Project Progress Refinement and Audio Slideshows

Post no. 6

Refinement of Nightmares

Nightmare: Carnival_30%

I will be changing up the compositions and adding more life to it. Gonna be adding some character, someone  pulling me in or something.

 Nightmare: Bicycle_30%

Going to be adding more dreamlike features, other cyclists. A more surrealistic forest.

 Nightmare: Teeth falling out_80%

Nightmare: buffet_60%

Gonna be adding more character. To make the first person perspective obvious. Reflections need not be too literal ie. in a mirror, it could be in a kettle, or glass.

 Nightmare: waking up_40%

Need better story telling, right now image leaves viewer confused. Probably gonna add a couple of transparent myselves doing daily routines and chores at the side. This dream is supposed to be me waking up  multiple times right?

 Nightmare: Tsunami_20%

Add first person elements, like hands. 

Audio Slideshows

Below is an example of an audio slideshow.
Albania's Chestnut, cheese and pasta workers

It's somewhat similar to my project, it is sort of a narrative vlog as well as the involvement of photography.

The transitions between images in David Levene's audio slideshow are mostly fade ins and outs. His photographs are color corrected and dully narrated. He manipulates natural light and uses it to photograph the subjects in detail.

Planning of working days

Post no.7

Recording dialogue on Lesson 12

I'm editing sounds on the same day, 7th of Feb.

I will be refining my images throughout the whole lesson 13 and 14 which is a week after the 7th.

Execution of Project Progress 30%

Post no. 5

The final outcome of the rest of the images mostly would be alike the first nightmare about the teeth. Right now I'm just overlapping the rest of the images in photoshop and blending them. The sketches are provided in my sketchbook.

 (a) Nightmare: Teeth Falling Out

(b) Nightmare: Tsunami

 I used this:

 And This:

And Overlapped them.

(c) Nightmare: Boyf

(d) Nightmare: Waking Up

(e) Nightmare: Buffet

(f) Nightmare: Carnival

(g) Nightmare: Bicycle

PIS: Photoshop Pioneers of ye ol' days & Art VS. Sound History

Topic of discussion: The title itself is pretty much explanatory.

Post no. 4

Jerry Uelsmann is one of the photographers pioneers who actually did Photoshop without the software. He did it manually since the software wasn't even invented at the time (1967). I could conclude that his works are equally as polished as the current artists, if not more detailed and clearer. 

Most of his images are black and white, very surrealistic just like my chosen artist, David Ho. The vast difference were to be the colors chosen as Uelsmann prefers his photographs to be in black and white and Ho is most likely to use bright, grungy colors. They are similar when it comes to using natural elements like tree roots, forests, animals and the nude human. 

If you would observe Jerry Uelsmann's work on the top right corner of my collage and compare it to David Ho's work underneath the red riding hood column to the left, (the pig that looks as if its opening itself up), they both have similarities when playing around with human forms.

Both artists are mysterious and dark.

Arosie Lee is a contemporary artist found on the net who is inspired by Uelsmann himself. She too produces work that imitates his style.

I have compiled all my favourite works of them and put them in a timeline position below. Check it out!

Art History VS Sound History

What do I know about Art History? Well I know there's a bunch of art movements/eras like Dada, Surrealism, Post-Impressionism, Futurism just to name a few.

Sound History however, I do not know much of. I found sound history particularly interesting after reading a text from this link: Sound.

If I were to compare, according to the text, Sound, (more specifically stringed music) has been identified at the 6th BC whilst art actually started off as early as the prehistoric eras. Its more so an evolution process of discovery.

Through readings, art evolves from an end of a particular movement. It does evolve quite drastically at times. Sound history develops and grows from one historian to another having separate and individual epiphanies which contributes to the exploration of Sound.

Famous people of sound history include:

Aristotle
Pollio
Christian Doppler
and Webber