Finalised Screen Design

Artist Statement Assignment II

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"UNDENTED SPIRIT"

Mary Oestereicher Hamill 

In this assignment, I imbued the style and way of a video and photography multimedia artist, Mary Oestereicher Hamill to create a screen design. The content conveyed by Madam Hamill has always in concern of the poor and forgotten.

 I use the way she present her shots and recordings by different but similar-in-a-way theme. I chose stray or wild dogs as the center of the design as they share resemblance of regard by the society. In this design, I wish to show as what Madam Hamill shown. Forgotten and shunned by many, they still found their place in this ever congressed world by forming packs or neighborhoods to join hands and live together.

As the design is based on photography, it is been edit by Adobe Photoshop CS4 and the font used is Rockwell Extra Bold.

 

Artist Research Assignment II

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Subject: Mary Oestereicher Hamill

        Mary Oestereicher Hamill. A senior research scientist in the New York Mental Health System, tenured Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Brooklyn College, and Associate Professor of Psychology and Dean Undergraduate Studies at Babson College. She did not stop there and went a step beyond her career of education reform and take a Diploma from Museum School. Her works of photographing and recording of homeless people across New York and her installation art of featuring Chinese vendor and street market in China and New York Chinatown named ‘regardregard’ Project received good reception and won awards.

        Although as medical scholar, she did produced some artwork of bones and body structures but most of her works lies on the spiritual and mentality by showing various faces of old folks still in vendor even in armchair and smiles of homeless despite their circumstance. She also intended to raise awareness in Cambodia and Vietnam about their dilapidated medical service and system by her video “Tangible Measures”.

        Her works strive on the forgotten or the people that were left behind by the sweeping thrive of conglomerates and professionalism.  She intend to show us, the elites of management and skills from cities the faces we forgot or cast away to remind them these people work as hard as we are just to win a bread or irk a living. Awareness does not mean charity. It only shows you what you did not know of and rekindles the spark that what holds you when you were young. You only need to know and remember as there is nothing more you can help them except a donation of generosity and compassion and a fair treatment as one of the members of society.

        Of the most, Madam Oestereicher wish us to show the determination and happiness of these people able to salvage and cherish even though what they own is little but it is content and hold a dear value to them.

More Info: http://www.maryhamill.com/

Improvished Assignment 1 Finalised

Assignment 1 Refined Portrait Photography

Assignment 1 Portrait Photography

Assignment 1 Portrait Photography Reference

Refer to some works of expert portrait or commercial photographers and take some of my own. Target audience from 16 to 25 and above especially for photographers.

Reference

Assignment 1 Butterfly screen

Assignment 1 Butterfly

Refer to some samples then draw the desired positioning of the butterfly and base on the reference draw another butterfly in PC. Target audience 7 to 16 years old.

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Trimester II is NOW... with Assignment 1

For this assignment, the conceptual screen design is largely base on our interactive application menu. Due to the experience of being a user of these applications, my thought is that the menu have to be simple yet clear and fresh enough to catch eyeballs. The navigation and interactivity has to be as simple as possible for users to manage instantly.

For my two subject, I chose butterfly and portrait photography. Following is some reference for the menu screen.

Final Render of the Project 1

Improving Finalised Video

Target Audience

My target audience is focus on the young generation of teenagers of age 17 (Form 5) which is the year of the hardest challenge in their academic lives they had to face SPM. Even though the time is tight, but in a sense the moment still not yet come so they are not as tense as I thought.

Survey with Target Audience

Since my target audience is secondary high schoolers, I went back to my hometown and interview some former schoolmates that still in school.

My questions are

What do you think of your peers in high school?
        -Lazy and forgetful
        -Brainers and brain talks
        -Bully and taunting
        -Honest and hardworking

State the priority of your daily routine of school days focus. From 1 (utmost) to 4 (less concern).
        -My homework
        -My academic understanding
        -My Facebook
        -My attendance

With which tools are the ideal choice for portfolio making?
         -My hands and pencils
         -My keyboard and Microsoft Words
         -My scissors and cutout fonts
         -My brain and ideas

Result

Lee Win Son            5 Kancil
What do you think of your peers in high school?
        Lazy and forgetful
        Brainers and brain talks
        Bully and taunting
        Honest and hardworking

State the priority of your daily routine of school days focus. From 1 (utmost) to 4 (less concern).
        3 My homework
        4 My academic understanding
        1 My Facebook
        2 My attendance

With which tools are the ideal choice for portfolio making?
         My hands and pencils
         My keyboard and Microsoft Words
         My scissors and cutout fonts
         My brain and ideas

Muhammad Hakim b Muhammad Halim       5 Kenari
What do you think of your peers in high school?
       Lazy and forgetful
       Brainers and brain talks
       Bully and taunting
       Honest and hardworking

