Lens Based Media- Research

 

I really like how this video was created. 

It was made using the paper cut method, and the small pieces of paper would be gradually moved. I think it is really effective how the pieces of paper have been layered to create more dimension on the page as backgrounds. 

Here are some screen shots from  the video: 

I also found a video showing how it was made, which was really interesting. It showed how many people were involved in the making of the video, and how much time it took too. 

I thought it was also interesting at how many things could be made from repeated shapes too. 

http://vimeo.com/m/3090846

Task 2- Ecological Peace

Our group was given the theme of Ecological Peace. We decided this could include things from the environment, people, and life cycles. We made some mind maps on the things we could include.

We decided to think about rainforests, and wanted to include something with People and the environment, as we thought this was connected to Ecological Peace. 

We all created a few mood boards inspired by the natural environment, and put them together. I really liked the visuals we were inspired by.

We then started coming up with storyboards. 

Our final plot was to start the animation with a man around a campfire telling a story, and then flashback to back when he was a child. Then we would show how the rainforest was for his Native American community, and how it would be cut down to make way for cities and skyscrapers. 

We were going to end it there, but we decided that it should end with the best of both worlds, with city and greenery, to show that compromises can be made to show Ecological Peace. 

Next we started taking roles in our group.  Everybody made a background, while Schiel created the characters. 

We decided to make a stop start animation, by moving the character slightly, taking a picture, and then repeating the process. 

I was given the task of creating the rainforest background. 

I really liked how it had turned out, and I think the natural colourscheme worked well. 

This was the beginning scene that Izzy and Grace had made. I think it worked really well, and gave a really good idea in the animation from what was happening. 

This was our main character that Schiel had drew. We thought that the visuals of him and the background worked well together. 

I really enjoyed the filming part, and I found it really effective that we moved the images very slightly, so that it flowed a little easier. We also made sure to move things in the background, like animals and clouds, so that the scenes were busy and interesting. 

It was also my role to create extra scene props that we needed, for examples the sun that was in the background, and fonts that could be used too. 

Once we had finished filming, we had to start adding sound effects. This part was also enjoyable as it really brought the animation to life. We wanted the noises to be very busy, just like a rainforest and a city. We filmed some of our own noises, for example animals, and added busy background noise on the computer. 

Lens Based Media- Task 1

Our first project was to create an animation in one day based on the character: "Tony the Superhero." We had to animate this to "The Pixies- Tony's Theme"

We were allocated our groups, and decided to base it around the superhero Turtle Neck Tony. 

The story we decided on was that his turtle neck gave him super powers, and his neck grew as he travelled around people's houses. 

We thought out the story line carefully, and came up with scenarios that could happen in our animation. We decided he would travel through people's bathrooms and bedrooms. 

 We then allocated each team member a part to do. We all created one background, and Elliot and Schiel focused on drawing the characters.  

I drew the bathroom scene, and Schiel created this character. 

We decided to keep the drawings very minimalistic as we only had a short time period, and we tried to focus more on filming the animation and adding quirky details. 

This was another one of the characters that featured in our animation. We made the arms and body parts move. 

I really enjoyed this project, and seeing everything come to life. We used stop motion animation, and would take a picture, then move it, then take another. When it was all edited together it looked really good, and the music really brought it to life.

Task 3- Political Poster Design

Typography- Practising Types

Next I experimented writing different types using song lyrics. I wanted to design the type in fonts that could relate to the image the lyric was conveying. I wanted to sad lyrics to have a very dreamer/ flowing feel to them, to portray this message. I tried to draw "I feel numb most of the time" In the style of calligraphy.

Typography- Artist Research

               Bob and Roberta Smith

Patrick Brill is "Bob and Roberta Smith."

He creates bold graphic fonts and slogans, and founded the "Art Party" which rebels against Michael Gove's policies. I admire the use of typography, and the bright texts and backgrounds have a very retro feel to them. Some of his pieces are very humorous, and focus on politics and art.  This is something that he feels very passionately about.

I like this piece by Bob and Roberta Smith because of the bright colours and retro feel.

                                   David Shrigley

  

David Shrigley is a British visual artist and illustrator. 

He labels himself as an "outsider of the art world" and his comical illustrations represent this well.

Some of them don't make a whole lot of sense, but I like the sketchy texts he uses.

                                          Allan Sanders

Allan Sanders is a Brighton based illustrator. He creates screen prints and hand-written texts and type, as well as illustration. Sanders had a brief career in computer programming, but then decided to make drawings. He has worked for many clients including "The Guardian" and LA Times.

                                          Tracy Emin

"You forgot to kiss my soul" 2001

Rhianna Wurman

Rhianna Wurman is one of my favorite type artists. She has a girly vintage style to her work, which is lovely to look at. I have been very inspired by her pieces, and I especially like her positive quotes and illustrations. She also sells her hand lettering pieces on her etsy store.

Typography- Visual Communication

                    Typography

"Typography is the design and use of the letterform as a means of visual communication."

Daily we are surrounded by type. Fonts, banners, signs. During this project I will be looking at, and experimenting with many different types.

 

Our first task was getting used to type, where we tried tracing different fonts using the slogan:

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"

We used this phrase because it includes every letter in the alphabet. 

I then experimented with my own page full of fonts. I added different textures and layers to it.

        One Day Project with Rob

We then had our one day project with Rob from VisCom. We had to create our own fonts, creating both the upper and lower case letter. I was given the letter R.

We had to create them out of shapes, and at first we could only use 3 shapes, then 2, then however many we wanted. 

I first created this R using 3 shapes. I wanted to add a cut out to it, to make it more interesting, and I also suggested shapes were there, rather than putting them in. 

It turned out to be quite a 1920's font, quite "Great Gatsby", so this font would look great in films or posters, set in the 20's. 

                    What's your type?

Next we had to recreate a newspaper spread, playing around with layouts and fonts. I enjoyed playing around with the layouts, and creating interesting images and captions.