Rebeccas class Research Movie: A Clockwork Orange

A Clock Work Orange



After researching on whats behind Rihanna's Previous video "You Da ONe". I discovered that the producers used concepts from the movie A clock work Orange. 

This movie contains topics such us psychosis and is very psychologically orientated. It also has a lot of sexual content. The colours are very vivid and its very artistic. I would say according to previous research that effectively " You The one" borrowed a few elements into its production, however its not all about it. I would not call it plagiarism.

Some images about the movie. This images I have chosen give an idea of why it is thought to be used as inspirational within the video " You Da One"

Plot 

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 British-American film written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, adapted from Anthony Burgess's 1962 novella A Clockwork Orange. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian future Britain.

Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the main character, is a charismatic, sociopathic delinquent whose interests include classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and what is termed "ultra-violence". He leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian друг, "friend", "buddy"). The film chronicles the horrific crime spree of his gang, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via controversial psychological conditioning. Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured adolescent slang composed of Slavic (especially Russian), English, andCockney rhyming slang.

The soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange features mostly classical music selections and Moog synthesizer compositions by Wendy Carlos (then known as Walter Carlos). The artwork of the now-iconic poster of A Clockwork Orange was created by Philip Castle with the layout by designer Bill Gold. 

Rebecass Class Music video

I have always like to analyse different video clips. One that i find very interesting is the song You da one by Rihanna. I did some research on the video and i found that "To promote the song, an accompanying music video was shot in East London and directed by Melina Matsoukas. It was inspired by the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, and premiered on December 23, 2011. It was mainly shot in black and white, and features Rihanna in a variety of different set ups, such as in a photo shoot and a lyric video game. At various points, lyrics are stamped across the video as Rihanna sings them. Hours after the release of the video, Norwegian photographer Sølve Sundsbø accused Rihanna and Matsoukas of plagiarism, suggesting that the scene featuring the singer wearing a white outfit with black dots was deliberately copied from his 2008 montage "Numero 93".


This is the video 

You da one

This video interests me because of the design colours and also it is based on text arrangements and contrast.
It is very pleasant to the eye and it uses text as a visual aid to enrich the video. Excellent work in my opinion

Cassandra's Class Free writing.

Armando the Chameleon

Preface

This story doesn’t have a certain end or many details in the plot because it is interesting to get people to make up issues and to imagine an end.

Many people disagrees with the ending of many stories, this one doesn’t have one, giving the reader the freedom of imagining his own stories and endings.

As a reader, I have always preferred to read things out of the common, stories that I have never heard of, and books that awaken my imagination. Therefore I’m going to give my self the freedom of experimenting. I wrote a write a story of my own life. I used fictional characters to give the story an impersonal sense.

Are you ready to become a chameleon?

 Once upon a time some one told me a story it was about a chameleon. His eyes were big and his body was like a lizard. His name was Armando. He lived in one of the biggest jungles in the world.

 Armando had a very long and sticky tong, which he used to catch his pray. His favorite food was Fried moths and some times butterflies. He hated cockroaches, specially the boiled ones. Armando used to party as well, according to the story every weekend he used to hang out with his chameleon mates.

One day Armando moved to a smaller jungle full of life and entertainment. He went in the hunt for new and exotic foods. He met very strange new friends. He loved it; it was different to what he had ever seen in his life.

One day Armando was hanging onto the main tree as he used to do every day after school. It was then when Armando saw it for the first time. It was Maria Josefina, The most beautiful female chameleon he had ever seen.

Just after he saw it he said “hi, I am Armando and I want you to live with me forever”, that day they had the most amazing conversation of their lives. Josefina then said well I accept Armando; I will live with you forever. It was then when the most dramatic relationship was born.

There was a different issue every day, however their love was so strong that they never separated as long as I heard, some say they divorced and Maria Josefina took all his favorite fly heads. Others say they lived together for the rest of their lives. The person who told me the story never finished it, but oh well I enjoy thinking of a different end every day.

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Rebecca's class Researching on collage self portrairs.

Researching on collage self portrait artist I found some interesting examples of artist who use collage. The idea of producing collage together with text came to me from past research. It was Linzie Hunter who is also a typographer and works as an illustrator for different cities and companies.

 These are some of the most famous artist on collage and they also do self portrait.

