10_ Reading the Multimodal Narrative

    First at all, this comic is totally different compare to what I used to read in my whole life. And also the American type of comic style sometime make me struggle to read. But this one is so special, when I open the first page I thought it is just a illustration sketches book, or just a rough script before refine and publish. but the authors seems like meant to keep this sketchy style for this story. And also the notebook's ring hole keep making me believe it just a scan version from author's sketchbook, still can see many author's thought and figure sketch in some pages. This one is so special in nowadays, authors make the style stand out and just like a personal art works.
    My favorite thing for this graphic novel is about the main character Karen who loves monster movies, magazine and everything about monster. I definitely like the character setting, she sees herself as a wolf girl and she has a lot of things going around her and this really is playing with this child perspective of adult themes, struggles etc. Real stuff that's happening in the world like war, child abuse eventually the book turns into a murder mystery because her upstairs neighbor is found dead and they presume it is suicide but she has to discover who actually killed her cuz she doesn't believe that it was suicide.  But I'm not sure I like the ending or not, because nothing really get resolved at the end... I heard that there's a second book about to coming, maybe I'll read it when I finish my thesis.

09_ Voice and The Auteur Theory

    Wes Anderson, as known as a famous American film director, also famous on how him directed films in his symmetry style. I watch The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

    Most of people are talking about his symmetry camera shot, I can understand. That is the most significant style when you first time see his film. Then I start to think about how he apply the color tone into his film, to make it feel oily and surrealism. His film have a kind of color keys tone, it like a filter style, I saw that kind of style in some 80's, 90's film. Like scissorhands edward. The film is doing fantasy and romance story combo in a fantasy world, it keep a filter's color tone to make it feel unrealistic. Wes Anderson usually uses warm color into his film, like The Fantastic Mr. Fox is saturated warm orange tone, Moonrise Kingdom is kind of warm yellowish green and The Grand Budapest is purple pink.

    For me I especially like the opening and the ending from the Moonrise Kingdom. It sets up so well and stylize, you can know it's his film when you first time see it. The opening sequence pan the camera, and establish girl's house. I see the house decoration and just can feel how fake it is. It's clean and neat, but feels deliberately. You know this family is something wrong, and they are trying to pretend they are just okay. It's a family without connection. And the ending back to the sane environment from girl's house, still the same set, but Sam is in the center painting to stand out. You can compare the difference about the girl's change.

08_ Adaptation

    About the writing script, I read the Chinatown script for this week. I know Chinatown many years ago and doesn't really watch it. At the beginning I thought it's a drama about Asian people in the Chinatown. But obviously it not what I thought, it's a Suspense film and not thing really about Asian.

    I realize in the movie script, they use the location and maybe what kind of camera should have at that scene. They usually write down every acting parts, I realize that is the reason why every actor/actress will get the movie script at the beginning. So they can understand what kind of character is it, and how they should act. It's important to know how their character moves and what kind of emotion they should have at that moment. And in the scripts also talking about the environment setting which interaction with players, it is about basic environment idea I guess. The dialogues in the script are necessary, so the player can know what kind of conversation and what is their character's mood in that scene.

    I'm doing computer animation graduation thesis right now, and it in the pre-production processing. Writing down the beat is the most important thing before we get into the storyboard. Every beat are talking about how camera moves and the how characters act. The atmosphere of the scene and what happens there. It's kind of similar as the movie script I think. They all talking about what kind of element should have in every scene. I believe the function of these script are to make the reader understand what happen at that moment, and what kind of setting there. It make all the producer easier to start the production.

07_ Ready Player One

    I love this kind of fantasy topic, and really like how the film version came out. But still, the timing for a film to tell a complete story is difficult. I believe that Steven Spielberg did film most of the story, but he cut out some parts just for matching the time limit. Film version compare to the novel one feel like it lost some build up, and also the relationship between characters.
    In novel version, Author build up the background of Wade, so we can connected with him and understand him more. And also set up the environment issues for the future deeply in the novel one. For me, to have a connection with main character is important, so this is the big miss for me. I want to feel what character's feel, but the film kind of missed it. The biggest difference for me about a film which adapted from a novel is always missing the build up parts. Ready Player One is a good movie for entertaining, but that big missing parts is what I would do.
    Film version change lots of the challenge parts, I know it is a difference choice. But I do like the build up of the first mission from the novel, it's more challenge and solving problem instead of just a action racing. Maybe for the timing, it's necessary to simplify. But feel like it not as strong as novel one.