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I went to odeon to ask if they had any large scale posters that I could have or look at or w/e and they gave me some, (very hard to carry home :( ) and i've now got to unwrap them and look at them, apparently they're narnia related which will tie in well with wanting to look more at animals. Anyway, inside this booklet detailing whats coming up in the film scene for the next few months (excellent promotion by the cinema itself!) I looked at a few of the film (minni) posters they included.

Better idea of what I want to do now :)

Location Location.

Originally I'd picked the photobooth brief so I was taking lots of pictures of them around the city centre, although I'm not wasting them because people advertise on them all the time! so here you go:

Nam June Paik

Nothing to do with this project, but I think it's beautiful.

Marcus Coates.

"...how we use our relationship with animals to define our humanness"

This is very similar in concept to the entire film franchise, we're using the apes as a social experiment of "what if the entire evolutionary process was reversed? would we like to be put in cages" etc.

Marcus Coates adds an element of humor in his work which makes it more endearing, but this film from all the synopsis' that i've read, the film doesn't seem to hold alot of hope. It's saying we can't win and we were lucky we got the upper hand in the first place. We underestimate the intelligence of the animals we keep penned up. Scary. Still, i think taking the animals to the forefront of what i'm doing and keeping the main focous on them is the most important thing.

Banksy.

There's an elephant in the room

I like the idea of taking the animal into the centre of the art, although banksy did get a little slammed for his "illegal" use of the indian elephant above. It makes it all the more drastic to have this big creature we wouldn't usually see. Obviously it'd be dangerous to rent a live gorilla (not to mention cruel) but I think It would be great to maybe use prehaps a gorilla suit?

Scratch that, Just bought one. Gorilla suit it is! :)

"The apes will not be actors in costumes but rather rendered digitally to be photo-realistic by WETA, employing certain of the groundbreaking technologies developed for “Avatar.” Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark will produce for Chernin Entertainment under its new pact with Fox. Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa wrote the screenplay and are producing."

All images are subject to (C) their original owners.

James Franco is set to play a scientist working on a cure for Alzheimer's by testing on apes. When test subject Caesar suddenly begins to mutate rapidly, the scientist takes him home to remove him from the cruel lab doctors.  Freida Pinto and John Lithgow joined the cast on June 22, 2010. Andy Serkis will play Caesar, the ape that leads the revolt .(ANDY SERKIS ALSO FROM LOTRS)
Tom Felton will also star as the human character Dodge.

Also, I now have some actors to work with in my head, although I think it would make most impact maybe If I just used basically ape type pictures? a giant animal has more effect (at least on me personally) than a human.

+ It was mainly animals used in the original promotions.

"Rise of the Apes is a 2011 American science fiction film. The film is to be directed by Rupert Wyatt. This will be a new film in the Planet of the Apes series. It will be released in movie theaters on Wednesday, November 23, 2011."

So i've got a release date I can put on any kind of poster image.

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2007/august/cadburys-dairy-milk-gorilla

I'm working backwards by posting on here;
in accordance with my field guide submission I've spent the last week collecting, researching and gathering.

I've been starting at the begining before the film, to the first film "planet of the apes". (Hence the trailer down below)

I've been selecting sections of it that I think I could work with to form ideas.

 Obviously, a monkey behaving in a very human way is going to be quite a shocking image (not to say that they don't act in a human way normally, but you get my drift)

It's very much a power stance quite like the above, but of course in the movie i'm meant to be promoting it's only at the start of genetic unlocking.

Lots of the trailer for the old film was high on repetition, which I think can make it look dated or like they didn't have quite enough stuff to make a trailer, It would have looked better if it was more snappy and short.




I do realise that this isn't for a film, but the Cadbury advert uses an ape to excellent effect, I think the close ups and the high contrast work really well.

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