Terry Gilliam

Project Brief.

My project brief is to create an animation in the style o terry Gilliam. Rodchenko & Popova and Gilliam both use photographic montage in their work. Rodchenko uses it as propaganda whereas Gilliam uses it for humour and entertainment. Our animation has to include the UNICEF right we have chosen as a group, which was: the right to be safe around others.

http://www.unicef.org.uk/campaigns/index.asp

This is the UNICEF website where we found our right that we developed. We chose this right because it could be developed to fit a local issue and a worldwide issue. The local issue fits our age category perfectly so we thought it was the one that people (teenagers our age) will be most interested in.

Our particular right is: If children have a right to be protected for conflict, cruelty, exploitation and neglect then they also have the responsibility not to bully or harm each other.

Terry Gilliam

"Terry Gilliam started his career as an animator and strip cartoonist; one of his early photographic strips for Help! featured future Python cast-member John Cleese. Moving to England, he animated features for Do Not Adjust Your Set, which also featured future Pythons Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin."

"Gilliam was a part of Monty Python's Flying Circus since its outset, at first credited as an animator (his name was listed separately after the other five in the closing credits), later as a full member. His cartoons linked the show's sketches together, and defined the group's visual language in other media (such as LP and book covers, and the title sequences of their films)."

Here are a few animations that he created. I viewed them on YouTube and found them highly amusing. He uses real life images and places them in a cartoon animation. Most of his work is based in the 1960s or 70s because that’s when he grew up.

· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KUqHzk26kI

· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMpXUd_kesA

· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IvXNo_5LMk&feature=related

· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXCpYgd338U&feature=related

MySpace and YouTube

In this lesson we read an article on MySpace and YouTube and how it affects the advertising world. We talked about the language and how we could apply the techniques to our own blog to make it more effective and analytical. After reading the article we were asked to pick one of our blog posts and add the features that we discussed. This was quite hard, as we were never asked to write in this style before. It was a new challenge for me and I think i learnt from it.