Collaboration: The Blind Man - Textured & Modelled

The Blind man is textured and Modelled, although I'm not sure why his pants are rendering brown when I textured them black. I'll see if I can make the glasses work with template handles as they wrap around Mooms head really strangely because of how abnormal his head is.

Film Review | Exploitation In Cinema | Mad Max Fury Road

Fig 1: Mad Max Fury Road Poster

Exploitation in cinema has many different forms. Films that are generally made to exploit the viewer with pastiche popular elements and genres which include but are not limited to,  sex, violence,  horror and romance. Exploitation in films are used to draw the audience in and captivate them with flashy trailers usually resulting in the films being low quality B movies. Exploitation films were extremely popular in the 1960's and 1970's especially around the time when drive in movies became popular as they would please the masses with the over excessive genres that B movies are known for. If the films did not pass the Hays code which was a code of conducts put in place to make sure that no overly offending scenes made it into films such as gore, sex, slavery and using any religious profanity, The movies were shown in grindhouses.  

Exploitation films can also revolve around exploiting the culture of different nationalities one of which is Ozploitation which is the exploitation of Australian culture and one film that exploits this is Mad Max Fury Road (2015) directed by George Miller 

Usually exploitation films have cheap cheesy special effects and props however Fury Road defers from the norm with the explosions of steampunk vehicles and barrage of fire, crashes and mammoth fight scenes on top of post apocalyptic vehicles is done with impressive stunts coupled with the orange haziness of the dystopian dessert is an adrenaline junkies dream. The use of CGI is limited as the majority of the stunts were real it is a nice change from the CGI ingested action films that are rampant today and shows that manufactured CGI cannot win against the real. 

"The first Mad Max film was made on a budget of $350,000 and became the most financially successful film for decades until CGI came along. Fury Road, shot over a 3-year period, done almost entirely with stunts and without graphics and with $150 million in the bank, eclipses any Marvel film and inspires a feeling of wonder that little art can muster." (Bunker, 2015)

Fig 2: Coma - Doof warte with a flame throwing guitar

Woman are presented in a different and admirable fashion in the film as they redress the usual damsel in distress that is excessively oversaturated in action films. The main female protagonist is Furiosa (Charlize Theron) - a buzz cut haired badass with a titanium arm who feels more like the hero and puts up more of a fight as her male counterpart Max (Tom Hardy) while trying to protect the five wives of the cults leader Immortal Joe. Furiosa along with the five wives of joe are all heroines in their own right as they can fend for themselves and fight for each other without needing the help of a man. "Fury Road’s alpha male is, in fact, a woman: the rogue soldier Imperator Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron, who masterminds the escape while Max rides shotgun. Furiosa is one of the toughest, most resilient action heroes in years, with a metal prosthetic arm that hints at past trauma and a steely gaze that sees more on the way, Theron superbly embodies her stoicism, nerve and resolve."  R. (2015). 

Fig 3: Furiosa and Max

Miller has managed to pull off a 21st century masterpiece that is an adrenaline fuelled frenzy of fast paced steampunk car chases, skilful stunts and  beatufill backdrops of the derelict desert that puts the pedal to the medal and goes against the grain of exploitation films and is understandably hailed by critics and viewers. “Mad Max: Fury Road” is an action film about redemption and revolution. Never content to merely repeat what he’s done before (even the first three “Mad Max” have very distinct personalities), Miller has redefined his vision of the future yet again, vibrantly imagining a world in which men have become the pawns of insane leaders and women hold fiercely onto the last vestiges of hope."

Bibliography 

Bunker, C. (2015). Out in Theaters: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD. [online] Silver Screen Riot. Available at: http://silverscreenriot.com/903-out-in-theaters-mad-max-fury-road/ 

[Accessed 17 Nov. 2017].

R. (2015). Mad Max: Fury Road review: 'a Krakatoan eruption of craziness'. [online] The Telegraph. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/mad-max-fury-road/review/ 

[Accessed 17 Nov. 2017].

Tallerico, B. (2017). Mad Max: Fury Road Movie Review (2015) | Roger Ebert. [online] Rogerebert.com. Available at: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mad-max-fury-road-2015 

[Accessed 17 Nov. 2017].

