My passion for cinéma and movies 2/2 In fact what interests me is not only the end(ing) but the causes of this ending. What I like is to try to anticipate future events and not to suffer of the story, to try to pinpoint the character/personality of the characters ... to predict what might happen before it happens actually in the movie. What I like even more is when the movie does not happen as I would have expected and when I'm surprised, when there is suspense, when it's unpredictable, there are unexpected development... To conclude, what I like about cinema is to discover new stories, new adventures, to escape from everyday life. It is also to find actors whom I like very much and to see them evolve, to see also all their capacities ... like Ryan Gosling for example in La La Land which multiplies talents like singing, playing the piano or dance ! It is also an ideal time to spend time with family or friends in sometimes unusual situations. As I could see Gravity in La Villette park last summer or I could see the movie La-Haut outdoors at the foot of a church. Finally I have many memories associated with movies and cinema and to review some film allows me to remember these memories.

My passion of cinema and movies 1/2 I decided today to tell you about my passion for cinema. I always enjoyed watching movies. It is a way for me to escape from everyday life, to change my ideas and to dream a little ... What I like about cinema is that everything is possible, there are no limits ... whether they are technical means (realization, special effects ...) or scenario, History ... everything is possible. When I get out of the cinema, I often feel impregnated by history, music and I still feel like I live the film and I love those moments after the films because I feel like I am Escaped. I love cinema because it makes us experience an impressive amount of feelings: fear, joy, sadness, surprise, empathy, anger ... And every time I watch a movie I get caught up in history and I have got the impression of living it instead of the main character. Watching a movie is for me a moment to escape from reality whether it be sad or joyful. I have a childhood's memory that still influences me a lot. I think I was six years old. One day, at my grandparents' house my mother wanted to spend some time together. It was a privileged moment that I spent with my mother without my little brother who asked a lot of her attention (or my little brother who took a lot of her attention/time ?). However, she told me that she wanted to go shopping. I was extremely disappointed. It make me grumble a little but I nevertheless followed her. On arriving I saw a huge building with giant posters on which I could see faces ... I said to myself "oh no clothes shop". I went inside and we queued up (or we stood in line?). It was only when my mother asked for two places for Lilo and Stitch that I understood that we were in a cinema and I was the happiest in the world. Maybe my taste and amazement for cinema and movies dates back to that time. I find that the cinema is a moment where we can spend good times with family or friends and that we can still extend the moment after the screening by exchanging on movies … As regards for the movie's styles, I like comedy, action movies, fantastic movies ... However I do not like westerns too much. By dint of watching movies I know a lot of actors. And what I like is seeing them evolve through different roles, seeing them change registers, watching when they are most convincing ... By watching movies I have also the feeling of knowing the end of the movies and know what will happen in advance, whether the end of the film will be a happy ending or a tragic end.

Christmas scenography 1/2 For this scenography of Christmas, I wish to make you travel, to make you escape, to dream. I imagine a universe that would immersed us, back into our Christmas tales that we read as a child. I was inspired for this scenography of the book of Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol", with the Christmas past, the present Christmas and the future Christmas. Coming out of the ****subway, after climbing the stairs you will find yourself in front of an immense velvet red curtain of several meters. After opening the section of this immense curtain you would find yourself in the middle of an opaque and dark forest. Surrounded by pine trees more or less large, you would advance by walking initially on bitumen and then after a few meters you would realize that you are walking on snow. Snow would fall from the sky. As you walk the forest would open on your passage letting you see luminous points still blurry. The bright points becoming more and more clear you would see hundreds of candles arranged on the ground in the snow and hanging in the air guiding you in your crossing of the forest. Cut off from the world, from the noises surrounding you, you would hear with amazement a whistling foreign sound. Then you would see wooden locomotives hanging in the air advancing and whistling. Then see small wooden puppets in the image of the little soldiers in the Nutcracker come alive, old wooden toys will come alive in their turn. As you go forward you will discover the suspended candles giving place to magnificent chandeliers suspended in the air. Still in the middle of the fir forest, you would walk gradually on a red carpet leaving the snow and past Christmas to reach the present Christmas. Below the chandeliers, in snowballs of several meters you would discover landscapes and white paper decorations come alive. In a first snowball you would see a magnificent Eiffel Tower in paper illuminate and at his feet a merry-go-round turn. In a second you would discover the interior of the Grand Palais transformed into an skating rink and small paper characters ice-skating. Always walking on the ****boulevard you would discover a snowball with Montmartre and its street artists. The fir trees will change as you progress through the forest : in paper, white and huge.

