Tech.Post #9 (3-6-9) Assignment

   There is a few strengths and weaknesses to my movie. The main weakness to my movie is the music, because I created my own music in garage band with the intent of creating emotion of suspense. I think I created this emotion,but not to the best of my ability. Due to time, deadlines and a few complications with exporting footage. I needed to have the assignment done before going back and improving. The strengths of y movie is the originality of the footage. I edited the music and video to line up together . For example when the music stopped so did the pouring paint.
 

Tech. Post #7 Stop Motion Animation

"Fireworks by Pes"-Stop Motion Animation

Tech. Post #6 “How do I create a photographic art piece, in the surrealist style, that has a meaningful message?”

            I created a photographic art piece that displays many of the elements and principles of design, but some of the most relevant principles I used were, unity, contrast and well-used colour balance. I used mainly used organic colours, which have the tendency to compliment each other. I used the black background not only as part of my meaning, but it also compliments and unifies the black and other not so organic colours in the motherboard. I used colour to create contrast with the globe, grass and motherboard. I didn’t realize until I put all my photos in the image that the colours contrasted and unified the image, it wasn’t intentional at first, but once I realized it was a possibility I went for.

            I used the surrealist style in two big ways. The first way was instead of a satellite image of the earth, I used a globe and aimed hot lights at it to try and simulate the way the suns rays and light fall upon the earth. The other way I used surrealism was with the grass and motherboard on South America and Africa.

            The message behind my piece is very simple, but does need some explaining. My message is that with all the new technologies, we are destroying our natural world to create a tech. world. The background is black because as far as human kind knows, after we destroy earth we won’t have anything else. Nowhere else to go or live and we will all die faster then we think. Not many people our focused on changing our bad habits of because they like the fact that they can hide behind their phone and not have to face the truth. Just as I manipulated my photos into one photo, mankind is manipulating our natural resources and the ability to use the Internet for what it’s meant. Information. Not for Misinformation.  I used the grass on Africa because a lot of Africa is still living of the land and Mother Nature. I put the motherboard on the Americas because they are a lot more tech forward then other parts of the world and is North America doing a lot of the damage and just not carrying.

            In terms of the technical aspect of my photo I have one major flaw I would like improve, a problem I overcame and the discovery of new Photoshop tools that I found to be not only interesting, but every helpful too. The major flaw I notice was in the early stage of photography when I took the picture of the globe and didn’t get all of the globe, I attempted to fix this by lowering the globes position on my image so it would look more intentional. Next time I do an assignment similar to this is make sure my object is fully in lense and maybe using the cove.  A problem that occurred but I managed to overcome was I didn’t take the photos with the same light source this became a problem once I started to layer the images. I fixed this problem by lining up all the light sources to make it unnoticeable. I discovered and was taught quiet a few more tools in Photoshop that I fond very helpful while making this image. One of these tools was the mask. I helped me not destroy my images, but still be able to remove backgrounds. I also really liked the blending modes where I could make something transparent and make it exactly how liked it to be. The technical and production of my image I found to be both fun and informative.

Post #5 Composition in Photography

        I think my image is visually interesting because of the angle the image was taken, the use of rule of thirds technique and the bright and rich colours. The angle the photo was taken isn't parallel to the goal post. This is visually interesting because even though the back post line is on an angle it is still following the rule of thirds. Another way this image is a display of the rule of thirds is because the object of the image(the girl in the pink sweater) is on the right hand bottom cross line of the 9 boxes. When the image was taken the focal point was not on the rule of thirds, using photoshop I cropped the image to create this.The girl is also a focal point because her pink sweater creates great contrast against the whole image and its organic colours. These colours used to be washed out, but with the help of photoshop and the use of colour boost I made the colours look richer and brighter, like a very sunny day, even though this image is was taken on a cloudy day. I took this image with the intent of the pink sweater making pop and I think after my photoshop edit I made my intent even better. I wanted to display dominance while still adding other compositional techniques to make my audience really look further, but look further in a certain  order which I control with the dominance displayed in the image.
       If I could retake this image I would take it from a lower angle, so the viewer could see the expression on my focus's face. I might use photoshop in a different way and play on the fact it was a cloudy day. Maybe create an image of loneliness or sadness instead of just high contrast sunny day simple everything is okay kinda fell.

