The video shows us an isolated viewpoint that indirectly imply a sense of relationship. Accompanied by sounds of nature, which represent the calmness and unspoken joy, the video demonstrates selective observation of someone in endearment.
I took a series of closeups of someone hoping that it would show a viewpoint of someone in love. It might be too much and a single 1-2min shot of a focused viewpoint would be stronger in portraying my message. Something like what I have researched in my previous post.
I wasn’t sure about what each term meant so I decided to do some self learning. I found very useful videos explaining what they are, how to use them, the pros and cons.
Below is the link to the playlist but the ones related are videos 6-8.
Video 6: Monochrome
Video 7: Analogous (Warm and Cool)
Video 8: Complementary and Split Complementary
I can’t decide between Analogous and Split Complementary.
First, Analogous Colours. As it was mentioned in the video that they are very naturally pleasant to the eye. This is because analogous colours appear in nature – for example, the trees (greens, yellows), the ocean (blue, bluish-greens, bluish-purple)
Depending on the intended mood of my design, I am planning to switch between warm and cool accordingly to get my message across.
I could also use the meaning of each colour to further help me bring my idea across better. For example, yellow could mean happiness, pink could mean love etc
Here are examples of Analogous I found:
Tomer Hanuka
2. Gustavo Peña
3. Redd Walitzki
4. Pedro Covo
I could find less cool toned analogous than warm ones. I like that it creates a certain distinct look with using this method. Creates a strong mood/atmosphere with the colours.
However some artists have works with split complementary colours. They seem to be analogous and they use the the one of the split complementary colour to highlight something in the picture. This could be a technique I could use in my work.
Tomer Hanuka
2. Josan Gonzalez
These illustrations are more complicated and more dynamic than analogous. However, they bring a strong sense of where we should focus in because of the complimentary colours.
TECHNIQUE
As for the technique, I was thinking of doing manipulating of photos as I am not good at illustrations.
Here is
my inspiration:
Januz Miralles
A filipino photo-manipulator who approaches his body of work with a painter’s state of mind by digitally smearing, blending, and forming elements with his virtual palette knife.
I feel that using this technique would show my strengths. I can also envision my ideas using this technique plus added analogous or split complimentary, I think it would look interesting.
IDEAS
Here are some I came up with:
SHY + TALKING TO STRANGERS = DREADFULNESS
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN + HOMEWORK = LONG HOURS OF NETFLIX
PROCRASTINATION + NETFLIX = LATE SLEEPING TIMES
HUNGER/LIKES TO EAT + FOOD = PREGNANT TUMMY
MONEY CONSCIOUS + BIRTHDAY = LONG BIRTHDAY WISHLIST
Thursday Afternoon is a video work that explores the passage from Youth to Maturity where a dramatic and unsettling alteration is nevertheless, gradually and even almost invisibly realised.
Silent Sight
Zineb Sedira
In the artist’s work, women answer the gazes to which they are subjected by others. Sedira uses the voice-over in Silent Sight to talk about veiling and the impact of her mother’s veil on little Zineb, all the while looking at the spectator. This slow form of witness effectively creates a space of ‘intimate unrest’ between the onlooker and herself. Sedira reflects and returns the gaze.
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The video shows us a series of isolated viewpoints that indirectly imply a sense of closeness, warmth & coziness. Accompanied by sounds of nature, which represent the calmness and unspoken joy, the video demonstrates selective observation of someone in love.
Charismatic magician Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) leads a team of talented illusionists called the Four Horsemen. Atlas and his comrades mesmerize audiences with a pair of amazing magic shows that drain the bank accounts of the corrupt and funnel the money to audience members. A federal agent (Mark Ruffalo) and an Interpol detective (Mélanie Laurent) intend to rein in the Horsemen before their next caper, and they turn to Thaddeus (Morgan Freeman), a famous debunker, for help.
Here Atlas is in the interrogation room after doing a magic trick where big amounts of stolen money from the bank was involved. He says this quote prior to making smart moves in order to get out of his handcuffs.
HUNGER GAMES
Set in a future North America known as “Panem”, the Capitol selects a boy and a girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each of the twelve outlying districts to compete in the annual “Hunger Games”, a televised fight-to-the-death. The film is centered around Katniss Everdeen – a 16-year-old girl from District 12, who volunteers for her 12-year-old sister, Prim, when Prim’s name is chosen – and Katniss’s fellow District 12 tribute, Peeta Mellark, with whom she has some rather dramatic history. Katniss is then rushed to the Capitol, where she undergoes intense training before being thrust into the arena to fight to become the victor of the seventy-fourth annual Hunger Games.
Here the Capitol’s President says a quote where he tells his game maker to make his eliminate all “hope” of surviving in the Hunger Games, in order to evoke fear in all his subjects.
