Wednesday 30 April 2014

Slang & Dialect dictionary


http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maureenmitchell/yorkshire/dialect_words.htm

http://www.webring.org/l/rdring=leedswebring;id=24;url=http%3A%2F%2Fyorkshirefolk%2Emyfineforum%2Eorg%2Farchive%2Fyorkshire-colloquialisms__o_t__t_74%2Ehtml

http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/2013/12/30/eight-yorkshire-sayings-will-baffle-americans/

Yorkshire:

http://www.visitmiddlesbrough.com/visitor-info/smogtionary-slang-dictionary

Middlesborough:

http://www.geordie.org.uk/

Geordie:

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-sayings-top-26-things-6463028
http://thehouseofscouse.weebly.com/scouse-dictionaryslang.html

Scouse:

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/lifestyle/50-top-birmingham-black-country-6477059

Brummie/ Black Country:

Poem Research

While In leeds I took the opportunity to do some primary research and see what Waterstones covered in terms of poems and how they represented in existing books and their pages.



There is an awful lot of gold foiling used within this section of books, on the front cover and on the spine. Certainty to enhance their perceived value, seen as though they're are just pages of poems. It's done to further the agenda that poems simply aren't a lower art form.


However with books like above, which make it look more accessible for the working class by making it  look simpler and stand out with the colour hierarchy and block text. Here is a book that is devoid of any gold foiling or decoration with it's main purpose to educate how to understand poems. It's audience is clear and voiced very clearly.

While below there is two contrasting book covers for Lord byron's poems, one incredibly greek looking decorated book with the other a plain penguin classics book. The plain penguin book being accessible with a portrait of Lord Byron. While the other is something you'd buy to look nice on your coffee table. It is a lovely book cover none the less, but it illustrates Lord Byron's poems a lot more then the penguin. In doing so it gives it a more luxurious feel rather then a simple anthology of poems does. More personal and what not.












Almost all of the pages of the poem books, where all rather plain, even in the decorative books. They have a more consideration put into the front cover then the actual contents. Although, yes they are set out nicely, they could be a bit more creative with it.







There really is an awful lot of foiling going on with these books. It's like every other book has it.


Foiling.


Foiling.


Foiling.


Foiling.


Foiling. 

(Although not a Poem book, I still really like the decoration on this book, would be very fitting within the Poem section.)


Foiling.












This was probably one of the nicest laid out poem books internally, pictures to compliment the poems, big coloured poem titles. The lot. It enhance the poem a lot more then been surrounded by multiple other poems. 


As well as having their own chapter pages.




Black Foiling.


Not sure if the above was a poem book, but the cover of this book is really convincing.

Not poem books, but these were all interesting in their own right. Penguins Shorts. The calligraphy lettering here is used to a really great effect coupled with embossing, a lot of work into such a little book. 





Tuesday 29 April 2014

19th Century Literature

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/19th-century-literature
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10210.Jane_Eyre
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice

I looked up the top quotes from Wuthering Heights to see what I could work with, however, from finding someones list of their top ten quotes from it, which seemed to be rather universal elsewhere. The quotes them selves are all rather uninspiring and require background knowledge into what they mean. Which is disappointing.

1) I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am (86). Catherine admits to Ellen that she loves Heathcliff but cannot think of marrying him because he has been degraded by Hindley. Heathcliff hears this speech, and he leaves Wuthering Heights, not to return for three years. 
2) Nelly, I see now, you think me a selfish wretch; but did it never strike you that if Heathcliff and I married we should be beggars? whereas, if I marry Linton, I can aid Heathcliff to rise, and place him out of my brother's power? (87). Catherine tells Ellen what she believes will happen with her marriage and her relationship to Heathcliff. She really believes that her marriage to Linton will end up helping Heathcliff, which of course it does not. 
3) My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath--a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind--not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being (88). The extent of the love between Catherine and Heathcliff is shown here. Heathcliff says similar things throughout the novel. 

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080809103942AAhfcVx

Wednesday 23 April 2014

Top 50 (Golden Age of American Animation). Studio brief 2

The Main List:

