Showing posts with label portrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portrait. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Homework.
I am not very happy with this assignment. I am letting it stay in "collage" form, however, once I learn a little more about video editing I think that i can make this into something better.
Video Self- Portrait
What did you find interesting, surprising and unexpected in this video self -portrait?
I started thinking about my self-portrait following our class. Immediately after this class on Fridays, I have my Maya class. In that class we are creating amusement park rides- which promted me to think about games and toys. I had wanted to create a three dimensional toy- like version of my world, however, I was very much surprised with my lack of a skill set. Not only was I incompetent in terms of video- editing, but I was also in desperate need of help in filming. I enjoyed thinking about the locations of my life that I had previously shot in still photography and wondered about what the medium of video was adding. Why was I switching mediums? What did moving images communicate that my still images did not? I was somewhat surprised that I was able to communicate a certain still mood with my video. I am not happy with the results of my work. I need to learn how to work more comfortably in the medium. I found that doing this exercise after a 24 hour game jam, that I wanted to find elements that were beautiful but ultimately interactive spaces. I know how I would like to improve the end result. I would like to shift my collage of moving images to a narrative structure.
I started thinking about my self-portrait following our class. Immediately after this class on Fridays, I have my Maya class. In that class we are creating amusement park rides- which promted me to think about games and toys. I had wanted to create a three dimensional toy- like version of my world, however, I was very much surprised with my lack of a skill set. Not only was I incompetent in terms of video- editing, but I was also in desperate need of help in filming. I enjoyed thinking about the locations of my life that I had previously shot in still photography and wondered about what the medium of video was adding. Why was I switching mediums? What did moving images communicate that my still images did not? I was somewhat surprised that I was able to communicate a certain still mood with my video. I am not happy with the results of my work. I need to learn how to work more comfortably in the medium. I found that doing this exercise after a 24 hour game jam, that I wanted to find elements that were beautiful but ultimately interactive spaces. I know how I would like to improve the end result. I would like to shift my collage of moving images to a narrative structure.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thoughts on the Self Portrait
What from Ch.4 in " Making Comics" helped with your photo self portrait series?
Chapter 4 focused on landscapes, scenery and backgrounds. McCloud reviewed different technical methods for creating the scenery of a frame as well as the messages that are communicated by the choices that you make as an artist concerning perspective, choice of frame and composition. Although I did my reading after I did my self portraits, I feel that I did my reading, I feel that I unconsciously employed many of the techniques for my 8 photos of scenery/ environment. The environments that I chose for the most part are empty. I know that I shot my images this way to evoke a sense of mood as well as isolation that I feel living in the suburbs of the city as a graduate student. Very few of my environmental scenes are close- ups or details- but almost pamoramas of the area. I did not do this intentionally, but I do enjoy the fact that I wanted to give the viewer as much information as possible within the confines of the frame. My compositions are generally simple, usually symetrical and evenly toned. Now that I realize that I do this, I think that I am going to make an effor to shoot a little more obscurely/ abstractly. I want to think about compositiona little bit like Degas though about his paintings. If I used obtuse angles perhaps, I could achieve a more dramatic effect. So often it's easy to go for the 'snapshot' approach when taking photographs. I think that because of the accessibility of the medium, I neglect to challgenge my compositions and focus on the mood or the subject. This is not a bad thing necessarily, however, it's something that I need to be more conscious of going forward.
Chapter 4 focused on landscapes, scenery and backgrounds. McCloud reviewed different technical methods for creating the scenery of a frame as well as the messages that are communicated by the choices that you make as an artist concerning perspective, choice of frame and composition. Although I did my reading after I did my self portraits, I feel that I did my reading, I feel that I unconsciously employed many of the techniques for my 8 photos of scenery/ environment. The environments that I chose for the most part are empty. I know that I shot my images this way to evoke a sense of mood as well as isolation that I feel living in the suburbs of the city as a graduate student. Very few of my environmental scenes are close- ups or details- but almost pamoramas of the area. I did not do this intentionally, but I do enjoy the fact that I wanted to give the viewer as much information as possible within the confines of the frame. My compositions are generally simple, usually symetrical and evenly toned. Now that I realize that I do this, I think that I am going to make an effor to shoot a little more obscurely/ abstractly. I want to think about compositiona little bit like Degas though about his paintings. If I used obtuse angles perhaps, I could achieve a more dramatic effect. So often it's easy to go for the 'snapshot' approach when taking photographs. I think that because of the accessibility of the medium, I neglect to challgenge my compositions and focus on the mood or the subject. This is not a bad thing necessarily, however, it's something that I need to be more conscious of going forward.
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