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I meant to post the album with the post

A Design I Like

One design that I like is the album cover to Bob Dylan’s Bringin it All Back Home. What I first noticed about this cover is the content of the photograph. The setting seems to take place in some kind of upper societal apartment which could represent class and prosperity, but the expressionless faces and a skewed items all around lead me to think that they are supposed to represent the disdain and dissatisfaction that some people experience when they become as famous as Bob Dylan had been at the time.
I also really like the way the camera seems to warp everything outside of that main circle. I feel that it adds to the chaos of the room’s clutter. Also the fallout shelter sign gives a very dystopian feel. One more thing about the photo in particular is that the tinted lighting gives a very dated feel to it, as if the events in this picture occurred a long time ago, but long ago in the sense that its far off from Bob Dylan’s present.
A final part that I like about the album cover is the contrast between the photo and the text. As I said the photo gives a very chaotic view of maybe the current times or of Bob Dylan’s life itself, but the text seems to give a very stark contrast. The text is very clean and seems to represent order and seems to me to really stand out against the disorderly photo. I feel like this is a very typical design of the 60’s where it mixes pretty standard fonts with an idea of chaos.

What I See

A movie that I watched recently that I thought had a very interesting approach to its filming is the Godfather. I got the idea to view this film after we watched that documentary about lighting, and having not seen it before, decided that it would be a good choice for this assignment. The first thing I had noticed specifically was the lighting of the film. It was mentioned in the documentary, but its yellowish tint I feel really dated the film in a good way. It made you really feel that the events were taking place during the forties. The way the lighting worked, it seemed to mimic old photographs and it made me feel like I was watching the actual story that I could speculate about when looking at an old photo.
Another lighting technique that I noticed was the use of shadows on the different characters. In the scenes where the Corleones or multiple families were meeting and doing business, the dp used lots of shadows on their faces to give a more ominous feel to the characters. I liked to how in the documentary the dp said that someone was concerned because you couldn’t see Marlon Brando’s eyes and his response, “exactly.”
I liked too how as the movie progressed the used less of the yellow tint in order to signify that time had been progressing multiple years as the movie went on. Aside from the lighting, I just wanted to say how much