Sketch Book Feedback

In todays lesson at Coleridge we had to swap our sketch books with some one else who we do know as well or work with and to review the work in their sketch book. I reviewed Christina's sketch book which was very detailed and colorful.

I was given feed back about my sketch Book from Rob he has commented:

Colour, Typography, and mixed media: Well Explained annotation and interesting pictures.

Research and References: Which were on the blog

Check Point Planning: Planning of a Christmas setting for the risk project.

Reflective Annotation: Clear and well explained.

Suggested Improvement:

1. Use of colours and pictures could enhance the images.

2. (Not in the book) could be inserted into your book to show drawings and artist research.

3. Very small not much detail and the checkpoint.

4. More detail about what you have drawn e.g what thoughts made you do it and what gave you inspiration.

Self Assessment:

I need to improve my sketch book and include more research and detail. And to include references and what my actions are next to be. Maybe more sketches and images and colour.

Pea Loop

As a group we worked on the pea animation I only took the role on friday session when tracing the pea onto the cardboard from the projector that projected the pea on the the board. Then after the 6 images of the peas were traced we then coloured them in with felt tip pens.

Colours chosen were dark green,light green,red,grey and blue. This took ages to do and i would of preferred as well as my group to work with paint which would of been less time consuming, then maybe would of had more time to ind a better location to film the pea animation.

We then took photos of the pea walking in a corridor using a small camera and a tripod. Then imported it into final cut express and repeated the footage and uploaded it on to the website Vimeo.

I have no images of the process of the pean animation being created.

Here is the pea loop:

L3 PEA LOOP ( Charna, Ali, Sophie & Alex) from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

This was a class demo to show how our group animations would look like:

L3 ANIMATION LOOP CLASS DEMO from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

Check Point

Research


Beautiful Losers: I have researched into beautiful losers and have researched some information on a specific artist. I researched into Margaret Kilgallen and I created a page of work about her in my sketch book.


I have researched into the medium video art and how it has changed over the years due to technology and new media having affect on artist in modern days.


Animation Flip Book: Research in how to create a flip book animation, we looked at some animation artist such as Blu, Lemon Jelly and jan Svankmajer.


I researched into Experimental and underground Films: Colour Box, Dog Star Man, Scorpio Rising, big shave, Fuzz Box, Berlin horse.




Explore and experiment/Make: My own creativity with the short animation I did drawing under eighty pages.






What are you pleased with and why? I am pleased with how the animation had turned out of the green pea and my animation booklet jelly foot character.


What could you have done differently? I would have used colour in my experimental animation booklet see how effective it would have of looked.


What you plan to do next? I plan to buy props: Dominoes, spray paint, fake snow, and card, and spray paint them and to create an artistic picture using the props as an experiment for the risk project but if it does not work then me and my partner will have to come up with another idea for the risk project. (experimenting tests)

Experimental and Underground cinema

I have chosen to look at this short film Dog Star Man because i found it interesting and wanted to explore about the creator and why they chose to make such a complicated film to understand and what the actual plot was meant to be projecting through all the effects.

I thought that this short film was symbolizing the birth of a new born child, however all the images that were inserted into the short film as well made the film confusing. after researching some information on it I found out that it was in fact the plot of a man who is a woodsman carrying an axe climbing up a mountain to cut down a dead tree, while with the footage of a new born child and in the womb. However watching through this short film I could not make clear of the plot. I thought it was interesting and has stood out to me, I think it would have been such a risk to create this type of effective film however my had my full attention and I liked it so it must have been a risk worth taking for.

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  It was created through images being inserted into holes punched in successive frames of the film to produce a kinda of collage effect. Also when Stan Brakhage was acting the role of the male character his wife took over to film.

  
  
  The main character was acted by the Stan Brakhage who is also the creator of the film Dog Star Man. He won an American non narrative film maker who is considered to be one of the most important figures 20th century experimental films. He also taught the creators of South Park and director of Ants.
  
