Empowered Women

Women today are extremely empowered, they are not only achieving what they set out to achieve but raising the standards for men to compete with them. Long gone are the days when women could not and would not compete with men, today a woman stands as much a chance of succeeding in a male dominated industry as a man.

You are probably wondering why I am writing about this and what does this have to do with me. Well for one I am a woman....and I do consider myself empowered. Well this whole topic got triggered in my mind a couple of weeks ago, when I was watching this show. Now this show is all about a studio and one of the producers in the show is a woman. I think the actress is Amanda Peet. Well she is this strong, scared of nothing woman executive, who is not only fighting controversy in her personal life but also at her work place. She is pregnant, and she is dealing with slander from newspapers about her drinking habits. Not too go too much into this show....but well one of the guys who writes one of the shows on her network falls in love with her and well starts going after her. She obviously fights it off thinking its absolute bullshit etc. But after one evening when they find themselves locked on the terrace for a few hours, she decides that his love or affections are genuine.

But that’s still not what triggered all this, so I keep watching the show and I realize that she has gone from being an extremely powerful, strong headed, assertive woman to being a wimp. All of a sudden she needs advice from this guy for everything, possibly even what she should be wearing. The relationship is growing beautifully, but for some reason I feel as though she has lost her assertiveness....it’s as though she has lost her power to think reasonably. So I got thinking (yes I do that once in while) what happened?? And whether this happens to all women, or is it a trait only of this particular character. So I started to look around, notice people around me, tried to remember conversations I have had with my married and unmarried friends and of course I had a few conversations with myself.

One of the main questions was, is this a good thing?? Second question being does this happen to men?? Third question being, why do we do this??
From my own experience, I have seen that I become a little of a wimp myself, especially when it comes down to heavy decisions. I don't know where exactly I am going with this....but it’s a thought and I would love to know anything all the women and men know about this particular topic.....

Inspiration

so this blog spot was created purely to post my homework for one of classes at NYU, but now i have been inspired by my boyfriend to put it to better use and record my journey in the US, at NYU and to record my thoughts of having to work and study.

The decision to get back to studying was extremely difficult for me, leave my country, and all my loved ones, what i did not realise that it was not going to be a piece of cake. When I came to the US (florida)to study animation first in 2000, that was a breeze. the life was very comfortable and hassle free. But i have to say that as u get older it gets more and moe difficult to rough it out. No i'm not complaining after all i am adding to my own value.

something about the city, they were not lying when they said this city never sleeps....it really does not sleep. Which is great!! but what i love is that people do not and let me put that in caps DO NOT work on the weekends.....thank god for small mercy's. While i was working in India, sundays were my sacred days, i spent the whole day with me myself and I....got many complaints about it but it was amazing. but if i had the whole weekend, WOW!!! New York is definately a crazy city, and not very difficult to fall in or out of love with.

well thats all for now, but I promise to update this as and when I have different experiances, and sometimes when i just feel like it......

Close but Not Yet Done.....




I replaced the over the shoulder shot, and put one image of a model that the actor is looking at. The track is not quite complete and theother image i will add tomorrow. I did not get a chance to re-do the sound like you told me, but I will do that for the next week's fianl for sure.

Also I had to remove some of my earlier files to make space for me to upload this latest one so some of the other links may not work.

Audio


So like many others I had to reshoot, but this time I was a little more prepared. I like the look I got this time round, though it is a little dark. When switching my shots are matching up and I added a girl checking him out. I still need to tweak the switching shots a bit. The second shot still is from the old footage and I will replace it with the new one with the images of the model.

Effects


I managed to get the first transition even though the pan is not working...but I am going to re shoot and change my camera angle to avoid the pan completely.

Rough Cut

Rough Sound

Animatic Redone

Script Redone

Indecision
Shot List

Animatic

Story Board

Style Frame

Script

Treatment

CONCEPT PITCHES

Theme: Figure Skating
Technique: Cg Water, Green Screen Key
A girl is figure skating on a lake (not frozen). The water will be created, and will react to the skates of the girl.


Theme: Indecision
Technique: Rotoscope
A man is walking down the street, and his suit keeps changing till he reaches his destination. The man will be shot with different suits walking. The suits will be rotoscoped and tracked to the man walking.

Theme: Paint
Technique: Cg Paint Gun, Wall and Paint.
A man shoots at a blank wall with a paint gun. The paint drips to form an elaborate painting. The man will be shot with no gun or wall in front of him. The gun and paint will be created in CG and digitally tracked.

I found this image in the book Monsters from the Id, The H.R.Giger Bestiary. This image is created by H.R Giger as an acrylic on paper. It is titled The Trumpets of Jericho. I’m not a huge fan of his concepts but the art is absolutely consuming. His art is very unique and to me, a little disturbing. But in this image I found a certain feeling of serenity on the characters face, it looks almost angelic. Like Miller his level of detail is very real. Giger was very interested in witchcraft and the occult, which shows in this image. What you see on the side in colour is just some freak of the scanner....looked interesting so I left it.

These next sets of images are from the book Frank Miller, The Art of Sin City. Here you see the first 2 images being the rough and the finished products, the third and fourth are just an amazing mesh of lines. What struck me in this book is the starkness of back and white. Miller has excellent technique and manages to convey not only what is going on in the scene but also the emotion the character is feeling. What is really inspiring is the detail he gets into to finally create a very simple yet complex image. His art takes story telling to a different level by capturing the mood of the character as well as the mood of the entire scene. If I had the opportunity I would post all the images that are in this book.

So I was looking through the national geographic and one usually finds very inspiring and beautiful images there. Thats when I came across this image of the "Mantid". This one is a moss-patterned mantid found in the rain forest. What intrigued me at first, was the amazing art of nature. A creature used by nature or 'GOD' as a canvas, which allowed for the mantid or mantis (as it is popularly known) to camouflage itself from the ones who prey on it. I read on and found that the ancient Greeks were the ones to name this creature "mantis" which meant "prophet". I guess thats because this creature is always seen with its upper appendages folded as if in prayer.

hey....