Project Proposal

What?:
I want to make a short movie. I’ve never done it but I have had a few friends that have and it seemed pretty awesome I plan to learn a lot from it and maybe keep doing some of the things I learn from it.
Why?:
I want to see how much a message can be changed through subtle or large changes visually in a short scene.
How?:
I will vary things on different scales for each scene while trying to find a visual base that will connect them all. I plan to do five or six scenes that will all vary in one way or another:
1) scene one will be the base scene. Nothing to big and a stationary camera.
2) scene two will show a change in clothing. That characters will be wearing and surrounded by things that will reflect their mood. The camera will be stationary again.
3) scene three will have the camera moving around the scene. The characters will have the same clothing as scene one.
4) scene four will have a location change and the camera will return to being stationary.
5) scene five will be a slide show but of photos from the scene and done to the audio from it.
6) scene six will have the same stationary camera but be put to sock puppets. I’m still not too sure if I want to do this but we’ll see how much time I have.
The script will be ambiguous so the mood will have a chance to change between scenes and allow there to be hopefully variation in the message.

Font Me.0

So I chose "Kristen ITC" as the fonst that would represent me well. No, I'm not a girl, things just worked out that way that the font verson of me is. I think its a good choice for me because it has a form of uniformity but the words don't seem to fit together. I like to say I'm a neat mess and think it works pretty well. I made it red, well.... because of my beard. I feel that is a strong characteristic about me which is reasy to identify. I also made it bold because I'ma big guy and that just seemed to make sense. Included in the pic are other "candidates" that I felt would be strong but I hope you can identify which one is me.

Picture Poverty

Poverty Hasn't really changed in the past 70 odd years has it. The image and how much it affects us has though. We always associate poverty with homelessness but they aren't the same thing. It might just be the step above being homeless. How has the image changed? Do we blur the line and just assume they are the same, no... I just don't like how people stricken by poverty are always given a negative image when some of the people I know that might not be well off financially are some of the nicer and less trivial people that I know. Why isn't that a popular image? Are we so material that we can't just let them be considered as good as we are? I hope that image can change.

The Not So Real Me

So we were assigned to design an avatar in Second Life. No limitations just make one and give the reason to why they are the way they are. Well... I didn't want him to be just like me but similar so I've come up with this background story.
Ernest Arctor an every day man; that average guy that lives down the street and wakes up every day just like the rest of you. He puts his shirts on the same way, one sleeve at a time, but some times the normal isn't always normal. The life he lead before you meet this mild man is one of heroes or legends, maybe just folk lore, but the distortion of his life in time to come will be of great tales. Born in the moutains he was raised in the image of his ancestors, pioneers of the country, knowledged men of the land, Mountain Men. He fought to protect his past and small moutain town he was raised in all his life. With the blessings of the medicene men of the local area he was given powers that allowed him to grow strong and become one with nature. With theses gifts he decided to move to the city and help protect the city... then he wakes up from another ridiculous dream and eats some toast with juice for breakfast.
You really thought he was some alter ego to a super hero but alas he is not, he is my virtual alter ego. I made him like me as much as I could but gave him some super hero traits; muscles, glasses, awesome pants....

I wear glasses and have some pretty awesome pants by the way.

Lets Prime the Pump

I'm not sure if we're suppose to post about our projects but I figure good if we are and if not... well it will just help me think a little more about it.
I figured I could do a simple movie project but take a serious aproach to it. I want to take a short scene I write and apply different ways of setting it up that will hopefully affect how you convey the message being sent. Hopefully I will be able to right something ambiguos that they are talking about so what they are saying and what you are interpreting will change.I don't want filming it to be ver complicated to so there will probably just a still camera; this will give something consistant through out each scene and help tie them more together.
The scene will be shot 5 or six times:
1.Normal Scene (base for the rest)
2.Costumes (something ridiculous, that might give a new message)
3.Music (have suddle music in all the scenes that is the same, but this one it is completly different)
4.Location (somewhere different from all the other scenes, that seems displaced)
5.Sock Puppets? (some kind of puppet or device that will be used insted of actors)
6.How They Speak (each actor will speak in a different manner; i.e. yelling, whispering...)

I hope this ends up working because it feels like something I'd enjoy and seems like it makes sense with trying to understand different ways of visually communicating. I'll try to keep updates but we'll see how things pan out, hopefully for the best.

If I designed a myspace page for my friend...

I decided, for my assignment, I would choose to design a myspace page for my friend Sean. To start I would choose his profile picture. It would either be a candid shot of him doing something he most definitely enjoy(crew, hiking, hanging out) or a pic of him and his girlfriend. I would choose one of these because they show a good view of him. For his background I would find a picture that has something to do with a landscape or an interesting piece of art. The landscape would show his appreciation of nature and the piece of art would be a look at his fascination is things like that. I don't think I would change the style of font because that seems like something he wouldn't do; a small detail that he wouldn't care to change. The color of the font would of course have to change in order for it to work with the background. There definitely be a song to play on his profile. The song would be light maybe just an acoustic guitar. I feel this would give a good overview of who he is and allow people to have and easy to enjoy web page.