Internship part 3 It was one of the most stressful (after my interview) because I was very afraid of her opinion ... And to my amazement, my drawings and my ideas have much more to S***! When I discovered the scenography I was very positively surprised by the result because it resembled exactly what I had drawn! For *** I also installed a shop window for the summer. The internship informed me about the different aspects of the job. I gained practical experience to use ….. and learnt about the technical aspect of the job (windows display, softwares...). It trained me to take initiatives, accepting orders and be autonom. I learnt to be less shy and more into action. I met a lot of interesting people in differents areas. It was probably the best atmosphere I could see in an agency because all freelances help each other a lot even if it was not there project. They were very sympathetic because they took the time to explain a lot to me, they took me under their wings and at the same time helped me to push my limits, to become responsible … Quickly I felt easy. The freelancers were very young and the atmosphere was very dynamic and friendly. At the lunchtime we watched Bridget Jones all together and series. We all laughed together a lot. Even though the atmosphere was very pleasant, S*** and the clients were no less demanding. Working for luxury, it was necessary to be very rigorous, precise ... As soon as there was the smallest defect, it was necessary immediately to start again ... for *** for example. The clients change one's mind a lot and sometimes there are communication difficulties. It was a very good exprerience and if they need my help I told them that I accept with pleasure. Because during the internship I had the feeling of being considered as a "designer" in its own right and not as a simple intern ... because I was able to express my ideas, my opinion was taken into account and they gave me great confidence.

Internship part 2 It was an important project with a lot of work because the windows displays were made entirely by paper and handmade. I helped create paper decorations ... With this first project, I discovered the exigenges and the rigor required in the field of luxury. I also participated in the reflection on a project for **** in Hong Kong. It was necessary to create a scenography for a luxury commercial space. I was able to propose ideas, one of which was selected by the agency and offered to clients ... My ideas were very pleasing to S*** .... But the customers did not follow through with the competition.. I was a little disappointed that the project stops and I can not see if my idea will succeed. Then I worked on a project for jewelry *** with A***. It was necessary to make decorations with nails and wires on panels. I think this project was the most difficult for me. I have made only a large part of the decoration. I had to undo then to line the panels, undo thousands of staples and plant hundreds of nails ... The installation of the showcase was also very complicated ... The client was very demanding and it was necessary to remodify The panels on the spot. The space in a windows display is very small and with the heat it is sometimes difficult to work. After the installation, we also had to return several times to the store to hang up panels. I realized that in certain projects you have to have the patient to respond to the requests of the clients. And we must also know how to react and improvise to solve the problems, sometimes in urgency. In spite of everything, I am very proud of the result and I was happy to have experienced this experience. I also worked on projects and participated in the installation of showcases for cosmetics stores ***, *** chocolatier, perfumery *** ... During the second month it was totally different I got the concept part of the project, I made sketches, sourcing ... It was my favorite part of the internship. I also met many suppliers and discovered the world of luxurious clients of ***, *** ... and I also met some artists like M***, E** ...One of the projects that I most appreciated of which I am most proud and of which I discovered the result a few weeks ago, is a scenographiy for the log of christmas for the *** chocolatier. I worked on this project with M***. M*** was on vacation at the beginning of the project, so I had to attend a few appointments in her place and present a preliminary project on which I had worked alone ...

Internship part 1 I'll talk about my internship. When I started my research, I became interested in global design agencies. But it was towards luxury that I quickly turned. That's how I found the **** agency on the internet. I fell under the charm of the work of ****** (boss) and its windows, its scenograpahies ... and I submited my curriculum vitae. S***** answer me quickly. I met her with two freelancers who work with her. I was very impregnated and tough to meet her.After few day they said yes ! This is how I did my internship in ***** agency from 17 May and I had luck to extend until 29 July 2016 (that is to say 11 weeks). ****** agency is located at ****. S***** (the boss) works as a scenographer and specialist in the creation of windows display and settings for the most prestigious purveyors of luxury articles like *******... She works in collaboration with freelancers who work for and with her. During my internship there are M*** and A*** who work for the windows display and settings, N**** was the graphic designer and created packaging too and B*** was the apprentice. S**** was pregnant during my internship so I had the luck to work with all the freelancers in every field ( from concept to execution and installation). I did essentially team work but sometimes they gave me a lot of responsabilities. For exemple, one day I had to go to a chocolate factory to achieve a windows display installation alone. For one project I was in charge to put all orders... I didn't have typical days it depends of to the deadline of the differents projects. Sometimes I spendt one week working on the execution of one project and all the days looks like similar. I was working forty hours per week from nine to ten and sometimes more ... It was very difficult at first to take the pace. Sometimes I was forced to make great days because you had to finish a project. The delays are often very short and in the luxury, it is not possible to leave a work in progress (unfinished windows display) ..I didn't speak english but just read sum up for international clients. I was able to participate in thirteen different projects. During the first month I just made the executive work of the windows display and help the staff to lay out them too. I also did the shopping. My first project was the realization of showcases for **** in Switzerland. The theme was "***" and the scenery of the showcases represented landscapes of countryside and town with vegetation, animals, city...