  
  References of info:
  Wikipedi.org/wiki/stan-brakhage
  http://www.filmreference.com/
  
  

Here were some of the short films we looked at:

The Colour Box I liked this short film it showsa the contrast of the colours and the patterns are really effective, I like the music because it gets me into the groove.




The Big Shave I found this short film really disturbing however It was this feeling of being uncomfortable but in away made me laugh in shock. It gave such a weird reaction from me and the other class mates.



Malcolm Le Grice - Berlin Horse [1970]

This short film was continous and maybe was bit to long but I enjoyed how it reflect the beauty of the horse it made me think of two words, Rainbow and spirit because the transition effect of the horse with a distant fade of its figure following behind like a ghostly spirit.

Class Reflection

In class today we spoke about the risk questions about negative and positive concepts about risk. As a class we collectively shared our thoughts about risk,

In whats way can risks be negative?

1. Cause injury to yourself or others.
2. Cause risk to others around.
3. Stops you doing things.

4. Consequences

In what way can risks be positive?

1. You can learn from your mistakes and teach others and to aware them.
2. Awareness levels increase and you become more dependant and learnt to driect the dangers in your life.

3. Self Reflect

What do you think creative risk is?
Maybe painting a portrait and your audience may not be attracted or you may adjust the picture and make it less viewable in interest.

What does the concept of creative risk mean to you?

I think creative risk can mean maybe an idea you may have and to create something that you may not be aware that any one will like your work you just risk your chances hope it sells.

Then we discussed our ideas for the risk project around the classroom.
This helped me to reflect from the short briefed opinion about the plan for the risk idea and helped me to reflect it to be a possible idea.

My ideas for the Risk Project

Me and my partner Sophie have planned to take the challenge of a artistic expereimental Risk for our project.

Outline of plan 1:
To use Dominoes and to position them in a line and to knock them over to create a pattern or a artistic themed art piece.

Props: Because it is closer to the chritmas festive season I thought of this to be an opportunity to theme it on christmas.
Props: To spray paint the dominoes
To use a pack of cards sparkly gold, red,silver and maybe (fake snow spray can)

Risk 1: Experimental Risk and the target audience may not expect that type of video or like the idea at all.

Risk 2: If one Domino falls down then it will ruin the project as for we will have to begin again.

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Risk 3: If we decide to spray paint the dominos it would be wise to spray them outside not in the class room incase someone has asthma.

Risk 4: If to use a setting that is consisted of being outside the domino project could have an effect from thee weather.

Risk 5: Once the project is finished then it comes to the tension of will the dominos fall over correctly and form the pattern or picture we hoped for. If some do not fall over because maybe its not a powerful enough force then some of the patterns will be destroyed and the dominos will not complete the track of falling down and the picture will then be different. = Risk

Risk = (Being Different than planned, can be a a good difference or bad.)

Outline of Plan 2:
To stack cards up as a tower.
Props: spray paint the cards.
Risk:Risk: Experimental Risk and the target audience may not expect that type of video or like our project.

Risk 2: The cards could collapse during the projects going ahead this = time consuming.

Risk 3: The tower of cards may not look like as we planned it to be.

Risk 4: Any movement or to much action filming us stacking up cards could change the pattern or the cards could collapse.

Outline of plan 3:

We thought about combining music and photography together as for Sophie said she use to study photography and I play musical instruments.

So we thought how could we combine these two ideas together, Well we agreed we could have me playing on a piano and some people acting in the background maybe a script of a play with snap shots of photography being taken and the video we make would freezes the snap shots taken. It would have the type of old fashioned movie feel to the project.

Feedback on my Blog

I asked a friend to givce me feedback on my blog because I was ill so I missed the chance to have the opportunity for someone to scan through mine. So I asked a friend this is what they said:

feedback: It contains use of images and lots of research in to the materials your using and video on youtube give a clear insight of what you want to achieve.

