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I will be sharing my art work, interests, opinions and views with you. Thanks for Visiting, questions & comments are warmly welcomed!
My Newest assignment in art is, designing a chair !!!! I can believe how much I'm enjoying designing a chair ! Well I have always enjoyed watching Divine Design and Debbie Travis's TV show, it started at a very early age. But any ways I just thought I'd fill everyone in on what's going on. I'm have some difficulty with making everything proportionate, but I'm getting better.
This is my attempt to making my chair on Google Sketch up! Yes I am aware of what a failure it looks like. But this is just the start and I only spent less than 20 minutes on sketch up and for the very first time.
So this was the second attempt... ( another 10 mins later) I think the program is a wonderful tool once you get the hang of it. So, if you have some time on your hands check it out!
Hello everyone !!! In art we recently learned about Romanticism and did a little assignment. This is the collage I made.
My collage depicts the devastation of mother earth by human Intervention. I have tried to portray this using images of destruction. The central Image shows a decaying fish that has been killed by the oil and toxic waste which is often released into the sea.
The collage is Romantic because it demonstrates four key factors of Romanticism: Drama, A central focal point, contrast and emotion. The whole concept of Human interventions destroying mother earth is quite dramatic. The concept and images, arouse an array of emotions and the contrast of colour images and the black and white images, along with the contrast of before and after tie the piece to Romanticism.
The composition I chose is diagonal, so there is two images of humans both images black and white. The images emphasize the the stark reality of human indifference and the other concern for the environment. The colours of the images used are not bold nor bright but. rather solid dark colours, to help the viewer understand the seriousness of our environmental problems. The images and colours I chose , are to show what was and what it has become and who is responsible. I hope my collage strikes a chard of concern in all hearts of humans.
I have been talking about this assignment and my excitement about in my past few posts so here it is... As I mentioned before, our assignment in Tech was to completely change the audio and overall mood of a movie or video game trailer ...
I chose Alladin, a Disney classic! I decided to transform it to a Bollywood movie trailer. It's obvious that I'm obsessed with Bollywood and I had a really great time working on this assignment. As you may notice, the original movie trailer is typical "Disney" movie with; a romantic comedy feel, along with a "evil villain" who tries to ruin everything.
The Original Trailer
My Bollywood Trailer
My trailer is similar as I chose to do Bollywood, which usually consists of some romance, comedy and action! It's extremely important to understand Bollywood, for you to understand my trailer. I tried to incorporate all the essentials: romance, magic, daydreaming, dancing and singing off course!
In my version of the trailer there is a lot of singing, more than the original trailer, because every Bollywood movie is like a musical. where every emotion, conversation and scene is expresses in a song! The main story line of my trailer, is about a poor boy, who finds a magical lamp, from which a Gene appears.He’s in love with a princess, Jasmine. They fall in love and daydream about each other. But off course how could it be possible, poor boy rich girl.(I know typically Bollywood right) Aladdin starts to tell his friend the Gene, how he has fallen in love. The Gene turns him into a prince and Voila, off he goes to woo princes Jasmine. On a magic flying carpet and naturally they sing a song to express their love. Everything turns out well and so the trailer end with the Gene throw a party and singing and dancing, because all Bollywood movies end with a dance number these days..
You may be confused as to, why the gene is all ways singing/dancing. That is because, I like to think of the Gene's as my "item girl", every Bollywood movie has one. That is why I have particularity chosen to show the scene where the Gene dances and the monkey is counting coins. The Gene is multifaceted character, because the “item girls” are not only there for the singing and dancing and usually play a key role in all story lines. That is why The Gene is so important, he provides entertainment, a magical aspect and he plays a vital character in the story. I have come to realize, there are many things a “Bollywood Virgin” may not understand in my trailer. For Example at 1:10s the way Aladdin's arms move from is bare chest outward, this is a very typical dance move for a hero in a Bollywood film. Another key scene when, Jasmine covers her head with a Vail shyly and then flutters her eye lashes. This is a common element in Bollywood movies. I also attempted, to try and make certain scenes portrayed by lyrics of the same meaning i.e at 1:21s when Aladdin swoops down and offers his hand to Jasmine, the lyrics are “Haath Mera Thaam Lo..” which mean take my hand.
I have spent a lot of time paying attention to close details, so that my trailer can resemble a Bollywood movie. It may seem silly, but all these tiny thing, help make my trailer resemble Bollywood movies.
