Wednesday, 14 April 2010

This is a script that i wrote for a scene. Its a bit of a thrill but has also a bit of comedy inside. I left it unfinished so you can create in your mind what will happen next..Hope you enjoy it!!

Scene 16

Ext. Night, out side building.

A car arrives, Eleni says goodbye to her boyfriend when she is getting out of the car.

Melanie: Bye, babe! See you tomorrow!

He drives off

Melanie walks to the building and enters it. It is deathly quite. The lights are off, she presses the elevator button. Her phone starts to ring. Melanie looks around.

Next shot – Melanie coming out of the elevator then walks down empty hall.

Melanie's phone starts to call and she picks it up. Nobody talks to her so she hangs up but the phone starts to ring again.

When Melanie picks it up this time there are some freaky noises.

She gets another dodgy phone call. She doesn’t pick it up and it keeps ringing. When it stops Melanie tries to call her boyfriend but there is no signal.

Melanie: Bugger!

She gets scared and walks faster. When Melanie reaches the kitchen she opens the door and Santa comes out at the same time. Melanie screams, Santa freaks at first but then starts to laugh. Melanie understands that it is only Santa.

Melanie: Aggh... you bitch! You scared me half to death!

Joanna: You shouldn’t be so odd then.

Melanie: I hate you

Joanna: So how was the party?

Melanie: Freaking dynamite!

Joanna: I am going to bed because you smell like a tramp.

Joanna walks off.

Melanie looks at Joanna nasty and walks to her room, unlocks the door. Melanie opens the door and notices that her window is open and curtains are moving in the wind. She turns on the light and closes the window.

Melanie takes off her shoes and suddenly someone grabs her from behind covering her mouth.

Scene finished!!

Computers.

Computers also intrests me and I would also like to do something with computers if its not with advertising. Computers were always intresting me and I always wanted to do something with computers. But, now I am I a dialema because advertisement now intrests me also, but I can combine both by doing advertising on a computer program.

Computers are important nowadays because they are accurate, fast and accomplish tasks easily. Computers can be used to communicate, for business, for education, travelling and a variety of many other uses. I was always following and studying computers at school, so defenetly in future I will work on computers. Even this is to do with advertise or anything else.

Advertising.

Advertising is something that I would like to do after I finish my course of Media Studies at the university. I would like to work at a TV Channel in Cyprus, my country, and do the advertisement through the computer program. The thing that made me to turn to advertising is that advertising today plays a great role in our live, and especially for the producers,and I would like to help those people to sell there product. Because through advertisement people will see the product through televisions, radios, magazines, posters and they will catch their eyes the product. A good advertisement should have the target audience that can easily relate to when they see the advertisement. The good product and service must benefit people and also good ideas make the audience eye to stop and catch the product.

I realise that I am more into advertising, after I followed some seminars in the summer time in Cyprus, before coming to the university, and I found it intresting for me.

Another open picture, this one taken in the summer, in Cyprus. This picture looks like it’s a close one, but our eyes directly goes to the background, to the blue sea which attracts our attention. It is summer time and the sun shines brightly making the sea calm. In the photo there are large grey rocks with some white in some areas. We see a man at the low right ready to swim in the warm sea of Cyprus. There is a boat at the background, making small cruises around different areas of Cyprus.

Although the glasses hide my eyes, nevertheless the viewer can understand that I look directly to the photo. In this picture there is a left angle.

This is a picture of the island of Skopelos in Greece. I took it when I went last summer for my summer vacations. It is an open photo, where we see the sunset. The sky is light blue at the top of the picture, then it gets pink with the sun in between the mid colour and then it gets dark blue. There is a reflexion of the pink sky into the crystal sea water. There are some people in the sea which this means that the water is still warm. In distant we see houses and the end of the island which looks like a bay. At the close picture we see a bench, where people can sit and muse the beautiful sunset that Greece has.

To conclude, one reason that I enter this picture to my blog is because I like the colours that changes into the sky in three stages, from light blue to pink and then to dark blue. This photo has a wide angle.

