Author: saravipond (page 4 of 7)
With this project, I wanted to capture the way memory fades over time. Throughout my time living in my mom’s house, my bedroom has seen a lot of changes. However, one part that has stayed pretty consistent is my closet. Each shelf has its own category of things that are allowed on it, and I’m quite particular about it because I hate messy closets. When everything has a place and everything is in its place, I’m content with the state of the closet.
The lower shelf is for my small guitar, a portion of my incomplete National Geographic magazine collection, jars of things, candle-making supplies, rocks and crystals, and a 3D touch-painting I did in grade 11.
The next shelf up is for paints, glue, a jar of mirrors, inks, mod podge, and brushes. And maybe a few more rocks.
The shelf above that one houses more Nat Geo magazines, four ceramic cups I’ve made of the years, papercraft creations, an old sketchbook, gold leaf, a basket of candles I don’t use very often, needle felting materials, and a tin pie pan. And a couple of nice rocks.
Another shelf up is where I keep my ukulele, a jar of dried lavender, a mortar and pestle, a bag of thread, another handmade pottery bowl full of knick-knacks, my vintage boombox that plays cassettes at ¼ speed, and a half-finished D&D figure I was making last year.
On the highest shelf is a collection of my old art projects. Clementine the cardboard chicken, the beginnings of my model of the Sainte Chapelle church, a large stack of used canvases from Michael’s, a paper geodesic dome with glitter on the inside, a plastic horn with glitter on the outside, and a paper mâché armoured glove holding a painted plastic Halloween cow skull.
I don’t consider myself to be particularly sentimental about a lot, so everything that Is in my closet is in some way very important to me. Either that, or I’m waiting out my brain until I can get rid of it. Who needs a bin full of empty Dollarstore paint tubes?
In capturing a progressively degrading and more child-like version of what I have in my closet, I hope to make the viewer consider what sort of things they remember from their childhood, and what parts have survived the tests of time and life to remain with them to this day.
I wanted the drawings to get progressively more difficult to understand, or at least more childlike in essence. I’m not sure that I achieved that in the way I had hoped, but I still think the project turned out cool. With this particular project too, I like how it looks, and I feel that it’s special to me. So, I don’t really care if others misinterpret the concept. I’ve gotten what I needed out of it, and I know there’s a lot more self-exploring to be done with this idea in my future.
I started each drawing by sketching out a loose gesture with my charcoal pencil, just to get a feel for where the objects would be positioned in relation to each other. Next, I went in a blocked out all the shadows and highlights with willow charcoal and compressed charcoal, as well as began shading the page. Then, I blended everything out with a #3 blending stump. Next, I added pencil crayon colour in visually particular places, holding the pencil crayon in a fist instead of like a pencil. Then, depending on where in the series the drawing was going to be placed, I blended again with a larger surface like the side of my hand, or a Kleenex or something. The final touches were the black and white paint markers. I used the thinner Posca paint markers and held them in my fist like the coloured pencils. The first drawings were meant to be more realistic and life-like, mirroring reality as it exists to me now. As the series continues, you can walk back in time through my mind as the memories get hazier, but the colour is important to note that it stays relatively bright. That’s just because that’s how I see memories in my mind. If I don’t remember the specifics of what happened, I’ll remember a still like a photograph, but everything is blurry and often under or over exposed, but the colours I can always remember clearly. Whether or not they actually match up with what reality was, the colour of a memory is always the strongest for me.
There were a few different ways I could have arranged the series. I knew I wanted it to be a progression, but some of the middle drawings had to be swapped because I drew them all out of order so sometimes, I’d finish a piece and realize that it should go closer to the end or something.
I struggled with wo things:
1. Finding a sketchbook that was 16×9 (because the paper was $9 per sheet and it was the only thing they had in store at the time), I ended up getting one that is 12×9, so I had to edit the images to include blotchy side bands.
2. I was trying to edit my images and add the sides in, when my program started making a mess of things and not saving when I asked it to, taking a long time to load, etc. But when I finally finished, everything looked a bit pink now. But that’s fine, it kind of plays into my theme a bit anyways; looking at the world or the past through rose-coloured glasses.
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Week 1
top left is seeing, top right is feeling, bottom middle is sensing.
Week 2
Considering anatomy and human form from multiple perspectives. My partner was Carsyn and we tried to do specifically strange and difficult hand positions for each others’ drawings as an added challenge. Some of them came out more accurate than others, but the exercise was fun nonetheless.
Then we had our model for a short time at the end of class as well as a skeleton to draw from and compare. I found I liked drawing with the white chalk pastel on slightly more toned paper. It showed up best on the newsprint but got lost on the thicker white paper.
Week 3
Model studies with mixed media (ink and colour).
I like doing model studies and figure studies in general with a half stick of compressed charcoal. I find it gives me the ability to block in shadows and forms quickly and effectively.
I made some inks myself a few years ago and have been able to use them in this class. (I also lost my India ink, so this works out.) I didn’t really enjoy drawing different positions over each other, I found it didn’t have enough payoff in the final result.
