project 2 quotes 2, 3, 4

For the inception quote, I chose the quote “You don’t know where the train will take you but it doesn’t matter. Because we’ll be together.”

This quote is important in the movie as it is the quote the male lead and female lead said together to get them back to our world from limbo and it is also the last words of the female lead as she died because she believed she is still in limbo and has to kill herself to enter our world when she already is in it.

I wanted to portray their love/togetherness (?) and the limbo vs. our world idea.

Initially, I thought of using hands holding to symbolise love between the male and female lead and I wanted to add in the idea of a train passing by so I decided to make a train run across their arms (holding hands) and I added buildings to represent our world vs. limbo. However, this composition is too dark and the train does not look like it is running it looks stuck instead 🙁

So I decided to represent the train in another way. I realised that train tracks form an inverted V shape and I realised that a couple holding hands also form a V shape. Because limbo is supposedly like the opposite of our world, I flipped the train tracks and fit it between the hands. However,  the man’s sleeve is too distracting and blends in with the windows of the skyscrapers. I put skyscrapers behind as it is often used in the movie and I use it to represent the “world”-faded=limbo and not faded=reality as that is a very debated topic in the movie.

The next revision was this as I tried to let the buildings follow the shape of the arms so that they don’t look too random/is only a background (?). However, it looks too plain and there are a lot of negative space that is not well used and is just space 🙁

I added the buildings to the top to play around with the sides of the “triangle” the arms formed but it looks a bit too messy. However, I wanted to make the buildings a point of ref->bolded buildings=our world and our world is upright while limbo that the female lead is stuck in is faded (detached, a watered down version of reality) and the male lead is stuck in between hence his is around 60-70% bolded as he is often confused as to whether he is in his dreams or reality.

I did this next and added the bodies to further show that those are hands but it makes the composition congested (or so I feel:() I broke up the buildings and fanned them out so they look more wonky and contorted like in the movie. and I decided to shift them upwards to fully utilise the empty space while placing the “reality” buildings below and upright as limbo is kind of pitted as opposite against reality and I did the bolding according to what I wanted to express.

last but not least, 

I removed the bodies and obtained this final composition:) that hopefully does not look too congested/messy:(

For King Kong, I initially thought of beauty commercials in the old days as I thought of “beauty” and the beast. I came across a few hairspray/perfume commercials.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9RekRgbJ7so/Us3LQZVqHaI/AAAAAAAAAwI/Ib5zTZHKWqs/s1600/ae561d03266b1af230e68499e7f07a11.jpg

https://envisioningtheamericandream.com/2013/06/17/ding-dong-avon-calling-pt-ii/

And the commercials have the lady spraying the product onto themselves and the cloud of perfume especially in the second picture is arranged/depicted as clouds in the backdrop of a night sky. It struck me that King Kong was killed by airplanes (also in the quote) and hence I wanted to let a perfume bottle “spray out” airplanes (fighter jets).

I placed a couple dancing on top of the perfume spray to show that Kong’s ideal of beauty and the beast killed him as the dancing scene from Beauty and the Beast was what was most significant to me.

However, this composition is too overly exposed. You cannot see the couple dancing and the planes and perfume spray clearly.

After adjusting the exposure, I couldn’t adjust the exposure of the dancing couple such that they do not bend into the background so I searched for another but I felt that it was weird to put them dancing on top of the spray. Hence I took ref from old movie posters where there are things happening and/or characters in the background and stuff/people/focus in the foreground.

 

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/83/d4/37/83d4374244ba07c0a82bec6892fd1cc1–howard-hawks-westerns.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b8/18/fa/b818fac8583a9c21bb74d36dc72abf4f–old-movie-posters-classic-movie-posters.jpg

So I came up with this but the dancing couple looks too distracting and if I bold them they make the composition look messy.

Hence, I removed them, enlarged the hands and perfume and airplanes and decided that simplicity is better but I felt that the composition was too weak and from the reviews, I should have added something to imply the “beast” in beauty and the beast for  I addressed the beauty and the airplanes part in the quote but not the beast 🙁

Final below!

