PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
November 2016
2D Project 3- Ego Final
THEME: LIFESTYLE
I went with the idea of my lifestyle which forms the bits and pieces of my personality.
FASHION (PHOTOGRAPH)
For this strip, I am making a social commentary about how people conform to societal norms in order to fit in the society now.
1) The style here is what I have always wanted to walk on the streets with. I used a pink shade as it has a dreamy tone to it and the uniform colour here signifies the imposed conformity of the society. The stanza, “conformity fashion”, is a sarcastic remark here.
2) The city photo here I took is to show the society. Blue and yellow are complementary colours. Blue signifies a quaint environment and while yellow her signifies the potential danger in people. What I want to portray here is that in our society, although everything seems peaceful, people are bound to judge one another if we dress out of the norm.
3) The photo here is me in clothing deemed normal by people. Green is normally used as a grotesque colour. I used monochrome green here to emphasize the imposed conformity again.
Therefore, my style + society = society’s style
WORK (ILLUSTRATION)
For this strip, I wanted to show how school work is making me lost my sleep.
1) I am someone who does not really like to face reality and like to dream alot. I used pastel analogous colours here to represent the dreaming element and my wide spectrum of ideas.
2) Here I wanted to represent school work. Inspired by the starter pack trend. I created an anatomy of an art student. I used complementary colours, yellow and blue here as they are normally the few primary colours used by schools hence it can represent more of a school feeling.
3) The owl is to represent no sleep and the skull represents the haunting workload. >w< I used monochrome brown here to show my mundane life. 🙁
Me + School = No sleep
FRIENDS (PHOTOSHOP COLLAGE)
Life without friends for me is a sad thing for me.
1) This composition I want to represent life. Hence, I included different elements of life like earth and grass. I used triad colours here to show all elements of life like how the colours are at different spectrum of the colour wheel.
2) This composition I want to show friends. Carebears are the epitome of friendships and yellow roses meant friendship in flower language. I used RYB colours here to show different friends I have.
3) Here, I want to show the fear of not having friends in my life. Being an only child, I am grateful towards all my friends for their companion. Hence, I am afraid of not having friends in my life which is what I want to portray here. I used monochrome blue here as blue can mean sadness too and the red here is to signify the sense of wariness and danger I experience. The wilting flower also portray a sense of sadness too.
Life – Friends = Sadness
FOOD (WATERCOLOUR)
1) Here I used triad colours to show the wide variety and endless amount of food around the world.
2) I used mainly warm colours like brown and red here to represent my comfort food like fried chicken and bubble tea.
3) Cold colours like purple, green and blue, used here is to represent sadness without my favourite food or food in my life. The watermelon here represents me as it is one of my trademarks that I love watermelons. Basically, it signifies a sad me(watermelon).
If given more time, I would like to explore more on watercolour like joy suggested during critique and also try different styles like line art. I really want to explore further on one stroke painting too. Also, the regret for this project is that I wished I could have done the workmanship better this time.
2D Project 3 Process
COLOURS
The process for this project has been a fun one as I get to play around with different colours this time. Before starting on the project, I researched abit about colours and found out the different theories like analogous, complimentary…
MEDIUM
During my research, I came across this watercolour artists, Afu Lee.
Inspired by her works, I wanted to try watercolour for the first time. Hence, I decided to do some trial testing.
Trying out one stroke painting with gouache tempera.
Tried watercolour on printing paper but the watercolour effect did not come out as well as watercolour paper.
My original idea was to use watercolour as my main medium for this project, however, I was not quite satisfied with the quality of my watercolour. Hence, I decided to have a different for each of my line, watercolour, illustration, photoshop collage and photographs.
IDEA/THEME
My main source of ideas was mainly from tumblr due to the wide variety artists and artworks on it.
In the end, I settled with my theme for this project as Lifestyle where I display my relation to food, friends, work and fashion.
4D Project 3 Final
GROUP MEMBERS: FELICIA, ZHENG FEI, YI JIE
How often do we stop and realise the love and effort of our loved ones?
