Visual asthetics

Clay Chinese Dragon

The item i have chosen to visualy analyse for this piece of work is an ornamental Chinese Dragon made from clay.
the piece is ahighly detailed dragon sat upon a mound of rocks. in the dragons right claw there is a large crystal designed to make the dragon look more expensive.
for the main part the dragon is various shades of yellows and oranges, which shows the fact that acording to legends, dragons were meant to be able to breathe fire. the ridges on the back of the dragon, and the wings of the dragon, are gold, when coupled together with the crystal, show that dragons are made out to be majestic and rich creatures. the gold and crystal also help to represent the tale that dragons were suposedly guardians of ancient treasures.
in contrast to the majesty of the dragon, the rock it sits upon are very bland, simple and dark. these rocks alos represent that dragons were suposed to live in mountains.
the attention that has been paid to the detail of the dragon makes this item look expensive and as though it has been based on a real creature.

One shot narrative

So here it is, the one shot narrative:

one shot film preparation

For our one shot film we decided to go to Newark, where three of our four memebers went to college, and use the old Polish war graves, due to the fact that we wanted to make use 0f the way the graves were set out. Due to luck more than anything else we arrived at the war graves at sunset which meant we were able to get the sun in the background, this made the effect of the graves more obvious and it made a more beautiful shot than it would have been before.

the narrative for this one shot was meant to be very simple, a realative of a dead war vetaran paying his respects to his dead realtive. this seemed very apropriate when we made the film as it was close to rememberance day and poppies were all about in memory of the war veterans. i'm not sure that the narrative was very well shown however once it is known what the narrative is it is alot easier to see it.

in preperation for this project we went to the polish war graves ad took pictures of the intended set, i have included these below.