Surrealist Photography

I have been looking at a Surrealist photographer named Tommy Ingberg.

He has done some very intresting work, which caught my eye instantly. i have looked at plenty of his work and have discovered he works in black and white and Includes stetsons and uses Trees and rocks in almost every piece of work.

Final photography evaluation

Evaluation of my final photography piece.

1.     How does it make you feel?

 It gave me a feeling of interest and the want to be there so I can hear, see and feel the atmosphere within the photograph.

2.     What are the strength and weaknesses?

The bottom right hand corner of the photograph, around the guitar head, motion blur has been captured where the rest of the photo is detailed.

I put a lot of thought into these shots, I asked my modal to wear a whit t-shirt because I knew I wanted to keep to a black and white theme, so I made sure he wore a white shirt to improve the contrast.

The strength of this photograph is, the use of Photoshop, although I need further experimentation.

3.     What could I have done differently?

I could have taken more time to improve the detail of the editing, the edges of my models left arm could have been neater and possibly better camera angles.

4.     Would it have improved my picture?

Taking the extra time on the editing would have defiantly improved my work, by a significant amount, although I am thoroughly proud of the outcome.

This is the storyboard for my final fairytale piece.
i am doing King Arthur.
There are 6 scenes within my future animation and i am hoping for it to last around one minuite possibly a minuite and a half.
i drew stickmen to save time even though it took me all morning.
The set for thos animation will take place within a carboard box.

Vincent critique

I think this animation could have used stop motion and Claymation because of the movement and the backgrounds

The story was about a seven year old boy who was very troubled, and thought he was someone else, after being grounded couldn’t leave his house.

Yes he did. I found the clip to be effective, because the narration was very ear catching, because it was meant to.

I do not think there were any visible weaknesses, I don’t know how it could be improved I think it was good enough.

P- the script was very effective.

N- even being a dark story I feel the video its self could have been lighter.

P- the visual animation was very clear and well done. It looks like they have put a lot of time and effort into the project.

Character biography

Film: Kingdom Of Heaven

Actor: Orlando Bloom

Character: Bailian of Ibelin

Quote: “What man is a man who does not make the world a better place.”

 “How can you be in hell when you’re in my heart?”

Why they’re my favourite: The dedication to the characters cause was extremely impressive with the emotion in his eyes through out the film. The way the character was portrayed by actor was amazing easy to connect to and he made it simple to understand how he was feeling as you went through the film. Also the characters heroic personality and pure desire to help humanity and do good anyway possible was inspiring. The character based on a real historic figure can be hard to play but Orlando really did Bailian justice and showed how he lived with honour and valour.

Finest hour: Ending the battle for Jerusalem and agreeing on the term of surrender for the lives of his soldiers and civilians.  

South park reveiw

The show's style of animation is inspired by paper cut-out cartoons. the standard stop motion technique was used for the show for the pilot episode and few episodes after that until the show was taken to computer animators, giving a similar look and feel to it but only taking a fraction of the time to create. Before it is animated the artists have to draw up the storyboard which still takes a while.
the background is composed of primary shapes and colours, the child characters are the same basic shape but are distinguished by the colour of there hair or hat colour. their movement is choppy and they purposely do not have as much free movement and hand drawn characters to keeep the original south park feel to it. they are all voiced by the same by the same people and guest stars are used as photographic cut outs.

Final piece evaluation

I pulled two images off of the internet one of Ewan McGregor and another of a saber tooth tiger.
Then I put them into Photoshop I had some trouble with they layering so more use of photoshop is required for next project. then i place the picture of the Saber Tooth on top of the image of Ewan and then fiddled with the trancparancy to make the the saber tooth slowly become visable.

for this project i used photography, internet, cgi, photoshop and premiere.

the most challenging part of this project was figuring out how to work photoshop, because i have never used it in this way before this project. after and hour or to i started to get a hang of it  and then it was rather simple once i had my head in it.

my biggest achievement for this project is problem solving with premiere wen i ran into a problem where i remembered it had to be black and white once i had completely finished, so i looked for a way to fix it with ot having to start again.

i can make the transition look alot smoother.