Who knew I could fly! Check out my Green Screen Experimental Video! I am learning how the video magic works!
Cabeswater Trailer
I had a hard time planning out when I was going to get the footage for this project, as I was incredibly busy with other course work at the same time. I ended up taking my dog for a two and a half hour walk in the forest to get most of the footage, and then looked online for free-to-use videos that I couldn’t get by myself.
I knew that there was a section of the North East Woods that had a few dumped old cars and other metal objects, and a car is actually a central image to the story, so it was perfect. Though I still had to find it! I forgot which side of the woods it was on, so that took a while to get to.
Since this video/trailer was based on a book series I really like, I looked online for some other fan-made videos for inspiration. There are also a lot of fan-compiled music playlists, so I found a song from those that appeared on multiple playlists and also fit the vibes I was going for in my video.
Since it is a trailer, as I was editing, I tried to make it look as much like a real trailer as I could. This included mysterious imagery, production company at the beginning, and title and credits at the end. I also edited this on iMovie instead of Premire Pro, because I didn’t have time to get aquaiinted enough with the program to make the video the way I wanted it to look. My goal was to make it look like it was edited in Premire Pro, and I hope that worked because I don’t have a comparison.
Video Project Thumbnails and Proposal
When I drew these thumbnails for shots, I was really just drawing what I saw in my head as I imagined the film playing out. I wrote some directions in and around the frames, as well as arrows to indicate the camera movement and shot composition.
Video-ProjectTech Ex. Video Edit
Formal Elements Image Sequence + Analysis
Shot Composition Tech Ex 06
Sound Project Final Cut and Reflection
Sound Project Prep
These are some brainstorming inspiration pictures I found on Pinterest to help me visualize what I wanted to make for my sound project. Above is my first idea, a spaceship podcast. Below is a picture for my slightly less-developed idea of a laundromat soundscape. Originally I was thinking I could do another story with that, but now I think it might be more interesting to just make a cyberpunk laundromat soundscape. There’s lots of potential in that without the fear of having to write every-day-esque dialogue that tells a story in that sort of setting.
Tech Ex Audio Repairs
For me, the hardest repair to get the hang of (and I’m still not sure I have got the hang of it) was the removal of a specific sound. I ended up just using the spot removal tool in the waveform editor because I couldn’t get the hang of the “learn sound” thing, it kept cutting out the voice.
Also, I completed this project independently, that is to say, without the LinkedIn course because for some reason I couldn’t get my login to work. So instead, I searched up online for the different techniques I had to do.
Tech Ex Radio Call
Using Audition, I edited a radio call using the files provided for me via this class, which is labeled “OH YEAH Edit”, and I also created my own radio call with my voice recordings and various sounds and SFX found online. I wanted to make it kinda funny so I searched online for the most obscure musical genres and folktronica was up there. Though I’ve discovered that I don’t actually mind it! However, the music clip used at the beginning of that edit is actually a funk tune I found, not folktronica. I suppose a downside of wanting to be cheeky is not being able to find the right sounds in online databases!
Tech Ex Foley
This foley was daunting at first, but once I got going it was fun and much simpler than I had anticipated. My favourite section is the sound of my cat purring. I think I should make an ASMR audio for just him!
I chose to follow the second list of prompts, so I have 3 clapping sounds, 3 door knob sounds, 2 human voice sounds, 3 lamp clicks, 3 laughing sounds, 4 purring sounds, and 7 takes of running and walking on pavement. That last one was the hardest for me to capture. logistically it was fine, but I recorded down in my garage to minimize outdoor sound and still had to pause every few seconds for a car passing by my house. The pavement in my garage isn’t the cleanest either, so you can hear little bits of grit under my shoes in the sound clips. The clip included in the final cut was actually a walking clip (even though I said in the narration that it was running), though I did try to take some running ones I didn’t think they sounded realistic enough. Running in place for the sound of the shows on the ground is harder than you’d think! I had to be careful of the sound of my pants swishing too, trying to isolate the shoes alone. I think I managed pretty well though. The shoes I used are a pair of my old character shoes from ballet training. They’re made of canvas and are soft shoes with a small heel that gives just enough click-clackiness.
Not sure where my lists went for this, but I did make a chart! If I find it I will put it here.
This exercise was really interesting and I have a great time exploring Adobe Audition! I’ve only ever used Garageband and iMovie for editing in the past, so it was fun to see similarities and differences between the programs as I learned.
The section in the audio where they say “people read books to forget about things” sounded fine in Audition, but once I exported it and listened to it again, it sounded too loud. So in the video, I edited it in iMovie and leveled out the volume a bit so it doesn’t sound so out of place, but the audio file above is the original export and still has this discrepancy.
There were a few hiccups and the slow realization that my right ear is a little off from the left, but other than that, I really enjoyed exploring Audition with this lab.
This course is not required to post on WordPress but I wanted to anyways 🙂
These are some pictures and a few explanations of projects and creations from Ceramics.
Pinch Pots
Coil Building
I didn’t realize it until just now, but that big bowl is MIA somewhere in the studio 😛
Ideas
Ready to glaze!
Raku Firing
