I think the theme in this movie is that life is full of surprises and opportunities. The reason that this scene perfect expresses that theme is for the most famous quote in the movie - "life is like a box of chocolates, you'll never know what you'll get."
Well out of the five movement doesn’t play much of a factor because it’s a scene between two stationary people. Space and rhythm would also be tough to critique from this clip, so I will go over line and shape.
First with line I feel like the use of line wasn’t used in this scene. It doesn’t appear that there are any lines in the scene that make my point of interest the characters. Like showed in the power point there are lines that are specifically placed to help the point of interest towards the main characters, but in the scene there was nothing like that.
The shapes also didn’t seem to have much of an impact on this scene. From what I know of shapes and how they work in media, this scene seems to not use shape at all. Forrest has more of a square head and his mom has a circular head but I really don’t think that it attributes to the film.
Overall I really didn’t see how any of these things added to the movie.
The two photos that I have chosen for the blog assignment are both from the same show, Rocket Power.I chose these photos because they both compare and contrast in different animation aspects. Along with that, Rocket Power used to be my favorite show as a kid.
First I would like to start with the color between the two photos. Photo number one has a split complementary scheme using 3 different hues. The hues that I believed are used are red, blue, and yellow. The reason that I think this is because every color that is in this picture fits into those 3 hues on the color wheel. You have the different saturations of red involving the helmets, gloves, pants, and objects in the background. This goes for the same with the yellow saturation. The texture of the 3 boys skin, the sky, the house, and their clothing reflect different saturations of yellow. Blue also has different saturations with clothing and objects in the picture.
The first picture though is greatly different than the second picture. The hues used in the second picture are on an analogous color scheme. The colors used in the picture are orange, red, and purple. The saturations are also different in this picture cause the colors are more saturated and darker in a way that make the objects stick out more.
The lighting between the two pictures is also different. In the first picture the lighting seems to pull the attention to the reactions on the boys faces. It is clear that they are disgusted about something that is going on. In the other picture shadows are used to kind of block out the background and mainly keep your focus on the two characters. The lighting in the first picture kind of gives the mood a very salty or crappy mood. The lighting makes the scene look gloomy and disappointing. While in the other pictures mood is very bright and happy because the lighting is mainly on bright colors.
The scene that I choose in blog three is a minute and thirty-six second scene when Forrest is talking to an African American lady at a bus stop. This scene is when the infamous life is like a box of chocolate quote occurs. Looking at what I had to do for the assignment and this scene though was a little tough to do. This scene is one constant push and a slow ped down from an extreme wide angle shot to a close up of Forrest. The director though does follow the rules that we learned in class though.
First looking at the 180 degree rule the director does follow this rule. Even though that it is one constant push the director makes a set line from the opening scene and never crosses it or breaks the line.Which shows that he followed the 180-degree rule properly.
The rule of thirds was also followed properly by the director in this scene. From the beginning of the push and ped to the end the director keeps the rule of thirds used in its entirety. The director keeps what the eye is most attracted to at its proper places on the screen the entire time.
Well since this scene was one constant push and ped from an extreme wide angle to a close up on the main character the 30 rule including both 30% or 30 degree rule wasn’t really in effect in this scene. I’m not saying that he broke it or didn’t follow it, but since the scene had no cuts or different camera angles the 30 rule was never used.
Looking over all three of the rules the director did a great job following them. Even though the scene didn’t really need to use the rules because it was one constant push and ped the director still followed the rules well.
For this blog assisnment I decided to pick two songs that included artists that I really like. The first one is Mean by Taylor swift, and the second one is a mash up between Mean and Wiz Khalifas song Planes and Taylor Gangs. The title of it is Mean Planes and Taylor Gangs. The reason that I wanted to use these two songs is because they include my favorite artists, also the two songs are very easy to compare and contrast.
For listening phase one the tempo between the two songs differed. Taylor Swifts song Mean had more of a medium tempo to it. It never was really slow nor did it get fast. The mash up song was a different story though. The tempo of Mean Planes and Taylor Gangs had more of faster tempo. This is because of Wiz Khalifas song was more upbeat and quicker.The sources between the two songs differ between which song your listening to. Mean by Taylor Swift was her voice, the banjo, and the clapping that kind of kept the rhythm. On the other hand Wiz Khalifas song source depended on what was playing. This is because it also included Mean by Taylor Swift. The overall source of his song was his drum kit beat he had throughout the song. But when her part came in the song it was her songs source that drove the song. But other then that Wiz Khalifas rapping aslso adds to the source.The groove between the two songs were a little different. Taylor Swift song was more poppy, fun, light, and folk. Wiz song was also poppy but it had pulse, and it was unique.
Listening phase two also had similarities and differences. For instrumentation in Taylors song I would say its mainly the banjo driving the song. In Wiz song the beat made by a drum kit is what drives the song.The structure/organization between the two songs were very well organized and easy to follow. Both songs typically went intro/verse/chorus/verse and so on throughout the song. The emotional architecture was a little different though. In Taylors song it seemed to grow more and more as the song went on. In Wiz song I would say it was pretty much the same throughout the song.
Listening Phase three were pretty similar between the two. Height was the same, width had some panning in Taylors song but not Wiz. The depth were similar since in Wiz song it had the same depth used in Taylors song.
In the end I would say that I like Wiz version of the song better. I think this because it gave a great song a reason to like it even more. It added uniqueness and its fun to listen to.
