Process

My process was simple but tedious.

I first started out by sketching out ideas for my equations.

I then zeroed in on the equations that I thought best suited me. And started to sketch out the compositions. Although they changed when I did my final outcome.

After that I just went with my guts.

The first thing was to cut out the 20 by 2o rectangles.

After words I used a mixture of oil pastel and water colour to create my compositions which I then scanned into the computer

I then manipulated them digitally and printed them.

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I then threw out some and added more things to the rest. I did a repeat of scaning and adding more stuff to certain squares as evident in my end product. I even got rid of some because it did not convey what I wanted.

Here is an example

And here are some things I made put did not put in

I did all 12 together with very long stagnant periods as I was not sure how best to represent what I wanted.

I guess this whole project was an experiement. I wanted to see if I could make something not aesthetic that it becomes aesthetic

Home Alone

I chose the quote “I’m eating and watching rubbish, you’d better come out and stop me” as I thought it portrays Kevin McCallister, the main character very well. I would say this quote was the hardest for me because I couldn’t find a more symbolic way of representing the quote so I did it the most literal one. I used a telly and a fridge to represent eat and watch.

The water gun again was to represent the cheekiness of the main character as he tricked the robbers into thinking that the water gun was a real gun. However, the border of guns was a bit off and I had to do away with it.

Again the similar idea of TV and fridge, but this time I added the traps that were placed in the movie. However it was too cluttered and lacked a protagonist.

This was the third version but it lacked a solidness. I did add a jester to portray the main character’s playfulness.

This time it was the same, and I tried adding a foreground. However the field of depth still wasnted very clear. So I decided to try another approach and went with new images because I was getting tired of the old one.

So for the last one I decided to exaggerate it as much as possible. I placed him in space to give the sense that he was unstoppable cos he was too far away. I also placed the face in the way that the boy was both eating and watching the unhealthy food.

Process for the quotes relating to hot fuzz

I really wanted to do a quote on the movie Hot Fuzz as it is my favourite movie.

The synopsis is as follows, “Op London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman, who endlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is called an accident, but Angel isn’t going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent “accidents”.

The first quote I wanted to use was “Dad just said it was his special club”. This was when Danny realises that his Dad was a leader of a cult.

I basically wanted to portray a cult which sacrifices humans.

The ring of the same symbols are to symbolise the cult members with the top one being the leader. The middle symbol was to signify a human head. I chose these particular symbols as I thought they were similar to human figures

These picture was the similar thought process but a different type of graphic. However this quote wasnt working out so I had to change it to a quot that was easier to work with.

So I chose “No, I have not ever fired my gun up in the air and gone Ahhhh”.

I really wanted to show Angel’s displeasure at Danny for being so naive and thinking that police in action movies were like in reality.

I stuck with this image but substitute the car with guns to allude to the use of many guns in the movie.

ACT YOUR AGE

The quote “act your age, not your shoe size” is from the movie Uptown Girls.

Synopsis: Molly Gunn has never worked a day in her life and has lived like a queen since her father, a famous rock ‘n’ roll star, died and left her his fortune. But everything changes when Molly realizes that her manager has stolen her money. She lands a job as a nanny for Ray , a young girl whose serious attitude is the opposite of Molly’s carefree one. With help from her boyfriend, Neal, Molly tries to bond with Ray and learn how to be an adult.

Since the teacups were quite significant in the movie, I thought of using it to represent both the characters with the bigger cup signifying the adult who is very in her own world and child like while the small girl is signified by the smaller cup and symbols that make more sense. However it was a rather jarring design as it was conflicting in styles.

So I went for a less metaphoric look, just that the adult’s head is replaced by symbols to represent nonsense. It was rather plain so I decided to try adding a background.

This was the last of the backgrounds I tried to use. I tried about 4 others but all looked too busy, or the characters looked out of place. So I decided to just try one character.

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I tried to use just the adult cos the quote was just about her, but the background overpowered her.

At the end I decided, something simple would be best and came out with this..

What happened before the final piece

Some behind the scenes of the project.

This was when I was doing memory drawing with brushes and rollers but then forgot what emotions they were.
So I just cut them up into strips and group them according to how I felt.
I got smarter and labelled my memory drawings afterwards, and did them in strip form.This was just a failed attempt at fumage.
When I was almost done I placed them together to see if they looked too alike and change them when they did.

Then came the mounting, which was a pain as the strips kept falling off.