Chess Piece Drawing Review

The image above is a drawing of a chess piece and a background which is a play on the grad technique used to draw images in an easier simpler way. As part of my assignment I had to try different techniques to copy my hand drawn work into a digital for in the most successful way. This is why I have three images of the same drawing. The first one is a scan image with some photoshop improvements. I think this was an effective way to copy my work because a photograph a it sometimes creates a shine from the burnishing and adds a highlight that shouldn't be there. The second image is a photograph of my image using a copy stand. I do not think this was an effective way to copy my work for two reasons. One, the bright hot lights create a yellow tint on my drawing which is not supposed to be there. Secondly, the bright lights also create an extra highlight by flashing back light right into the camera lens where there is some burnishing. The third image is another photograph taking outside where there is softer light. This way my I wouldn't get the yellow tint or the burnished highlight. I think this technique was more effective than the copy stand, but for this specific image I think that the scanned image was the most effective. I think this because the scan image captured all of my detail, while the outside image did not.

       While I was planing this drawing I wanted to make it visually interesting. I did this by modifying the technique of drawing with a grid. I drew the pawn using a grid and then took individual sections of the grid and copied them somewhere else on the page. Sometimes rotating or flipping the section to make the viewer look further. I used value to show light. I think I did this well because my drawing has large value scale with deep blacks and shades of white. The lines used in the chess piece its self are very confident and polished. While the lines used to draw the grid are confident and polished, but are very light because I had originally had the intensions of erasing those lines but once the piece was finished i decided that it would be best if the lines stayed.

Tech. Post #4 Composition in Photography

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This picture displays movement in a very interesting way because the first windmill is appearing still, but as your eyes move to the right the windmills appear spinning faster. This picture does a great job of displaying different levels of movement and the effects it has on an image. Not only does an image blur the faster the movement,but it also may appear different. All three of these windmills are identical,but the last one looks smaller than the middle and so on and so forth.

www.corbis.ca

This picture does an amazing job of framing the target piece. It ties in the colours so it is easy on the eye. The framing is done very very well because it does not absorb any of the focus from the focal point, but just highlight it in a very clever way. The colour contrast and blend is really good at, again framing the image in a very clever and artist way.


Worked with: SeaOfBlue

          

Tech. Blog Post #3

This picture is titled "Stand Out". I titled it this because on a field trip in gr.7 to high park where my class and I took pictures of humans interacting with natural environment, this pink ribbon just stood out to me and I took the picture. Now looking at this picture two years later I see why the ribbon stood out to me. It is because the colour contrast between the hot pink and yellow,green leaves. I find this visually interesting because there is hues of red which I find ties in the pink so it is more appealing to the eye.

Tech Blog Post #2 Logo Analysis

            The first logo I  am analysing is the Olympic logo. This logo is an abstract logo because it isn't a picture of anything and it doesn't have any text. This logo has many colours, circular shapes and a very balanced feeling. I think the designer used many colours to display a sense of diversity because the Olympics is a global, welcoming and diverse competitions. I think the circular shapes are to represent a welcoming and friendly feeling. The circles being connected, I think is to represent happy and diverse people coming together as one. I think the target audience is everybody world wide. Te reason for this is because not everyone would see this logo the way I have described it ,but I think everyone would understand its purpose and know that it is meant to be a happy and welcoming thing.