Reflection: I think that I thsi feedback has helped to understand about how much I have but may need to have more off in other areas.

Animation Booklet

Here is the page in my sketch book I wrote about the animation and inserted it into my sketchbook.

Here is a picture of me working on my Animation Booklet in the media classroom, I am setting up istop motion and taking photos of my animation drawings.

Process of making it:

I did around under 80 pages of drawings on each page in the animation booklet, then using a camera at height I took a pictures of the animation moving on each page. With the camera connected to the laptop with the program istop motion taking the photos of istop motion I then imported the animation on to final cut express.

The Plot of my animation:

This is my character thats began as a ball the began to grown arms as triangles then feet as triangles then the eyes circles. I made my character walk about, then it evolved into
another character. The mouth drops down to make a jelly foot, then the eyes pop above the characters head like an insect. It slurps along and the sun launches a missile at the character then it explodes into particles of stars.


These are some different stages of my character:

It started of looking like a ball then began to gradually develop arms through the animation,

It then began to form a face and walk about this is when the story becomes involved,

I have inserted my animation booklet into my sketch book and have spoken about the process of making it.

Here is my animation I uploaded it on to vimeo.

Spider Diagram

For my sketch book work I had to create a Spider diagram with words branching of that associate to the word capture. The spider diagram also is inserted into my sketch book as a visual thing to see.I typed up the diagram on to micro soft word and printed it of because it will look neater and easier to read.

Words that I associate with the word 'Capture'


I made a Spider Diagram of what I thought about:

This exercise has helped to recognize how a risk can have many effects.

Animations

We lookeed at some animations and the strcuture of the visuals and sound. I Liked this wall painting animnation, and how the artist uses the same painted colour white mostly however still draws you in effectively. It must have been a risk to create this artistic video of wall painting, as for the audience may have of not enjoyed it or there could of been a risk with no permission to paint in certain areas.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

The new short film by Blu
an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)
http://www.blublu.org/
http://www.blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm
music by Andrea Martignoni
produced by Mercurio Film
assistant: Sibe

I like his other art work aswell it has the drawing effect with no fill of the body figure which I think works effecitively. The story plot ifor his art work is also interesting. I like how it is repetitive and works really well.

walking from blu on Vimeo.wall-painted animation by Blu
year 2007
http://www.blublu.org/
www.blublu.org/blog

I like this Video lemon jelly, the drawing animation gives it the groovy mood to it and the music works well the the action and the art.

Mood Board about Risk

The task was to create a mood board in a pair on risk, We used google for the images selecting risky pictures of events happening then we created the mood board in photoshop.


Here is the mood board:





Print Screen of the mood board in the program photoshop:







After the mood board we then was to open the images into final cut express and create a entertaining show of the images about risk.
I thought a slide show would of worked well, but the images could of become a bore so I redid it again and over lapped some of the images over the others to give it more presentation and quicker paste. I then created a sound track in Garage Band but only added it to the first slide show rough cut and not the second final.

The task went well and was a helpful practical tasdk to see the different types of risks there are in reality.

Christmas Cards/ E Cards

This is is picture of my idea of the christmas card in my sketchbook.
For the christmas card design I have chosen these images of christmas card designs for inspiration because I think they are suitable for a range or different target audiences.


I like the decoration on this christmas card however I think it would be to difficult to design something like this for E Cards.




I like this card because it is colourful and appeals to a adult audience, its plain and colourful and does not reflect the whole xmas festive season.



I researched into some Ecards on youtube and watching through these gave me a clearer understanding of what I themes people use when designing their E Cards.

Flip Book Animation Exercise

My Sketch Book page about the animation ball activity:

Here was a diagram to help us to practice the flip book task. It shows a ball being dropped from a height and having flexibility in uts shape. So I created one myself using post it notes. I used the same template that the diagram shows.



I tired my own version of the ball falling on post it notes. Then when I flipped the pages the ball succesfully had motion.