Illustration list

Figure 1: "Mad Max Fury Road Poster". [image] Available at: https://cdn.empireonline.com/jpg/80/0/0/1000/563/0/north/0/0/0/0/0/t/films/76341/images/tbhdm8UJAb4ViCTsulYFL3lxMCd.jpg [Accessed 17 Nov. 2017].

Figure 2: "Coma - Doof warte with a flame throwing guitar" Available at: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UtjGTrVwRr4/maxresdefault.jpg 

[Accessed 17 Nov. 2017].

Figure 3: "Furiosa and Max"  Available at: http://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/2017/07/mad-max-fury-road.jpg 

[Accessed 17 Nov. 2017].

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Toolkit 2 // Pipeline 1: Head Modelling Part 9 - Sculpting & Clean Up

Toolkit 2 // Pipeline 1: Head Modelling Part 8 - The Ear & Neck

Toolkit: Life Drawing - Session 8

Character Design: Kitten Expressions

Toolkit 2 // Pipeline 1: Head Modelling Part 7 - The Brow

Perspectives: 5 Reasons Why The Truman Show Is Postmodern

1)  The Truman Show makes it known that it is metafiction, showing the fabrication of the world that         

Truman resides, He is living in a mammoth dome that is controlled and manipulated with his every move filmed for the outside world to view.  Cameras show his every move as he lives inside a tv show with the world literally revolving around him. As the film progress the shackles of the world begin to rear its manipulating head as a studio light fixture falls from the dome and fraudulent rain begins to fall only on Truman.

2)  Truman is living inside a simulation with every resident apart from him having roles to play and scripts to follow, he is living not in life but the creators vision of a hyperrealism manufacture which is a blend of the real which is Truman and the fiction which is everyone else. Truman starts to question everything, he cannot tell what is real anymore as the constraints of the dome start to become apparent, he notices patterns about the residents and strange occurrences that hinder him trying to leave which start to make him paranoid that he is a in a simulacrum where his meaning is becoming destabilised. 

3)  The Truman Show is a pastiche and parody of the American Dream where every  house looks the same and every resident resides in this idyllic picturesque bubble. Celebration town in Florida, California comes to mind as this town is seen as the perfect place to live when in reality the town like The Truman show has strict rules that the residents must abide by which include embargoes stating why they left. Truman's wife is parodied with a satirical view on America as she constantly talks about consumerism, showing the viewer many different types of product placement to seemingly enrich their lives. 

4)  The Truman Show is a representation of the media in American, where Truman is completely controlled and manipulated by the media as the viewers completely devour everything that is shown to them as they are stuck to their television sets like glue. Fake news can be instilled into the whole plot of the truman show as he is controlled by the creators and the actors that revolve around putting on a show for the audience are fed through an ear piece all the scripted lines to say around Truman to fill the watching sheeple with their predetermined expectations. 

5)  The ending is up to the viewers own interpretation as Truman leaves the controlling but safe Dome to be thrust into real life, we don't know how he actually gets on. Does he have a serious case of culture shock? Is his better off living in the confines of the Dome, Does he ever make it to Fiji to make be with the one he loves, The viewer can only imagine. 
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Collaboration: The Driving Instructor - Modelling, Texture & Prop Progress

A few more details need to be tweaked and polished until the driving instructor is complete.

Perspectives: Lecture 8 - Key Words

• Hyperrealism:
is the blend of real and fiction forming a simulation of reality especially in technologically advanced postmodern societies such as the one in which we live, As example is social media in which everyone projects the best version of themselves online to validate their credibility to their peers.

•  Simulation:
 Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time  

•  Simulacra
copies that depict things that either had no original to begin with, or that no longer have an original

•  ‘Fake news’

 is not just a public figure’s spinning of half-truths. It is mainly a media-driven, and deliberate attempt to spread a false narrative of propaganda to advance a political agenda that otherwise would be rejected by a common-sense public. The methodology is to manufacture a narrative attractive to a mass audience through media that will then devour and brand it as fact—and even lobby for government redress.