17 Blind Fists of the Invisible Tiger: A 60 Second Martial Arts Film

THE 17 BLIND FISTS OF THE INVISIBLE TIGER AND THE ANNIHILATING EAGLE CLAW POWER OF THE MYSTIC SHAOLIN VERSUS THE DEADLY CMYK SHADOW NINJAS, CHILDREN ON THE DRAGON TAIL MASTER. PART 2.

A SHORT FILM TO ANSWER THE BRIEF OF CREATING A SIXTY SECOND FILM THAT REPRESENTED THE MARTIAL ARTS GENRE AND THE WORD ‘CMYK’.

BY JOE MANIA, TOM BRUSHWOOD, OLIVIA TYTHERLEIGH AND YOURS TRULY.

WITH A BIG THANKS TO SERDAR FERIT & JOEL DEVENISH @ WRITETHISDOWN

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Forty seven first year Graphic Design students at Chelsea College of Art & Design were given the task of creating a sixty second film.

Each film had to be based on a randomly selected film genre and graphic design related word. The word had to appear in the title and the film had to express it’s title. The couplings came out looking like this:

Science Fiction / Brief
Musical / Layout
Western / Typeface
War Film / Lowercase
Film Noir / Pixel
Horror / RGB
Disaster Movie / Laptop
Martial Arts / CMYK
Road Movie / PDF
Romantic Comedy / Client
Action Blockbuster / Print

Each film also had to include three recurring props:

A Cat
An Egg
A Ladder

And three recurring lines of dialogue:

“How much for the little one?”
“See you next Wednesday”
“The most important thing in life is………”

The word ‘Chelsea’ also had to appear somewhere in each film.

Each and every aspect of the film’s production was then down to each group. They had to write, produce, design, build, storyboard, act, shoot, direct, digitise, edit, composite special effects and everything else! A highly demanding and restrictive project designed to teach every aspect aspect of film making.

…AND HERE IS US HEPCAT’S ACCEPTING OUR AWARD FOR BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP. BECAUSE US BOYS REALLY HELPED OUT ON OLIVE’S GEISHA GET UP….SORT OF….WELL NOT AT ALL….BUT IT LOOKS GREAT HUH?

Oscar Night

The infamous GDC1 Oscar night is fast approaching – so the past few night’s have been spent scouring the internets dirty drawers to find the perfect tux. Nearly all inspiration is coming from this cat below.

That last picture is a prize. I found these clips from an old TV clip of Elvis and Frank Sinatra performing together in 1960. Good stuff. First person to let me know what that interesting bow tie variant is on Elvis’ neck wins a pack of Monster Munch.

New Languages: Interactive Light Maze

To answer a recent brief of creating new languages through technology, Jean and I devised an Interactive Light Maze that changes it’s course randomly whilst the user is inside. The diagram of the maze is projected onto the floor whilst the smoke that fills the maze space creates ‘walls’ around the participant.

Below are some photos of the maze in the making: