Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Tired By 12 - The East Flatbush Project is the song that we are planning on using for our Rooftop Legends film. We chose this song mostly because of the beat that it has. We felt like it went perfect with the film but since the song talks mainly about death we felt like it contradicts our film. So instead of changed the song we decided to continue using the same beat and writing our own lyrics to record and use for our film. Since we're more familiar with the rooftop we can write a song that explains what Rooftop Legends is all about. For the now the writing of the new song is in progress but this is the amazing song that we were going originally use. 


Saturday, January 5, 2013

I'm Here

I'm Here is short film written and directed by Spike Jonze. This film takes place in LA in a time where both human and robots live. When two robots named Sheldon and Francesca meet they imminently fall for each other. Francesca is a bit out going and when one day she take Sheldon to a concert to see her favorite band she looses an arm in the crowd. Sheldon's love for her is so big that he unscrewed his arm and gave it to Francesca. The day after she falls and looses a leg and once again he gives her his. Towards the end Francesca seems to have gotten in an accident in which her whole body isn't working anymore. Sheldon let's the doctors take his body off of him and put it on her. At the end of the film, Francesca leave the hospital with Sheldon's head in her hands and you see in face how happy he is to see that his lover is okay. 

Cashback

Cashback is originally a short film written and directed by Sean Ellis. The short film was released in 2004 and afterword in 2006 the short film expanded. I really enjoyed watching this short film because Ben (Sean Biggerstaff ) shows us how he stops time by doing the opposite of everything. Ben explains to us that the reason why he's working in the supermarket is to pay for his art school and when it was that he first became interested in art and the beauty of females. At the beginning of the short film Ben tells us how when we are asleep we are unaware that we are sleeping and that in those missing hours a whole new world comes to life. When he pauses time to undress and draw these women, that's like his new world. His artistic world. 
In the extended version of the film Ben explains to us better of why he was really working in the supermarket. How he couldn't sleep after his breakup so he had eight extra hours added on to his day. Ben can stop time when ever he wants. He wishes he was able to just live in this paused world where he can observe everything. When Ben has everyone around him paused he notices that someone was moving. He realized that he was sharing that world with others. When Ben's ex-girlfriend kisses him at a party and Sharon see's Ben freezes time. He left time frozen for about a week trying to think of all kinds of ways to explain to the Sharon that what she had seen was the wrong second of the two seconds. That's when he realizes that every second of every day counts. In the end of the film, Ben was able to bring Sharon into his frozen world and show her the beauty behind everything that is hidden in the fast moving world. 

Friday, January 4, 2013

Rooftop

Fish Eye

This is one of the pieces of graffiti that is on the roof of Seward Park Campus at the moment. I used fish eye lens to take this photo. I love using fish eye when taking pictures like this because it gives it an effect makes a person feel like the image is coming towards them.

Friday, December 14, 2012

This is one of the pieces that was done in 2011 and is currently still on the roof.

Rooftop Legends



This video shows the anual event that goes on, on the roof of New Design High School. Graffiti artist from all around come together and put their pieces on the roof.