Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Video Joke Vids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d7DSkVC218
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP3iviWcK6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP3iviWcK6w
For this blog I am going to be taking a look at and comparing and contrasting our two joke videos and their overall styles. I will be looking at how they compare in terms of their contrast and affinities with one another. First off, for this comparison I really want to take a look at and really focus on the use lines in both of these videos. The first video, which has been set up as though it were a case study, really takes an evident advantage of actual lines as opposed to virtual lines. They can be seen best in this version of the joke principally as the man in the blue shirt approaches the house and attention is brought to him with the help of the lines on the structures of the houses themselves. The house in his background brings a good accent with its white lines seeming to point down towards him as he walks across the foreground. The use of lines are also more clearly exploited as well when the owner of the house exits and is accented within the box of the door frame he is standing in. The following shot of the blue-shirted man shows another exploitation of the lines as well as the fence to his side stretches off out of the shot and adds a feeling of depth, an exploitation of space. This exploitation of depth and space is seen again as well in affinity with the other video as the office that the successful attorney is sitting in has vertical lines that stretch off into the background, giving it a grander air, while the office that the non-profit workers are sitting in is closed off and has a cramped feeling about it as it is accented by horizontal lines that seem to close off the room. In contrast though the second video has more of an exploitation of text and subtext as they is less info given on character interactions and leaves more up to the viewer’s interpretations.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Visual Framing
For this particular blog we are going to compare and contrast the two images show to see exactly what kind of affinities and contrasts can be derived between the images. For this comparison I want to focus primarily on the Line and Shape of the Images, the utilization and exploitation of the Rule of Thirds, as well as the use of Depth Cues out of the given list of topics. In this case, first off, I want to touch on line and shape of the original image and why it drew me into reframing the image around the center. First off the shape of the tree is interesting to note as the sides are made up of two curvilinear lines that are in vertical affinity with each other and curve inward somewhat so at a spot where they just even out to come out straight parallel to each other they are contrasted and intersected by the thick dark line in the image that crosses directly horizontally to them. These are is more of a simple use of lines as well, and this is what really drew my eye to the center of the image here. Secondly, and also fairly noticeable, is the exploitation of the rule of thirds in this photo. The way the photographer set up the shot here also place the image I focused on not quite directly in the middle but just below the horizontal, bisecting line and places it in the bottom center box following the rule of thirds, thus bringing further focus to this particular spot. Lastly I wanted to more quickly touch on some of the depth cues within this image as well, in particular on the photographer’s exploiting of the background in relation to the foreground. What I mean here is how the photographer put the focus on the foreground and made it stand out a put more by getting the tree in the foreground so that it is shaded darker and illuminated by the background, which as well has been most notably blurred so that it fades more into the back and does not draw the eye as much as the tree that is in focus. All these factors put together really played into my decision of reframing and the middle focus of my reframe.
Cowboy Bebop Movie Scene Commentary....Blog
http://www.podsnack.com/published-players/details/?list&hash=c95930e01601ebae6466daef4a313173
Monday, February 14, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Brainwashed O_o
http://changethis.com/manifesto/66.01.Brainwashed/pdf/66.01.Brainwashed.pdf
Layer #1: Acknowledging the Lizard
Layer #1: Acknowledging the Lizard
The ‘Lizard Brain’, as it is referred to here, is the part of the human brain that worries about one’s safety and it often prevents one from making decisions or taking actions that risks one to being ridiculed or otherwise laughed at, and because of this it often takes steps to shut down one’s artistic side to avoid potential ridicule. This shutdown is referred to as the little voice in your head that simply wants you to follow instructions and often keep your head down, and is known as ‘the resistance’. The artist however, recognizes that ‘the resistance’ is the main barrier between them and their art and are able to acknowledge and overrule it.
#2 Connect:
Social Media can be best described as a waste of effort, or a possible way to reach out and connect with the world, depending on how you look at it. If you’re more interested in amount of comments or your online footprint then you are most likely wasting your time. If you’re utilizing a medium like digital media you can potentially exploit today’s connectivity gain insights or to reach out and touch someone then you could be opening yourself to future possibilities. For example, Shepard Fairey made the now widely famous poster of Barack Obama as a freely shared icon, which spread rapidly across the internet, and while he didn’t make any profit off of it he certainly got his image and name out into the world and opened up new connections. The new future is more connected than ever and opens up all kinds of new possibilities and potential connections in the world, potentially changing everything.
With this current blog I can safely say that both of these layers really are quite connected and are quite relevant to what I’ve been doing. In terms of ‘the lizard brain’ I would say that concept is most notable in the audio assignments where one’s actual voice can be heard and where I most freeze up and find myself uncertain. For me speaking is a more difficult median to carry through where I cannot really go over and proofread my own words but rather can only practice and hope for the best and try to push past my nervousness and break through my own ‘resistance’. For me writing is different, where in these written blogs I can go over and see what I have said and see if what I have put down makes sense to me and whether I can clearly carry my message.
With the ‘connect’ layer this blog can definitely be related to it as this form of social media is, in some ways, less about how many posts or responses you might get but rather what kind of connections can you make with your thoughts and ideas, and what kind of impact can you make on someone who might be reading. It utilizes this new age of connectivity and really lets one go out there and put out there thoughts and ideas and really hope for the best.
Soundscape Critiques
http://evriordan.blogspot.com/
http://reyomusic.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-29T13%3A24%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7
http://almosthere-madolyn.blogspot.com/
http://reyomusic.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-29T13%3A24%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7
http://almosthere-madolyn.blogspot.com/
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