When I began my trailer, I completely extracted the audio and started fresh!
For my trailer, I used a blend of three songs:"Are Re Are" from the movie Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), “Dhoom Again” from the movie Dhoom 2 (2006) and Rock'n'Roll Soniye from the movie Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (2006) and I also used a bunch of sound effects from ilife. For example the sound of the waves, the monkey , the birds, the wind etc ... and I downloaded the fireworks sound effect from http://soundbible.com.
I definitely think there is room for improvement, I really should have worked on development of my ideas and organization in the earlier stags. I think I could have done a better job on transitions of the music in a few places. I will try to improve in my transitions of music for future projects. I also think I should really plan out every shot and scene in the future to avoid problems.
I forgot to mention, I'm really happy with my Bollywood Aladdin Trailer !
I have been asked, a couple of times, why I didn’t add subtitles, But I felt it would take away from the authenticity and most Bollywood trailer’s don’t have subtitles.If anyone has any questions or comments, I would love to answer questions, and comments are always welcomed!
I know I am ! This transitional time is so amazing, suddenly people start to embrace colour again, after suffering through the dark winter months full of: blacks and grey! Everyone is embracing colour from Tv Promos to websites! Spring is right around the corner, Hot Pinks, Bright Blues, Yellows and Lime Greens are so in ! These colours are making a splash everywhere ! Old Navy's website has a great blend of bright colours and they have used of interesting layout of their font. By using different size text and placing the text horizontally and vertically, they definitely caught my attention! The Glee Promo for an up coming episode Original Songs has also caught my attention. They have used bright colours and their use of an array of font sizes, really is eye catching.
Year 3 CyberArts started off with, a bang! We started off the year, by making large pastel drawings. The basic idea was to draw what ever came to mind after reading a quote, we rotated at different tables and drew what ever we felt like. Following that we learned a bit about different compositions and made view finders and were told to crop any piece of the large pastel drawings we did as a class. From that cropping, the assignment was to make a large pastel and two paintings, one large and one small. The point of the assignment was to learn about what kings of mediums worked , with certain compositions and so that we could get comfortable using a variety of different mediums. The composition I chose was that diagonal composition. The red line create a bold diagonal, which is interesting and very dominant, which makes the composition very appealing.
This is my large painting. The point of this painting was to use a large brush and to become familiar with large gestural brush strokes and different techniques. I am quite satisfied with my large painting. I feel like I have learned an important lesson, that nit picking and spending to much time on something is not always good and that sometimes you have to do things within a time limit and with less control.
This is my pastel, I'm extremely proud of it, because of the growth I can see in it. From my first pastel in year 1 CyberArts. I have learned a great deal of what works and what does not. I really thing, that I have accomplished a fair range of lights and darks, considering I had trouble with shading with pastels previous to this assignment.
The point to this activity is to find a really good video and a really bad video!
Because my next assignment, is making a music video in a group of 2 or 3 .
My group and I are very excited and can't wait ! I'll make sure to keep you guys posted !
So here is the link... WARNING ! (Not suitable for younger audiences, rated PG. A feeling of motion sickness make occur upon completion of video! Irritation is guarantied )
Here is an example of a terrible video ! Sorry, Vanilla Ice, But what were you thinking ?
There are two things going on at one, In the foreground there is vanilla Ice and in the background the train, the tracks on the turning tables in constant motion. There is so much going on it's irritating. I found the tracks moving, making me feel slightly motion sick. There was a bunch of points in the video, where I even felt as if the camera was not held straight i.e at 2:29 the camera shakes quite a bit! I think another major problem is the continuity, the video just jumps from one place to another. The spots are not angled in interesting positions and the viewer may just feel the need to switch the channel or click on a different video.
The Single Ladies video, on the other hand is very aesthetically pleasing. It's simplicity is it's best quality. The spots of this video are all taken from a variety on angles. The transitions are clean and can be followed easily. The most important this is the continuity; it flows well and all the spots are the perfect length of time, so that the viewer doesn't get annoyed or die of boredom. My favorite part is the use of effective lighting, is really goes well with the dancing and helps create the mood.
My Newest assignment in art is, designing a chair !!!! I can believe how much I'm enjoying designing a chair ! Well I have always enjoyed watching Divine Design and Debbie Travis's TV show, it started at a very early age. But any ways I just thought I'd fill everyone in on what's going on. I'm have some difficulty with making everything proportionate, but I'm getting better.
