Research of Artist

For my final project, the chase scene, I chose to research the film The French Connection, directed by William Friedkin in 1971. It is a true film about a narcotics seizure in which Friedkin won an Academy Award for best director. The epic car chase was actually shot in several takes on an open road going 90 mph. What makes it is effective camera views. Essentially, the driver, Gene Hackman is trying to catch up to and cut off the men in the train. The director shows both of these interspersed in order to achieve simultaneity. Also, he changes from close ups of Hackman to shots further back of the car, but he doesn't overdo it. Friedkin used only 3 cameras in this scene, restricting the angles, but simplifying it for the viewer.

Procedural Art: The Weather

For this project, I was thinking about chance, and I realized that few things are based more on chance than the weather. So, I decided to make abstract drawings that were based on a set of rules, defined by the 10 day forecast in a given area using weather.com. Each drawing is to consist of 10 pieces (one for each day) that are determined by that day's temperature, precipitation, and wind speed. The rules to apply to part of the drawing are as follows. For example, if Day One is 78 degrees with 10% precipitation and 16 mph winds, you would start by drawing a big red line.




To do this myself, I chose Syracuse (top), and Paris (bottom), and came up with these drawings.

Outline for Final Project

For next week, I will try to lay out the chase scene by selecting where it will go, how it will play out, etc. Then I will allow the next week and maybe spill into the next one to film footage for it. The last week I will take the footage into iMovie and work with the split screen effects and other effects in order to put the final project together.

"New York Times" Recreation

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This is a recreation of the piece entitled "New York Times" by Pia Lindman.

Edited Chase Scene

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This chase scene comes from a film called "District 13" found on youtube.  I added some extra editing features and used this film to learn a lot about simultaneity at such a fast pace.  Even though the choreography is amazing, this film helped me understand more about the elements of putting together a riveting action chase scene.

Chase Scene Storyboard

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This storyboard is of a chase scene that I made up to experiment with different camera angles, split screens, and plot twists.

Terrible Jamaican accent

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    This is a news broadcast from a Jamaican podcast