In this story, the tortoise is an imagery of the main character’s mother. We see how her mother is always doing things for the main character without making herself known- when the mother is doing things for her child, we will not see the tortoise and vice versa, when the main character is around, we only see the tortoise and not her mother. With the picking up of the tortoise on her way home, this suggests the start of the main character’s realisation of all the things that her mother has done for her. This proceeds on to one point where her mother isn’t at home one day, that she finally realised the importance and real existence of her mother.
4D Project 3 Process
GROUP MEMBERS: FELICIA, ZHENG FEI, YI JIE
Thinking Process
For this project, our group has decided to keep the originality of the story as much as possible. With the initial thought to create a spinoff of Train to Busan, we wanted to film our whole video on the train. However, after putting in much thought, we thought that it will be infeasible to film the video on the train as we will be facing alot of unprecedented and unaccounted scenerios like peak hours, filming techniques and the lighting in the train itself, hence, we decided to rechoose another story plot.
In the midst of finding another story plot, we wanted to go for a story with more originality and unusual which is less heard of. We chanced upon this Chinese ancient folklore, The Snail Girl (田螺姑娘), and decided to settle for this story. However, instead of a snail, we changed the animal to be a tortoise to suit our ‘homey feel’ better.
The Snail Girl
There lived a young farmer named Xie Duan whose parents had died years before. One evening, on his way back from tending his field, Xie Duan spied a giant river snail lying on the side of the road. He picked up the snail and took it home.
The very next night, when Xie Duan came back home, he discovered the floor swept and that several bowls of delicious food were awaiting him on his table! Strangely, the same thing happened on the second day, then on the third, forth and fifth day. At last, Xie Duan decided to find out who was his benefactor. It turns out that his benefactor was an angel sent by god to bring him out of his plight, on the condition that Xie Duan would not find out the identity of the angel. However, after finding out, Xie Duan grew more greedy and wanted the angel to be his bride. As such, this led to the angel leaving in the end.
http://www.best4future.com/chinese-folktale-the-peacock-princess-the-snail-girl-with-vcd-p-169
Our Version of The Snail Girl
How often do we stop and realise the love and effort of our loved ones?
In this story, the tortoise is an imagery of the main character’s mother. We see how the main character’s mother is always doing things for her, subtly. When the mother is doing things for her child, we will not see the tortoise and vice versa, when the main character is around, we only see the tortoise and not her mother. With the picking up of the tortoise on her way home, this suggests the start of the main character’s realisation of all the things that her mother has done for her. This proceeds on to one point where her mother isn’t at home one day, that she finally realised the importance and real existence of her mother.
Dilemma
Our story revolves mainly about how people today do not cherish their loved ones today which is different from the original story which revolves around greed. Hence, we have two different way of obtaining the tortoise- one which follows closely to the original story of picking up the animal on the way home and the other in which the tortoise is the house pet since when the main character was young. Ultimately, we decided to follow the original plot as we wanted to keep the main essence of the original story.
Filming Process
As our scenes were mostly based at home, we thought that this will make the whole video mundane and repetitive. To counter this, we decided to add in several school and outside scenes. Also, the storyline spans over a few days hence we found it to be quite difficult to suggest this in our video too.
To ensure consistent volume and try to eliminate any background noise, we did a voice over (shaking bags, stepping with slipper etc.) of the actions shown in the video.
Editing Process
Picking up video editing is a new skill for us in our group as all of us do not have any background in video editing and we were all using Premiere for the first time. We have to google how to edit the video step by step and this took up a lot of time for us. As such, the editing of the video took us 2 full days to finish.
Overall Experience
Ultimately, this project really exposed us to the essence of filming ( or probably just the tip of the iceberg in the real industry ). We really learned that planning the storyboard is very important and also every member involved in the filmmaking has to fully grasp the story as well as the director. In addition, as much as we would like to fancify our video to our imagination, we faced many limitations especially in our knowledge in the technical aspect of this field. Nevertheless, we managed to overcome it by always planning in a practical manner. Needless to say, we had so much fun ( and tears, bloodshed, sleepless nights and many more ) doing this project!
DONE