Collage

For this project we had to create a romanticism inspired piece of art. The romantic era was often inspired by greek and roman mythology, but instead for my piece I chose to base mine on norse mythology to personalize it. To make this collage I first ripped a large sheet of pure black to create the lightning effect. To create this effect I ripped the paper towards me so that it showed the paper creating a lightning look. Afterwards I used multiple different cut outs to create Thor. Some of the things I used to create him were the fitting for a ruby necklace, a fridge, a necklace chain, a rock, and some other weird things. After I had all the pieces, actually laying it out and glueing everything it wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be because of certain things layering over others.

Contrast, and drama are all important words used to describe romanticism. I believe my piece shows all three of these. Contrast is shown through the white lightning placed against a pure black background. I also feel it is also very dramatic because of the content, not many people can subjugate lightning at will. Overall I am very satisfied with this collage and look forward to telling you about my next project.

Viewfinder

For our last project we had to find a cropping from a sheet of four different massive pastels we did earlier in the class. We had to choose from multiple different types of compositions; the golden mean, the golden triangle, diagonal or a L composition. For my cropping I found an interesting group of lines creating a L composition. After we found our cropping we had to draw it in two different mediums and have three different sizes.

My first attempt to resize my cropping was done with chalk pastel on a really big sheet of newsprint. I like this piece more than the other two because although chalk pastel is and always will be my nemesis, I believe it portrays the original colour, scale, and composition the best. I feel like if I had done this pastel on a smaller sheet of newsprint it may have looked better because I like to work on a smaller scale.

For my next piece I decided to pick my acrylic painting on a small canvas board. I feel this piece stayed true to the composition, but I slacked on having the right variety of colour and the scale is a little off compared to the small cropping. I like this piece though because I feel my lines are much more confident compared to my pastel and my large acrylic piece. I look forward to painting in the future and feel my painting skills have excelled immensely.

Magagascar Recut

For my most recent project I had to change a movies theme by creating a new movie trailer with content from either the movie trailer or the movie itself. For my project I chose to do Madagascar 2 Escape to Africa and change it from a comedy into a National Geographic documentary. I chose to do this because at first I couldn't think of an idea but saw a lot of people changing movies drastically like from a Disney movie into a horror film or a horror film into a romance, so I decided to not change mine as severely.

Here is the original trailer to Madagascar 2 Escape to Africa.

This is my recut trailer of Madagascar 2 Escape to Africa with clips taken from the movie.

I feel the music I used fit perfectly as it was from Lion King and needed no editing to fit the clips I used. I used some sound effects that I found on youtube or the ones found in iLife and iMovie. One of the challenges I found while working on this project was figuring out a way to get the National Geographic logo in the bottom right of the video. I tried using an image but the middle was not transparent so I had to look for another alternative, afterwards I found a font where the O looks very similar to the logo. The font I used is called Gears of Peace. In the end I am very happy with the finished project and am looking forward to posting and telling you about my final project.

Kevan C

Greetings, you know me from Yearbook class last semester. I enjoy doing work but often do not get work done in class. I joined Cyberarts in Grade 9 and have continued with it till now. I like the computer half of Cyberarts more than the visual art half because I am better at it. I am experienced in all Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, Indesign CS4, Flash CS4 and Dreamweaver. I do not enjoy blogging but I will do it if I must.

Website Portfolio

While working on my website culminating I was looking for a good, clean already coded portfolio layout. While searching I found one on this site. I really like this layout because it has clickable thumbnails which then enlarge on the same page.

I believe this was a quick and efficient way to show both my art and my tech portfolio because it is friendly for all web viewers and is easy for viewers to work. To re-code this for my site it was very easy because all I needed to do was delete their picture names and put mine in. Although this design uses CSS and Javascript it was very easy to put the script into my html page.

Overall I really liked my choice with this portfolio and believe it looks very professional.

Exit Through The Giftshop

Recently our class went on a class trip to see "Exit Through the Gift Shop". The film is about an odd french shopkeeper and film maker and his journey through the crazy world that is street art. Thierry Guetta is the amateur film maker who films everything he sees. When he was visiting his cousins house he found his cousin was the legendary Invader because he found him making his characters in the basement.

After meeting and becoming friends with all the other famous street artist Thierry still hadn't met one, Banksy. He was determined he would meet him. After finally meeting and becoming friends with him Banksy tells Thierry he should try street art for himself. This gives him a passion and he instantly starts to think of ideas. From here on in his life gets pretty hectic but has spectacular results.

"The films a story of what happened when this guy tried to make a documentary about me, but he was actually a lot more interesting than I am. So now the film is kinda about him." -Banksy

Websites Good/Bad

Website design and layout is a key for the internet. Sometimes users will only look at your website for 10 seconds and if they don't find what they want they'll leave. It is important to know users do NOT read they SCAN.  I chose two websites which are both about World of Warcraft. One is the games site, and the other is a news site which posts daily news about the game and leaks. 

The first website I chose to talk about is 

WorldofWarcraft.com. I believe this is a bad site. I think this because  the interface is not 

organized and is very cluttered with multiple drop down windows and links. Also the  site has a picture to Starcraft II but it has nothing to do with WoW so it is very confusing. Also there is little whitespace. I believe this website is bad for these following reasons.

The second website I am reviewing is MMO-Champion.com. I believe this is a good website 

because it has 6 simple titled navigation buttons and the main page is constantly being updated. It is also uses whitespace very well having space along the top and on either side of the advertisement, this keeps the screen very clean. Users barely have to think while navigating this site. This is because it has few links and the link it has are well labeled and easy to find. This website uses almost all of the principals of website design.