{"id":172,"date":"2019-05-06T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T23:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2019-05-06T16:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T23:03:53","slug":"visual-notes-on-films","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/visual-notes-on-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Notes on Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-173\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/465\/2019\/05\/FilmJournal-sample_detail-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/465\/2019\/05\/FilmJournal-sample_detail-1024x616.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/465\/2019\/05\/FilmJournal-sample_detail-1024x616-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/465\/2019\/05\/FilmJournal-sample_detail-1024x616-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/465\/2019\/05\/FilmJournal-sample_detail-1024x616-676x407.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frequently I assign students in my programs to keep a film journal as part of their sketchbooks. This combines approaches I picked up from Thom Andersen whose course Film Today I worked as TA for while at Cal Arts, Christine Panushka with whom I taught at the California State Summer School of the Arts from 1993-1999, and Sally Cloninger with whom I taught Mediaworks in 1997-98 and 2000-2001.<\/p>\n<p>A good film journal entry begins with the work\u2019s title, the maker, and year of production. Notes on the social or historical context of the film\u2019s production and something of what is known about the artist\u2019s intent and strategies are useful. For animation and experimental films, techniques, media and approaches used, and how they connect to the work\u2019s content, are also important information. Finally, visual notes of particular shots and\/or characters, particularly with animated films, help one learn about the director\u2019s approach, and fix the film in memory.<\/p>\n<p>I sketched the notes on this page in response to two McLaren films. Redrawing the characters from <em>Blinkety Blank <\/em>helped me understand how McLaren had designed them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-174\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/465\/2019\/05\/FilmJournal-sampledetail-2-1024x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/465\/2019\/05\/FilmJournal-sampledetail-2-1024x482.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/465\/2019\/05\/FilmJournal-sampledetail-2-1024x482-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/465\/2019\/05\/FilmJournal-sampledetail-2-1024x482-768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/465\/2019\/05\/FilmJournal-sampledetail-2-1024x482-676x318.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frequently I assign students in my programs to keep a film journal as part of their sketchbooks. This combines approaches I picked up from Thom Andersen whose course Film Today I worked as TA for while at Cal Arts, Christine Panushka with whom I taught at the California State Summer School of the Arts from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3910,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ruthhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}