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For this weeks assignment.  We were to create two short videos illustrating a joke.  Our joke was actually quite funny I thought.  It was about a boy playing with his toy train.  While he was playing he uses foul language that his mother does not approve of, and puts him into time-out for two hours.  After the two hours is up, he resumes playing with his toys and explains to his pretend train passengers that for anyone that is upset with the two hour delay, to see the "bitch in the kitchen." This is the punchline of the joke, and he is referring to his mother as the "bitch in the kitchen".  The first film, which we approached as a horror theme, is presented in black and white, to create an extreme contrast within the film of characters, and to create more of an affiliation with fear and horror.  The lack of color, and affinity within the first movie is to draw away certain unimportant factors to stray away from color and saturated tones that can be represented as happy and joyous.  In this movie, we also gave representation on deep space, at first, it may seem quite limited, but in reality, it is indeed deep space.  There are many lines and shaped that are angled in such a way that show a two person perspective shot, drawing the eye back to the other character.  This was emphasized as much as possible in every shot we had. 

     The second video was entitled "The bitch in the Kitchen" understandably.  For this, we had a dry, slapstick humor approach, and thought that it would be in better interest to use higher lighting, more scenery, vibrant colors, and upbeat music to give the video an appropriate theme.  For this film we used a circular rhythm for many of the shots that were portrayed.  For example, there was a circular, figure eight motion that the train was traveling in.  After this, the mother was stirring, scrubbing, and cleaning all in this same rhythm.  Causing a very repetitive and safe movement to the viewer for this movie.  We also created a great deal of tension and release in the film.  It almost created a type of roller coaster effect within the film.  We started creating tension by having the mother come up and beat her son initially, while release was drawn after he is summoned to time out.  After this, tension was presumed again while the son says "bitch in the kitchen", then released when he is beaten and the clip comes to an end.  Over all a very different feel to the  clips and I believe this is shown very accurately.

Animation !

Here's my animation for week eight.  It took me around eight hours to complete and is only 30 seconds long.  I can't imagine working for Pixar...

Video Assignment

Audio critique of video game

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Pokemon Snap ! A youth classic !

6A

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  Salvidor Dali has been one of my favorite artists ever since high school art when i learned about him.  His work has for sure inspired me to be a more creative artist and creative person, with his abstract ideas and concepts, I think it is amazing the way that he thinks, and the way that he expresses himself through his work. I believe this image (which was not in the folder posted by Mr. Williams, but is one of my favorites anyways) says more than can be interpreted in one sitting, and is left to the audience of what their portrayal of the image means to him or her.  The image attracts my attention because it is so abstract, and "crazy" to me, that I am in awe of how someone could possibly think of something like this, and put it down on paper.  As the animals in the shot, drift away from the lens of the narrator, the legs of these animals get longer, more slender, and more abstract. It almost gets to the point where the legs look like they have multiple joints in them, and could almost be mistaken for a spider leg or some sort of insect.  What interests me most about this picture is the route that one's eye taken while looking at this picture, it most definitely starts at the giant, white horse that is standing on his hind legs, taking up the majority of the shot, from there ones eye most likely goes toward the back of the shot where the elephant in the distance is walking, and then ones eye goes to the bottom right part where a naked man is holding a cross.  After seeing all of this my eye starts following where the cross is pointing, and rotates in a circular path back down the row of animals.  I think the clouds look awesome,  the setting of a vast desert with tiny mountains in the background also add an extra interesting focal point.  However, my favorite part of the picture is the part that I had zoomed into.  I think the reason that I like this part of the frame is because the three people that are underneath the monsters show how huge the animals really are.  The space of the picture really expands when one notices these people.  At first glance It is noticeable on how big they are, but the tiny little figures really ad a sense of enormousness to them.  I also really like the elephant in the background for some reason I can't tell you why it just is really cool looking.  The majority of the frame contains matter that is in the top third of the frame, and on the left third of the shot as well.  There is also contrast within the colors of the picture.  i think that it is funny how we learned that blues and yellows are very common within photos, and films, and Dali uses this approach in many of his works.  I am very impressed with this work and was excited to see that Mr. Williams used him as an example.

48 Hour Shootout !

Audio Critique of Pier Songs