Final piece evaluation

Final piece evaluation 

I try to incorporate music in the majority of my work which is exactly what i have done for my final piece. The overall product of my final piece was a black and white stopframe animation which included one of my favorite music artists called Dub Fx. The idea came from a drawing of mine that was originally a photo of Dub Fx that i found on the internet which gave me the idea to draw music notes coming out of his mouth to embrace the symbol of music. That was how i came up with the idea for animating the music notes to look like they where moving and basically show the music that he was creating. The piece contains two parts, first the animation itself and second the music along side it that i chosen especially to suit the fact that its Dub Fx in the animation. The music was one of his songs called 'Made', but because the song had to be instrumental i picked a section from the beginning were he is just beat boxing. To create the animation i used paper and pencils to draw it including the music notes that i cut out with scissors, then i took photos of the individual music notes using my digital camera one by one until i had enough pictures to make my stopframe animation. I then finally edited them together and put the music to it to finish it using Premier on one of the macs. 

Southpark

Southpark 

South Park is an american sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone originally Intended for people of ages between sixteen and eighteen. The program is defiantly for mature audiences mainly for its wide range of crude language, dark hummer and surreal topics. Of course this creates some negative responses from some viewers but despite the negativity South park has received numerous accolades, including four Primetime Emmy awards and a Peabody award, not to mention it remaining as one of Comedy Central's highest rated shows. The show is made by using stop frame animation which is originally known by taking a number of pictures of an object or an item. The process includes taking a picture every time you slightly move the object to create frames, then by playing the photos at a fast speed its possible to create the illusion of movement. 

Dub FX-research

Dub FX 

Dub FX (real name Benjamin Stanford) is a worldwide street performer and recording artist from Australia. He started to travel and perform solo after playing and singing in a band called Twitch. His world known trademark style is creating live music using only his own voice combined with using live looping and effect pedals. He creates a range of music rhythms originally reggae but also likes to create his own versions of hip hop and drum and bass. 

His performances are like none other because of his unique music style. The process that he has been through to write his songs (mainly on his album every things a ripple) is only one part of what makes him stand out above the rest. His real lyrics and music in just a short amount of time has spread over the world because of the way he uses his pure talent to address issues around the globe. His music is positive and gives people inspiration and hope. 

Banksy-research

Banksy

Banksy is a famous graffiti artist that is known throughout the world for his dark humour and distinctive stencilling techniques. His artistic work of political and social issues that has been featured across the streets and walls of the world is the key to what makes him so talented and stand out from the amateurs that give graffiti artists such a bad name. Some of banksys fans have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in Paris 1981. However Banksy himself made clear on his website that technically he based his work on a 3D format from Massive Attack, stating, "No, I copied 3D from Massive Attack. He can actually draw." 

Despite for his known issue with the government in stereotypically labelling graffiti as vandalism, Banksy displays his art on public surfaces such as walls. He shows his ability to create more than just graffiti wall art by even going as far as building physical prop pieces. Although Banksy doesn't sell his street art directly himself but art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art.

Count down

Count down 

Based on the olympic ceremony's count down we each found a number and then put them together to create our own. First we went to the store room to get some digital cameras and then we had a look around the college to find numbers that we could take pictures of and then use for our count down. After picking the number three i first found some examples on posters and signs, but as i continued to look i found a number three on one of the elevator buttons which i decided to use because i thought it looked good when it had the light around it. When we had our photos of numbers we then drawn our own but with faces somewhere in the picture. 

Paper faces (stop frame animation)

Paper faces (stop frame animation)

For this project we where required to work in pairs to create an animated face using paper and a basic digital camera from the ERC. We decided to create an alien face that we cut out of green paper and used other coloured paper to create the facial features such as the mouth, tongue, teeth and an eye. I was going to make two eyes for the alien but we both thought that it looked much more alien like if there was only one in the middle instead. We also created a piece of cake that the alien used its powers to make it spin round. We made the piece of cake out of paper which had jam on the top of it, we where going to put a cherry on top of it as well to add decoration but it looked better without it so it wasn't included in the animation. 

The big draw

The big draw:

This is were we first started painting the outer circle with black paint 

At this stage we finally finished painting the black circle 

This is were we flicked the colourful paint on the big piece of paper to create a backdrop 

finally we finished both the circle and the backdrop so we were able to stick the two together 

We gathered information about the artist we have chosen (Terry frost) from the LRC using books, magazines and the internet. We have created our own abstract interpretation of one of his pieces of work called the circle of life, paint and paper were the only materials we have used to create our work. We have mainly used the same colours as the original circle of life such as black, yellow and red but we have used other techniques to show our impression of the piece such as creating faint footprints on the black outer circle as well as cutting the around it and sticking it on top of a sheet of paper that we have flicked with paint which adds texture to the whole painting.