Evaluations

I.D. Cards for this project i used photography to convert into animation using premiere. my potos where dark because i thought the projecter would add a good effect, but it just darkened the photo to much so you could see the facial expressions which was the basic point of the project. Next time i will check to see if the affect is taking effect before doing the work.

Countdown i used pencil and pen to do the hand drawing the was sent to take photos of my respective number around the college. my number was oplicay inspired because i had to show a facial feature.
everyone in the class had to randomly choose a number i got 8. after i was finished Cam took all of the projects and edited them together into an olympic inspired countdown.

Paper faces for paper faces we used a black backdrop and used different coloured paper to create facial features, while taking pictures every step of te way for extra tracking and taking pictures after every little movement for the stop motion. then imported the pictures into premiere and editing the pictures into a stop motion and then importing the audio.

beads we rented an over hed light, camera and a tripod rom the ERC and drew up a background of a highway toward a city and used beads to show a man walking away rom the city the used a stop motion tehnique and then took music from my phone and imported it it into premire (songs gredits will be at the end of the post) and then added a cedit and title sequence and i was finishe was dissapointed with the ende result though the music was too fast for the video.

Song name: Memphis May Fire - Alive In The Lights

Grindin'

This morning our tutor cam showed us a music video called grindin’ by 3 musicians named Nobody Beats The Drum.

I do not know the meaning of this video, although after watching a small video (which I will provide a link to) I know that every single block had to be done one by one in a stop motion technique, so this being a very long and time consuming technique as it is it would have taken long due to the fact that every block had to be measured and painted individually by hand by one of the members of the band.

I myself did not so much like the song but appreciated how it corresponded with the song.

The editing took the creator months maybe even a year at least.

Here is a short four to five minute video about the making of this video, done and produced by the band themselves and a few people who helped produce the animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XBqxjvDAAWE 

Van Gogh

Van Gogh self portrait.

He looks almost as if he has a smugness about himself in the portrait, even after being ridiculed in his life its as if he know how he'll be viewed in the future.
His style of painting makes his art look so refined as if he has painted every individual hair on him. I like how honestly he looked at him self, he even painted every imperfection its as if he lives by Oliver Cromwell's philosophy of "warts and all".

Being a self portrait this piece was done by Van Gogh.

Van Gogh was born in The Neverlands.

He also lived his life as an exiled artist in The Neverlands.

I could not find a back story to his piece.



  

 

My first piece of Media work 

Michelangelo

Michelangelo's self portrait.

Michelangelo's self portrait is a very detailed piece which shows his expression very clearly, after looking at this piece and thinking about it he looks almost disappointed with him self for some reason. the colour of this piece leans toward the disappointing nature.

Being a self portrait this piece was created by Michelangelo.

He lived for 89 years, he was born in 1475 and died in 1564.

he was an Italian artist and lived most of his life in Italy.     

i could not find a story behind this image, but his expression makes me think there is a very interesting back story.

An Ever-Growing Wonder

 

Scott Ross,18 

These are a few of my favorite things,

My favorite colour is yellow, it's bright and neutral, the kind of colour that could subliminally calm a person. 

I don't really have a favorite smell to be honest, perhaps fried bacon?

My favorite "touch" as this so strangely questions, is the feel of Alpaca.

My favorite food (Chain)  is Subway, don't really see how i can elaborate on this one... i'll say, because i get to say what goes in it.

I don't particularly have a favorite animal.

My favorite Animated character(s), are Jessie and James from Pokemon. for the pure fact you just have to give them an A for effort... i mean the sheer persistence is inspiring. 

I'm a big Lord Of The Rings & Harry Potter fan I've read each book from both series at least 3 times each.

I don't entirely have a favorite sentence, telling my girlfriend i love her would have to go first.