Guideline of the balls movement direction.

In reflection this activity was inspiring and useful for to learn about as the it could be a idea for using this method of animation within the risk project.

In todays lesson we had to create a character and then draw them on paper each page by page (such as we tried an example with post it notes flipping the pages and making the motion of the ball. Here is my character above it is meant to be a female shadow who has scissors as her legs, the cloud above is meant to rain flowers (the puddle on the floor is evaporates then transports it self through time and rains again through the cloud, although it is raining flowers which cover the figure of the woman and strip her identity from shadow to.

I looked at these choice of titles and I selected the four corners title and selected the ocean blue background.

This is my completed animation Flip Book for the ball exercise, I was not going to take pictures of my flip

book then I decided I thought it would be an idea to show the process of making the flip book animation completed.

So I took the

Photos on photo booth and them imported them into a program called imovie which is very simple to create little projects on.

I then changed the colours of each little page with the ball moving

to create use of colour. Then I thought I would finish it of with a colourful title page at the beginning of the ocean.

What would I change: If I did the animation exercise again I would prefer to take the pictures with a camera than

photo booth as for it was difficult positioning the pages to the camera on my laptop and made the sequence

uneven with the ball darting all over the pages.

Alison practice ball flip book animation from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

Here was a short tutorial about the bouncing ball animation:

Bouncing Ball Exercise

After gathering research with for the video Art time line I have then inserted into my sketch book, and I today I have now created the timeline on photoshop.

Using a background from Google I have choosen the comic card design, and then located in to dominoes and cards that I was thinkinbg about doing for the project risk about inspired my domino day but I havent really thought about this further.

Here is a print screen of photo shop I took while editing the timeline and making it look nice and presentable. I wanted to make it stand out with white text on a black background I think thsi works really well.



I was playing around with the paint bucket and the colours and by mistake I selected white paint which coloured in the background this is what I looked like. I thought it looked nice at first but with advice from my partner for this project she said it didnt work so well as the black backlground.






Here is the first part of the timeline because the timeline has to much information I wanted to include so I had to create two timelines .


This is the second part of the timeline




I am really pleased with my timeline I think it is attractive and I like the visuals, although I think that some of the text is not vissible to see.

Time Line Research

Todays lesson was about researching into your chosen medium for your project, which I am plannign to do Video Art.

I have been researching on youtube,wiki pedi, and google.

Also in my free period I went to the library and looked at a book about abstract art. I also Looked at a book called Digital Art Author is Christiane Paul.

Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 - January 29, 2006) was a Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist.

Nam June Paik then began participating in the Neo-Dada art movement, known as Fluxus, which was inspired by the composer John Cage, and his use of everyday sounds and noises in his music. He made his big debut at an exhibition known as Exposition of Music-Electronic Television, in which he scattered televisions everywhere, and used magnets to alter or distort their images.

Born in Seoul, Paik had four older brothers and a father who worked as a textile manufacturer. As he was growing up, he was trained as a classical pianist. In 1950, Paik and his family had to flee from their home in Korea, during the Korean War. His family first fled to Hong Kong, but later moved to Japan, for reasons unknown. Six years later he graduated from the University of Tokyo where he wrote a thesis on the composer Arnold Schoenberg.

Paik then moved to Germany to study the history of music at Munich University. While studying in Germany, Paik met the composers Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage and the conceptual artists Joseph Beuys and Wolf Vostell who inspired him to work in the field of electronic art.^[3]

His influence: John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_June_Paik

Notes to use for timeline:

In the late 1960s video technology became available outside the broadcast industry and artists were among the first to use this unique new medium.

How has modern technology change video art:

experimental films that use video art to express their visuals.

1. Colour box made in 1935 by Malcolm Le Grice

2. Dog star man made in 1961 by Stan Brakhage born 1935

3. Scorpio rising made in 1964 by Kenneth Anger

4. big shave made in

5. fuzz box

6. berlin horse