A Podcast About Film Aspects

In English we are learning how to analyse how film aspects costume, motifs, symbolism, and insert shots show meaning. I will know I have done this when, I can explain why and how costume, motifs, symbolism, and the insert shot are used to show meaning in film.

We are learning this because this is applicable in certain jobs and aspects of other tasks. Jobs like directors need to know about it to flair up the film and actors need it to ensure that they themselves can create the desired effect.

With the culmination of all the past things I've learned I have a relatively good grasp of the film topic.

Subversion For Sofia Minson

This time for art we are looking at the subversion of a different Maori artist called Sofia Minson.

This time we watched this video and now have to take notes:

In simplest form the point of Sofia's work is to look at deities, gods and religions of different cultures, then to combine the cultures into one idea.

Afterwards I made a thumbnail sketch of an artwork of hers:

It is a simple artwork but it has a sense of subversion, there appears to be a rope in the painting. The appearance of the rope makes the perch of the bird uncertain and unstable, able to change. The bird is an iconic well known bird, a tui, which is native to New Zealand. The painting could be saying that solid ideals have a flexible base or that well known things are still easy to change. She might be using the idea of something well known to inform the idea of unchanging objects.

In comparison to Tracey's work Sofia starts from a blank canvas instead of covering something but letting parts show through. Sofia is combining original ideas while Tracey is covering or recycling old ideas. Sofia does full page artwork while Tracey does grid style artwork.

Subversion for Tracey Tawhiao

Art has us looking at the subversion in Tracey's work. There was also the slight task of trying to apply it to a painting of our own creation.

In this painting one can see a lot of fish showing in various patterned styles possibly hinting toward an idea of various types of fish.

Some of the fish appear incomplete like they've been planned but not finished. It could be gesturing to the uncertainty of what we don't know about what lives down in the depths of trenches.

Most of the picture seems to have dark tones but then there's the orange square near the middle of the picture.

It has some of the fish with the look of rope on their tails, probably to look at fishing or overfishing, or maybe even plastic waste polluting the ocean.

The possibility is that she is saying people rely on the ocean too much.

Here is a painting I did from the inspiration of Tracey Tawhiao:

This painting was done in the idea of trees and their support to certain ecosystems.

The brown drabness of the left of the painting is to show the boring effects of a lack of trees and birds.

The cut down trees are to highlight the fact that a bird will nest in a tree and will eat worms and feed them to their young. With the broken egg there is the knowledge that there will be less birds to be feed or to feed.

With less birds eating the worms the worms can increase in population and damage the ecosystem.

The bird next to the standing tree s and the potted plant tree is to say: they could have cut down that tree but they cut down the one with the egg.