Digital Surrealism

My digital surrealism assignment I wanted to portray that the power of music can completely engulf the listener; music is used not just used for listening it can also be used for rehabilitation and learning. I find the many uses for music very fascinating.

With my digital surrealism I used two of my own pictures to create a Photoshop surrealism piece. I wanted to make my piece to represent how music can affect children, by making the music a cape and making the music notes toys, but then I realized if I was to look at this I would have no idea what the meaning of it is. So I thought the blanket was just as effective.

I used the same colour throughout; I really like how the white worked with the colour on the sheet and the background really made the piece unified. I was really happy the way my surrealism turned out.

Gnome animation

PSA analysis

Check out this anti-war PSA

Here is my PSA on an anti-war promotion.

Oh and thank you Jessica, I found the requirements for this on your blog!

1. What is the main focus of the video?

The main focus of this video is trying to stop war. It is explaining the main reasons why there is war (the way I understood it): human rights, land, and money.

2. Describe how the video gets this point across.

I thought the way the message is portrayed is through silence, which is very effective, because if (in my instance) the sound doesn’t work, I still understood the message. It uses pictures to represent why wars can start and with every picture a word pops up on screen (We, Are, Ridiculous), Then the screen goes black and the words appear and WHY is in front of the three words. This PSA is m=not for a company it is just to show how war can affect or change different people.

3. What techniques are used in the video to help convince the viewer of the point of the video.

   The music is one way that really changed the way I looked at it (after the sound was fixed) the music gets louder and faster the more serious the topic of war gets. When the knife came out I really wanted to see what the PSA would turn into, but it just “mocked” what real wars can be like.

NEW PHOTO SITE

For the new photo sharing site I have chosen is Picasa from Google, from Picasa you can edit your pictures in Piknic and you can search people and their pictures. I like using Picasa, I can connect to other sites that share my pictures and i also like when people comment on my pictures. Picasa was very easy to set up and to understand.... to visit Picasa click here

logo statement

--LOGO--

For my logo I have chosen the fox and commercial photography. My company would sell their pictures/ designs for other companies, and they would also use their photographs and design advertisements for our company and others as well.  I chose the fox because they are determined; they are known to observe the unseen and are very clever. By observing the unseen I can bring a new type of photography into the business.  The colours of my logo are orange and black. Orange represents joy, warmth, strength and endurance.  Black represents power, elegance and mystery. I tried to use asymmetrical balance in my text and picture design; I did this by placing the text in the center and the fox off to the left side. I tried to keep the colours balanced throughout all my designs.

Artist Statement

                    Megan

                  Kings Corner

         In CyberARTS we were assigned a chess piece and to focus on realism, depth, perspective, rhythm and repetition.  I have chosen the king because of the other pieces I chose I thought the king would be most powerful with my idea. I really focused all my shading and depth on the chess piece itself. I really focused of line for the background and value on the chess piece. The background is supposed to represent the power the king has, so he is climbing the stairs to the door. I found that the negative space in the hand balances the negative space on the right side. There is asymmetrical balance in my drawing, the hand holding the chess piece is not dead center but off to the left side, the stairs frame the hand and the radial lines in the negative space on the right side automatically make you look at the chess piece then at the background, which is good because I want the viewer to see the chess piece before the background.  I really enjoyed doing this project; I learned how to draw perspective and how to shade properly.

vuvox surrealism

Cuttlebone carving

Plasticine Maquette

Final Product

Chess Piece

Daumier grid

logo

Combined

Text

Combined

Rough draft

Text

Composition in photography

Aerial Perspective

         Aerial perspective is the effect of light going through an atmosphere making a visually pleasing effect.

Aerial perspective is used to give depth and realism either when based on a real place or something from our dreams and imaginations. Some objects can appear lighter and less detailed when going farther into the picture, they can also lost color, or saturation. Colors can    change depending on time of the day and the atmosphere, this is aerial perspective.

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                                                       Linear Perspective

        Linear perspective is the idea of parallel lines going beyond the vanishing point of a picture and the lines converge to give it depth and a realistic look to it.

There are three different types of liner perspective; one point, two point and three point. These points are to describe the vanishing points of the drawing or photo. One point is the basic one, when the observer is facing the object head on. Two point is when two sides of the object is viable to the viewer and more than one point of vanishing come into play. Lastly three point is only visible at great height or depths, like when looking up at a tall building from the entrance adding another point to the two point perspective.

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Timing

Timing is the idea of waiting for that perfect moment before the shot to click the shutter, it’s the effect of taking time to realize the perfect moment to click the shutter and capture the moment of something that would be completely impossible to capture without clicking the camera beforehand.

When using timing, you usually have to click the shutter moments before the thing that you want to take a picture of happens, like clicking the shutter button right before a man steps in a puddle or a person walks through a door, or even when someone dives into water, it’s the ideal of taking the picture a moment before the actual picture happens.

by Megan and Roxana

Pictures from Shutterstock and NASA

Logo proposal

~company names~ fox cameras,  fox-pic, 

I have chosen commercial photography. Commercial photography is like general photography, the artist doesn't have a specific style, it also means that they are open to many different mediums.

For my animal I chose a fox. to many people they think of a fox as cunning or a liar. but my interpretation of a fox is that they have strong observational skills, they look at the littlest detail, they can adapt easily to (in my case) certain requests and they are very intelligent.

The few companies that I found that could be competition are~

Hawkins Photography~ Even though they are located in Vancouver this photographer is strong in pictures hat you would see in a fashion magazine.

Andrewrossphotography~  Andrew Ross is located in Toronto but I don't know if his style is one that I have so much interest in: interior and food 

Castleton~ Philip Castleton specializes in interior and exterior photographs of unique old buildings.

LINES

In CyberArts we had to create two drawings made out of lines. In the first one the lines have to be the same direction and line type, but only differ in thickness and distance between one another. The second one can vary the direction, quality, type and position.

~The first drawing has a focal point and it also shows depth. The focal point is the black rectangles that run parallel to each other. These background lines show depth by starting from thin to thick and also by the closeness of the lines as they go down the page they slowly get further apart.

 ~The second drawing is supposed to show depth and layers. I achieved this by varying the thickness of the diagonal lines and were the diagonal and vertical lines meet there is a sharp point on the inside of the line and a rounded point on the outside. With this line drawing it really depends on how the person sees it. The thicker lines could be in front or behind the lighter lines.

Manet review

Manet  "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere"

In a café in Paris the light flickers and the volume of the people around me raises. I pull up a stool and then my next piece comes to me…  A Bar at the Folies-Bergere! Its perfect, and now I will explain the imitational, formal and emotional qualities of my genius idea.


IMITATIONAL

There are some imitational qualities in this piece of art like all the detail of the bottles and bowls in the foreground. If you look closely at her dress you can see the different values in her dress. And look at the detail in the mirror you can almost see what the people are eating! Look at the waitresses ruffles there is so much detail. I love the use of the mirror in the background it makes the piece more interesting.

       FORMALISIM

In this picture there are a lot of different shades of blue. The oranges in bowl is the first thing my eye goes to when I look at it. The chandeliers are a good use of the white and light blue. The reflection from the mirror definitely makes the piece more interesting. I also noticed that most of the people in the background are wearing black and that draws the eye to the foreground then back to the background and it just keeps your eye moving.

    EMOTIONAL

The picture makes me think of many things. Like was the artist waiting for someone? Look at the mirror in the top right corner, is that what Edmund Manet looked like? In a way this is a modified self- portrait. The waitress looks like its been a long day, she looks upset or tired. I think this piece is interesting because it has many different emotions in it.

thank you for reading!