Exercise #6: Logline and Treatment of "Winter Alley"

Leonid Afremov is a Russian-Israeli painter that frequently paints with palette oils. His works are highly colorful and expressionist. For this exercise, I chose his painting "Winter Alley" because I felt that a lot could be done with the striking colors and singular figure. Here is the logline and treatment for a potential film idea of "Winter Alley". 

Logline: A depressed man tries to ease his suffering by creating a fictional world on the alley as he walks home. 

Treatment: A nameless man is walking home in the rain, obviously upset and depressed. The man is holding an umbrella, which prevents the rain from hitting his face; but, he is still getting wet because he is unintentionally splashing in the puddles with his sneakers. He sees a group of friends playing, which only makes him more visibly sad. Then, however, the man looks to a tree on his right. He looks at it curiously, as the leaves on the tree are changing colors. There are now purple, red, and yellow leaves. The man continues to look around curiously, because everything is now seeming to grow colorful. He smiles because this new "colorful" world is a lot more happy than the previous dark colors of before. Even though the rain is continuing, the man begins to run through the alley while laughing heavily. The man continues to run until he stops at looks around. He then begins to slowly walk again, smiling and walking into the distance, the world more colorful than ever before for him. 

Exercise #4: Photo Essay

Photo Essay

With Jenna Cunningham and Frances Burkham, we created a Photo Essay about Eastern Market in Washington, D.C. We saw a wide variety of people, food, and goods throughout the area- a truly eclectic mix of objects. My interpretation of the trip and Photo Essay is that Americans enjoy the old fashioned shopping experience. People from around the city took the time to collectively shop at the marketplace, buying homemade items and foods.

My portion of the Photo Essay are the last three slides; namely, the woman at the counter, the scarf shelf, and the American flag backed by the sunset. The woman at the counter appealed to me as an image because it captured such a normal image: a mother taking her child to the cookie section to buy her a desert. Her dark jacket balances nicely with the colorful backdrop of the counter. It holds a lot of texture and meaning. I thought the scarves were also very colorful and interesting to look at. They had a lot of texture too them, and the continuance formed by the dangling clothing makes the viewer see how they are made below them. Finally, my favorite image of the whole essay is the American Flag. It matches nicely in the wind with the Washington D.C. coat of arms, and the sunset backdrop helps to create a truly powerful image.

Overall, I thought this Photo Essay was really interesting.