Portrait Movies
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What do we know about people from Facebook? What don't we know? What do we want to know? How can we find out more? How can we get below the surface? Can we? Why do we do portraits? What can that tell/show us? What is hidden? How can we portray the person? What can we use, collect, capture that tells us about a person?
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How do the "masks" people wear tell us about the person? |
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What do small gestures show about a person? Body language? How about bits of the persons space/environment/stuff? What reveals the inner life here? |
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Bill Domnokos The Fine Art of Poisoning here is an example of the fluid and expressive combination of still shots and live action. How might this work in your portrait piece? |
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Look at the Portrait Pages at our Photography Class Site How might we translate the photographic portrait traditions to the moving image? Candid images, formal portraits, environmental portraits, made up scenes? |
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Screen Tests at the Warhol Museum Google Warhol Screen Tests video to see more and some imitations What do you think? |
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Josh Gosfield Saint of the Month GIGI, THE BLACK FLOWER |
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This animated short features two soundtracks - in one, Frank Mouris narrates an autobiography,in the other, he reads off a list of words beginning with the letter "f." Tying the two soundtracks together and influencing their subject matter is the animated collage of photos collected from magazines - all arranged by theme and each theme merging into the next. |
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Why scars, warts, wrinkles and all? How are character, life experience, values etched in a face? How are these unflinching looks at a person like Warhol's Screen Tests? |
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Some interesting student portrait movies.
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