This image is a spiral with black and yellow stripes and with a light blue background. Moreover, black is a stronger color than yellow, however yellow is more eye-catching here. This image spiral is like a tube with no ending. You can see far, but you do not understand if that’s the end of the spiral. When the viewer look at this picture for a long time, he/she will get dizzy, because it goes round and the eye gets tired. Also, this spiral makes the viewer think, why and what was the reason that the painter drew this spiral? Is there an ending? These questions are asked by the viewer when looking at this picture but there is no answer. No one knows what the painter had on his mind when drawing this spiral.

The reason that I enter this image to my blog is because when I first saw this picture it made me wonder many things and still when I look at it.

This picture was taken at the start of autumn, when we first came to Bradford for studies. The two girls in the picture the one on the left and the one that is standing are my roommates and from the first time that we met in the halls, we came close to each other. It is an open picture and we can understand that is autumn from the fallen yellow/orange leaves on the green grass. Also from the cloudy sky and the fact that there is no sun. We can see half of the Town hall at the background.

The fact that our hands are open like we are flying, is to highlight that we are in a country away from home, free to ourselves, but with responsibilities. This picture has a wide angle at the background, as we can see from away from the trees the sky.

This is another picture that I took for my Literacy and Imaging” coursework. It is a close image and we see the Town Hall of Bradford. The sky here is cloudy because this photo was taken on another day than the previous one. There are no cars and people in this area at that time that I took this picture. We see yellow lines on the road, which separates the lanes of the cars and the bus lane. We also see the bus stop which has a red thick line around it at the close up of the picture. The photo has a left angle.

This picture was taken for my “Visual Literacy and Imaging” coursework for semester 1. The reason that I have chosen to enter this picture in my blog is because I like the way that this picture is set. It an open image and it was taken in the centre town of Bradford. We see a tall white building with a grey line in the middle. We see a big old open brown building at close of the picture, which hides the sun behind it, making the photo both dark and light.

This picture was taken in autumn and although it was autumn time the sky was clear with clouds in some areas. The rays of the sun gets through the clouds making some of them to change colour to a slightly lilac. At the top left we see a cloudy cut line, which seems to be from the exhaust of an aeroplane. At the close of the photo we see people walking, some in a rush way and some others slowly. The ground is of mosaic. This picture has a wide angle.

This is another postcard that I got from the first shop, here at Bradford when I came. The reason that I got this postcard is to remember the first days here at Bradford. It is a close image and we see sheep passing across the road. It seems to be spring time, because the sky is clear with some clouds and it seems to have sun. We can understand the photographer, kenpaver, because the sun rays hit the sheep making shadows. There is a big shadow at the right low of the postcard and it seems to be from the grey’s house chimney. Moreover, at the back of the sheep we see a red line mark. The red line might be a mark that the sheep will be killed for food.

In the postcard we can see two men, behind the sheep, in front of a large bushy tree. They are talking to each other, and we realise that from the way they are facing each other. They are wearing shirts, which illustrares another fact that is spring. Also, there is a lot of green and this also illustrates that winter has ended.

At the bottom of the postcard, in red capital letters it says: “Rush Hour-Yorkshire Dales”. “Rush Hour” is usually essential for cars, but the photographer here suggests to the rush hour of the sheep.

This is another postcard of River Wharf, which is a river for much of its length it is the country boundary between West and North Yorkshire. This picture was taken from Alan Curtis and it was created by the E.T.W Dennis and Sons Ltd company in Scarbourough.

It is an open picture and it was pictured in Ilkey, which is a small village near Skipton, between Bradford and Leeds. In this postcard we see the green tree mountain with houses in between. As you come closer to the photograph there are not many trees and we see more clearly the houses that have cars outside and the green small valley which leads to the river. The river has a slope with trees on the edges, but also in some parts in the river there is a beige soil that might had fallen from the earth ground into the river. The sky is clear with some white clouds and there is a reflexion of the sky into the river. This is because the water of the river is clear like chrystal and it has a reflexion of the sky but also shadows from the trees.

