Urvashi

Lele

Greenlight Review 8/10/2011

Unit 2: Space

The Lost World The Lost World is a book written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the months of April 1912 to November 1912. The plot includes the voyage of a journalist named Edward Malone who accompanies a scientist by the name of Professor Challenger, who has discovered an island located in South America. They travel together as Professor Challenger has claimed that he has discovered a living species of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals and wants to prove it to the world that he is not delusional. As Malone and Challenger and their team land on the island, their time is spent escaping vicious predators, getting lost in the woods and being enlightened about an ongoing war between the Native Indians of the Amazonian forest and a tribe of gorilla-like creatures. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote most of his books based on war. This was due to the time he spent in the South African War serving as a Doctor. Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 to a Mary Foley and Charles Doyle in Scotland. His works are inspired by Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Maupassant,Robert Louis Stevenson and Emile Gaboriau. His most famous writing is, of course, the series of crime stories involving the mastermind detective, Sherlock Holmes, who first appeared in A Study in Scarlet in the year 1887. The Lost World is particularly inspired by the South African War and the customs of tribes that involve war.

 Adaptations of The Lost World The Lost World (1925) Film The Lost World (1944) Radio The Lost World (1949) Radio The Lost World (1960) Film Dinosaurs! (1966) Audio The Lost World (1975) Radio The Lost World (1922) Film Return to The Lost World (1992) Film The Lost World (1997) Radio The Lost World (1998) Film Sir Arthur Conan Doyles The Lost World (1999-2002) TV Series The Lost World (2000) Radio The Lost World (2001) Television Film King of The Lost World (2005) The Lost World (2011) Radio

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 Visual Concept In my concept for The Lost World is influenced by gothic architecture. This is mainly because Conan Doyle describes the trees in the forests as gothic upward curves. The flora is meant to be dense and foreboding, therefore, I thought of combining stone with trees. Such an idea exists in Christopher Paolinis Brisingr novel where the Dwarves of Farthen Dur discover a forest where the trees are made out of stone and are still alive. Another key influence is the Magic of Chaos where objects are created with the life force of the surrounding life forms. It is quite similar to the concept of the Tree of Souls in James Camerons Avatar. Gothic architecture has been instrumental in the structure of the trees. The spuds have helped me visualize a design for the growth pods and their arrangement.

 Influence Map: Scene One In the influence map for the first scene, I looked at water bodies that have translucency to a degree where one can see the floor of the bed. The second one is the gothic architecture beams that influenced the trees that I included in the forest. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described the forest as having Gothic Upward Curves . The book does not mention any origin of the dinosaurs, therefore, I took the liberty of devising a way to involve the Native Indians of the South America island in the birth or creation of these prehistoric creatures. The Indians believe in the Theory of Chaos where they use the elements around them to produce magic which they, in turn, use to produce the objects that they need. Therefore, for the prehistoric mammals, I thought that I would show remnants of wombs suspended from the tree tops. Redwood and Cedar trees are common in the Amazonian forests

 Influence Map: Scene Two For Influence Map 2, I pictured the caves of the ferocious Gorilla-people tribe that the Native American Indian tribe of the Amazonian forest fight. Here, I thought of including the remnants of the cracked up eggs that the dinosaurs hatched from. The progressive hatching of the eggs was very useful to me and I used it to quite a degree. Another very strong influence are the root bridges of Cherrapunji in South India where the natives construct bridges from the roots of the trees around water bodies. These bridges are virtually indestructible and have been known to withstand floods. The other theory that I had regarding the origin of the dinosaurs was that a group of native Indians travelled abroad to study genetics and returned to their homeland only to discover buried dinosaur DNA. They then set up a research facility and harnessed these creatures genetic material. They did that with the use of the Magic of Chaos where the energy of the surrounding trees.

 Influence Maps: Scene Three The idea of having growth plots for this scene was inspired by the eggs of Alien (1979). I also had the idea of a force field that had preserved the prehistoric life forms within the forest to date. The other forms of creation of these creatures could have been in the form of pods, such as the ones seen in the television series, Kyle XY. Trickles of light were very important in the structure of this scene. Orchids were the most stressed upon of flowers.

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 Introduction to Written Assignment This essay focuses on the production design and concept art of the movie Tron:Legacy (2010)directed by Joseph Kosinski. This film had a lot to do with visual experience as its creators not only had to impress an audience of a previous fan following as this movie was a sequel to the much talked about Tron (1982). The key sources of information include Wired Magazine (January 2011), Empire Magazine (January 2011), SFX Magazine (January 2011), Sci-Fi Now Magazine (January 2011) The Art of Tron:Legacy, and www.josephkosinski.com, Tron: Legacy (2010) and Tron (1982) The content of this essay aims to provide: >a study of the movies art with relation to cultural concepts of human behavior and their links to religious practices. >The various influences based on sporting activities (the disk wars of Tron: Legacy) and >The link between the activities presented within the film and the historical references that they hold.