Vol. 91 No.10, p22
This sculpurist from Estonia recycles objects from old soviet deep sea mines from an ex fortress on Nassair Island, and transforms these objects into decayed Steam punk furniture, which he titles "Mine Furniture".
"The Divine Comedy still exerts a morbid grip on the imagination, and the Lazarides Gallery co-opted 16 artists to produce suitably sense-assaulting meditations on evil. Here is The Heretic’s Gate, a video installation by Doug Foster, featuring a raging inferno reflected in oil." (1)
Discovered in: (1) The Architectural review, Nov 2010, 1365, p89
The art direction and lighting are key points for me within this music video by french director, Laurent Brent. Its mechanicalised design and fairy tale like style is a style I wish to pursue. Aphex twins music compliments the style with its rhythmic mechanical sounds.
One of the main pieces of Art Direction and stories that really gave me the inspiration to make 'Graces Fall' was, 'The City Of Lost Children'. The film directed by Jean-Pierre and Marc Caro who I seem to be taking a lot of inspiration from, they really are fantastic visionary directors with other films such as 'Delicatessen' and 'MICMACS'. Both films having a specific visual style and stylistic Art direction. What this film did for me most was the 'dark', fairytale like atmosphere it presents, with its Steam punk direction and colorful Neo-Noir like lighting.
'rented a room to cram quantities of items purchased from right to left. They are disassembled, hack it, I always had a taste for transforming the object.','For the City of Lost Children was composed of machines that do not exist.' (Aline Bonetto, 1)
Im going to do further research into this style and explore similar conventions. Also in relation to the quote above I want to get into this mindset how to transform an object, to make it something original on screen.
