Response to Chapter 13

I found this chapter to potentially help me with the time based media course. It discussed things that I want to take into consideration when creating all of my projects for the course, especially this first one. Not only things like relationships and transitions need to be taken into consideration, but what types of relationships and transitions. There are graphic, spatial, temporal, and rhythmic relationships to think about. There are also action-to-action, subject-to subject transitions, and scene to scene transitions.

There are many things to think about that I don't normally have to think about in my major (graphic design) so I found it very helpful to go over some art techniques I am not familiar with that deal with time based media.

Frame: How you compose your shot. 29.97 frames in a video so one frame is 1/29.97. So basically 1/30th of a second.

Wednesday, January 13th 2010

It was interesting to learn that we can edit our photos in photoshop before we put them into final cut pro. We could do some interesting things with them that way. I think everyone's will look really great.

Response to Chapter 5

I found this chapter very interesting. Especially the section about seven characteristics of creative thinking. One of the characteristics was having a wide range of interests. I have always thought this of myself as a creative person. I have a very wide range of interests and so I feel that when I have to get my creative juices flowing to brainstorm, I can usually pull something from one of my many interests.

It's funny, because a lot of the time, creative minds are bouncing all over the place and often I think that there is no method whatsoever to creative thinking and to cultivating creative ideas, but this book (this chapter in particular, reminds me that there are organized ways of being creative and there usually is a method to doing so.

Stop Motion Project

Research:

I found a great website with stop motion videos for anyone who is interested! If so, CLICK HERE!

Also, while looking at stop motion youtube videos, I found this incredible video. It's got to be my favorite stop motion video that I've seen so far. It is directed by Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan and it is to Oren Lavie's song Morning Elegance.

Okay, so I decided what I'm going to do for my project. I am going to create a story on a bland backdrop of a drawing figurine that is lonely. It will show him in sequences alone, pacing back and forth, time passing, etc. He will be lonely until one day he is sulking and another figurine comes and taps him on the back. When they meet, there will be some abstract reacti

on with the environment to show their energy.

I took some pictures over the weekend of the set I will be using. So far, I haven't decided what type of backdrops or props I will use but I took pictures to make sure the lighting was okay and that the table setup was large enough for the wooden dolls. Here are the pictures I have so far.

So far, I have taken about half the pictures I needed to take. It was actually a lot of fun to do. I have taken enough pictures to take up 40 seconds and I still have some left to do. I think that the last part will be fun to do because the two figures finally meet. I even enjoyed working on it in final cut because I got to adjust opacity and do things to the images to change the way the movie looked.

Monday, January 11th 2010

Stop Motion Work

William Kentridge - drawing stop motion

Svankmajer- clay stop motion

Wednesday, January 6th 2010

Screenings

Le Voyage dans la lune by Melies

The beginning of Melies film reminded me of a weird cult where they all wear tall hats and meet. Then, it switched and started to remind me of a weird mix between the Wizard of Oz and a black and white Alice in Wonderland.

Global Groove by Nam June Paik

I personally think that Nam June Paik is absolutely insane. I am not a fan of the work. It made me so dizzy to watch and I found it very irritating. I almost felt as if I was watching tv on some type of psychadelic drugs in a twilight zone. It really freaked me out. I just felt very angry and annoyed watching it if I'm being honest.

About Me

Hey, I'm Leslie. I grew up in a small town outside Orlando called Windermere, FL. I went to Clemson University my freshman year and decided I wanted to transfer to UF so I went to Santa Fe College my sophomore year and was accepted to UF after that. This is my second semester as a Graphic Design student at UF and I love it. I am really interested in all types of art (drawing, painting, photography, design, etc.) I am currently the graphic design intern at Big Brothers Big Sisters.