Week 15: Final Video

Craft:  In order to put this video together I first had to import the small file that I made of my poster into premiere.  After I imported the layers, I imported my video and set it at the very bottom of my layers so that it would fall in as my background.  After that I moved all my sequenced layers into the positions I wanted them into the timeline. 

Composition:  I took my original poster design and put all of the information on the very back of the timeline so that they would show up and the end of the video so it would play just as an actual movie trailer would play.  Afterward I let the movie play as my background for the whole time so the viewer would be drawn into it the entire time.

Concept:  The idea behind the video was to continue the Clerks franchise, in theory, that Kevin Smith made in the past.  I wanted to be able to capture a moment that is always popular in the movies where the two main characters sit and argue something pointless, so in mine I had them argue Lord of the Rings since they're supposed to be nerdy, and had it end with the customer chiming in and annoying them.

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 Craft: The artist crafted this statue out of what appears to be bronze or some kind of stone.  The artist first had to find someone to model their statue head off of.  After that they carved in detail what their model looked like using scapel to stone.

 Concept:This is a painting of bizarre people in a bar.  It shows the weirdness and exoticness of the people you can find in a particular bar.  I believe the artist is trying to say that with enough alcohol or strange people surrounding you, everyone can begin to look bizarre and strange.

Composition:  The artist used diffferent colors and hues to draw the viewer to different things.  The brighter colors towards the bottom draws the viewers eye downward to the things going on to the bottom.  After that, the eye slowly wanders from the bottom left over to the bottom right.  After the bottom right the eye wanders up to what is going on in the rest of the painting

Week 14: Final draft poster

Craft:  I first started by opening up my photoshop document that I had made and posted in the previous blog.  Since I had planned on making my video my background, I had deemed it unneccessary to keep the photo and the box behind it so I deleted both of those layers.  After I decided that the white box for Clerks 3 needed to be smaller and lose the paint effect that I had added.  In order to do so, I first used the rectangle tool and made one on either side of the Clerks 3 box and used the eraser tool to get rid of it and bring the black background into place.  After that, I used another rectangle tool to go over the paint brush tool I used and erased that too. 

Composition:  I had really wanted to cut back on what I had text wise because the poster was mainly about the video since I was working on composing a movie trailer.  I left Clerks 3 black text on a white background because I still wanted it to stand out more than anything else.  I left the bottom the same because I wanted it to be the last thing the viewer was drawn to once again.

Concept: The poster is for Clerks 3.  Clerks 3 is again the third installment of a Clerks trilogy that was written and directed by Kevin Smith.  The poster gives the name of the movie, the price, where it is premiering, and what time.

week 13: poster rough draft

Craft: I made this picture using photoshop.  I first selected the text that I wanted to use the poster.  After I had them selected I started by making a new layer and painting it entirely black. After that I created a new layer and put a rectangle across the top and painted it white.  Once it was entirely white I took the font I chose for the title and typed in Clerks 3.  After that I created a new layer and made the box in the bottom left hand corner and painted it grey.  Once it was grey I made 3 new text layers and typed in the information using the font I had selected.  After that I made a new layer and made a grey box for where my photo is.  Once that was made I put in a new layer and posted pasted the photo I took on my digital camera into place.  Finally I made a new layer and made a white paint brush and used it towards the top to make it look like ripped paper.

Composition: I first put the title at the top and made it large so it would attract the eye of the viewer.  I made it a black text on a white background so it would stick out more.  Next I put the picture more to the left center so that the eye wouldn't be drawn there right away, but left it in color so the viewer would still notice it second.  Finally I put the small grey box in the right hand corner because it was the least important and I wanted the viewers to see it last.

Concept.  This is a poster for a movie called "Clerks 3."  It's a third installment off a Clerks series made by Kevin Smith.  It states what time the premiere is, how much, and where it's at so anyone that is interested is able to attend

Week 12: Final Brush project

Craft: I made these by turning on several layers and just stamping in random places to see how they looked.  The only steps that were really necessary were making the stamps that were explained in my last blog and then transferring them to a new project.  In the new project they were put in several layers and mixed between a red and orange hue.  From there layers were turned on and off to make the project.

Composition:  For the most part the arrangement just kind of came on its own.  In the first one I wanted to cluster several forms of communication into one piece so that they could be all shown at once.  In the second one I showed how one message can be shown across several different communication methods.  The third had to do strictly with radio communication and the final one was how with too much communication methods the message slowly disappears and it becomes all noise.

Concept:  The photos are all of some form of communication.  I'm trying to show how different communicational methods can either have positive or negative messages whether in the 1st one where we have tons of methods of communicating to the fourth where too many ways just turn things into noise.

Week 11: Drawing stamps

Craft:  The first thing I did was open up photoshop.  I then selected 10 pictures that I liked off the internet and traced over them.  From there I turned them into brushes. Once they had been traced and turned into brushes I was able to use them as stamps for future work.

Composition:  I arrange these pictures really in any order, I just wanted to be able to show the stamps that I had made for the project.  I had put the larger ones towards the bottom and let the smaller ones sit at the top so that you'd read the photo from a different perspective than top to bottom.

Concept:  The stamps have a computer, peace sign, walkie talkies, a telephone sign, a television, a radio tower, a telephone, a microphone, two people speaking, a radio, and a written signature.  They're all on here because of the fact that they are all forms of communication in one way or another.

Week 10: Final Radio Digital Draft

Craft: I first started by opening up photoshop and using a former sketch I had drawn up.  I first created all the rectangular shapes by using the rectangular tool in different layers.  After they were made I took the elliptical option and made all of the circles that I needed for the project.  I made each in a new layer and once all were created I then focused on using a paint brush to create the objects that didn't fall under the rectangle or elliptical tools.  After that was created I took the paint bucket tool and dumped paint into the different layers and shapes so I could properly get the colors I wanted.  After that, I finally went through and used all of the bevel and emboss fx's to create the desired look I wanted with my shapes.

Composition:  I arranged the photo first by making the two radios the largest thing in the photo.  I wanted to do this so that the viewer's eye will be drawn to the radios that are both happy and sad.  From there I made the door stand out to show the way for the people to escape from the bad radio and make it to the good radio.  I then chose to use a green color because it seemed inviting while I used blue for the sad radio for sadness.

Concept:  The picture is of people hating ordinary radio and escaping from it by going through the door and dancing to the good radios music.  It's to help show a way to escape from ordinary radio.