Vainglorious

Vanglorious from Kenneth Walker on Vimeo.

Claustro....philia??? Pt 2 Revised

Claustro...phillia from Kenneth Walker on Vimeo.

Next Pitch

For this next film, I thought about exploring first interpretations. People will be interviewed on their different experiences explaining what people thought of them when they first met them and what they thought after they got to know them. Also being interviewed, without their knowledge, will be those who’ve made the same interpretations, explaining as well whether or not they feel any different toward those they’ve made these assumptions about. During the interview, some of the interviewees over here the comments heard about them. Some of them become irritated and begin to rant.

Nevermore

Nevermore from Kenneth Walker on Vimeo.

Assignment Write Up

Making this film turned out to be pretty cool. A little irritation with one of the actors, but not too much. There's maybe two or three parts I would've liked to use for shots, but either the panning seemed a bit jumpy, light glared on the actor's face, or the line didn't sound right. There was also a problem with sound while booming at first but that was fixed. I think my favorite scenes out of the film would have to be the interviews which to me is where actors seemed to emote the most.

Artist Lecture (Carmelita Higginbottom)

Personally I thought Higginbottom's showed some interesting pieces that showed the positive and negatives views on African-Americans; especially women. Pieces included those between the 1920s and 50s that showed the social status and sexual appeal of women (mostly of color). Pieces included, "High Yaller," by Reginald Marsh which shows an African-American woman dressed in a loud yellow dress and hat walking down on the sidewalk in an urban setting with a look of confidence as a nicely dressed man observes her from the stairway. Aside from the look defining her upper class social status, it also, seeing how tightly worn it is, brings out her figure, bringing an eye to her sexual appeal. Marsh also slips in the activity of "girl watching" by the man observing as she walks on. Higginbottom also stated that Marsh puts an infuses on her dark skin complexion.

She compares this to paintings such as Archibald Motley's " The Octoroom Girl," which, even though portrays an African-American woman dressed in an elaborate clothing like "High Yaller," again concentrating on her social status, is portrayed with a woman of lighter complexion (which were classified as "mulattos" or "mixed blood").

Aside from these positive views of the black female body, Higginbottom does bring up the negative portrayles such as "Negros on Rockaway Beach," which gave the viewer the since of blacks as unruly and overtly sexual. It also exposes the displacement of the black body at a public, yet segregated, area. This pieces also shows a black woman with a lighter complexion, in red, separated by a patch of sand from the other, darker skinned beach goers.

Cable car connection (Color Corrections)