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Mr. Forest II

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Forest Gump movie poster

After eliminating choices of The Grand Budapest Hotel and Wong Kar Wai due to technical difficulties, I thought I might want to be Mr. Forest Gump – not only because my shirt and Emory’s greenery fit like a forest, I wish I could be like him in the last month as well as the upcoming busy summer – positive, productive and not to let overthinking take over actions.

I intentionally preserved all signs of the times – Emory mask, Emory handbag, and my daily clothing, partially because I want to embody Forest’s spirit in myself. However, I imitated the prime characteristics of the poster – the sitting posture, wooden bench, and a head curiously looking left to the bus (future?). The biggest difference – which I realized while taking the picture – is poster is simplistic with a white background, but my picture had to include some sort of background due to technical difficulties; yet I like this fact because my positivity and productivity are closely related to the environment surrounding me – I’m a product of my environment and vice versa.

Poster Source:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/

Movie Scene Recreation: Raiders of the Lost Honey

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For this scene recreation, I found the scene I wanted first, and worked from that with what I had access to in the room I was in. I thought these two images would be good due to the comedic effect of any recreation that wasn’t literally a golden artifact being used instead. For nailing this scene, I flipped the photo editing to be flipped so it matched the original, and tried to achieve a successful depth of field, for which I put a similar colored upside down mug atop as the platform for the “artifact”. I thought seeing the behind of a bear honey bottle was perfect, as it was a recognizable front that was unseen in the shot, similar to the Indiana Jones one. Additionally, both shared a unique golden color, as well as a very similarly imprinted texture throughout.

Sketch 9: Recreate a movie scene

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Chris Pratt holds the raptors at bay in Jurassic World.

Due: 4/10

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Choose a single moment from a movie or television episode and recreate that scene as closely as you can in a single photograph. Think about how you can creatively use wardrobe items or props that you already have at your disposal and the landscapes and building spaces available to you in order to create your scene. In fact, you might find that it’s best to begin by thinking about what you might be able to pull off and to work backward from there to choosing a scene.

By definition, you don’t have incredibly powerful movie cameras, cinematographers, a cast and crew, a prop and set design department, and CGI f/x staff for post production; therefore, you are never going to perfectly recreate any scene. However, with a little creativity you can still create a powerful version of a scene even without all that fancy paraphernalia, as in the version of Jurassic World at the top of this post and others seen here.

More than a decade ago, I recreated these scenes above as part of a larger photographic creative project. For my version of Lost in Translation, I rearranged the furniture in my bedroom and borrowed my wife’s bathrobe. I could never quite get the tilt of my head right. For my recreation of Albrecht Dürer’s Self Portrait of 1500, I couldn’t reproduce the proportions because I was required to make all my shots 4×3 landscape photos and my hair wasn’t long enough to quite pull off the portrait. But I bought a black plastic tablecloth for 99 cents for the background and made the sleeve decorations with crayons on paper. I used a fuzzy scarf and an old leather jacket for the clothes. Despite taking numerous shots and studying the painting very, very closely, I could never get my right hand into exactly the correct position.

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