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Storyboard

Storyboards and camera shots

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Weekly Blog--week 7

In week 7, I had some reflections on my 30-second movie video after submitting assessment 1. The filming was done on mobile phones, although the picture quality of mobile devices is improving all the time. Even Hollywood films are shot on mobile phones. However, in close-ups, the eye lens will be too enlarged and the picture quality will not be clear.

Talking shots require a tripod to keep the shots steady. The light should not be in the sun, but in natural light. The music must be original, licensed by the composer, or available online through public domain resources. I got my copyrighted music through YouTube. Narration and English subtitles are added to the video.

assessment1's movie is called: I am just sick. The main character is a smiling depressive. Smiling depression is a type of common depression, but it is very subtle. These people hide their emotions perfectly and often present a very optimistic appearance to others. The protagonist of this short film was played by my friend. We discussed the specific shooting content, because the time should be controlled within 30 seconds, and the opening and ending of the film were required. The time was tight, and many scenes only took a few seconds. This short film is a documentary mode, which reflects the inner state of the protagonist by recording his emotional changes at home and when he goes out.

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Thoughts on Assessment1.

The theme of my 30 second personal video is The Cozy Life of Girls.

Although the video is only thirty seconds long, the actors and I went to several locations to get the footage. We shot a lot of footage, from dawn to dusk, from outdoors to indoors, there was a lot of footage but only a few that we were happy with, and the ones that remained were the golden thirty seconds.

During the shoot I wondered how I could bring out the girl's relaxed time. Probably because living in a slow-paced coastal city, the girl's love for the laid-back life in the city is evident in almost everything.

I used a combination of distance, medium and close up shots such as Tracking and Crane to capture the girl's laid-back lifestyle and relaxed mood from different angles.

From shooting to editing, the process was a bit hard but still fun and a very memorable experience!🤪

Leave a photo of shoot in progress!

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week7

It's a midterm break this week. Ha-ha! Holiday! Nothing to do. The video for assessment1 was submitted earlier. The first assignment did five o 'clock in the morning, but still relatively satisfied. In the first class, I had insomnia and fell asleep in class. I was very guilty. So I came up with the idea to film my insomnia. In addition, I miss my mother very much, so I put the rabbit on behalf of my mother. Two rabbits looking at the moon together represent a yearning for reunion. It was actually a script written after shooting the material because it was always in my head. It didn't feel good. It reversed a couple of angles. It's hard to take a picture of yourself sleeping with a camera, and your eyelashes move all the time. I confirmed with my classmates several times that the limit is really 30 seconds. It's hard to accept that my school doesn't have adobe membership. Learned how to use pr, bought a card reader but forgot to buy a microphone. Finally, I used imovie to bring the voice-over into the video. I had a headache at the end of the first half of the semester and didn't go to school. Not with my teammates but with my stuffed rabbit. I watched the movie "Mother's Multiverse" and liked the scene in which the daughter and her mother talked to each other on two rocks at the top of the mountain. So there's mimicry, although it may not be obvious. My teammates have invited me to help me shoot, but I prefer social phobia. The teammates are very nice and I think there should be no problem with the group work. Although my English is a little poor, we have no problem communicating since we are both Chinese. The leader has an appointment with us for a group discussion next week. It's still hard to make a video alone, so it's better to work together. Rest for a week to study and work, come on!

[heal2020]

Assessment 1: Reverse Tonal Portrait

Tonal Self-Portrait 45cm x 60cm Acrylic on canvas 2020

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Communication Design Studies - Assessment 1

Progress...(Post-production)

After the shooting, I started the post-production work. I chose to use Adobe Photoshop to do it because all the letters are not in the same photo, so I need to put all the photos together through post-production. (Photo 1)

Photo 2 is my first result and after the teacher's feedback. The teacher thinks that the colors of lemon and lime seem to be somewhat similar to the background, so they are a little difficult to read. So I chose kiwi (Green and Gold) instead of lemon and lime and got the result of photo 3. In the "is" and "?" part, the teacher suggested that I can use more flour to make the font more obvious. At the same time, the teacher likes my "DESIGN" design and feels creative, because different fruits are spliced ​​into a font, which is very interesting.

*The next post will share the details of final result 

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W1: Some forms to start with

I have no idea. I have nothing to offer this terracotta but where my hands take me. What I see here is a weird mix of my past works - the biomorphs, the textures and the geometric melted in it, and cut-outs. A kind of excuse to make sample figures for glaze tests. 

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DART1130 Assessment 1

Photograms: The Agency of Chance

Assessment 1 requires us to harness a range of camera-less photography techniques that utilises light sources from enlargers, computers, scanners, natural phenomenas, and many more non-conventional darkroom processes.

Through trial and error, I will begin to explore such aesthetics of analogue production by relying on the agency of chance to create a body of related works.

This blog serves as an online diary that summarises content learnt in the tutorials and serves as a record of future ideas for my photograms.

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Camera Motion Tracks

Basic ideas about the process of camera movement.

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Final Artwork: ‘1:26′

(1:26, Needle-felted patches on leather coat, Aileen Heal, 2018)

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Geta Bratescu, Romania from top left - Vestigii (Remnants), 1978; Costum, date unknown; and Self Portrait in the Mirror, 2001 As a product of Modernist movement, Geta Bratescu worked with a special interest in the ready made (or rather) actively sought to subvert this. Calling to mind my mothers relationship with her materials, Bratescu limited herself to creating with the limited materials she had. In her series of works, Remnants, the artist felts together scrap material irregardless of make it colour to in a way, document time and place. I really love these works as abstracted representations of consumerism, removed from political intent.