This is a postcard and it was given to me on my birthday from my roommate in October. It was the first card that I got when I first came to here, in England, and I will never loose it. It is an open picture and it has some words written on it. It says: ‘God bless you on your birthday’. By these words, the artist but also my friend who gave me this postcard wishes me to have a great birthday but also God to bless me with goods. Those words for me are very important and especially by someone who you only know few days.

Nevertheless, the picture shows a half valley with a bridge, a river with large rocks and water running quickly downwards. It seems that it rained, and we understand this from the background clouds, where there is no sun, from the wet soil that we can see at the left besides the bridge and from the green grass. We can also understand that it rained from the bridge that is quite fluid.

To conclude, the reason that Christina, my roommate who gave me this postcard, gave it to me on my birthday to remember the first days that we are here in England (that’s why this postcard is from an English valley) away from home and how we spend the first days together.

This image is from the artist Henri Matisse. He was born in northern France in 1869. This female figure that he draw is his wife and he gave the title “Green Stripe”. The reason that he gave this title is as we see in the potrait, there is a green line that separates the two sides of her face. Also, the green stripe line acts as a shadow line and divides her face in a dark and light side. This painting is one of his boldest colour images that he created. Matisse’s wife has an oval face. Her right side repeats the brightness of the green. On her left side, the lilac and orange colours, echo the colours of her dress.

Matisse uses several techniques in this potrait. He uses echo colours, dark and light colours to separate the two sides of her face, bold thick brush to give emphasis to some places on her face.

This painting is from a Dutch artist, Willen Kalf, who he usually in mostly all his paintings uses deep black background. He uses the black background for contrast. In this painting we see a bowl of white colour that has two people with bright colours, red and yellow dresses. There is another golden bowl which has a staue which seems to hold the bowl and it has abstact on it. We also see a half cut yellow orange in the painting and a thick red with black, dark and a bit of yellow abstact table cloth.

By this theme the viewer can easily understand that the painter had people for food. But not only this, it is known in the history of the arts that Willen Kulf is a master at painting curved shapes of metal and glass objects which he uses light colours to make a contrast with the black background.

This painting is from the famous French artist, Claude Monet. This painting is called “Sunrise” and it was decided to be drawn in 1872 by Monet and his friends. It is an open painting and the surrounding landscape area is Paris. It is an “en plein air”, which means in the open air and this illustrates that this painting was a large finished product for Monet and his friends.

In the painting we see bold yellowto orange colours and light lilac brushwork, that they used to capture the light that it bounced off to the objects. We can understand that there is an increased in the intensity of complementary colours of blue and orange, red and green, yellow and violet when they are placed next to one another.

The sun reflects into the crystal sea, where we can see a small boat with two men going towards the west north of the painting. There is a reflexion of the boat into the sea, that makes the viewer’s first sight to see that there are two boats.

To conlude, Monet together with his colleques uses primary and secondary colours, they added oil to make the painting oily and diminsh their colour.


This potrait is a painting from Salvador Dali, a Spanish painter born in Figueres. The potrait was painted in the summer of 1925 at Cadaques. It is a close painting, and the old man who sits on the chair is Dali’s father. We see his father holding a pipein his left hand. He wears a well-dressed costume with white shirt inside and grey blazer. The expression on his face and the way he is dressed, gives the viewer the impression that he is wainting for someone alone in a room. The white reflexion gives us the impression that he is sitting near a window and the weather is quite good. Although his face might facing the viewer, his eyes are looking upon the viewer’s right. Even though he looks quite old he has no wrinkles, which makes the viewer think and wonder his real age.

The potrait has dark colours and the white shirt inside makes the contarst and the monotony of the dark to break off.

This painting as we all know is the painting of Mona lisa who was created by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. This potrait took three years to finish. From 1503-1506. It is a half-length potrait and characterizes a woman’s expression whose facial expression is often described as ambiguous. It is an open painting because we can see the mountainous landscape at the background, the forest, the river and the dirt road.