Hannah HöchHöch’s most famous work, effortlessly titled ‘Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany’, shows her ideals and techniques in synthesis. A collage of newspaper clippings, the work challenges the racist and sexist codes upholding Weimar Germany. Throughout her career, Höch would challenge the marginalized place of women in twentieth century Germany. She drew together fashion magazines, illustrated journals and photography to pioneer a form bent on demonstrating that art itself could be collected from the everyday clutter of modern life.

Annegret SoltauGerman artist Annegret Soltau constructs collage using photographs of her own face and body, stitched with black thread, confronting explicit issues in an imaginative manner.
Hannah Höch runs at the Whitechapel Gallery from January 15 to March 23, 2014.

Eileen AgarBritish artist Eileen Agar was one of the only female members admitted into the Surrealist group on her own artistic terms, and not simply as a model or a muse. Like Höch’s, Agar’s works are social critiques and show humour and irony. In ‘Precious Stones’, she superimposes a classical cut-out profile over a catalogue page showing antique jewellery.

Joseph CornellInfluenced by the Surrealists, Cornell took collage into new directions with his pioneering work in assemblage. Cornell lived in New York, daily collecting the materials for his art from the bookshops and antique shops of Manhattan. He is most famous for his intricate wooden boxes, filled with lithographs, colourful birds and other trivia.

Man RayThough informally related to the Dada and Surrealist movements, the American artist Man Ray contributed impressively to avant-garde, fashion and portrait photography, in particular with his solarised and isomorphic portraits of Lee Miller. Ray’s photomontages play with femininity and form, as in his multiple exposures of Alice Prin, better known as Kiki de Montparnasse, and Dora Maar.

Raoul HausmannFriends with Schwitters, Hausmann abandoned painting in 1923 and centred his work on photography. He invented an apparatus known as the Optophone, which turned kaleidoscopic forms into music. As well as sound poetry, Hausmann’s oeuvre contains photograms, rayograms and pictograms.

Rebecca's class Photoshop tutorial

Speaking about text this time I am going to post a youtube tutorial that I watched it when i was researching effects and ways for text to look good.



Text tutorial

Frances class: Illustrator Mundo research artist

Linzie Hunter

Linzie Hunter is an illustrator that specialized on lettering. Her technique is very colorful and its all about marked lines and vector images. In her compositions she uses several number of fonts. In her compositions she uses a very fine mixture of colors. She produces illustration for different purposes, books, advertisement, city maps and so on. She also does collages in which she incorporates colorful text and vivid images.
I really liked the way she uses color and text together. In my opinion her work is very interesting and there is lots to learn from artists like this, however her technique makes her work very similar and it seems like tehres no variety of ideas.

These are some examples of her work

Francess class Research on artist and their work Ross Milne

Ross Milne

Ross Milne was born in Canada where he studied graphic design at Emily Carr University in Vancouver. Upon graduation he pursued the Type & Media postgraduate Master course at the KABK in the Hague. He is a founding member of the design studio Working Format (Vancouver) which specialises in a diverse body of work that includes type design, signage, identity and printed matter. He currently teaches type design at Emily Carr University.

He is currently a contributing designer with commercial type and his typeface Foxtrot is planned for release by typoteque.

Milne says he has never been someone who just sketches, “even though I constantly I wish I was. His sketches are almost always a response to an specific project or idea with a fairly defined goal. 

 Even in my detailed sketches I try to puss off descition-making as long as possible”. Often, I find it hard to understand how terminals of the letters will be, or the amount of contrast in the strokes of ten the sketching process acts as a voice showing you what to do next.

While the hand sketches are quite typical, Milene says that the use of interpolation tools in my case, I use Erik Van Blokland’s superpolator software to sketch multiple variations of a word mark or logotype offers a unique way to visualize numerous options that would otherwise take hours to sketch.

Rebecca's class Self portraits research evaluation and experimentation

Self Portrait Vector

Researching different kinds of self portraits I came across a few tutorials and examples of vector self portraits. some of them are very interesting.

sugalip by D4m

Recently I've been noticing a resurgence of an old style in graphics and that's the use of lines with dots on it in illustration. D4m was applying it to his work in 2006. Using abstract colors and lines, he's constructed this striking portrait.

With portraits, you have several focal points for the viewer to cast their eyes on. They would be the hair, the eyes and the lips. In this piece, the eyes are the most striking element of the piece, next to the abstract shading and line work.

