8 de diciembre de 2016
Production Designer
In film and television, a production
designer or P.D. is the person responsible for the overall visual look of
the production. Production designers have a key creative role in the creation
of motion pictures and television. Working directly with the director, cinematographer and producer,
they must select the settings and style to visually tell the story.
Art Director
Is the title for a variety of similar job
functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television,
the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and
unify the vision. In particular, the art director is in charge of the overall
visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods,
contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art
director makes decisions about visual elements used, what artistic style to
use, and when to use motion.
One of the most difficult problems that art directors face
is to translate desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas
into imagery. During the brainstorming process, art directors, co-workers, and
clients are engaged in imagining what the finished piece or scene might look
like. At times, an art director is ultimately responsible for solidifying the
vision of the collective imagination while resolving conflicting agenda and
inconsistencies between the various individual inputs.
Art Directors in Film
An art director, in the hierarchical structure of
a film art department, works directly below the production designer, in
collaboration with the set decorator and the set designers. A large part of
their duties include the administrative aspects of the art department.
They are responsible for assigning tasks to personnel such as the art
department coordinator, and the construction coordinator, keeping track of the
art department budget and scheduling (i.e. prep/wrap schedule) as well as
overall quality control. They are often also a liaison to other departments;
especially construction, special FX, property, transportation (graphics), and
locations departments. The art director also attends all production meetings
and tech scouts in order to provide information to the set designers in
preparation for all departments to have a visual floor plan of each location
visited.
In the past, the title of art director was used to denote
the head of the art department (hence the Academy Award for Best Art
Direction) which also included the set decorator. Now the award includes the
production designer and set decorator. On the movie Gone with the Wind,
David O. Selznick felt that William Cameron Menzies had such a significant role
in the look of the film, that the title art director was not sufficient and so
he gave Menzies the title of production designer. The title has become
more common, and now production designer is commonly used as the title for the
head of the art department, although the title actually implies control over
every visual aspect of a film, including costumes.
Art Department
Art department in movie terms means the
section of a production's crew concerned with visual artistry.
Working under the supervision of the production designer and/or art
director, the art department is responsible for arranging the overall look of
the film (i.e. modern/high-tech, rustic, Victorian, etc.) as desired by the film
director. Individual positions within this department include: production
designer, art director, assistant art director, storyboard
artist, concept artist, draftsman, art department coordinator, set
decorator, set dresser, makeup artist, painter, property master, leadman, swing
gang, production buyer, Film sculptor, and property assistant.
Edited from Wikipedia
Edited from Wikipedia
24 de noviembre de 2016
...La actividad del conocimiento en sentido pleno (el conocimiento no parcelado) secuencialmente comprende: 1) la significación del objeto que se pretende conocer a partir de la autorreferencia del sujeto que la realiza (subjetivación); 2) la construcción de su representación simbólica de forma que le permita operar sobre esta representación; 3) la realización de un proyecto de transformación desde su propia significación; 4) la producción del correspondiente plan de acción para realizarlo; y 5) la realización del plan y ajuste del objeto conocido al proyecto (objetivación-registro material). El conocimiento, en este sentido pleno, permite al individuo sujeto afirmarse frente al medio y no ser mera representación de un orden social exterior a él...
30 de agosto de 2016
La Certeza de La Vida
Es interesante ver como el tiempo pasa. No solo verlo, sino sentirlo. Sentir como el tiempo pasa.
No estoy triste, simplemente tengo la Resaca historica de los 80', como si viviesemos en una epoca de euphoria creativa.
Asi como pasa el tiempo, tambien la mente y los deseos se reblandencen. Como si se volviesen mas o menos disfuncionales. Se tornan violeta, con una profundidad sin precedente. Ahi ves el tiempo asi como el espacio han cambiado. Un truco perceptivo generado por el constante cambio en nuestra psycologia.
Y en ello, en esta percepcion. En esta experiencia del presente, reside nuestra divinidad. Asi como los animales y las plantas "viven", nosotros tenemos la capacidad de enajenarnos. En ese momento de alerta sentimos como el tiempo pasa de manera consciente. Estamos porque nunca estuvimos, pero tenemos la capacidad del retorno.
Por ello, por esta presencia que no es solamente corporea, es facil ver como la idea de lo celestial es algo que acompana nuestra cultura a lo largo de estos tiempos, aunque poco ya nos quede de esta palabra tan especial como la de la espitirualidad.
Es por lo tanto trabajo de este espiritu tan alusivo el de reconciliar esta consciencia con el mundo que le rodea. Este mecanismo divino perceptivo. Esto es debido a que el mundo siempre existio tan pronto como nuestra experience de el se produjo, ya que en este lidiar conceptualizamos la experiencia vivida. Otro jugete de nuestra consciencia para manejar la "realidad".
Asi, en esta posicion completa de desamparo, necesitamos generar otro tipo de jugetes para lidiar con el dia a dia y el mas alla: todo lo que nuestra recien adquirida consciencia no puede explicar. Con tranquilidad te puedo decir que no hay un cuerpo fuera del tuyo: no tenemos la capacidad de vivir fuera de nuestro sistema perecptivo y corporeo. Estamos atados al amarre mas fuerte de nuestra realidad, rodeados de una continua ilusion de cambio.
Asi es el camino, pongamolos lineal, de nuestro tiempo vivido, o mas bien sentido. Ese cuerpo indefenso que lidia con conceptos tan tenebres como el de la muerte. Aquella certeza. El anti-concepto por excelencia. El antijugete. Una certeza tan amarga como dulce. Asi como se expresa indefensa ante el terrmoto o mareo de la "vida". Asi afirmar la murte, es afirmar la vida. Asi como yo digo: -voy a morir- digo y exclamo: -voy a vivir! En un momento euforico de conociemiento y consciencia global. Y no es un momento tragico, sino signo de un fenomeno extraordinario, en el que las particulas componentes de nuestros organismos dan, por "arte" de magia, un sentido original a la vida. Aquel de la experiencia percivida y compartida en esta marea de jugetes imposibles.
20 de mayo de 2016
Much of how I have felt for long:
"Seeing and keeping ourselves central, never marginal.
For some years know, writers of color have been discussing the experience of living in the margins while white people are living in the center.
In one of her early books, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Boston: South End Press, 1984), Bell Hooks defines it:
To be in the margin is to be part of the whole but outside the main body…
Living as we did − on the edge − we developed a particular way of seeing reality.
We looked both from the outside in and from the inside out.
We focused our attention on the center as well as on the margin. (p.ix.)"
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