Video Game Relfection

TECHNICAL

I learned how games are created, and how to edit them.

IDEA OR CONCEPT

My idea for this game was about homophobia, and it was trying to show how homosexual people will not hurt you, or make you "lose" the game.

INFLUENCES

No particular person or thing influenced me for this game, I did, however, use some celebrities that are homosexuals.

COMPOSITION

I tried to make the "poles" (the celebrities) as equal in size as I could.

MOTIVATION

I just wanted to complete the assignment.

CRITICAL ASSESSMENT

I would try to change the bird if I had more time, as it wasn't working when I was trying.

Animation Reflection

TECHNICAL

I learned how to animate, as I didn't know how to before

IDEA OR CONCEPT

I turned my ball into a flower, because I really like flowers and I thought it would be cool to experiment on it.

INFLUENCES

No one influenced me for this project.

COMPOSITION

My eyes seem to travel wherever the ball drops, they also look at the background because I thought I made the clouds pretty and realistic.

MOTIVATION

My motivation for this assignment was wanting to try something new, I had never animated before this so I wanted to complete this task to prove to myself that you can do something if you have your mind set on it.

CRITICAL ASSESSMENT

I think the most successful part of this assignment was the squish when my ball hit the ground and there was some cute little sound effects. No parts of this process surprised me, I found it sometimes tricky, however. If I had additional time, I would possibly make it longer, and make my flower more realistic.

Photoshop Animation

Facebook Profile

Brainstorming for Art Game

Homophobia

-Flappy Bird Game: Have a bunch of guys and girls that look "gay" and have the bird be scared of them and like screaming
-Memory Game: Match up the girls with the girls and the boys with the boys

Racism 
-Memory Game: match up the situation with the famous person ex. Martin Luther King with black rights


Abuse

-Flappy Bird: You could have the bird flying through hands and once it lands on it, the hands squish the bird

Toy Reflection

1. If my toy was to be boxed and sold, it would be marketed as a disappearing childhood. The rose symbolizes my favourite flower, (if I painted it white), Dora represents my obsession with her as a child, the fur around the neck represents my first dog that died, the bows represent my love for them, the horse represents my fear for them.


2. I like the rose the best on my toy, because it shows the beauty in my toy. I like the hair the least on my toy because its greasy. If I were to redo this project, I would shave off the hair.

Art Movie

Brainstorming for Art Movie

Baby going down steps
the metropolis video steps could be the steps the baby is going down
guy screaming
baby down stairs
mom crying
random rain layer i can add in to make it sad because the baby is gonna die
guy screaming again
baby falling down the stairs
actually show something falling down the stairs in metropolis because why not
the end of it can end with MOLOCH! because once again why not
BUT, to make it artsy, the deadman video thing could be looking over the files of the murder that happened to the baby so you're kind of like, whats going on?



Starts off with Metropolis video factory working fine, man screams and then you can see a baby falling down the steps. Then, the word Moloch pops up and a different man screams, the mother is crying, the baby falls down the stairs again and then the man screeches again, ends with MOLOCH!

Hero Questions

      1. Hero is an art movie because of the colour being displayed throughout the film and how it changes into more beautiful colours in different scenes. One example could be when Nameless, Snow and Broken Sword were in the library and the colour scheme was mostly blues and whites, and then it turned into the original colours in a different scene. Another reason why I think that this movie is an art movie was because of the detail in the rain, and the water when Broken Sword and Nameless were jumping on it. Most normal movies would not put that much detail into the rain and make it the main focus in some scenes.

      2. I think the director made this movie for everyone that wants to watch it because it has a story line to it, but it still has art movie aspects to it. I also think they made it for everyone because it shows an aspect of love, and everybody likes love movies.

