ARTIST REFERENCE: EDWARD HOPPER
Edward Hopper's etchings.
The lighting, the shadows and dynamic mark making and tonal qualities of these etchings are incredible. The figures are also so well embedded into the settings.
-So atmospheric and brooding.
BLOG POST 4: ALIEN
ALIEN (1979) Dir. Ridley Scott To this day, ALIEN still strikes fear in me like no other film. It is a film that re-defined the horror genre (sci-fi horror). The combination of H.R. Giger’s masterful yet sinister designs with Ridley Scott’s creativity and direction lead to the creation of a film that is so special and intrinsically rooted in my upbringing as a young man watching films with his father. I knew that it was a film that had a myriad of rich visual information to draw from and produce prints from. (Below) A selection of the best moments that capture the emotions of fear and angst from the film. This film has such a rich collection of stunning close up portraiture shots. ROUGH PLANS - planned compositions for my first film: ALIEN. I am heavily focusing on shadows and highlights for these plans which will help capture the overall dark, unsettling, ambiguous feel of the film, nemesis and landscape/setting. These plans certainly capture the chaotic, horrendous nature of the fi
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