Street art part 2 The work of Jef Aerosol is a stencil representing a child. I chose this photograph in particular because it immediately echoes the work of Levalet. The child is sitting on the ground curled up on himself. We also find the famous red arrow: hallmark of the artist, who designates the face of the little boy. He seems to be cold and scared and his position indicates that he is trying to protect himself. The environment surrounding the child is austere...On the floor there are rubbish and wilderness...and beside and behind him there are many torn posters on which we can read "AVOID", "MORE"... Even if the styles of the artists are differents (stencil for Jef Aerosol and Poster hand drawn for Levalet), the message becomes common. On the work of Levalet we find the can of Coca Cola which becomes the center of the attention of journalists ... A commonplace object of daily life becomes a star object ... and interviewed at the same status as a man. The interest of journalists in an everyday object seems exaggerated because it is a tangible object ... Faced with this we find a single child abandoned in the street that nobody cares about. This refers to the image of people who are alone, abandoned, delivered to themselves and who people (journalists) given little importance ... (homeless person, immigrants...) The impact of the visuals and posters surrounding the child accentuates the idea that his situation is partly due to the consumer society. The image of the child surrounded by these posters reflects the egoism and indifference that society may have to the situation of people on the street. On the work of Jef Aerosol it's the idea of materialistic society where one buys many things not necessarily necessary to live, superficial "buy more stuff" ... in front of people who haven't much to live and survive ... In addition, the child is curled up in the waste..it seem to protect himself from the consumer society which pushes to buy "buy more", "more, more.."and who produces all this waste. The child excluded from society finds himself with objects that are also excluded from society. So they both seem to denounce the situation of consumption which conditioned us and which pushes us to always buy more ..And where we buys things not essential necessities instead of being in solidarity with the people and children who suffers of poverty and which are the collateral consequences of society.We can also find ecological questioning around the concept of waste.

Street art part 1 I chose for this comparison a work of Levalet that I didn't know and of which I fell in love with and work of Jef Aérosol. Levalet is the pseudonym of Charles Leval, a French street artist born in 1988 in Lorraine, in Epinal. His works of street art are composed of posters representing characters /outline in black and white drawn in Indian ink. The works of Levalet generally play with the urban architecture: ramps, windows, walls, architecture.... They are «In situ». His posters are very realistics. He entertain himself by drawing hyperrealism characters to deceive the eyes of passers-by .. by the way all his characters are drawn to real size. I decided to analyze in particular one of his works named: 15 minutes of fame. It is a poster composed of two men sitting, maybe journalists: one is a boom operator and the other a cameraman. They are seated face to face on (real) on the edges of low walls and are leaning forward. They are both leaning towards a small can of Coca Cola (a waste) slightly crushed. They are very concentrated on this tiny object and ready to question it, intrigued by this object. The can of Coca Cola makes think immediately of the consumer society in which we live. The title of the work "15 minutes of fame" refers directly to the famous sentence of Andy Warhol: "In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes". Is it in his way a nod to Andy Warhol by taking up an everyday object and stem from mass consumption (from the American culture) that he puts forward ? His work is created entirely from this can. He puts the tangible aspects of things forward (highlighting things). Here, the object of daily life, common is represented as a star that we interview ... and on which we focus all our attention. Can everyday objects become works of art as Andy Warhol did with his "Campbells Tomatoe Soup" series? Denounces the oversized attention that we carries to objects of the consumption like the electronic device (cf Apple) ... Is there also an ecological message hidden behind this work? Is he trying to get us a message about our daily pollution? The second work we are going to analyze is a work by Jef Aerosol. Jef Aerosol aka Jean-François Perroy was born in Nantes on January 15, 1957. It is also a French street artist who uses stencils to realize his works.

Opinion on a street artist The duo 6emeia is composed of Anderson Augusto and Leonardo Delafuente, two Brazilians who have the desire to brighten up our daily life. They transform and give life to urban furniture: manhole cover, streetlights ... The street then becomes their open-sky gallery. I have chosen to present to you in greater detail a work which has retained my intention. The work represents a walkway and a manhole cover turned and transformed into a big watch. I find this work much more significant than all the others of the two Street artists. Moreover I think that is a little criticism of our society. The walkway makes it possible to move from one place to another, it is place where we quickly passes often pressed and stressed ... It's a space where we walk or run without necessarily looking around us, looking towards the objective : quickly join the opposite sidewalk. The watch is therefore quite appropriate because it's the symbol of the time. I find that the watch represents quite our daily preoccupation because we always run after time ... The watch and the walkways together make quite sense. To conclude, I think that the size of the watch (disproportionate) show the importance of the time. Perhaps paradoxically this work lead people to stop and take time to observe.