Composition Analysis

We were asked to by our lecturer to go visit a local art gallery. So I decide at the time I was back home in Manchester so I decided visit a Manchester Art Gallery. They wanted us t go see a Piece of work that really stand out and analysis the composition off within the frame. I decided to analysis a piece of work buy a artist called Michael-Craig Martin the piece is called Yellow, It is from his collection Inhale/Exhale. I have seen this piece before and I really liked the layout on the painting. Michael-Craig Martin was born in Ireland; Craig-Martin grew up and was educated in the USA, studying Fine Art at Yale University. He moved to Britain on completion of his studies in 1966.*

The painting itself consists of everyday household objects. But there is something wrong with the composition of the painting. It appears the scale of each object is wrong and not realistic. This style follows Naïve art because of the use of bright colours and the fact there is no reason behind the objects being miss proportioned. It is clearly evident that the composition consists of mismatched objects of wrong sizes, such as the light bulb and pencil sharpener are larger that the chair which in really life would be seen as absurd.

Another thing in this painting that is not realistic is the perspective of each object is different and that they are all learning at different angles for example the pencil sharpener is learning forward so you can see the detail on the top and Metronome is learning back. Its appears Craig Martin as done this so that each abject is show most of is detail in the rather than hidden away, this is evident with the two draws in the background of the image are leant forward so the viewer an see the detail within the frame. Also the use of flat colour and the think black line of the image add to the flatness of the composition even though there is lines giving the object dimension because the colour is flat and no shades of the same colour the image still appears flat.

I fell the way the composition is set out is successful and Michael-Craig Martin cleverly presents each object within frame so the viewer asks and wonders whats different about this piece.




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Flash Project Part 4 Implementation

Before I could really start my Project I had to do some testing which meant I had to test where the buttons go and what frames they take you to. Because I want my movie to have three different strands that means I had to make 3 new endings so which it meant that I had to learn the sequence of each button and decide which loops take you where.

After testing I had to get the images to put into the time-line. These took the longest of the implementation of the movie. I wanted to the make the movie really interactive like not only the buttons where interactive but also certain parts of the frame like scrolling over cliff and speech bubbles appear creating these as buttons took the longest as I had to keep test these to see if they worked.

Cliff

Cliff

Flash Project Part 3 Ideas

This was tricky trying to come up with a story for this narrative project. It was harder as I had to think for myself and not have help from team members.

I started to doodle and write ideas down. Then I came up with a image of a person called cliff I then decided to turn this character into a Student from Nottingham Trent. I really like the idea that the audience could decide where to take the Character in the movie and that they had the control over the path they should take throughout the sequence. I came up with the idea of there being three main choices in student life; going to university to study, going to the pub or to stay in bed and sleep.

I thought this was a good idea as students could bring there own experiences as a student to the movie and they can decide what type of student they wanted cliff to be.

Flash Project 2 Learning How to use Flash

We were told we had to learn the basics of flash and get to grips with the layout. So I opened it n tried to use it without success, I though I use the online tutorials and these we know help because I find it hard to learn from something that I just being shown to me. The person on the tutorials goes to fast for you to get the gist of what they doing so I prefer to learn as I go along. I prefer to do this because I am learning as I am doing my project. The only problem with this is that you make lots of mistakes until you know what you are doing. but I prefer this and I learn fast from my mistakes. I feel after just playing around with the template that our lecturer gave us. allowed me to learn and enhance my skills using the Adobe creative suite package.

Flash Project 1

We have been set knew project that involves us using Adobe Flash. The project needs to be interactive which means the audience can choose what they want to do with the video and where to take it. In the seminar we had to look at a number of websites that was interactive. I practically like the one from the

Gorillaz it is the website that is used as a marketing tool to sell the merchandise. This whole site is asset out like a game with mini games the whole site is interactive and you almost interact with everything. It is like a journey to find items to enter the shop to buy the merchandise. The audience has a choice to whether they want to go through the website playing the games or just go straight to the shop. I liked the way when you scroll over certain object and they animate or text appears over it.