Saturday, April 14, 2007
Friday, April 13, 2007
The End
When we added the music everything seemed to come together. We used the song "Faithful" by Paul Cardall. It was a peaceful song but kind of had a dark feeling to it, which was really good for our video because it kind of forshadowed something bad happening. Our whole video leads up to the ending which is a bit of a shock , but i think it is very effective. There are images of Pollution flashing by gaining speed and then there are two pictures that switch back and forth about 5 times and it creates kind of a timer and then it switches to footage of a nuclear explosion, and then to children playing on a park. The two images are meant to contrast each other to make the viewer think and question the impact and influence they are making on the Earth. Our final Video is name "Time Bomb".
Here is one of the videos that inspired out final project.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Video Progress
Our Video is kind of about pollution of Air, Land and Water. We have used a mixture of still images and stock footage to bring it all together. The pase of the video starts out slow and then slowly picks up pace as it goes through. This kind of represents the rapid increase in pullution that is happening on this earth. Everything seems to be gaining speed rather than recovering. The ending of our video is the best though and I think it is what makes the video most effective. The last to pieces of footage are completely contrasting and are meant to kind of shock the viewer and make them think.
Our video starts with the sunrise and ends with the sun set. This represents time going by and the beginning and the end. The sunrising and setting is also a picturesque, beautiful, peaceful thing and helps to contrast from all the images of pollution. I guess the over all theme or question this video is asking is, How are we effecting the earth? and What are we leaving behind for our posterity?
The music that i think we are going to use is kind of peaceful but in the background there is something about the song that is kind of deeper and darker forshadowing something negative. It kind of has an epic feel to it and adds to the video, but also in some ways acts as a contrast. I think it will be very effective when we get it with our video.
Monday, April 9, 2007
Mi Favorito
Anyways Yes Adobe Photoshop has definatly been my favorite part of this Class. I like touching up photographs and making them look really neat. I have really come to enjoy more of the design aspects of art. I am really excited to be starting in the Art program at BYU Idaho in the fall, and hope to improve on all the things that i have already learned. I definatly love art!
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Video Project
Some time I would like to a video based on all time lapse images, Something shows the passing of time, like a day or a year, using video of things growing and changing or something like that.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Vovler, Vovler
This movie is a short spanish movie, with english subtitles. It has such a great ending, you will be really surprised. We watched this in my spanish lab. During the intense moments in the Movie there is only slow music playing, this makes the scene standout aseing important. They also use close ups to make the moment more intense. At the end they also use slow motion to make the scene more dramtic, this is very effective because in the next scene everything switches and is contrasted with the comical music.
Website Design
I really enjoyed designing my website but it was very tedious project. I think now that i have some experience with the programs and how to do it i would be able to do it much faster if i had to do it again.
I found ideas from . They have a lot of great ideas on that site and i found it very helpfull. I wanted my site to be interesting and appealing to look and and looking at their different ideas sparked ideas in my head.
I found Dreamweaver to be frustrating to work with though and it doesn't allow you to manipulate your site very easily, which was annoying because sometimes what you had done in photoshop didn't work as well as you thought they would when you got them in to dreamweaver.
Iwanted to have all the links open up in different windows but the only ones that i could get to do that were my own pages that i had created.