Escher drawings

Looking at these expressionist paintings I can easily understand how the director of Red Hot Chilli Peppers video used them to create the city ...the buildings have basically the same shape, very irregular and out of proportions, with lots of stairs(this is also taken from Escher drawings) and dark colors.

Otherside

This is the music video for the song Otherside by Red Hot Chilli Peppers. The directors took inspiration from Escher and from Cubist and Expressionist paintings.
The final outcome is a video with a quite dark atmosphere where the characters are suspended in a surreal world. Very interesting the research and the fact that they looked at artistic movements to give a particular atmosphere to this video.

What I would like to achieve with this group project is a video that connects real life with a fake world. I would like my character to live in a sort of dream where things are slighlty distorted. Moreover, we never see thing as they are in our dream, but there is always something different...same thing I would like to happen in our movie. That's why I think this video could be an interesting inspiration.

This is the paper city designed by an artist called Caleb Beyers for Mother Mother music video Body of years.

Paper city

Images of the paper city from the movie Science of sleep.

Richard Rogers buildings

Buildings from Richard Rogers could also give a good inspiration for the design of a futuristic city.

Antonio St Elia

For the design of the city I was thinking about something futuristic. To find some kind of ispiration I was looking at the drawings of the architect Antonio Sant'Elia. With his work he tried to depicte his idea of a futuristic city, with high buildings,straight and sharp edges, elevators visible from the outside, use of materials such as glass combined with metal and concrete.

Research for movie group project

This is a scene from the Science of sleep, a movie by Michel Gondry.I found it quite interesting because the shot is a mixture of stop motion animation and real filming. The main character is leaving in a city made of brown paper( in the making of the movie the director reveals that it is actually made of toilet rolls!). The shots are taken inside, in the room where she lives, and outside in the paper city so that is seems that the girl is actually living in there.

I think we could use the same trick, building a model and taking lots of frames of cars moving there, elevators, trains, to achieve a nice stop motion animation. It's quite a laborious job to make it, as the model should be quite big and obviously well made and the stop motion is going to require many pictures to create a sequence.But the final outcome is going to be defenitly very impressive.

we could then integrate the stop motion with the filming of someone standing in a room (this is going to require a bit of set design and most of all we should find an empty space/studio) and combine the two together in a way that it seems that the character is leaving in the city created by our imagination.