Friday, March 11, 2011
Joke Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmqJXTr5yNg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjGI8_ZDDRM
These two videos are very similar in content but the execution made them quite different. The first was a more direct approach in which we essentially acted out the joke as it was written. We used some paneling and the designs on the wall to create line. In this way, we framed the son and managed to give him a more structured look and organize the shot so it would be more pleasing to the eye and less chaotic. In the second video, which was modeled after the video game Mortal Combat, we designed/chose the back round in order to represent a pleasing rhythm. The pillars on each side of the frame represent the two battling characters. Plus, the rhythm of the two pillars right by each other was conducive to a very severe look, which helped enforce the genre. Not to mention, it just happened to look like one of the leve;s from the real video game. While the first video was very straight-forward and traditional, the second was made to contrast the normalcy of the first. The affinity between the two lies with the dialogue, which is identical in both videos. We also utilized tension and release in both videos but most especially in the second video with the mortal combat theme. We did this through the use of music, movement, and the life bars at the top left and right of the screen. The music builds throughout and climaxes along with major plot points such as the kid being sent to his room and when he fights the mom for the last time and wins. The life bars are continuously building up and being shattered by the words of the characters, which helps with creating tension and the tension being released when the life builds once more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjGI8_ZDDRM
These two videos are very similar in content but the execution made them quite different. The first was a more direct approach in which we essentially acted out the joke as it was written. We used some paneling and the designs on the wall to create line. In this way, we framed the son and managed to give him a more structured look and organize the shot so it would be more pleasing to the eye and less chaotic. In the second video, which was modeled after the video game Mortal Combat, we designed/chose the back round in order to represent a pleasing rhythm. The pillars on each side of the frame represent the two battling characters. Plus, the rhythm of the two pillars right by each other was conducive to a very severe look, which helped enforce the genre. Not to mention, it just happened to look like one of the leve;s from the real video game. While the first video was very straight-forward and traditional, the second was made to contrast the normalcy of the first. The affinity between the two lies with the dialogue, which is identical in both videos. We also utilized tension and release in both videos but most especially in the second video with the mortal combat theme. We did this through the use of music, movement, and the life bars at the top left and right of the screen. The music builds throughout and climaxes along with major plot points such as the kid being sent to his room and when he fights the mom for the last time and wins. The life bars are continuously building up and being shattered by the words of the characters, which helps with creating tension and the tension being released when the life builds once more.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Sally Mann Picture
I chose this picture of a girl smoking a cigarette by Sally Mann. I was originally drawn to it because the contrast of the harsh black of the background against the stark white of the girl’s hair and dress. This picture also has an interesting sense of rhythm. Your eye is immediately drawn to the girl with long hair because she is making eye contact with you. Next you look at the cigarette in her hand, because she seems awfully young to be smoking, and because the cigarette stands out against the dark she’s holding it against. This looking from the girl’s face to the cigarette moves your eye from left to right and focuses your attention next on the girl with shorter hair. This is important because without this direction of movement the other girl could easily be ignored as she is facing away from us and isn’t as brightly colored and intense as the other girl.
I chose to re-frame the picture so that it only showed the girl with the cigarette. While I understand the importance and the impressiveness of the second girl, the background bothered my eyes quite a bit when I looked at the picture. For once, the girls both appear to have too much headroom. This is distracting and when you look in the background there doesn’t seem to be anything of importance aside form a blurry picture of what appears to be a headless ken doll. I just wanted to focus the attention more on the girl with the cigarette, since the shot is clearly about her.
I believe the artist, Sally Mann, probably wished to draw attention to the girl with the cigarette by putting her against the blurred, dark background. While I found it distracting, others may not have had that problem. This is really the only thing I can think of for why she would have left the background the way it originally was.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
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