      3. I didn't like this movie. I thought it was unrealistic and boring. Yes, it had some cool things in it, such as the rain, but overall it was not a movie I would ever watch again. Contradictory to my last sentence in question two, I thought the love between Snow and Broken Sword was unnecessary and irrelevant to the overall plot. It made me laugh when the people were fighting because all you could hear was grunting and they were flying, which was very unrealistic. Also, the fact that they could walk and jump on water all of a sudden was particularly frustrating, considering they are not Jesus Christ. I also doubt that the King of Qin could actually figure out the entire assassination plan if it was real life, because let's be real here, it was fairly complicated. Another reason why I strongly disliked this movie was the fact that Nameless did not kill the King. What was the point of the movie if he didn't end assassinating him, and then dying for absolutely no reason at all. Moon was just an annoying character and she was also irrelevant in the entire movie, my question throughout it all was: "Why does she keep coming into this?".

      4. Zhang Yimou used colours to emphasize life and sadness in the combat scene on the lake, I chose this scene  because it has pretty colours even if it's doltish and unrealistic. Some of the colours used in it were shades of blue, green, and some white. The white was to represent Snow, because Snow is obviously white unless there is some dog pee or mud mixed in, and it was to represent her life. The blues and greens are to represent the sadness that Broken Sword is feeling.

Photography Editing of Jordan

Contact Sheets

Reflection - Memories in My Skin

Reflection 

Memories in My Skin

By: Maddy White

Technical:

I used some more technical steps while completing this assignment. Some of the steps I had used for an example, was; changing the opacity of the images and doing layer blends. 

Idea or Concept:

The ideas I had used in my work was heartbreak that sometimes people feel. They were related to how I felt as a child, up until now. I had not used some of the pictures I was originally, going to use, but that is okay, because if I would have added the pictures I took out, the product would be messy and crammed in together. Which would make the overall image look not very well done. 

Influences:

I do not have any influences for my work, I just kind of went with what looks good with each other and "went with the flow". 

Composition:

Once again, just like stated above, I didn't have a composition I don't feel like. I went with what my instincts told me, and I just kind of decided which goes where by how well it blended.

Motivation:

The motivation for my piece of work was just to kind of let go of my emotions I've kept bottled in for all these years. Something about letting go of my emotions in this piece of artwork was really relieving for me because I've kept it in for so long. 

Critical Assessment:

I believe my work could have been better, it was hard for me to blend the light pictures into the dark background and turn it into a dark colour scheme, because my work was created from dark emotions and feelings.

I also believe I could have done a better job because some of my pictures are the same size, even when I had tried to re-size them.

Memories in My Skin

Memories in My Skin - Writing

-My first concert (5SOS)
-My very first friend
-Nanny
-New York
-Jordan
-starting high school

My Very First Friend

My very first friend, who had lived three doors down from me and our parents were friends, which is how we had met. I have known him since I was two years old, and he was the closest person to me after my grandma had passed away in grade three, up until eighth grade. In grade eight we had still talked a little bit, but in the summer going into grade nine, he and I had just stopped talking all together. It's kind of strange how someone who is your best friend and whom you love so much can just turn into a stranger with a snap of two fingers. At this time, at the end of grade eight and all through the summer, I was picked on by some of the girls in my class. I had never told anyone about this, besides him, because it had been going on since grade six. I trusted him with my entire life, and we had made a promise to always stay friends, and be there for each other forever. It's funny how even the person closest to you can break promises so important to you, but maybe not as important to them. We talk occasionally now and then, when we see each other in the halls we will say hello, but I don't know who he even is anymore. The only memories I have of him were from when we were little and would sneak out of the house in the middle of the night and go into my tree house and just talk for hours on end, even though we both knew that we could have gotten in major trouble. Sometimes when I was sad I would just sit outside all alone on my deck, and even if I didn't talk to him about it, because no kids had cellphones or Facebook or anything back then, he would still come outside and comfort me, because that was the thing about us; we knew when we needed each other. I wonder if he knows that I need him now.

Nine of Me - Obama

Layer Project with Erasers

Brushes Project for Media Arts