The Hero's Journey: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

(Fig1)-Ordinary world

• Ordinary world: Roman Gallery Trip.
• Call to adventure: Percy accused of stealing lightning bolt, Mr Brumer and Grover say they need him.
• Refusal of the call: Percy starts trying to refuse following Grover.
• Supernatural aid: Grover half mythological goat says he is Percy's protector.
• Crossing the first threshold: Going through the gate and killing the minotaur.
• Road of trials: The demigod camp training
• Meeting with the Goddess: Meeting Annabeth daughter of Athena
• Woman as temptress: Grover and Haydes mistress or this could relate to Medusa who tries to tempt you to look at her. Or could be said that the Las Vegas lotus flower givers are temptresses too.
• Atonement with father: Zeus
• Apotheosis (God-like): When Percy gets his lightning bolt and becomes the 'big shot of Olympus.'
• Ultimate boon (reward):
• Refusal of return: Although Percy has visited home he prefers to stay primarily with his new life.
• Magic Flight: Fighting using the winged converses 'literal' Retrieving items.
• Rescues from without: Percy Rescues his mother from Haydes who wants the Lightning bolt from Percy.
• The Crossing of the return threshold: Percy Helps mother and Puts Medusa's Head in the fridge for his abusive step dad to rid of him for him and her.
• Master of two worlds: Percy masters both worlds by becoming a hero in one and helping his mum in ordinary.
• Freedom to Live: Percy is granted the freedom to live how he wants not by his step dad's restrictions and abuse.

(Fig2)-Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell did the hero with a thousand faces, it is basically this idea that in a lot of films like this the hero is still the same its just different in there own universe for example Harry Potter and the The Hobbit. And this image relates to the bullet point list above.

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Bibliography

Anon, (2018). [image] Available at: http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/17200000/at-the-museum-pjo-the-lightning-thief-movie-17283316-1262-548.jpg 

 Anon, (2018). [image] Available at: http://www.veronicasicoe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Heros-Journey.png [Accessed 30 Sep. 2018].

Anon, (2018). [image] Available at: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91F9l37QbzL._SL1500_.jpg 

Drama Pose With Alan

Today I have learnt that the hip and unnatural makes it more natural for example feet are not equal on floor, one rotate in the hip can be balanced out with another rotate slightly above. The Vector points as close to the joints as possible imagine I'm sitting there legs wider.

Think C curves spine is really important. Rework the other poses show the corrections..etc.

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Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Review

Postmodernism etc...look at previous and the peoples reviews ebooks

Fig.1

Today we learnt about the Hermeneutic circle which is the bigger picture and the smaller details and the need to understand reference. To understand the text as a whole we must also learn the text in its smaller details that add up to the bigger picture.
The Era of the old Star Wars being 1977 and how the special effects and visual effects have changed from history to now e.g. the remastered Star Wars 2011.
We spoke about Death of the Author and whether the text is still theirs or not? And public conscience like existence after death..who owns the conceptual rights? Are they aloud to be brought back to life? What is the differences between George Lucas and new creators that are recreating the film and what did it mean to people and the legacy.
Should that be replaced or not?.
We saw that a lot of CGI scenes had been added to fill un shown gaps and more of the background through the buildings and better sound and more detailed effects and quality.
In the text 'Postmodernism and Film' there is a quote that states "The term 'Postmodernism' and Cinema, links together a particular historical period and a distinctive aesthetic style." (Constable,2015,Pg3) This could relate to how the backdrop of the environment is used more in the remaster and therefore provides a more colourful aesthetic as the corridors now have more artistic flair and sense of the surroundings which provides a reminder of the atmosphere and mood. Figure 2 shows the Cloud city Background.

Fig.2

The other argument is that the audience actually own the film in a sense and that provides a lot of different opinions on the original and remaster for example this quote "however the changes to Empire are less obvious than those to Star Wars, which were subtle enough in their own right. There's nothing in the special edition that changes the scope or quality, or intent of the film, its a little bigger, and a little louder." (Berardinelli.J, 2018) This could then go on further to pronounce that it is an ancient relic now and that the movies are now dead.

Fig.3

Others would argue that George Lucas use of splicing is why it became to be Hollywoods first conquering collage of genre. I realise that Star Wars is really a part of culture and thats why I looked to see what a culture editor had to say "Star Wars is a Western. Star Wars is a Samurai Movie. Star Wars is a war film. Star Wars is a fairy tail." (Wickerman,Slate Magazine,2018) This could be why Star Wars is living on now and hasn't ended and has been remastered e.t.c because of the culture aspect also and is perhaps why this is allowed also allowing the fans to see more details but really it is but its hard to know for sure as there will be a lot of opinions and therefore its hard to know what could be correctly tor bias allowing the individual to decide themselves.

Bibliography

Constable, C. (n.d.). Postmodernism and film.

Anon, (2018). [image] Available at: https://thequantumcretin.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/star-wars-empire-strikes-back.jpg [Accessed 21 Sep. 2018].

Anon, (2018). [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=618&v=FmWjPoqEhzg [Accessed 21 Sep. 2018].

Berardinelli, J. (2018). Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back | Reelviews Movie Reviews. [online] Reelviews Movie Reviews. 

 Slate.com. (2018). [online] Available at: http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/12/star_wars/151212_CBOX_Star-Wars-02.jpg.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.jpg

Pose 5 Spiderman

arm at back needs adjusted and left leg spread out more.

Pose 4

The spine is the wrong way the hips are too straight one hip is further forward than the other and rotated. The spine is a reverse C. not a C. This is what I need to correct.

Pose 3

added sword I made and added blins and rendered. Would be cool to add amor and helmet cover face etc.

Should Be more crouched closer to the ground legs further apart, arm lower,and further way,Body is a Reverse C.

Pose 2 handstand

Better to look at real lif eimages, Reverse C. Also the legs ive done them the wrong way round.

Pose 1 kick

                            

Today in Alan's class we were using the rigged character to make a pose, above is the photo and as you can see it isn't exact I had the leg stretched out more but it didn't have the knee (natural) tried to ark the back starting with the spine and then making the fingers be scrunched and getting the facial expression box up to alter that too. Today we were focusing on Action pose. I learnt that the poly vectors need to stay as close to the joint as possible or it gets confusing and as you alter you need to keep alter everything else again usually to make sure it is in the right position. 

And using the FK Ik handles Right side Left side.

All of this pose is pretty good except. The hips need re-working.