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week 13

Assignment: Make a website showcasing your awesome art

Craft: Use that one software on the Mac to make our own personalized website to showcase all of our work so far in this class.

Composition: Let me get back to you on that when I remember what i did last Wednesday

Concept: We're supposed to make the site so characteristic of ourselves that we feel we have the right to get rid of the made on a Mac symbol.

Week Doce

Assignment: Finnish up comic strip

Craft: Add a frame, divide text, tweek, etc.

Composition: Add picture of the baby, divide huge text at the end, fix bad frames

Concept: the picture of the baby was added to complete the story visually and make space for breaking up the huge text box so that the reader doesnt feel like theyre doing as much reading. There was a frame that the picture did not fill the box, so we fixed that. Then, any frames that got cut off by the red lines, we fixed that too. Then we printed the hard copy out. We are done.

Week 10

Assignment: Make a comic that tells a story about some one traveling with a package for another person. The other person is waiting.

Craft: Take pictures at Union Station: Phone represents calling the baby daddy; Staring at the wall represents thinking about what she's doing (this is supposed to imply moral conflict); close up is her waiting for the train and looking at the necklace her baby daddy gave her; the train track one lets you know shes at the train station; she gets on the train; shes riding the train: her marine sees her: the marine finds out shes pregnant. 

Composition: Poster edges and the glow one are the two first styles we used on our pictures

Concept: I tried to shoot the photos in a way that would draw attention to the subjects (the girl and the dad)

Week 11

Assignment: Make art using only two colors. Black and white are included, s well as all shades and values of your two colors.

Craft: Unlock background layer of of picture and fill with a color. Desaturate photo and set to multiply. Create a middle layer (photo on top background on bottom) and fill your second color here. Various sections can be selected using polygon lasso. Your best friend for this project is the eye dropper. The eye dropper will help you keep your colors consistent which will then help keep your style consistent. Polygon lasso is good for big sections and paintbrush is good for small details. 

Composition: draw attention to things in the photo that are meant to be paid attention to for the sake of your story. Use the background color to help fade into the background things that may be distracting from your story line. A good balance of whites, blacks and colors is the key to making your pieces effective but interesting at the same time. Using this technique you are left with kind of a pop art type looking thing. It's kind of nifty.

Concept: We chose blue and yellow because they are colors that are on a Marines uniform. Also, blue is a sad color and yellow is a happy color. The girls situation is a biter sweet one so it make sense to have both colors. The palate we used was a slate blue and and a canary/ golden yellow. These colors do not take away from the message of the photo but still help highlight important info in the photos. Also, the original photos were mostly blues and yellows anyway. I would have really like to have had red in the photos to since the original photos had a lot of red in them as well and i think they would have been prettier if they had red in them. However, that wasn't part of the assignment. Moral of the story: making art with only two colors was not as bad as i thought it was going to be...but it's definitely not my cup of tea.

Lipstick and Dynamite

Lipstick and Dynamite was a very well crafted documentary on the pioneers of womens wrestling. As far as the movie content goes, I loved the girls and their stories but that's not what I'm supposed to talk about. Given that the photos and footage used in the movie are from the 40's and 50's, the majority of it is in black and white or sepia. Some of these in the movie are given a pop art feel much the same way as we learned how to do with black and white photos in Vis-Comm. The photo is placed over a colored background on multiply so the color shows through. The interviews tha take place through out the movie play with some intersting lighting. For example, some onterview footage with Mooloh is done with light coming diagonally at her so it casts a shadow over half of her face. Also the interview done on the pier is shot faing the sun so the figures are silhouetted again the background.

week 7

Assignment: Make a comic strip with 9-12 frames in which one person has a package for another person and one of those people is traveling (with the package)

craft:  I went to Union Train Station in Joliet with my coworker from Michael's Pizza for our location. My subject and I took various photos around the station to help tell the story. 

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WEEK DUECE

Assignment: Learning how to use Lightroom, learning how to use the printers, etc.

Craft: Looked for 25 high resolution, extra large photographs of Lincoln and friends via Google Image. Then, took 25 of my own pictures around my house. After taking all these swell pictures, I put them on the Mac via card reader and then saved them to my USB so I won't have to deal with that problem again. Following this procedure, I used lightroom to make a catalog card of all the pictures for my assignment. During this time, the class learned that if you use BW instead of color, you get what is ultimately the same product to the naked eye for 40 cents cheaper. It's fantabulous. After this valuable lesson, we learned how to print just one big picture. You can do this by adjusting the number of rows and columns and then printing only the page that the picture is on so you dont get a large number of other full sheets that you dont want. Also Terrific. I then proceded to print out a picture of the treadmill in my parents basement and a picture of Lincoln, Lee, and Grant standing in front of a tent.



Composition: I chose to print out the treadmill and the Lincoln and friends photos because they were very compatible. I think I can probably get them to mash pretty well. Also, after playing with Lightroom a little bit, I got the treadmill picture to have almost the same dingy oldness as the Lincoln and friends photo. Plus, I kind of like the irony of these prominent figures dressed in thier formal attire seen in an area in which intense physical activity and/or liesure takes place.


Concept: So the whole idea is that I want to make it look like Lincoln and friends are just hanging out in my basement, working on thier fitness like they are best buddies, which was not really the case. Robert E. Lee would not likely be seen on the same scene as Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln. So I guess what I'm trying to say with adding the modern things into it is that things have changed. The controversies that they faced are pretty much dead and although as a nation, we still feel the affects of these mens' actions, we have a whole different set of probelms to worry about. The things they were worried about don't matter anymore, so thiers no reason they couldnt set thier differences aside today and hang out in my parents basement and get swole or grab a brewski out of the fridge.

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