J. Murphy Blog

In my performance piece, I decided to do something very outside of the box. I used the power of film on taking a look through my own eyes. I see the male dominance in my major and how it affects women like myself. The inequality in the film industry has been prevalent ever since the industry first started. As the years go on, the industry tends to accept more women into the field. Although it does accept more women as time goes on, we should not settle for less. By saying this, it does not mean women overpower men but have an equal balance of both. I love to see my very few peers like my classmate Meghan thrive. I added my own voice over for the importance of having a voice and showing that this message is coming from myself. I used the non copyrighted audio to have a dramatic mature appeal. I started and ended off with my eyes for the use of showing what I see in between those clips. My inspiration for this has to be the foreign woman (I am not sure of ethnicity) that professor Dors...

I decided to collaborate with Holly and use the kitchen space for this project. She took the refrigerator area and wanted to do a late night snack theme whereas I used the stove and oven area. I wanted to have it be preparing a dinner for monsters. There are ear nuggets with "blood" as well as fingers and eye balls. I thought this was a creative experimental project and I had a lot of fun creating it.  

In this project, I made a flip book out of a 208 page book. My theme that I drew around was the sky. I started off with clouds that leads to floating balloons. Once a balloon pops, a flock of birds enter the scene. As the birds exit the scene, the sun and moon are shown to show change of daytime. I end off with starts and my name in the stars because I hope to one day become a star. In post production, decided to use sound effects to suspend the disbelief for the audience. This creates a more natural appeal to watching a story. My story may be simple, but you can make whatever you want to make out of it. There are little details in this that show symbolism. To me, the green balloon is the lonely soul that is different from the rest. A side note that I would like to add is it was difficult to get all the pages while flipping the pages. I had to retake this a few times. Within the three days of making this, it took me a total of 6 hours to complete this flip book. Overall, I am satisfied...

Holly and I decided to pick my bedroom for this project since you can see the view of downtown. At first, I was a little skeptical how this would turn out. I have seen so many examples of this working but I couldn't imagine actually doing it myself. I put 8 garbage bags on my window with duct tape. In the center of the garbage bags I cut a hole and taped the end of the garbage bag box on the top layer to create a square shape. Cutting the holes out was an arm workout since there were so many layers but once I finished, the light came in and I was amazed. I never thought I could have created a piece of artwork like this in my own bedroom. The coolest part was seeing cars drive by and the picture would have movement. Overall, this was a fascinating project that I enjoyed.

This is a photo of myself that was taken a year ago in Los Angeles, California on the day of the Oscars. I aspire to have my own walk of fame star and win an Oscar award as a film editor. I bought this one in the picture as a souvenir to remind myself what one of my goals are in life. Last semester, I won a "mini Oscar" award at the Black Box Film Festival for best animation. I found it ironic that this was given to me as an award since I hope to receive one in the future. After college, I plan to move out to Los Angeles and find work out there. This has been a dream of mine since I was 15 years old.

Madama Butterfly was written in 1904 by the composer Giacomo Puccini. This opera has three acts ranging from 30-50 minutes in each act. The language spoken was Japanese, which was a struggle to follow along due to the language barrier. Although there was an issue with this, it's possible to follow along if paying attention. This opera told a story about love, sacrifices, and betrayal. The first ten minutes into the opera, you can tell that there is tension between a man and a woman. Watching the claymation version to this opera also helped with following the story. We tag along to this journey as the audience is faced with having the fourth wall broken. The fourth wall is broken multiple times during this opera. In order to break the fourth wall, the characters must make eye contact or talk to the audience. The fourth wall is broken within five minutes of the performance. It's clear that the audience is involved with the story because of the interaction of the characters. Th...