IDENTITIES-SECOND SELF part2

Vside Day one

I entered the virtual world with alias as Monkeyd, I explored the 3 different section of the world. I was quite quiet to begin with but it started to get a bit busier. I have made 6 friends already they are all from America. I had a dance with a girl in Club and she swithed her clothes to a bikini it made me laugh because it made realise that people that this sort of thing serious. They actually asked how do I look. I did not know what to say. Its a virtual women. 

This is my Character on the game.

IDENTITIES-SECOND SELF

When I first read that I needed to create a second identity. I did not have a clue what I would need to do. So I looked at Second life and tried to get a account with it and I was not able to they did not send me a confirmation email so it was impossible for me to set up an account with them. I thought I was not going to be able to do the project. My lecturer told me that there were other online communities. So I decide to join Vside. This is a relatively new but free online community by doppelganger. The Characters are all cell shaded giving it a cartoon look to it.  There are 3 towns to visit. Its quite a small online community. then again that could be a good thing because if you lose a friend you can find them easily. You can also teleport to your friends if you want to speak to them.

On this society you can purchase a credits which are a sort of currency that can be used on the game to purchase new clothes for you character. I don't think that will be something that will be something that I will be doing. I have heard that people spend a lot of money on these virtual world especially second life where you can opt to pay £9 a month so you can buy land and clothes or set up a business. 

 Im going to keep a day to day diary of the goings on and the interaction of my character with other members within the world of Vside.

This image I have commented on before I thought I was appropriate to use because of the use of bright contrasting colours used on it and the use of think black outline really adds to the flatness of the colour.

NEW TERM, NEW MODULE-IDENTITIES

We have started our new term and our new module. I found review week to be very positive and helpful, I have set my self some new aims for the term. I am considering producing an online portfolio I am thinking of using flash to produce it. so this would mean that I should looking at books on flash for help on action script. I am really looking forward to the challenges ahead.

Flash Project Part 5

The project is finished and all I need to do is hand in my work. The Flash project was a big learning curve as I have never used flash before and so having to learn how to use was a daunting task.

For the project I came up with the idea of creating a character called cliff. He is a student that is confused on what he should do with his life at university. So it is down to the user to decide what they should do with him and what path they should take as a student. I had a few problems when it when it came to implementation because of the loops I wanted to make within the project. I feel that it went quite successful and that the loops and buttons I used work the way they should. I think that I had spent a few more hours on it I think I could of made it betters because I noticed some mistakes before I had to hand it in. I feel next time I do a project I will make sure I spend a little more time making sure there no mistakes.

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.