Final Project

“Time flies” I believe these two words presumably are the ones which being said by students most frequently in the end of every single semester. I personally still cannot believe the first year is going to be ended this immediately, and it feels so surreal to me. Therefore, I chose different kinds of transportation, such as car, airplane, boat, and rocket to illustrate how time being transported. On those transportations, I put the old transportations on them to show the differences between each eras. In addition, I also put antique clocks on the engines, and old newspaper on the sides of the plane, to demonstrate the idea of passing time. After this course, I honestly learned a lot of things, not only technical skills, but also the concept of time. There are so many varied interpretations of time, and we can apply this element on so many different things. I really love this class, and to be honest, this is one of my favorite classes.

Video Project

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In the very beginning, I honestly had no idea. After few days of struggling, I met another dilemma, I could chose either fashion or playing basketball, which are my two favorite things. Nevertheless, I chose basketball, because it is more dynamic and I believed most of my classmates do not know very much about this sport. Thus, I chose it as my theme of the video. In addition, I filmed two times, the first one is my friend playing with other friend, the second one is my friend playing himself. I then mixed the two videos to show no matter playing alone or others, basketball enthusiasts will always feel satisfied with different ways. After finishing the project, I really learned a lot of on editing technics, such as editing different videos, musics, and so on, and can used them more efficiently.

Memento Response

Even though I honestly not a big fan of thriller, and actually quite afraid of it, but this movie really attracts me and differentiates from others. Memento is a 2000 American neo-noir psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Basically, there is a man called Leonard, who is suffering anterograde amnesia because of the accidental attack in his own house, wants to take a revenge on the killer, who killed his wife and let him suffered this serious damage. Since he can only remember the things that happen within about ten minutes, he has to memorize stuffs by tattooing, taking notes, snapping photos, making charts and so forth. One day, Leonard picked up a phone from unknown, he explained why he killed the assassinators, and yet one of them ran away. He believed the other killer is John G. Therefore, he started a series of research. Before the incident took place, Leonard said he was an insurance investigator, and knew a client, Sammy, who has exactly same symptom as he does. Sammy’s wife had diabetes mellitus, and asked Sammy to inject insulin for her, also to confirm her husband really has the symptom or not. She just kept asking Sammy to inject it to prove that he does not have the symptom. Unfortunately, she died due to the excessive dose in the end without her expectation. After this call, Leonard remembered this incident so deeply that he even tattooed “Sammy” on his hand. In the process of researching, Leonard met Teddy, a police officer that is following a drug dealer–Jimmy. Teddy used Leonard’s memory loss to help him following Jimmy. A bartender also Jimmy’s girlfriend, Natalie, knew this circumstance, and making use of Leonard in the same way to kill her enemy Nodd. Nevertheless, Leonard killed Teddy in the end. In fact, Teddy has already helped Leonard to find the other killer, and killed him already. The story was all made up by Leonard himself, and Leonard is Sammy, they are the same person. In addition, his wife’s death was not because of the assassinators, but thanks to Leonard, he injected too much insulin to his wife. After watching this movie, I was really surprised the unexpected end and trembling at the same time. It was too scary and complicated for me, and it is mixing linear and non-linear methods together, which is even harder for me to understand. Nevertheless, I really like the material and the elements inside the movie, it is kind of creepy but attracting at the same time, and I could not even pause it. I believe it is a pretty outstanding movie, and can see why it got 8.5 out of 10 on Imdb,really appreciate it.

Sound Artwork

I chose union square as my topic, and I found out that there are innumerable different kinds of sound around it. There are lots of cars passed by, which included ambulances, fire trucks, police cars, and other varied sorts of automobile. The most creepy and outstanding one must be the ice cream truck, it has some kinds of mysterious feeling, which should be occurred in haunted house in amusement park. Therefore, I put it in the end, to emphasize how eerie it is. I collected all of the sounds and put them together in order, from normal to the strangest one. Before, I have no idea how to edit different sounds into one track, but now I am getting better on editing and making it more smooth. If I am going to do it again, I probably will collect more tracks to enrich my artwork, since I think it is a little bit too boring. But I honestly think it is quite an interesting project.

