Forrest Gump – Final

Here are the final 4 designs for movie quotes.

You never had a camera in my head – The Truman Show 1998

This quote is saying that even the main character is lived in a world that being watching by others all the time, he still has his own thoughts in his mind where camera cannot record.

So in this design I’m using the principle of pattern and rhythm to form the background. The camera pops up from the eye represent the audience who are watching the Truman Show through the camera. The change of the scale forms the rhythm and shows the perspective that it looks like the eyes are looking down at the man. The direction of cameras helps to guide the audience’s view. In order to have a focus point in the background, I apply the principle of dominance to make one eye much more larger than the rest and without camera in it. It represents the director of the show, who are the “boss” of these camera and in this way the background won’t be boring.

As we follow the direction of the cameras we can see a sideview silhouette of a man’s head, the back part in white is a kid covering his face with hands. This uses gestalt to show the conflict that the man is struggling to hide somethings in his mind, he want to approve that even the people set so many cameras around him, they still can’t know 100% about him because they can’t read his mind. The contrast in colors and the directions of two faces emphasis the conflict. The foreground, which is the silhouette and background also follow the proper proportion.

 

And it’s gonna get easier and easier, to sit alone with images on a screen, given by people who do not love us but want our money. – The End of the Tour 2015

The quote is about the phenomenon that the addiction of television becomes common for people nowadays and it “kill” us in mental. In another words it means the addicting to television is killing us. So I put a skeleton which looks like it’s watching TV and laughing on a pile of broken TVs. Many hands are coming out from those TV and grabbing money. The background is a desert which makes the image more lifeless.

In this design I use the rule of third for the background proportion, the horizontal line falls on one third of the height. And the composition of this picture is symmetry, for example the skeleton is in the middle, there is one hand at left and one hand at right. This symmetry structure make the picture look more dull and lifeless, which is the emotion expressed from the quote.

 

Somehow everything comes with an expiry date. Swordfish expires. Meat sauce expires. Even cling-film expires. Is there anything in the world which doesn’t? – Chungking Express 1994

When we talk about expiry date it always link to packaging. Inside the movie tinned pineapple is a important symbol and I get my inspiration from that. People always think that put something in tin can keep it longer, but what we forget is that it can’t keep forever. So I arrange many tins in order and put different icons on them, from visible things like food, electron devices, leaves and butterfly to those invisible stuff like emotion, language and universe. Then the tin of love is opened and become smelly because it’s expired.

We can see a strong pattern in this design, the can with a spiral on top, and also variety of icons on each tin. The position of the opened tin follows the rule of third, and the dominance form the contrast so people know which one to focus one. The color contrast make the smell icon more obvious.

 

I aways thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. – The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999

In this design I create this guy in a lion head holds his stick and stands in a quite dramatic pose. This shows the vanity of being a famous. But if we look at how he holds the stick we can find out that there is no hand, which hints that inside this suit actually is “nobody” (or at least we can’t see the person because he is such a small person). The background is a wall with many animals heads mounted on it and one of them the head is missing. So the story behind this is the “nobody” wears the animal heads to pretend to be a famous everyday and he enjoys this kind of feigning.

Variety and unity is being used in the design of background. The animals heads forms a pattern and the wall also has its own retro pattern. The lion-head person is at one third of the picture. There are 3 functions of the white spiral behind the man: guiding audiences’ view, dividing foreground and background and emphasising the focus. The spiral also create a illusion feeling since the guy is a fake one. Because of gestalt, even it break the background people still can read what is happening at back.

 

In this assignment the biggest problem for me is the concern that audience can’t get the message behind. Because I prefer to hide many small details in design and sometimes I realized  that sometimes I can get them but others might not. My solution for this is just go and ask around for opinions, then see can use anyway to make it easier to understand.

From this assignment what I learn is how to use design principles purposely to solve my problem. For example if I find my focus point doesn’t really stand out I can use leading lines, or if the object is merge with a complex background I can use color contrast. For repeated pattern can change one element to achieve the dominance. And also I find out again how important it is to arrange the working files layers properly. Making the layers in correct arrangement helps me work effectively.