Summative Video Montage - Hockney

Here is my Hockney inspired video.

Formative Video

Here is my Formative Video called Empire State of Mind, its a remake of a Music Video by Jay-Z.

Polaroid Hockney Summative: Hockney Style Portrait

Here is my Hockney Style Portrait of myself.

Hockney Summative Polaroid Face

Here is my Hockney Summative.

With Effect.

Polaroid Action Image Formative

Here is my polaroid Picture.

Photo Collage Formative

Here is my Photo Collage.

Mike Tyson Montage Formative

Here is Mike Tyson. Period.

Che Guevara Montage Formative

Here is my Montage Formative of Che Guevara.

Final Photo Manipulation

Here is my Photoshop Manipulation Summative, of War and Protest.

1. What is the theme you are exploring and why have you chosen it?

For my final photo manipulation, I chose the theme of war and protest. The war that stood out the most to me was the Vietnam War it was one of the main studies in English last year; the war also intrigued me. I remembered from that unit that protests were a big part of that war because many people were against the war. The controversies over this war played a big part in the history of this war. The reason I’m exploring this theme of war and protest is due to the fact that I found that wars are a huge part of our history and that they mark turning points in our lives, also they evoke deep feelings in people which are important.

2. Explain the use of two of the elements of design you have used in your composition and two principles of design. Why did you focus on these elements and principles?

The two elements of design I have used in my composition are colour and value. Colour can be seen in my photo manipulation where I used a yellow tint which gave the piece an old paper feeling like parchment from the past. I also used black and white colours which gave the picture a vintage feeling. I chose to use just three colours in my photo because I found the contrast to be effective. Value can be seen in my photo manipulation where I chose to use light and dark images in my photo. I used dark images to draw the viewer’s eye to particular images. Then from the darker images, I started making other representations lighter in contrast. I chose to focus on these elements and principles of design because I feel they would be the most useful for portraying my theme of war and protest in a stark and dreary fashion.

Face Manipulation

Here is my face manipulation final .

Face 1

http://www.kimberlyraemiller.com/Headshot2.jpg

Face 2

http://www.sallyflegg.com.au/wp-content/gallery/homepage/headshots.jpg

Face 3

http://www.faithaeryn.com/Headshots/files/page1_1.jpg

Face 4

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/071212/hewitt_l.jpg

Face 5

http://image58.webshots.com/58/2/64/18/430726418FNZUtx_fs.jpg

Face 6

http://artbikerworld.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/megan-fox-juno-premiere-01-preview.jpg

Abstract Photo Manipulation

Here is my photo manipulation.

Final Summative Jet Li Poster

This is the poster i created for my Media Arts Final Summative.

Final Cut (HD) Video "Jason Stirkes"

Here is the Final Cut Movie I have created.

"Jason Strikes"

April 22, 2009

http://vimeo.com/4258734

Enjoy!

IMovie Video Link

Here is the Link to my IMovie Video i created in Media Arts.

It's called A Dream.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTPtrWeLfA

Andy Wharhol - Questions

Stephen Monus 10 Media Arts

1. Question: Research inquiry into the artist Andy Warhol and find out what he did with his art.

Andrew Warhola or commonly known as Andy Warhol was a pop icon of the 1960’s, born August 6, 1928, in the industrial city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Andy showed an early talent in drawing and painting. After high school he studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Andy got accepted to many firms and created a name for himself. Andy Warhol is best known for his exploration of Pop Art, mass-producing images of mass-produced objects. Warhol experimented in media such as film, sculpture, paint, and silkscreen, but perhaps his greatest work was his invention of himself as an international celebrity and pop culture icon. His most famous works depicted Campbell's soup cans. Enlarged, hand-painted or silkscreened, framed, and hung in an art gallery, Warhol succeeded in turning these mundane images into ironic "art". An interesting fact about Andy Warhol is that, In July of 1968 a woman named Valerie Solanis shot the pop artist two to three times into his chest. Andy was seriously wounded and only narrowly escaped death. Valerie Solanis had worked occasionally for the artist in the Factory, his studio. Solanis had founded a group named SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) and she was its sole member. Life changing moments like this greatly influenced Andy and his art.

