4D Journey: Progress/Draft 2

What’s left to do:

Narration
Soundtrack
Subtitles (?)

4D Journey: Inspiration (the idea of Inner World and how to achieve it)

4D Journey: Draft 1/ To Walk in Another’s Shoes/ Journey into the Private Sphere

For now, I’ve managed to arrange it and edit the timing of the clips.

There’s more to be done, from narration and including appropriate music/sounds and transitioning . . . But – Of course – there’s selective inclusion of the raw sounds captured in those little clips . . . Of course they’re there for a reason. Please don’t ever think it’s random. I will be mortified.

At least the essence of the film is clear as of now – solitude.

An inner world, quiet unless you think consciously in voice.

2D Rhyme: High Contrast Images for Humpty Dumpty

BREAKING DOWN THE RHYME

I have a rough plan for what I intend to do with the nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty“. The rhyme revolves around a tragedy (“Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.“) and subsequently, a loss (“Couldn’t put Humpty together again.“). There is an element of helplessness even with powerful protectors and powerful men such as the King’s men and King’s horses. But that’s mostly a surface-level analysis.

Firstly we have to ask ourselves questions: Why was the most unstable of forms, an egg (although anthropomorphic), sitting on the wall? Why were the King’s horses and King’s men summoned to help this egg creature? What’s a “Humpty Dumpty“? What do these things represent?

In my opinion, I see it in a political light. The “Humpty Dumpty” could supposedly refer to the ignorant, foolish civilian who is prone to making lousy decisions for the state or even himself, and only has himself to blame.

Helplessness? More like purposeful lack of preparation and doing what’s only necessary . . . for oneself. The state, despite understanding the nature of the ignorant civilians, chose not to prepare for the ugly consequences that would happen someday in order to save their own strength at the moment. The act of appearing right after the tragedy has happened is merely for show (even though the King himself does not bother to present himself anyway).

Everyone is fundamentally selfish, and the rhyme acknowledges that. Rather, the moral we can take away from this is that we have to be self-accountable and fend for ourselves instead of relying on others.

WHAT I INTEND TO REPRESENT

I intend to retain the same lessons to take away from the nursery rhyme. There will be a nice blend of medieval imagery (to keep the nostalgia in) and use of a modern context (via iconic references). Here are some of the images I found and edited.

4D Journey: Rough Draft in Pictures

Apparently the short clips are too large to be uploaded on OSS so here are some pictures.

Will explore the use of silhouettes.

I think i’ll use my camcorder for recording instead. The quality is quite horrendous when zoomed in.

More shadows. Weather’s good.

Was thinking of having the individual joined by another at the end of the film . . .

Have got to use the camcorder.

Don’t want the individual to make eye contact. It destroys the sense of private space.

2D RHYME: A Rough Idea

Heard we were going to do a project on nursery rhymes, and was immediately reminded of my sister’s art piece for her AP exam. Nursery rhymes often has a diabolical aspect to it despite its moralistic intentions e.g. losing one’s thumb, or breaking one’s neck. Probably sinister in this age, but much more common in the olden days where people were less worrisome, overprotected and more outgoing. So it’s all about the context. Rather than making nursery rhymes look all hauntingly beautiful as the norm, I shall try to make it look somewhat pragmatic by providing the missing logic links (due to the generation gap). That’s not to say i would take away the charm of nursery rhymes – i will enhance it with . . . sardonic humour.

2D: Lines Process Journal (Transferred from Hard-copy)

(Transferred from Hard-copy)

A rough plan of what the lines should typically look like, and went on to explore from there.

Trying out on different types of paper with all sorts of tools. No limits!

Drying the papers and allowing the more inky ones to flow a little .. .

Work table

Going organic

Using a fork and a syringe

Having experimented with multiple kinds of black inks/paints/dyes, i found that dried up chinese ink creates a shiny finish . . desirable.

2D: Lines Greatest Influence (transferred notes from hard-copy journal)

(Transferred notes from Hard copy Journal)

I found most of my inspiration for this project from one of my favorite contemporary artists, James R.Eads, who was born in 1989, Los Angeles. He had his college education at Skidmore before rising in popularity on social media e.g. Tumblr and Instagram for his (Van Gogh – like) illustrations.

This is his webpage: James R.Eads Illustration

Alternatively, his tumblr: James R.Eads Tumblr

The most distinctive feature of his works is his “reductive” approach in line-making (and thus, images). He does this from a largely black background, and creates the illusion of an image with lighter outlines.

This is my final product. As you can see, I have adopted his approach in making a number of my lines, usually in emotions that have a dark or intense personality e.g. anxious, exhausted. But there’s more to it than the approach of making the lines.

There is the element of “expansion” in his lines, an effect that creates both space and void. He does so by playing around with the size of his lines, the amount of white and black in each region and the direction of his lines. Although most of his work is done digitally, I am inspired to try them out via monoprinting and the more traditional/fundamental methods.

My favorite Film of all times

El Espiritu De La Colmena

I make music in my free time, too.

Synaesthesia is an experience where one is able to visualise colours from sounds or sounds from visuals or smells even. This is how my portfolio (the funky colorful prints i did on my phone) sounds like. Yes i made it.