Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell creates little boxes that look a lot to me like a small mood board. They all seem to have their own little mood and the use of materials is quite important to me. I think the best thing to take from this work could be the use of materials and specifically tones of wood as the wooden boxes can be influenced very much by the choice of wood it is cased in. We should consider the choice of materials and tones in the creation of our film. 

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman mostly does photography and film stills of women looking quite strange, almost deranged. I think the main aspect to this work for me is an element of subtlety in the strangeness of the photographs.

The photograph is not far from looking normal but small changes has made the picture look wrong and surreal, I like this idea of not going overboard yet still being able to achieve an effective change in mood.

Jake and Dinos Chapman

The Chapman Brothers. These artists mostly concentrate on themes of being vulgar, appalling or offensive as they like to try to shock their audience with the depravity of what they do.

I like the satirical style of these artists when then modify a normal every day object like a £5 note or above: a happy meal box. This is another example of how you can take something completely ordinary and make it something completely different. 

Joel peter Witkin

I thought that the article on The Lord of the Rings was really interesting and showed just how extensive art direction can be and the lengths film makers will go to realise their vision. The scale of the work done to create props and masks was incredible and so detailed.

I could not really see the relevance of the artist to this article if there was to be one as his art was mostly about death and corpses... often dismembered. Corpses and dismembered bodies instantly instil an element of dread into the people that see them so we could take visual influence from the artist in the characters within our film.

Sandy Skoglund

This artist from what I have seen appears to like making the ordinary extraordinary by multiplying it our using vivid contrasting colours.

This is a good example of that as this picture makes the cats seem quite menacing, strange, uncanny or dangerous. To me it shows how such a small change in an ordinary every day thing can suddenly change the mood of it. Also it is a good example of how you can use colour to set the mood of a scene or frame, colour being something we will have to consider for our film this year.

Tomoko Shioyasu

This artist cuts out tiny parts of a huge canvas and hangs them like a painting but projects light through the canvas and causes this picture above: The Blessing Wall. I think this is a good idea to create a very strange and wacky lighting style for a film because if we were to modify a light filter or shine light through shapes we could get some amazing and/or terrifying shadows into the film.

Chiharu Shiota

This Japanese artist creates a lot of instillation and photography work that contain the themes of past and present, life and death and objects that can have memories implanted upon them.

I like the idea of objects implanting memories out of Chiharu ideas because I thought the other themes in the work were so predictable and boring but this idea of memories was an interesting a slightly fresher idea to me. I chose this Picture above as my favourite to show this for a few reasons, firstly a lot of my childhood memories are of being in different cars that my parents had owned and driven but also the car I own is 42 years old and I thought that having been around that length of time it would have a lot of memories, some perhaps very interesting. I like the fact that this seemingly inanimate object can be tied in with hundreds of different events and memories even if it is not the focus of each memory.