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R&E #5 - Atomville

I am intrigued by Paul Laszlo’s concept of Atomville. In 1954, Popular Mechanics published an article by Laszlo outlining what his concepts were for American future living in 2004, a place he called Atomville. In this place, most travel is done by flying, with cars only used for short trips around the town. To accomodate this, all the houses are built underground with landing strips for helicopters and ‘convertiplanes’ on top of them.

‘Because of increased population, land would be at a premium, so Laszlo envisioned "three-level use of a lot:  living below the surface, landing on it and traveling above it."’

http://mid2mod.blogspot.com/2011/02/paul-laszlos-atomville.html

Also included in the article is an idea for an underground bomb shelter, which shows a further possible method of underground living.

This whole idea gives a very interesting perspective on what a future world may be like, and consequently how humans would have to live and interact with the environment differently to accommodate it.

Atomville, Paul Laszlo (1954). Sources: http://mid2mod.blogspot.com/2011/02/paul-laszlos-atomville.html http://architectuul.com/architecture/atomville

[cindinh]

FINAL POSTER (double-sided)

“5 Communities. Find them.” 

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Poster: Informal Vote

For this assessment I responded to the second research topic, regarding the canonisation of rebellion in art history. The prompt suggests that rebellion must be an original action, but because rebellion has become a canonical technique, that, in contemporary practice, rebellion is impossible. The work serves as a proposition for what a contemporary rebellion would look like.

Initially, my research began with analysis of a Calvin and Hobbes strip, ‘Metal’. From this, I determined the key to genuine rebellion was the sincerity of the action. In art, wherever sincerity appears in excess, camp often appears alongside it. This led me to Sontag’s Notes on “Camp” which informed the remainder of my assessment.

My work serves as a metaphor for a rebellious action, specifically rebellion against mandatory voting. The ability to vote is often regarded as a privilege, however, when made mandatory not only do you disregard this privilege, you also eliminate the option of abstinence. Under this system, if someone wishes to abstain from voting they must submit an informal vote.

I see intentional submission of an informal vote to be an ideal way to rebel in contemporary society. The action’s ethos borrows heavily from that of 70s and 80s punk culture (that of antiauthoritarianism and individual liberty), yet subverts these attitudes to be more appropriate for a modern person. It assumes the guise of civility and keeps the actor safe from repercussion, yet down the line wastes the time of vote counters and contributes to the ever-growing statistics indicating public frustration and dissatisfaction with our current mode of government.

Sontag’s defines camp as “love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.” I tried to harness this with the poster, utilizing the exaggerated and the absurd in order to project onto (and therefore reveal) the ridiculousness of the AEC. It is often said that it is not the lawmaker who incites social change but the artist. My ambition is not that great, but hopefully I have done enough to breed doubt in an individual who might not have felt so otherwise.

References:

Sontag, S ‘Notes on “Camp”’ Camp: queer aesthetics and the performing subject: a reader (1964): 53-65.

Watterson, B ‘Calvin and Hobbes’, March 18 1992

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http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/02/tiny-rebellions/Final work.

Rebellion is the act of going against the rules to try to invoke change. Since rebellion has now become a norm, nobody really is inspired by simple rebellion art because it has now been demoted to purely just art. The question of whether rebellions have any power to rally the society since they have been canonised in art is a complex issue that has many layers behind it. Rebellion is still very present in our modern day society, however as united protests and demands have become ineffective and less popular, individual rebellions are slowly increasing. People have begun to rebel for the way that they feel unhappy with how their lives are- this may include negative forms of release like drinking or smoking, or personal protests for change such as breaking female stereotypes. I communicated this by photoshopping such personal forms of rebellion onto the fragile petals of a floral background to suggest that in our everyday world, there are always secrets and individual problems that people face. The quote in the rose petals is by Kaveh Sharooz, former senior policy adviser to global affairs Canada, commenting on the Iranian uprising currently fighting for better food and pay conditions. I decided to use a play on words to create my poster, by producing a false quote from an authoritative government figure. The quote, “What I’ll conclude with is; we are proud to tell you that rebelling no longer exists from this day forward.” is supposed to invoke a sense of oppression and loss of hope for those who want change. However, as you shine a torch across the grey words, certain words become highlighted, revealing the secret message “what are you rebelling for?” This is meant to suggest that although creative rebellions have been canonised into art, individuals are still fighting for what they want for every single day, as well as provoke the responder to try to answer the question as a final impression of the work.

references:

B. Fishel., Morpheus, [website], 2015,  https://www.thisismorpheus.com/2015/12/the-art-of-rebellion-in-the-21st-century/, (accessed on 15 Aug 2018)

T. Glavin., The uprising in Iran: ‘This is what revolution looks like’, [website], 2018, https://www.macleans.ca/news/world/the-uprising-in-iran-this-is-what-revolution-looks-like/, (accessed on 15 Aug 2018)

B. Valentino., Tiny rebellions, [wesite], 2015, http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/02/tiny-rebellions/, (accessed on 16 Aug 2018)