20 shots!

First Homework!

On our first homework with the markings, we had to listen to our own music for an hour and do some of the things that were on the list.

I wrote the quote, "Buy this car to drive to work. Drive to work to pay for this car," 100 times.

Songs: Against the Grain, Body in a Box, and Sleeping Sickness by City and Colour

Wrote, "bad week" until it filled the page.

Songs: Sometimes, As Much as I Ever Could, and Waiting by City and Colour

Crumbled paper and drew in the lines.

Songs: Faithless and I Don't Need to Know by City and Colour

Human Dots

For my group's human dot project, we decided to use glow sticks and my camera's long exposure to make our dots. I think it turned out really well. I think we came up with a very unique idea.

These are my dots that we made with the glow sticks

I put them in black and white and also in color so you could see that we actually did use glow sticks. Overall, I think this was favorite part of this project. It gave me the chance to do what I love.

Some of my favorite madness projects

So these are some of my favorite out of the bunch. Overall, everyone did a great job. It was cool seeing what everyone came up with..

Amanda's- I love all the different ways the gems go.

P.S. I like the title.

Alexiah's- I love how it turned out. I also like how she used the lighting.

Ellen's- This was my favorite to shoot. I also loved all the different colors and the light she put in at the end

Liz's- Overall, the cutest project ever. I loved the title.

The process of the cups

These pictures were from the beginning. That was the first monster I built. At first, I thought it was ok, but then I got some feedback and they suggested that if I had the time maybe I should try to make a more effective monster. At this point, I still had no idea where I was going with this project but I decided to make a better monster. What did I have to lose?
And here it was. Definitely better, definitely BIGGER. But still I had no idea what to do next. So I decided to take a chance....

And that bold chance backfired. Oh well. I tried my best with what I had and the time I had. From the very beginning, I knew that I would like my end project but that's ok. There are many more projects that are to come and hopefully they will be directed towards my strengths. Just wait until you see our human dot project....

Dot Dot Yay!

So on the second part of this project, we had to put one of our final four on to one of our textures. We put them up so our peers could critique what we did. I decided to critique Morgan's dots and texture. His dots reflected proximity. I liked that he used all big text. I really liked the text because certain words that he picked go together so I was constantly looking for sentences. I got lost in the words but it wasn't necessarily bad. I didn't like what he used for the dots. In this texture, the dots just didn't pop especially the two at the bottom. I didn't even see them at first. Once I looked closer, I could finally see them. I also think that the texture would have been more effective if he would have covered more of the white space. I personally like it more when almost all of the white space is covered. Overall I liked the texture by itself but it just didn't work for the dot structure he chose to display.

Amanda Priest critiqued mine. She said that overall I used the right texture for this dot structure. She went on to say that the different sizes of the texts I used made the viewer come into the dots on the page. She also said that she liked the way I used rolled up paper to make my dots pop out. The only things she said she would change is maybe the neatness of my dots.