GO BACK TO SLEEP

My last project for the year is a culmination of everything we have done this semester. i have used still images, video and animation collectively. my concept is one that invloves dreams and what thy mean after the fact, as in, when you wake up. a majority of the time if you remember your dream it comes back in bits and pieces, yet runs fluidly. here i tried to do just tha. i have still images that are fluidly linked yet broken in perspective. there are also subtle changes that i added throughout to have more a dreamlike quality. it seems that dreams never need to make sense, yet they do while it is occurring. so for this i had tweaked certain areas to go along with that. Some are obvious and others are hardly noticeable but play a big part in the sequencing of events. overall i am pleased with the outcome and look forward to getting some feedback.

GO BACK TO SLEEP

MAGIC SHOES

OH DEER

A SOBERING PERSPECTIVE

ok, so to go along with my animation project i was going to use the St Crispins day speech. however i felt that was to in depth of a monologue to acurately describe. So...I instead went with something a little more light hearted. it is a poem of a man and his son who happen to hit a deer and they get out to see if it is still ok but it eventually dies. It made me sad to think about this, and even wonder why someone would write about this??? I took from this that it needed to be changed so, given my light-hearted nature it had to become something humorous. overall i think that my lack of experience and understanding from the programs held me back but i mangaed to still create a successfull piece.

My animation project

this project has changed a lot and i cannot believe how much work actually needs to go into this. its not longer based on the st. crispins day speech i decided to take more or a comiical approach. i drew out all of the scenes and loaded them individually into photoshop where i learned how to use the animation tool which is really awesome. it got easier as i went along, i noticed that a lot of my scenes were based of the same templat, well background. i was able to just superimpose the necessary parts to change the scene. unfortunaltely i was unable to perfom some of the tasks that i thought i could. it turns out what i was trying to do is not offered in photoshop. nevertheless i am excited about the content of the piece which i will go over after the critique.

my poetry project is on a famous shakespeare monologue from his play Henry V. this speech is one that has appeared in movies and is probably one of the most uplifting speeches, i feel in all of poetry. i plan on using a rhotoscoping technique to characterize all of my images. i was also thinking about incorperating street art by way of stop motion animation to portray some of the play. As in, i would paint on a wall for instance all of the frames i would use.

Saint Crispin's Day Speechfrom Henry V by William Shakespeare

Saint Crispin's Day Speechfrom Henry V by William Shakespeare
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day

SWEET

this class so far has been really educating. Im learning a lot about things i never thought i would ever be able to. im not very good with computers so this has become very exciting for me. i tend to have a hard time putting things together in a cohesive way but based on my stop action project i am only further motivated to excell and create some pretty cool pieces of work.

Slide Show

the slide show project in the beginning of the semester was kind of difficult for me. i had this original idea in mind and using the pictures that i had i comprised a video based on that to the best of my ability. the problem is it becomes hard to create something with original intentions because when youre done you need to view it as if you do not understand any of it. i wasnt able to remove myself completely from the project which decreased the effectiveness. my slideshow was a story that started with terrorism and money. thereafter an escape in which a search was started to track where they might have gone. i show pictures of different places and the globe a few times to suggest that. I dont know how well that worked but at the end Superman saves the day. haha.

Video Project

This project has to be youtube inspired, so i began thinking about what youtube means to me. i am constantly on youtude. it is an endless source of information, both useful and completely ridiculous. what i have started doing is compiling a bunch of videos that i think would work well as one video. i am using a large spectrum of material mainly for entertainment purposes because that is what i gain the most out of using youtube. it has to be roughly 5 minutes long so i have to be careful about the material. hopefully it can just keep the viewer captivated and a 5 minute presentation will feel instant.

Final Cut

For this project i decided to take a series of pictures with my camera and create a stop action movie of some kind that showed my shoes specifically walking around opening doors, without any help. i plan to incorperate gnarley sound effects to make it seem other worldly.---advancements---the project is successful i feel and due to the databases for sound i was really able to add a humorous vibe to the project. i tried to move the camera around instead of keeping it as steady as possible. it added a busy feeling which was not at all confusing but in my opinion exciting and is what keeps the viewer interested. i ended up with a total of about 280 pictures. i found myslef having to take and retake a lot of the shot. it became a lot more time consuming than i gave it credit for, but nevertheless i am pleased with the outcome.

who i be.
hey hey My name is Phil, I'm a junior and a fine arts major. this is my 3rd semester here and I'm pretty excited about everything this year. rugby season for one, and warm weather. I'm just like any other college guy. just trying to live and have a good time. So yea theres not much else.. gym snowboard surf???,,,all of the above. I love to draw and paint. I've done quite a few murals for people, and have been for a couple years. yea that about wraps me up, if there's anything else feel free to holllerrrr

First Assignment

WELL THIS ISNT THE EXACT ASSIGNMENT BUT FOR THE FIRST LEGITIMATE PROJECT I HAVE AN IDEA TO JUST DO A TYPICAL DAY IN MY LIFE SOMETHING THAT CAN DOCUMENT ME AND PRETTY ACCURATELY DESCRIDE WHAT IT IS THAT KEEPS ME MOVING....caps??

Inspiration

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=muto&aq=fyou have to check this out.this is a definite source of inspiration for wanting to take a class like this. i am into a lot of public, and street art. i enjoy researching graffiti artists and their abilities to make an impact on lifestyles and the world around them. and i plan on using a style similar to this in future projects.