The last one is a quote from edge of tomorrow. I wanted to show that the male lead knew the female lead more every time he “reset” (when he dies, he relives the day again) but as time passes by because she keeps dying and he realises that he may not be able to save her at all and that she is perhaps destined to die (idea of her slipping away from him/him losing her). Hence I initially thought of him having parts of the rose/rose petals but losing her (her breaking apart and slipping away)

 

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However, the part where she breaks cannot really be seen and the hand grabbing the rose petals look like he may be piecing it together and cannot be seen as clearly instead.

I changed the lady into one that is front facing and has a cold expression which I felt fit the female lead for she is portrayed as being cold and aloof. On my friend’s advice, I made the pieces behind smaller to give the illusion of depth and really conveyed the idea of her slipping away. I also changed the grabbing rose part into a rose blooming instead as it shows growth and conveyed the idea that he got to know her more and more.  I also faded the clock that shows the “resetting” part of the movie so as to push the girl and roses out.

My friend advised me to changed the hair into roses to fit the quote better and I liked it haha I feel that it really fitted well. I also fitted the roses into the clock to show the progression and growth in time and to contain the roses so that they do not look like they are floating. I took some ref from gestalt to create the rose hair as I remembered the law of emergence.

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Dog Picture by Boyer and Sakar 

https://www.webpagefx.com/blog/images/assets/images.sixrevisions.com/2010/08/18-04_dog.jpg

I wanted to play with viewer’s mind a little to make them see full roses first instead of piecing together petals to form roses (just like how above, we see the dog first then pick out the limbs and head that forms it).

I think that I should have tied the composition to the quote more as it is “my middle name is rose” and I felt that though I addressed the part of her slipping away, I didn’t address the “name” part and I didn’t consider the principals of design enough to pull a viewer’s eyes to the roses/her slipping away more. Actually, I’m not sure if a composition can have two focal points, if it would be undesirable to have two and how to make both stand out on their own (for this, I have the roses part and the slipping away part) and ill be sure to ask and clarify next lesson!

 

 

2D project 2 process-Quote 1

The quote I have chosen is “Cause I’m with you ’til the end of the line” in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It is an important quote as it was first said by Bucky before he was turned into the Winter Soldier (one of the antagonist of the movie) then repeated by Captain America himself when he was trying to/succeeded in getting Bucky back to his senses (he was brainwashed).

I started conceptualising with a line and two men dangling off a line and got this rather literal representation.

Then considering the context of the show, I decided to make the line a vertical one and thought of the American flag that has stripes too.

At this point in time, I haven’t realised that I’ve read the brief wrongly (oops) and didn’t consider the historical context/retroness of this piece.

Hence, I changed the people into WW2/WW1 men as Captain A first begun in WW (before he froze and woke up in our world).

One of the reviews I’ve gotten was that I needed to differentiate Capt A and one of the ideas prof offered was to let the American flag bleed through him. I decided to add him into part of the flag instead and he ended up in a quite solemn/elegant (???) position that I saw fit for his character.

After some research and watching the end credits of Captain America, I decided to make this model after a propaganda poster that shall be its historical vocabulary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7TEvhd90JA

I then contained the flag within a fist as fists are a symbol of violence and power that represents war, the setting the movie is set in.

I added in planes as propaganda posters often have airplanes as well as the end credits of captain America (see above^^)

http://www.arras.net/_oldblogs/circulars/archives/cat_books.html

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/381961612117883011/?lp=true

https://www.shutterstock.com/search/world+war+poster

After consultation, I received feedback that the planes are too huge and the white stripes separating the fingers are too bold.

Hence, I made the white patchy, enlarged the fists, made the planes smaller and enlarged the two men which is my focal point.

And TADA thats the final one!

 

 

 

 

 

4D project 2: At the Threshold of Memories

This audio visual journal revolves around the recovery of a girl from losing a loved one, told in the point of view of a peephole.