LHS Digital Photography Blog - Amanda Taylor

Title of Film or Video: Ways it showed a UTOPIA Ways it showed DYSTOPIA Brazil Whimsical visuals British comedy Rich colors Bright music The dreams Sam has "Aquarela do Brasil" Bureaucratic, totalitarian government Use of shadows Gruesome torture scenes/ that twist at the end Use of dark colors in certain places "Aquarela do Brasil" The Matrix Use of red Simulation life (blissful denial) Warping of reality done by the characters Use of green, black, and purple The real world (gritty reality) Assimilation theme A Clockwork Orange Bright colors Use of Beethoven Use of "Singing in the Rain" Over sexualization motif Use of white Alex's happy ending Alex's freedom as a juvenile delinquent and gang member Government corruption No good character Use of "Singing in the Rain" Gray, muted colors + shadows Use of trash The treatment of criminals The constant struggle of power

If the video does not work, this  link may work. You'd just have to sign in as me Concept: An attempt to fully meet society's standard for beauty leaves the victim internally and externally scarred. Process: I used claymation for the character "Hands" with items like wires and tinfoil to properly support the figure. The set is made out of a cardboard box painted to simulate a room with a brown desk. The paper crumples that "create" the monster on the wall were done with stop edits. A lot of stop edits. Many of the transitions were done with double exposure and fading tricks used by my video editing platform. The song used is "I Ain't got Nobody" by Marion Harris (1916) and radio sound effects are from a public domain sound effect website.