MEAN GIRLS
Cady Heron, a homeschooled girl, lived in Africa for 15 years. Entering public school for the first time, she meets the “worst” of her classmates, the Plastics. She joins and eventually gets assimilated into the group of three unkind girls. But she later tries to bring them down.
Here one of the Mean Girls’ mom introduces herself to Cady where she tries to portray herself to be still the “in thing” and suggesting that she still can be relatable to her teenage daughter and friends.
MULAN
This retelling of the old Chinese folktale is about the story of a young Chinese maiden who learns that her weakened and lame father is to be called up into the army in order to fight the invading Huns. Knowing that he would never survive the rigours of war in his state, she decides to disguise herself and join in his place. Unknown to her, her ancestors are aware of this and to prevent it, they order a tiny disgraced dragon, Mushu to join her in order to force her to abandon her plan. He agrees, but when he meets Mulan, he learns that she cannot be dissuaded and so decides to help her in the perilous times ahead.
Here Mulan questions herself of her identity as she does not feel like who she is inside is portrayed on her outside.
My video would indirectly suggest a relationship by showing close ups of a person maybe travelling in a train. Those close ups cannot be taken if the person filming it is not “close” to him in that way.
I would also like to overlay of flowers splashing into clear water like the stills below by an artist called, Gilles Bensimon, to indicate the refreshing, lively feeling of being in love.
Gilles Bensimon is a famous for fashion photography and helped shaped the magazine that it is today. He does not consider himself an artist but recently he made photographs of fresh cut flowers that are submerged in water.
I decided to use it for my printing because it is most clear in communicating the idea of the quote. I did two attempts, one being smaller than the other. Below are the transparencies:
The first printing went well. The fading tone in the reflection also somehow managed to come through. I was happy with it and received good and kind comments from my friends.
However, some said it may be too small for the tote bag. This is because I did not let the design take up the whole space in the square format.
There was also a problem of using too much ink and I quickly learnt you do not need so much ink to make the print. A little goes a long way.
Too much ink:
Too little ink:
Just nice:
The second attempt definitely required as it is so much more bigger more ink but again I had to experiment how much ink to use.
Below you can see the transformation from too much ink to too little ink. In the the category where there is too much ink, details are lost in the peacock head.
When I thought of cool, I thought of tattoos, cigarettes….. maybe like a biker mom?
But I realise “cool” is very subjective. The mom could be depicted as a super mom. A mom that can do everything.
Or…she’s delusional thinking she’s excellent at being a mom but in fact she is not? —-> leading to an uncared for child
One picture though, inspired me. The look in her eyes. It is as if she is ready for any task ahead of her but doing it in her style.
This gave me an idea to start on:
A mother caring for her child but in her own style. I added tattoos, shades, bandana and a cool hairstyle for her baby. I wanted to add a cigarette somewhere around her fingers or mouth, but the way she is posing doesn’t allow me to.
Below are some of the images I used to photoshop on the picture:
1st rule of magic: Always be the smartest guy in the room.
KEYWORDS: SMARTEST, MAGIC, GUY
So my idea started of with showing how smart the guy is in creating illusions.
Smartest also brought an icon of a brain and a head.
I also found this magician but with a head of a bunny and thought I could do something interesting with it.
To bring out the magic part, I thought of sourcing out as many magic illusions as I could.
Here are some of my inspirations for magic illusions and how they were done:
IDEA #1
So then I came up with an idea where the bunny magician’s head will be cut open and its brain will fly out. Its brain cut open into half will then spill out all the cool illusions.
I found that the idea is good but the message seems weak and I don’t really like the visual of the magic illusions that much.
IDEA #2
For this Idea I thought of just zooming in into the magician’s head and show a magic illusion that is impossible to do. So I took a head and two hands with no body to show that the head is floating. Then I took a levitating woman’s body. I didn’t complete my design because the photo of the levitating body is just too pixelated and small.
IDEA #4
Revised idea #3 and made it clearer. So I was thinking “impossible”… what if the magician used only his eye power to levitate the the woman? Then it reminded me of this reference below which I referenced in my second artist reference post previously. The artist used white negative space on black background to convey the idea of light shining out.
I also found some clearer better levitating woman. I also thought that it would be cool to reflect the same idea on the “inside” to the “outside” and put lights shining out of his eyes just like how it is in his brain implying that the magic trick may be ongoing in real time.
PROCESS:
Firstly I took a pic of a cross section of a brain and made it black and white:
Then I masked the middle portion where I wanted the magic illusion to be. Since the background was already white it didn’t convey the idea that we are looking into his brain well. So I added a black solid behind the head and it clearly showed the “inside” of his head because the main background is still white.
Then I added my magic illusion – magician and levitating woman. Then the shining lights.
