5a

original picture

Reformed by Paula

This picture from Salvador Dali is a metaphor of power and money.

Those elephants charring the golden sits and tower. It looks like a powerful person going out. The gold is shining and light. In there, the artist compares and contrasts the gold with those elephants. When we look at the elephants, they have very very thin legs, and their body is in dark black color that makes us cannot see them very clearly. Their thin legs and small body (the dark color makes them look small.) cannot carry the heavy gold, it’s about to fall. The artist using many subtext here.
In the original picture, the first thing we will notice is the terrified horse, because of the Rules of Thirds. Then we will notice the gold, then elephants and at last we will see elephants’ thin legs. The horse is kind of telling the theme of the picture, which are anger, conflict, and scare. The angry, conflict and scare is from the gold. We want know why, then we see the elephants, dark and old, and the most important is they have very thin legs. After I reformed the picture, it changed. According to the rules of third, now we are focus on the man. We first see the cross in his hand. And then some falling legs in the right. The man seems want defended himself, so he won’t hurt by those large body.

The conflict also shows in the shape. The golden products are all in a triangle shape. Compare to the naked man who is holding a cross, is in a rectangle. The conflict is clearer. Look at the lines in this picture, most of them are diagonal. But there are lines goes to a totally different direction. This frame shows a contrast direction of the lines. In my reformed picture, lines are diagonal too, they are toward the top left corner. And the man is below the horizon line which means he is very close to us.

The original picture is XWS (extremely wide shot), it has people in the location. The picture I reformed is WS. It contain the man’s who body. And it could also kind of two shot, even those legs are not human beings, this shot contain 2 elements.

In my picture, the elephant is higher than the man, but it is still small and far away from us. The man in our eyes is bigger. I think his defense or fight will success.

6B

audio commentary critiquing video game imagery

this game is "Tomb Raider"

6A video response

Link to "How To Be Creative"

My response

5B AUDIO COMMENTARY

The scene I choose is From: Forrest Gump.

Here is my video

4B

Link to three Music

MEGAN
LENA
ANDREW

My response

MEGAN
LENA
ANDREW

4A blog assignment

4A blog assignment
Link to the article "Brainwashed"

In Seth Godin’s writing, “Brainwashed”, the Acknowledge the Lizard telling us the main reason why we are afraid to make arts. The main reason is we don’t want to be laughed at. Therefore we don’t want to dislike others. Being difference makes us fear. We must ignore this feeling, stop care too much about other’s laughing.

The last layer is Learn. In short, learning is never stopping. We learn everyday from different people and experiences. Learning something everyday, and challenging us.

Today my friend and I were talking about the blog assignment, which we both don’t finish yet. When we mentioned the audio assignment, she said she don’t want to do it in library, because it makes her feel uncomfortable. I am totally agreed with her. I think it’s because we are afraid of being laughed at by others, even most times they don’t really care. Every time we finished the lab project, we have to post it online, I thought it’s also an acknowledging the lizard, because our workings is going to be evaluating by our classmates and even strangers. I actually think it’s a pretty good way to challenge myself. I was thinking if we post our working on Youtube, and let more people evaluating the works may challenging us a lot more.

Doing every blog assignment is not only homework but is always a process of learning. We are not only learning and understanding words, which taught in class, but also learning other things beside our course. For example, when I am working on the first blog, even I am very familiar with the animator, Hayao Miyazaki, but I actually never considered how does his animation affect me and educated me. His animations have many different aspects for me to learn. Therefore writing a blog assignment is also a good way to learning things beside class. For suggestion, maybe we can write anything we want in the blog every week. It can be a song we sing, music we play, or even a short animation we made. That might be helpful to be more creative.

3B audio

LINK TO THREE SOUNDSCAPE

David
Mike
Alex

my response
David
Mike
Alex