16.1: INITIAL RESEARCH - The man in the High Castle

Production process:

Wikipedia says that the filming for it started in October 2014 (just over a year ago) filming in Seattle (instead of San Francisco). These sites included the monorail, Paramount theatre, a newspaper office in a market area, and several buildings in the International District. Then in April 2015, they filmed in Vancouver, and during May and June 2015 they filmed in the University of British Columbia. Obviously they must have worked hard on the set dressing and costumes so that they fit with the time period and the feel of the country after the war.

IDEA- Based on the book by Phillip K. Dick

DEVELOPMENT- Created by Frank Spotnitz. The episodes were written by a variety of people including Rob Williams, Jace Richdale, Thomas Schnauz, Emma Frost, Walon Green, Evan Wright and the creator of the series Frank Spotnitz.

PRE-PRODUCTION- The series was filmed in Seattle, Washington, Vancouver and British Columbia. Directors of the series include Daniel Percival, Brad Anderson, Karyn Kusama, Nelson McCormick, Ken Olin, Michael Rymer, David Semel, Michael Slovis and Bryan Spicer. The casting for the series was done by Denise Chamian, Candise Elzinga and Patti Carns Kalles.

The cast include Alexa Davalos, Rupert Evans, Luke Kleintank, DJ Qualls, Joel de la Fuente, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Rufus Sewell.

PRODUCTION- The cinematographers were Gonzalo Amat and James Hawkinson. The production companies incuded Amazon Studios, Scott Free Productions, Electric Shepard Productions, Headline Pictures, Big Light Productions, Picrow and Reunion Pictures.

POST PRODUCTION- The editors were Jon Dudkowski, Marta Evry, Julie Monroe, Sidney Wolinsky, Angela M. Catanzaro, Kathryn Himoff and Michael Kewley. The music for the series was created by Henry Jackman and Dominic Lewis.

DISTRUBUTION- The series was released online via Amazon Prime and therefore the distributor was Amazon.com 

16.1: INITIAL RESEARCH - American Horror Story (Murder House)

UNIT 31.1: Zora Murff

Zora J Murff was born 1987. He is an MFA student in Studio Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Zora attended the university of Iowa where he studied Photography and holds a BS in Phycology from Iowa State University. 

Purpose/Genre: The main purpose of this series is to document the examinations of youth experience in the system and how the concepts of privacy and control may affect their future.

The following images are taken from his series 'Corrections' 

 

The image is of a small window on the door of a prison cell with someone on the other side. This persons face is not visible much like the other photos in this series. In terms of composition, this image shows the use of a frame within a frame and a rule of thirds going across the picture. The colours in this photo are very simple, only about 4 or 5 clear colours are here making it a very simple photo, this contributes to the narrative as for the life of someone who is in a correctional facilty, their life would be fairly basic living with not a lot going on. Murff has intentionally covered the face/identity of the person as this means they can represent anyone in the legal system and not just focus on one particular individual.

 

UNIT 31.1: Lidia Giusto

Lidia Giusto currently lives in Genova, Italy. Her personal project of Urban Exploration has been going for over 10 years. Giusto will use an analog camera for taking pictures and a digital camera for studying lights and frames.

Photos are taken from her series 'The Dark Room of My Mind'

 This is a black and white photo of a corridor with a window at the end. The overall picture is very dark with the only light coming from the window, this could represent the narrative of the image and the name of the series as possibly her mind is all dark and the only light (good) is at the end of a long corridor. This photo makes use of the three main composition rules, a frame within a frame being the window, the floor of the corridor acts as leading lines toward the window that's in the middle third of the image, the walls make up the two thirds either side of it.

Purpose/Genre: Judging by the name of the series and dark/quiet style of the images, I'd say that the purpose of these photos are a metaphor of how she feels, possible depressed and empty. However these photos woulds also come under the genre of urban exploration which would make them partly documentary.