Kenny J Smith

My documentary is about a cat shelter called cats protection league.

http://kennyjsmith.com/cinematics/cats/cat.htm

I am expressing a physical site via a virtual web page/site.

The video I have made shows the unseen fantastical side of a forest when the sun goes down.

Here is the link:

http://www.kennyjsmith.com/cinematics/html_for_site/site.html

The location that I have chosen for the second cinematics assignment is in the town belt reserve.
It is surround by large trees and has a high cliff.
My video will have a fantasy theme which will hopefully be intriguing to the audience.

The fantasy theme will be realized by emphasing the interesting qualities of the site.
The shots will be composited together and the colour tweaked to create the mood of an enchanted forest.

The cliff and trees will be combined to give the video hierarchy.
Interesting details in my location will be shot with close ups to highlight the magesty of my location.

Here is the link to the finished munted video:

http://kennyjsmith.com/cinematics/munted/munted.html

Company branding as a status symbol is the new social hierarchy

The rich buy the brand products, the middle class can’t afford the brand products and the poor make the brand products.

The inspiration of my video came from a work trip to Macau, China over the summer holidays. I was surprised to see how much the local people were influenced by label clothing especially disney. Walking down the street you can see people wearing mickey mouse clothing and bags. On Christmas eve I visited a home that had a mickey mouse themed bathroom where everything had mickey mouse on it. I also saw a disney themed car with mickey mouse airbrushed on the outside and full with Disney toys/merchandise.

It seemed strange to me that people were paying top dollar for items when most of the money goes to a wealthy american company and a few cents goes to local sweatshops. This is not a case of supporting the local economy, the people that work in these sweatshops are paid $3NZD a day.

The main theme of my video is “Company branding as a status symbol is the new social hierarchy“.

These are some links about sweatshops in Macau and mainland China.
http://www.cleanclothes.org/urgent/99-6-20-disney.htm

http://www.tabberone.com/Trademarks/SweatShops/GlobalExchange/WorkingConditions.html

http://www.tabberone.com/Trademarks/SweatShops/GlobalExchange/DisneyDeal.html

A response to Walter Murch’s article about editing: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4994411

I found Walter’s article interesting how he said that we see our daily lives unedited, yet we can watch edited films without becoming seasick.

It seems that our dreams and memories can be cinematic and edited by the brain.