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From : blankemma
Added: Aug 30, 2009
What is Screen Magic? Screen magic holds various meanings to everyone, or rather a distinctive experiences. I remember the first time I realized the effects of true film magic. It was in when I was fourteen years old. This is when I first introduced myself to the original 1959 House On Haunted Hill. Everything changed after watching one of the last scenes of the movie. The character Annabelle Loren had deceived everyone with her wickedly cruel pranks and in her moment of triumph she was suddenly confronted by a living skeleton. The skeleton began to approach her, frightened for her life poor Annabelle was backed by the skeleton into a pool of acid. The skeleton had been attached to a contraption which was the trickery of her husband, Frederick Loren (Vincent Price), who was controlling it the whole time. But at the time poor, foolish Annabelle Loren had no knowledge of this (even though the strings were quite obvious). Something about this captivated me, maybe it was the irony of Annabell's character being fooled after fooling everyone, or being fooled by something so fake. But during watching this scene although the strings were very obvious to me, I felt just as frightened as her. From then on I understood the power of screen magic. The magic of a screen altering your experience, feelings and thoughts is what I believe screen magic really is. The screen offers so much opportunity, selection and freedom for an artist to use to connect with his/hers audience. With this freedom used in the right context and subject matter an artist and make an audience feel and believe anything. An artist can affecting a persons thoughts and emotion is what being a true screen artist is all about. In my video mash-up Dreamland I present various cartoons from the 30's, 40's and 50's. Personally I believe that old cartoons create such a dreamlike state, to me this is the core of film magic. This is where cartoon began, there's no rules in animation, no logistics and every performance is perfectly constructed. Old cartoons have no formula, they don't break boundaries because they don't exist. Old hand drawn cartoons are the perfect example of screen magic, to myself they define screen magic. Deeply planted in every film-maker is the desire to control their artwork, to paint every image from their minds directly to the screen. Animation is the art-form of this. It is controlling every thing down to the most minuet detail. Cartoons prior the 70's hold an unique quality of freedom, the story is erratic and the characters are light, exactly what we see is all that exists in this world. Everything in this land is whimsical and unrestrained . That is what truly makes screen magic, a world that cannot be captured in any other art form, or has been contained so greatly in any other period. The reason I choose to do a masher was to modernize the art form of these early cartoons. I feel mash-ups are the most positive way to interpret this screen magic to the new generation. Mash-ups leave me feeling inspired, passionate and motivated. I wondered what would happen if I used all of the sounds at the same time, what would happen if I created a brainstorm of sound and vision? With a twist of a modern beat, the soundtrack to Dreamland is mostly reliant on the sound design of these cartoons. In a way the mash-up mainly exercises the idea of the audio. I wanted to leave the audience dazed, confused and maybe even a little baffled. If I could create this feeling of confusion that would be what screen magic is all about. The magic of the screen is to take the audience and change them, if only a little bit, and alter their reality. Changing the way just one person feels for a moment with the use of screen art, is truly the definition of an artist.
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