Mona lisa is sitting on a chair with her right hand, holding her right left wrist and her right hand holds the arm of the chair on which she is sitting. The chair is parallel to the picture, whereas her torso is turned towards us and although her face might facing the viewer, her eyes are looking at the viewer’s right. She is dressed in the Florentine fashion and her dress seems to be plain black, with little brown in some places. Her hair falls down to her shoulders. She doesn’t wear any jewelleries.

Moreover, the viewer adores the painting, and the first thing that usually is noticeable is her smile. Her smile seems quite strange. The viewer doesn’t fully understand the true meaning of this facial expression. It might simetimes be worrying, sad, happy. We will never understand.

This painting is one of the famous painting of Pablo Picasso, called Guemica. It was created on the 26th of April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. The “Guemica” painting is black, blue and white. Picasso uses these colours to set a somber mood and to express chaos and pain. Picasso’s purpose of the painting was to bring to the world’s attention of the Basque town of Guemica by German bombers during the Spanish Civil War.

In this painting we can understand that people and animals are suffering. This scene was captured in a room. It is an open painting because at the left end there is an eye standing over a woman that holds a dead child in her arms. There is a panic bull next to the eye where behind it there is a bird. The bird symbolises peace. The centre of the painting is engaged by a painfull horse falling. Under the horse there is a dead soldier, where we see a sword that he holds in his hand. In his open palm we see a stigma.

To the upper right of the horse, we see a frightened female figure. We see a hand next to the female figure that holds a light bulb, which is located near to the lamp. The lamp and the light bulb are positioned next to each other, and this symbolises hope.

Pablo Picasso uses several techniques that symbolises hope, and that the Spanish Civil War is coming to an end. The dark wall with the open door at the right, defines that the war is coming to its end.

This image is from the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. This painting is one of his many famous paintings that he made, known as “Café Terrace at night”. It is an open painting where we can see the bright stars in the sky and the distant shops of the piazza. When we first look at the painting our eyes directly goes to the shinny yellow restaurant. After that we see the contrast of the bright yellow colour with the dark blue sky and the shinny stars. The yellow shop is the “Café Terrace” where we can see tables outside and the waitress giving the order to the customers. It seems to be spiring time because of the clean sky with the shinney stars and people sitting outside. This gives us the impression that the weather is fine. Also, people wear long sleeves, where even though the weather is fine and youcan see outdoors, it still has that slightly cold feeling that winter leaves.

Moreover, we see a couple ready to enter the “Café Terrace” and a woman or child (it doesn’t make it clear what sex it is) passing by the café. Only the “Café Terrace” seems to be open at that time, where it is the only one in the square that has people and the lights are open.

The ground is made of rocks, where the rocks are darks at close and gets lighter at the back. There are solid lines in the painting.

The painting “Café Terrace at night” uses all the techniques. The use of the light bright colour with the contrast of the dark colour, the event where people are sitting and ordering and people enttering the café.

Tuesday, 13 April 2010

The title of this painting is called “Madame Monet and her son”. This image is an image of Claude Monet’s wife, Camille and his son, Jean. The painting is a close image where there is strong use of light, blurry colours and shadows. When we first look at this picture, our eyes are drawn directly to the woman and this is because she is in the centre and the largest figure in the painting. Not only this, but also there, is the most consentration of the painting. Her body is the focusing part of the painting, although her face is dark. Because her mid-body is brightest than her face, the boy, her son, that is next to her is more noticeable.

There is a great diffrence of the light in this painting because it changes from one section to the next. The light is brightest in the centre of the picture and then it gets darker at the end. The dark umbrella is a great contrast with the light.

The impression that we get from the painting is that the light is coming from the sun, that is located behind the woman. There are no solid lines. The colours are seem to run into one another. The running colours gives the painting the unclear look. The painting captures the idea of a moment. The position of the woman’s dress suggests that wind is present. It is very easy to see that the ground and flowers are close to the viewers eye, followed by the woman, then the boy and then the sky which is the backgound of the painting.

The painting uses all the techniques. The use of light and shadow, the fading colours that gives off the shadowy effect and the capturing of a specific moment in time.