  1. "What's Opera, Doc?" – Chuck JonesWarner Bros., 1957
  2. "Duck Amuck" – Chuck JonesWarner Bros., 1953
  3. "The Band Concert" – Wilfred Jackson, Disney, 1935
  4. "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century" – Chuck JonesWarner Bros., 1953
  5. "One Froggy Evening" – Chuck JonesWarner Bros., 1955
  6. "Gertie the Dinosaur" – Winsor McCay, 1914
  7. "Red Hot Riding Hood" – Tex AveryMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1943
  8. "Porky in Wackyland" – Bob ClampettWarner Bros., 1938
  9. "Gerald McBoing-Boing" – Robert Cannon, UPA (Columbia Pictures), 1951
  10. "King Size Canary" – Tex AveryMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1947
  11. "Three Little Pigs" – Burt Gillett, Disney, 1933
  12. "Rabbit of Seville" – Chuck JonesWarner Bros., 1950
  13. "Steamboat Willie" – Ub IwerksDisney, 1928
  14. "The Old Mill" – Wilfred Jackson and Graham Heid, Disney, 1937
  15. "Bad Luck Blackie" – Tex AveryMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1949
  16. "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" – Bob ClampettWarner Bros., 1946
  17. "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor" – Dave Fleischer, Fleischer Studios, 1936
  18. "The Skeleton Dance" – Ub Iwerks, Disney, 1929
  19. "Snow White" (The Betty Boop version) – Dave Fleischer, Fleischer Studios, 1933
  20. "Minnie the Moocher" – Dave Fleischer, Fleischer Studios, 1932
  21. "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs" – Bob ClampettWarner Bros., 1943
  22. "Der Fuehrers Face" – Jack Kinney, Disney, 1943
  23. "Little Rural Riding Hood" – Tex AveryMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1949
  24. "The Tell-Tale Heart" – Ted Parmelee, Columbia Cartoons, 1953
  25. "The Big Snit" – Richard Condie, National Film Board Of Canada, 1985
  26. "Brave Little Tailor" – Burt Gillett, Disney, 1938
  27. "Clock Cleaners" – Ben Sharpsteen, Disney, 1937
  28. "Northwest Hounded Police" – Tex AveryMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1946
  29. "Adventures In Music: Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom" – Charles Nicholls and Ward Kimball, Disney, 1953
  30. "Rabbit Seasoning" – Chuck JonesWarner Bros., 1952
  31. "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" – Chuck JonesWarner Bros., 1950
  32. "The Cat Came Back" – Cordell Barker, Richard Condie (National Film Board Of Canada), 1988
  33. "The Mad Scientist" aka "Superman" – Dave Fleischer, Fleischer Studios, 1941
  34. "You Ought to Be in Pictures" – Friz FrelengWarner Bros., 1940
  35. "Ali Baba Bunny" – Chuck JonesWarner Bros., 1957
  36. "Feed the Kitty" – Chuck JonesWarner Bros., 1952
  37. "Bimbo's Initiation" – Dave Fleischer, Fleischer Studios, 1931
  38. "Bambi Meets Godzilla" – Marv Newland, 1969
  39. "Little Red Riding Rabbit" – Friz FrelengWarner Bros., 1944
  40. "Peace on Earth" – Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939
  41. "Rooty Toot Toot" – John Hubley, Columbia Cartoons, 1953
  42. "The Cat Concerto" – William Hanna and Joe Barbera, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1946
  43. "Woody Woodpecker: The Barber of Seville" – James "Shamus" CulhaneWalter Lantz, 1944
  44. "The Man Who Planted Trees" (L'homme qui plantait des arbres) – Frédéric Back, 1987
  45. "Book Revue" – Bob ClampettWarner Bros., 1946
  46. "Quasi At The Quackadero" – Sally Cruikshank, 1975
  47. "A Corny Concerto" – Bob ClampettWarner Bros., 1943
  48. "The Unicorn in the Garden" – William T. Hurtz, Columbia Cartoons, 1953
  49. "The Dover Boys at Pimento University or the Rivals of Roquefort Hall" – Chuck JonesWarner Bros., 1942
  50. "Felix In Hollywood" – Otto Messmer, 1923

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/The50GreatestCartoons

Tuesday 22 April 2014

All the Cartoon Festivals

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/motion-graphics/monsters-university-behind-scenes-from-sketchbook-screen/

http://wfac.ca/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_animation_festivals

http://www.justdisney.com/animation/animation.html

http://www.liaf.org.uk/events/the-festival/

http://www.miaf.net/

http://www.annecy.org/home

http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/

http://www.animationfestival.ca/

https://www.sundance.org/festival/

http://www.sundance-london.com/

https://www.behance.net/gallery/ARCHITECTUUR-FILM-FESTIVAL-ROTTERDAM/15733977

https://www.behance.net/gallery/Poster-EMUS-Electronic-Music-Festival/8372463

https://www.behance.net/gallery/Brochure-EMUS-Electronic-Music-Festival/8771225

https://www.behance.net/gallery/EDEN-Festival-de-folk-psicodlico/14396159

http://www.mcmcomiccon.com/london/

https://www.behance.net/gallery/Waxeye-2014/15592499

http://www.leedsfilm.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation#Cels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_American_animation

https://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Makioka-Sisters/3285018

https://www.behance.net/gallery/Distant-Light/14793803

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Renaissance

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LimitedAnimation

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/The50GreatestCartoons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_Symphonies

 Mickey MouseBugs BunnyDonald DuckDaffy Duck,PopeyeTom and JerryBetty BoopWoody Woodpecker, Felix the Cat, Oswald the lucky rabbit, Pluto, Popeye

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_and_the_Tramp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_(1959)

Walt Disney's first films: Snow White and the Seven DwarfsPinocchioFantasiaDumbo and Bambi.



http://cacb.wordpress.com/category/model-sheets/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_(metaphor)

Wednesday 16 April 2014

A Few Good Men Poster, Current

I looked into what the current posters where that existed for A Few Good men already, I found out it was a play as well as the film my movie poster is to be made of. 

The posters all have one thing in common, mostly: The american flag, or colours of it represented throughout the image, The hammer and gavel, something patriotic to america, Naval officer. 

This is pretty interesting, from watching the film as well. They've picked what I would suggest is the ONLY real visual imagery from the film funnily enough. These are really the only main elements that you could pick out of the film to identity it immediately.