  

New Fex by Toolkit04New ID by CrisVector

With portraits, you have several focal points for the viewer to cast their eyes on. They would be the hair, the eyes and the lips. In this piece, the eyes are the most striking element of the piece, next to the abstract shading and line work.

Going from organized shapes to chaos with work from Toolkit04. I collaborated with him last year and gained some insight into the method behind the madness of his work. Collections of brush work and clipping masks create a textured portrait based in black and white. It uses the texturing from the brush work to define the shading instead of using shades of gray.

It has bold lines and shapes around the portrait that provide the piece with a stylish frame. It uses negative space around the cheek to help make the eye the focal point in this piece.

Now to the more present day with a new self portrait of CrisVector. The same techniques of using line art on highlighting and shading sections of the face have been employed once more, however with the addition of hatching for the shading, which can be seen in the chin area.

The lines also appear a lot more organic on this piece as they've been created with the use of a pen tablet. It adds a traditional feel to a digital rendering. As a piece of line art it doesn't require the support of colors or shades as it's effective line work is a stand alone masterpiece.

Red cans

 I made my own and also research some information about the artists who made this examples that I shared because they look very professional and a lot of of work and effort seem to have been put on them . 

I have been also researching about Andy Warhole and I thought pop art, self & portrait vector can be interesting. 

Rebecca's class the 7 elements of photography

01/04

7 Elements of Photography

Yesterday, in class we spoke about the 7 elements of photography. so i decided to research a bit more about the meaning of these elements and I will explain what I got from my research. I also took some pictures and I am going to explain how the elements apply to this pictures. 

 Position 

Is how things are arranged in a photograph. The most common arrangement is the rule of thirds which means things are arranged into 8 imaginary  squares. this make images pleasant to the eye capturing the attention of the viewer

 

  

This  photo was taken considering the rule of thirds

I arranged the images and also picked mannequins and a real 'model' me.

There is contrast in this composition, the fashionable and non fashionable. 

male and female. alive and not alive. 

The second photograph was randomly organised and it shows a little bit more disorder 

and colors and that explains the difference between the first and the second picture.

 

 

 Texture 

It is the property of a photograph  thats inspires a sence of tactility in the observer. 

What can be more wet than water. This picture of water in movement shows first a still capture of a drop of water and also it shows a texture of water in movement.

 Depth 

The creation of threedimension in a photograph. 

These effect of depth changes depending on the aperture of the lens and also the shooter speed. it is also a guide for the observer on what he or she have to focus on the picture because the eyes tend to follow what is clearer and easier to see.

This photograph was taken and then the background was blurred on Photoshop. the real does not have blurred background. this picture however is only to explain how depht of field can be explained. 

 Light

Taking a picture can be explained capturing light and recording it on a surface.

This image was taken by accident  in a low light environment. I am not sure what happen to the camera the picture but the effect was interesting in my oppinion.

This tree was getting direct sunlight and I particularly like the way trees when they are hit by direct light because the branches and the leaves some how capture so much light that produce a very light shadow.

Lines 

Lines are the outlines of objects in a photograph. 

Lines are normally used to guide the viewer on what to focus. The eyes normally follow lines which makes the observer get drawned into viewing whats at the end of a line. this picture explains how this lines of the bridge and the light atract the viwer to pay attention to the subject in the picture 'sally'. 

 This picture was taken in an escalator and it is just another  example of lines and their effect on the viewer.

Patterns and Shape 

The organization of images into shapes patterns. 

 Patterns and shapes are the  organization of objects withing a picture giving a more interesting sense to the image.

This photograph was taken thinking of a pattern but maybe it is not what it means a pattern in a photograph however i though this patern was very nice and i decided to included in my blogger

this following image  is   more accurate about the definition of a patterns in photography it shows a pattern that was created by light going trough a glass on a bus station.

 Vantage point

vantage point is the point where a picture was taken. 

different points give different feeling to photographs.

this photograph was taken from above. according to the text images taken from above have a more dominant sense.

This photograph of forever new was taken to show the relief and creativeness of the designers who wanted to give the this shop a brilliant and fashionable sense to this shop by advertising a modern font. It may not be relevant to the 7 elements of photography but it has been taken from bellow.

This picture was taken from above and it gives the subject a sense of vulnerability.according to the text.

Understanding this elements is very important when taking photographs because using this concepts we can give different meanings to our pictures. As a graphic designer this concepts can be very useful because this way we get the public to see what we want them to see and to feel what we want them to feel. At the end of the day this is the purpose of the business.