Tuesday 19 July 2011

Avatar Trailer, Sight and Sound review and IMDB hints

Avatar, in my opinion, is one of the best examples of showing how CGI can aid the narrative rather than trying to distract from the narrative.
Here is the Mark Kemode review, Here's are lots of short reviews on rottentomatoes.com and These two are the sequels rumored by IMDB

Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon Trailer + Mark Kemode Reviews

I got around to watching Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon this weekend and I found how Mark Kemode presented the viewing experience of watching this film rather accurate in this review.

Also, here's a more in-depth review that he gave about the success of this film and Blockbusters in general and finally here's the review he did with Simon Mayo in his podcast.

Tuesday 28 June 2011

My Research "CGI Vs Narrative"

For my project, I will be studying the impact of CGI on film narrative and. Examples I will be using is Avatar, Jurrasic Park, Transformers: The Dark Side of the Moon and Star wars: The Phantom Menace.

While at the inception of the CGI, it was just seen as just another aspect of post-production that was to intended to help the narrative, this can be seen in  Jurassic Park. Now, it can been seen, instead, replacing narrative, like in Micheal Bay's Transformers series.

Tuesday 21 June 2011

Research Material

For my research sources' I have used:
  • Spectacular Narratives - 1996 (Allan Rowe)
  • An Introduction to Film Studies - 2000 (Geoff King)
  • Websites (seen in link bar)
  • Transformers (movie)
  • Avatar (movie)