Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000)
This is a very well edited fight scene. It's as realistic as it could be! The chopy way the scenes are edited are brilliant because sometimes in the ring before you realise how you got their your at the other side. The way the sound dims in and out is so important, it's amazingly realistic also. I love how the tempo in this changes, a fight isn't the same tempo throughout. By using the different speeds the director has captured the fighter concept of time and the crowds.
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese 1980)
http://youtu.be/-nAjurxttv4
Please watch this link that WON'T embedd....This link is to the Jake La Motta vs Sugar Ray Robinson scene in Raging Bull. Listen to how how the crowd dims in and out. The clip of Sugar Ray when he is about to finish the fight is tunnel vision I mention in the concept. How everything around you even sound dims and all your focus is on your opponent, I think the shadow effect works well.
Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie 2009)
Another Guy Ritchie piece, the man knows his fight scenes. I have watched this fight scene over and over and I dosn't get any less impressive each time. I love the narration, although if I was to use narration in mine whose voice would I use? The slow motion shot that slows down the speeds up just a bit then slows again is fantastic! Then to repeat the scene again in real time is a prefect way to capture the 'art of fight'. The slowed version is that moment I have referred to for a fighter, and the real time version is the crowds perspective, and the memory the fighter has when the fight is finished. Something like this in slow motion could be more effective than using stills when capturing the movement of combinations.
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Movement photography
These do not work as photography pieces for my moving image piece, as they are more instructional rather then movement capturing. I think trying the Eadwaerd Muybridge method isn't the way to go with these stills. It would make a boring moving image piece and it wouldn't answer the brief.
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| Roundhouse |
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| Roundhouse |
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| Duck, Jab |
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| Jab, Cross |
Eadweard Muybrigde
Although not the most artist photography capturing movement, but it is precise. For the stills I think somewhere between what Norman Mc Laren produced and Eadweard did is about right. Using photography like this dose not solve how I will capture 'that moment'.
Muybrigde's first film using stills of horse
Norman Mc Laren
These photos capture the art and movement of Ballet in a beautiful and artistic way. I like the idea of creating my moving image with stills of kickboxing photoshoped in this way, but knowing myself the movements of combinations are not as dramatic as dance so this style may not work. I will try the black and white negative style used here.
Inspiration behind the theme...
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| Back leg roundhouse to head |
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| Front jab to head |
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| Front roundhouse to body |
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| Straight right to head |
Some of the fighters at Westbank Full Contact Kickboxing club at training. This is my club and these are the guys I train with 5days a week! This project is personal to me, this sport is my passion! The photos show the guys practising some basic techniques.
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