Cinema Graph

To be honest, I chose this clip quite randomly, I just suddenly noticed this short clip in my laptop, and I have no idea where the scene came from. Nevertheless, when I saw this clip in the very first glance, I felt like it was a perfect example to change them into a gif, since the cloud and the wave were moving quite differently. It will be pretty interesting to see if one is stop and the other one still moving.

In photoshop, I firstly imported to start my work, and then selected the second photo to the last one as a group. The most important part was, I chose the part that I want to move, and used that part to add another page, it was shown in black and white. Then I applied this change on other photos. Later on, I just selected all of them, copied and pasted, and reversed. However, one of the crucial step was do not forget to change the speed into 0. The gif will be finally done after these procedures.

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Graphic Novel

In the very beginning, I honestly have no clue what frames, composition, transitions and duration are. Nevertheless, I am getting better and better later on, and feel much more confident than before. I would make the frames that in my comic books a little bit bigger to attract the readers. I personally think rest of them are doing fine, apart from my drawing, which I am not very good at. Most importantly, I found out how important to use the precise frames, composition, transitions and duration, so that readers can understand better and enjoy in the comic. I truly think I have learned a lot from doing these assignments.

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Time Lapse

I chose my dorm, which represents Parsons School of Design, as my start point, and used Barney’s New York as my destination, since that is the place that I want to work at in the future. Since I want to explain the process from my dream school to my dream job. At first, I really did not know how to use Premiere this software, and honestly this was my very first time to make a video. I spent a lot of time on it to make sure the video’s tempo matches the music’s rhythm. Nevertheless, the outcome still not as good as I thought, I should speed up the video to make it more animated. I really learned a cool lesson from this software, and I think I would definitely use this amazing application in one day.

Graphic Novel Research

To me, I personally think there are three types of transitions are the most common ones, which are  moment-to-moment, action-to-action, and subject-to-subject. I can easily spot these transitions in various novels. As we can see, the comic book contains these three kinds of transitions.The very first page is moment-to-moment, use the fish as an objective and it is getting clear and clear. The second photo is action-to-action, the man is the main character, we can see he is taking medicine step by step. Last but not least one is subject-to-subject, the author using “wee-ooo-wee-oo” to represent the ambulance, and send the patient to the hospital. It is much easier to learn and understand those transitions by reading a comic book.

Experience of a Design

One day, I went to ABC Carpet store to discover, since I might moving out in few more months. There were so many different sorts of chairs, it is quite difficult to choose the one that I really love. Thus, I went to every single floor to observe my true love.

I then lingered around, and suddenly I noticed a chair. I then went over and took a look, and I totally fell in love with it. This carbon fiber chair was so modern and fantastic. First of all, I noticed the carbon fiber frame, which was a U-shape surrounded the chair. I love carbon fiber so much, it is one of my favored materials. It had a mysterious and luxurious feeling. It feels like if you sit on the chair you would look like a noble or royal, and you have an unlimited power. Furthermore, it also looked pretty tough, it seemed like no one could ever break this sturdy chair. In addition, the main part of the chair is covered by extremely soft Cherokee black leather. If you touch it in person, you will be amazed by how soft and cozy it is. My initial thought was this chair would be super hard to sit, nevertheless, when I sat down, I immediately changed my mind. It was so fluffy and smooth. The chair fully supported my body, and I felt like an aristocrat when I sit on it. I immediately searched any information about it, and figured out it is called Mars MK4 Chair, and it is designed by Timothy Oulton. It is a reinvention of the classic Mars Chair. The astounding thing is it costs around seven thousands dollars, and takes approximately fourteen weeks to make this chair. Nonetheless, in my opinion, this artwork surely deserved and worth the price and the time.

Even though this chair did not look very special in the very first sight, but if you take a closer look, you will definitely realize this chair is not only a chair, it is an artwork. I think this chair is very suitable for me, since I am in love with carbon fiber so deeply. I also like the dignified feeling, which this chair gives me. It is the one that I loved the most, and it is such a masterpiece.

But I forgot to take a photo, so I used internet’s.

Reference: http://www.stocktons.co.uk/product/chairs/timothy-oulton-mars-chair-mk4/