Chelsea Butler

 Disney’s “Hercules” (1997) - The Hero’s Journey http://chelsea-a-butler.blogspot.com/2019/10/film-review-hercules-1997-heros-journey.html Dreamwork’s “Rise of the Guardians” (2012) - Character Archetypes http://chelsea-a-butler.blogspot.com/2019/10/film-review-dreamworks-rise-of.html Steven Spielberg’s “ Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ” (1981) - Three Act Structure http://chelsea-a-butler.blogspot.com/2019/11/film-review-steven-spielbergs-indiana.html Tom Tykwer’s “Run Lola Run” (1998) - Non-Linear Structure http://chelsea-a-butler.blogspot.com/2019/12/film-review-tom-tykwers-run-lola-run.html

As the Collaboration project has now been completed, I would like to reflect upon my efforts and contributions towards it. I must admit, that although I understood the amount of commitment I needed to provide, I was still a bit surprised at how much work each of the tasks would entail. It has been stressful, but rewarding nonetheless, as I feel that I have accomplished more than I would’ve thought I could. However, saying that, I feel that my skills are below average, meaning I have a lot of work to do to improve myself, especially in my communication with my team, and my animating skills. I feel like I could’ve achieved much more if I managed my time properly, but I think my biggest obstacle is knowing how to ask for help, out of fear of appearing silly, but also not knowing what to ask. Animation is difficult for me to process and understand, which is why my part of our final animation looks unfinished. In all honesty, Collaboration has been difficult to come to terms with, a...

Figure 1. ‘Run Lola Run Movie Poster’  Action, excitement, a ticking time bomb that’s waiting to explode, “Run Lola Run” (1998), directed by  Tom Tykwer,  is a suspense filled journey that follows the story of Lola and her boyfriend Manni, who are both against the clock and the world to make a payment in time to Manni’s gangster boss before he is killed by them. The film follows a non-linear structure in that none of the events occurring are straight forward and chronological. The film is in a loop, a zig-zag formation, as if Lola is hitting a “retry” button when thing’s don’t quite go to plan.  In the beginning, Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni, who is in a state of panic. He was on his way to deliver 100,000 Deutsche marks to his boss from a job, but ends up losing the money bag on a train, and having a homeless man inspect the bag and make off with it. With only 20 minutes until the deadline, Lola is forced to come up with a plan...

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Here is a quick playblast of one of the scenes that will be featured in our group animation. I used pose-to-pose animation to figure out the movements of each character. I have found this task to be a bit difficult, but I will do my best to keep working on the animation.

Figure 1. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Steven Spielberg’s “ Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ” (1981) is a classic tale of mystery, adventure, and heroic action, with compelling characters and beautiful scenery to boot. Starring Harrison Ford, it is an exciting tale of a thrill-seeking archeologist named Henry Jones Jr, or better known as Indy, travelling to Cairo to seek out the Ark of the Covenant before it is discovered by German soldiers. The tale of the bespectacled hero can be related to Aristotle’s ‘Three Act Structure’, as do many other films, in regards to how the linear story is told. The three acts consist of ‘ The Protasis ’ (beginning), ‘ The Epitasis ’ (middle), and ‘ The Catastrophe ’ (end). Following this theory was also an author known as Syd Field. In his publication of “ Screenplay ” (1979), he determined that the structure would be laid out as so: Act 1 - The Setup (Exposition). This is where the scene of the film is set, a...

For our collaboration project, we are creating a deleted scenes animation based on the idea that the production budget is quite low, which is why the props are made to look like they have been crafted from cardboard and hand painted.

As the characters are going to have costume based props on their being, I have also created orthographs for these as well.

Here are some of the orthographs for the props that I made for our collaboration project.

For our Collaboration project, we decided to make our animation appear as if it was on a budget, so we decided to make the film props mainly out of cardboard to add to the comedic affect.  

Figure 1. “Rise of the Guardians”  Dreamworks’ “Rise of the Guardians” (2012), directed by Peter Ramsey, is a whimsical telling of classic fairytales and myths in a modern style. It appears that the film is sort of an Avengers style visualisation of something that most people wouldn’t normally associate with ancient beings of folk lore and bedtime stories. With its cheerful disposition and colourful settings, it’s a classic for all of the family to enjoy. It can be noted that this film has incorporated The Hero’s Journey into its script, and so it will therefore also incorporate the theory of character archetypes. Character archetypes are personality descriptors for characters in creative media. The idea is to explore this theory within “Rise of the Guardians” (2012). Figure 2. “Jack Frost creating mischief” The story begins with who we can assume is our ‘Hero’ of the story, Jack Frost. It is a mystery as to where he originated from or who he is at this time,...

Figure 1. Hercules (1997) The mythical wonder that is Disney’s ‘ Hercules (1997) ’, titled after the main character himself, has graced our screens for all these years, and yet, it still manages to dazzle our eyes with extreme colour and filled our ears with musical joy. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, it’s a perfect example of how to describe Joseph Campbell’s monomyth, The Hero’s Journey. The story begins with the birth of the Hero, Hercules, son of Zeus. With immense strength and cheerful disposition, the realm of Gods seemed tranquil for a moment with the new arrival to the godly line-up. However, that happiness would be short lived, when the ever jealous Hades, lord of the underworld, would turn the small child in to a mortal. Despite what the original Greek mythology states about the main hero himself, Hercules is a happy-go-lucky chap with high hopes and not much clue about the hero business at the beginning. After becoming mortal and being adopted by two...