2. Question: What was the influence on him by his culture of the 60’s?

In the sixties Warhol started painting daily objects of mass production like Campbell Soup cans and Coke bottles. Soon he became a famous figure in the New York art scene. From 1962 on he started making silkscreen prints of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor. His influence was major celebrities of his time and ordinary brand names such as coke for example.

3. Question: How does it relate to our present day culture?

This relates to our present day culture in that art is always changing for example pop art was big in the 1960’s but now in the 2000’s modern art is more in demand. Andy Warhol was well known back during his lifetime but is still being remembered 20 years after his death, for example his life’s work is being portrayed in two museums the Andy Warhol museum, and the second is the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh.

Invert Colors Kim Jong il and Ipod

Kim Jong il and Ipod

Here is my pop icon and pop object.

Ipod

Kim Jong il

Pop Art Formative

Here, is my pop art formative picture.

The Original Photo

Photographic Formative Number 4 Circles and Ovals

Here, are my two photos. First one is of circles or ovals, and second image are placed objects in a composition.

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Triptych Questions

Here, is my Triptych that has 3 different topics about myself, first i have my entertainment section, second i have the art I've created in media arts, and third i have my travel photos.

Here, are the questions and answers about my Triptych.

1. Explain what each panel represents about you.

My first panel is my entertainment panel, it represents my likes of the media. My pictures used in this section are of T.V. shows, movies, bands and items used play music. These pictures represent my liking of technology, and a good laugh because most of the pictures are of funny T.V. shows or funny movies. My second panel is my Media Arts section it is composed of all the photos I’ve personally taken or taken off the internet and have changed the image in some way. My Media Art photos show my creativity and artistic edge to my life. My third panel is my travel panel it is composed of my trip to Spain last summer this panel shows my adventurous side of my life, and that I love my family.

2. Explain how you used the elements of line, texture, color and shape in your work.

I used the element of line in my first panel on the bottom, I used the image of Peter Griffin from the T.V. show Family Guy, I used curved lines throughout his image, which made him look like a puzzle. The element of texture can be found in my travel panel, all of my travel photos have a great deal of visual texture, which makes them stand out. I used the element of color in my Media Arts panel in my giant flower image near the top. The flowers have many of the colors from the color wheel. I used the element of shape in my entertainment panel, I used a picture of my ipod. The ipod contains many geometric shapes.

3. Choose one area of the triptych which you feel is an area of strength and write why that is so.

I find my travel section to have lots of strength compared to my other panels because these were purely pictures that I took in Spain last summer, so it means a lot to me compared to taking images off the internet. I also find this panel to have a lot of strength because of the composition of my images, I like how I used city images on the bottom and worked up into my landscape images.


4. Choose one area of the triptych that you feel could use more attention to make it more effective and write why you think this.

I believe I could have improved on my travel section by possibly adding more pictures, or by taking off more of my entertainment photos because I see that panels as sort of a mess with too many images.

Photographic Formative 3 Colour Shape

Here is a neat picture i took of pencil crayons.

Skateboarder doing half - half ppipe

Amazing!

Dark Flower

Here, is my second shot at the flower in Photoshop. I have darkened the flower to make it cooler.

Blended Layers #3

Here, are some cool flowers i made on Photoshop.

Photo in Photo

Here, is my first try at placing a photo within a photo.

Dali Lama Funny

This is a blended image on photoshop.

This should not be marked it is just for fun.

Blended layers Formative 2

Here is my second try a blending photos in photoshop. enjoy!

These are the images i used to make my blended photo.

Blended Images Layers 1

Here is my first blended image, i created it on photoshop.

Photographic Formative 2 Texture

This photo works well for texture because the grooves in the trees bark create a rough/hard feeling of texture.

Animation Experiment

This is my first attempt at animation on photoshop, watch my shapes appear!

Photographic Formative 1 Line

I have chosen this photo becasue it shows the many different types of line that can be easily seen on the playground structure. These types of lines that are seen in the playstructure are seen in its metal bars. There are straight lines, curvy lines, thin lines and thick lines. I find if you look into the photograph, you can get a sense of movement, the thick metal bars draw oyur eyes up and the thin lines draw your eyes horizontally.

Five Key Questions

1. Who created the message?

2. What techniques are used to capture my attention?

3. How might different people understand this message differently than me?

4. What lifestyles, values, and points of view are represented in or omitted from this message?

5. Why was this message sent?

First Day Back

I am a student at Crescent School and today i created my first ever blog on blogger.com.