Experimental and underground

This is 'The Big Shave' also known as 'Viet 67' directed by Martin Scorsese. This is a very graphic video as there is lots of blood, which can be seen as disturbing, but to others humourous. The idea behind this film was to show people the self-destructive involvement of the US in the Vietnam War. The film was produced at New York University's Tisch School of the arts.

Ifound this information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Shave

Friday 27th lesson

Todays lesson started by the class looking at somebody elses sketchbook, and to fill in a review sheet to see what they have done. Concentraiting on research and refrence, colour, text, checkpoint planning etc. I need to do alot more work in my sketchbook like annotating, add colour to make it look more creative. After that we continued where we left off on thursday with our annomation. We projected the drawing photos onto cardboard and drew around them. When we did them all we went out looking for somewhere to take the pictures. We chose the carpet because it was blue and looks like water. The jellyfish goes up a wall and we did this to add humour. I have enjoyed the past few lessons, because they have been alot more arty and hands on.

L3 JELLYFISH LOOP (Jahmal and Liam) from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

Thursday 26th lesson

In todays lesson we started of by watching steves stop motion animation demonstration. He had 5 pieces of card which he has painted an alien character onto. Each piece of card has a different movement of the alien, and when all put together the alien jumps. Me and Jahmal worked together. We drew some ideas down in our sketchbooks, then took the best idea and extend on it. Here are our drawings.

Wednesday 25th lesson

Today i was finishing my animation to get ready to take photos. Then we discussed what the next stages of the project was and talking about a sketchbook checkpoint. This is where we look at what weve done in the first week of the project, and to show the evidence.

Tuesday 24th lesson

In tuesdays lesson we started of by watching some abstract, and underground video clips. We where asked to write down any thing we thought about them. I thought most of them were boring but 'the big shave' and 'fuzzbox' were funny. We then chose two of the films and researched them. We were looking for the directors, date it was made, and anything else intersting about them.

Later in the day we were asked to get into pairs and start our new project. The project is to produce a 1 minute video about risk. Im working with jahmal, and we started to think of ideas. We wrote down any ideas we had, and then chose the most appropriate. Weve decided to draw an animation. The animation is going to be a man on a unicycle going along a tightrope, and a pigeon hits him when he reaches the end. We wanted to do this because we wanted humour.

The last task of the day was to go down to the learning resource centre and pick a book that would help/is similar to our idea. What our task was to practice refrencing books. We had to find the author, date, name, page etc.

Monday 23rd lesson

In mondays lesson we continued with working on our stop motion animation. When we finish we will take individual photographs of each picture and upload them onto the macs. Then we can adjust lighting, and if we want to make them slower etc.

Friday 20th lesson

In Fridays lesson we discussed things that can be related to risk, and then was asked to work in small groups and put together a mood board about risk. Iworked with rob, and max and we got pictures of parkour free running, extreme ironing, rock climbing etc. These all contain risk because there is a risk of injury.

Thursday 19th lesson

Today we started working on animation. We did the task of making a bouncing ball flickbook. This is the first thing people do when introduced to animation. We drew arc shapes on a post it note to be our guide line of where the ball would be bouncing. We then put that under another post, and could see the line underneath (this is called onion skinning). We then drew the first ball shape accordingly to our guideline. When the ball would be at the top of an arc the ball would be circle and they would be bunched together to give the impression of slowing down. When the ball would be falling we would space them apart and make them more oval shape to give the impression of speed. I was pleased with how mine looked.

We then went on to looking at stop motion animation. This is where for example you build a man made of clay. You take a picture, then you move his arm a little bit up and take another picture. Then move it a little bit more, and take another picture. If you carry on doing this you end up with the man raising his arm. We looked at the work of BLU. BLU is a graffiti artist and uses buildings and the surroundings as his backround. He paints an area white, and then paints his idea on to that, and then paints over in white and does it all again. This is a very long process. Here is the video of his work that we looked at:





We have been given a paper pad to come up with our own idea for a ten second video of stop motion animation. For ten seconds of film we need to draw around 80-120 pages. We will then take pictures of them all and put them all together.

An artist In or that can relate to beautiful losers

The artist i have chose is Banksy. He was not in beautiful losers but seeing the style of art in and the risks from people that were, it reminded me of him.

About Banksy: Banksy was born in Bristol in either 1974 or 1975. His birth name is unknown. He trained as a butcher, but became involved in graffiti in the late 80's during the great Bristol aerosol boom. His art concentrated on politics, culture, and ethics.

I got this information from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy

His Art:

These are two of my favourite pieces of art from Banksy. I like them because the first one is involved in the street surroundings (joint to the yellow lines), and the second because its different. Hes holding flowers instead of a bomb. This is the sort of art i am interested in.

Review Of Beautiful Losers

We watched beautiful losers in class and i thought it was good. It is about a group of artists who tell us there views and there experiences as an artist. I thought it was interesting to see what they think of the world, and how the art industry and just basic living has changed since there youth. I took a particular interest in the artists work as i like art that is surreal.