           The second logo is the Seventeen Magazine logo. This logo has one very bright colour and no emphasis or value what so ever. It is has balanced and rectangular shape and form. This logo is a typographic logo. I think the reason this logo is bright and bold is to grab peoples attention. I think the reason there is no value is because it is a typographic logo. I think the balance in the logo os to make it easy on the eyes and to look proper and uniformed. I think the rectangular shape is because this logo runs across the top of a magazine which is also rectangular. I think the target audience is modern day young women the reason for it is because if the colour and the font.

          The third logo is the Canadian TD Bank logo. This logo is an abstract typographic logo with retangular logo with thick rectanguler strong colours and shape. It is ment to appeal for bissness men and

Repetition & Rhythm Assignment

      I created, in the first comp, a rhythm that becomes greater and then smaller again. I did this by using oblique lines in a 1-1,2-1-1,2,3-etc. In my second comp I created a steady rhythm that gets greater and thicker longer it lasts. I did this by using a curved line that I copied and repositioned 26 times. As the lines get more curved the beat is getting louder/thicker. I think my first comp works because you could actually clap it out, even though it looks like a magnified suit pattern. I think my second comp works because it is more of a visual representation of a beat getting thicker, but it is clear that the curve in the line is getting greater and greater and if I was to clap it out for you the beat would be getting thicker and louder. I think my first comp works because it is more obvious and doesn’t need as much explaining as the second one. I think they are both pleasing the eye because I think to the untrained eye ,who                              

had no idea the purpose of the assignment they would just see lines. 

Art Critique of Emily Carr's Reforestion

           

            In terms of Imitationalism the painting does not have many literal qualities, but Carr's use of shape and colour blending does display some realism.  The line and shape of the painting is to perfect. What I mean by this is, a tree isn’t a triangle. There is more to the tree than that. I think it is the imperfection in nature that makes it beautiful. Although I am in no way saying that the painting was unsuccessful.

            I think that Carr did a great job at portraying a Meaning without forcing the meaning. I think she used line, balance and shape very well. Creating a sense of calmness and serenity, but still, I think , displays empowerment and respect towards the tree. I think her colour palette is sort of dark, but with some light hues, this creating value and emphasis. I think the reason for this is because Emily Carr may have some anger or sadness towards the way people treat the trees and disrespect nature. I think in terms of general meaning Emily has a great love for nature and is not pleased with the fact that not everyone has that same feeling. I think this painting and many of her other paintings are her expressing her feelings about this subject.

            The Emotionalism displayed in this painting is dark, gloomy almost like nighttime. The painting although still has a feeling of peaceful content. I think this stems from the use of horizontal lines throughout the whole painting.  In some parts of the painting, Carr uses lines of texture to show the roughness in the bushes. The sky is dark as if dusk or nighttime but there is no moon. I think the reason for not having a moon is because a moon could imply mystery. I don’t think that is what Emily was trying to portray with this painting.

            My Opinion is that Carr used colour to show light in an amazing way. I think this because the way uses the amount of line and texture she used it can be come difficult to do. I still think that she could have mad it more clear weather or not it was night or day, dusk or dawn.

On another topic I think this painting is interesting because most times the objects in the foreground are larger and the objects in the background are smaller. This displays depth. Now the reason for this could be because Carr didn’t paint this from ground level or it could be another way she displays greatness in the trees and mountains. There is contrast in this painting, but I think that there is emphasis on this middle ground. I know this because the lightest section of the whole painting is the trees in the middle.

            

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Swirl Tool Tutorial

       I found this tutorial to be mostly helpful. On a scale of 1-10 I would rate this tutorial a 6. I would give it this rating because it made sense in the beginning  but it got confusing after the 2nd or 3rd step. The image above is not what the tutorial said it would look like. This is the result of me exasperating a little bit and my tech teacher, we'll just call him "coach" teaching me some other tricks on illustrator that went along nicely with what i already had.
      How this finished product was made was by following the tutorial for the first two steps then using the rotation tool, copy and paste/ alt,command arrow key right.
Click here to go to the robcubbon tutorial I used

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