State the priority of your daily routine of school days focus. From 1 (utmost) to 4 (less concern).
       2 My homework
       4 My academic understanding
       1 My Facebook
       3 My attendance

With which tools are the ideal choice for portfolio making?
        My hands and pencils
        My keyboard and Microsoft Words
        My scissors and cutout fonts
        My brain and ideas

Saw Ran Sing            5 Bestari
What do you think of your peers in high school?
       Lazy and forgetful
       Brainers and brain talks
       Bully and taunting
       Honest and hardworking

State the priority of your daily routine of school days focus. From 1 (utmost) to 4 (less concern).
       3 My homework
       1 My academic understanding
       2 My Facebook
       4 My attendance

With which tools are the ideal choice for portfolio making?
        My hands and pencils
        My keyboard and Microsoft Words
        My scissors and cutout fonts
        My brain and ideas

Xu Wan Pei                 5 Bestari
What do you think of your peers in high school?
       Lazy and forgetful
       Brainers and brain talks
       Bully and taunting
       Honest and hardworking

State the priority of your daily routine of school days focus. From 1 (utmost) to 4 (less concern).
       2 My homework
       4 My academic understanding
       1 My Facebook
       3 My attendance

With which tools are the ideal choice for portfolio making?
       My hands and pencils
       My keyboard and Microsoft Words
       My scissors and cutout fonts
       My brain and ideas

Rajashudan A/L Rajendran        5 Bestari
What do you think of your peers in high school?
       Lazy and forgetful
       Brainers and brain talks
       Bully and taunting
       Honest and hardworking

State the priority of your daily routine of school days focus. From 1 (utmost) to 4 (less concern).
       1 My homework
       4 My academic understanding
       2 My Facebook
       3 My attendance

With which tools are the ideal choice for portfolio making?
       My hands and pencils
       My keyboard and Microsoft Words
       My scissors and cutout fonts
       My brain and ideas

From 5 interviews, most of them thought their peers as students want works to be done but not with good planning and most of them really into Facebook and attendance than other beneficial (boring) routine. Really, Microsoft Words are a trademark in written project, assignments and portfolio, folios for its convenience yet tidy and clean settings and layout.        

Persona

After some interview from some former schoolmates, I made a persona based on the information obtained:


Name       Wee Tze Teng
Age          17
School      SMK Pekan Baru
Class        5 Kenari (science streamed)
Hobby      Net-surfing
Habbit      Disorganised and lack of grip in his own predicament

Current dilemma
With SPM at the not-too distant horizon yet still got assignments (we called it folios at that time) in History and Moral Studies, the biggest headache and distraction.

Personality 
A quite serious student if not of his clumsiness in handling crisis and his academic management. You can say he is sort of the late night oil burner like the rest of his generation.

Concept Board

Finalised Rendering of the Project

Project 1 Time & Space

Artist Statement

In this project, I decided to shoot a video depicted a bad day for a student when he got up late, rush to school only to find out it is holiday then finally his PC broken down taking his works along. I would like to show how a man being at the wrong place and wrong time can affect his daily routine and thus his mental state.

The whole process was recorded by Canon 500D with camera applications. Then the video is editted in Adobe After Effects CS4. The audio was extracted from various artists from free music websites like Youtube and Last.FM like classic Schumann Lotus Flower and Boots Randolph Yakety Sax. The sound effect is downloaded from Soundbible. The editting of audio is done by Adobe Soundbooth CS4, the rest of the combination of audio and video and rendering is based on After Effects.

Assignment 3 Final Artwork

STUDENT

TEACHER

Assignment 3 Artist Statement

In this assignment, I intended to show what is in the mind of young generation about student and teacher. So a survey was done on secondary school students. Based on it, I created my artwork. 

    For the topic "Student", a seed with  yellow, purple and shallow red and blue "S" with black surrounding indicate the current state of mind of young scholars. They are at the age of morphing from child to adult which mean they start to think maturely but their action are still of childish and naive as they are not completely adult yet they are no longer children. This torn thought and controversy might drive them to form a cocoon of which inside they enjoy their "golden years' with peers of same thought while remain uninvolved and indifferent of the outside world. In my artwork, the colours inside the seed is of joy and fun surrounded by dark dull grey reality.

    For "Teacher", what the young generation see in adulthood is a complete form. A form which they admired and strived for yet afraid of the process that will change their current state of enjoyment. In order to find a illuminated solution, their heads turn to a mature and hardened yet still retain a fraction of the former youth - a teacher. They see the role of teacher as guide though they constantly defies their instructor because they know the instructor is right about the world. A teacher is like a tree that has stand the test of time and changing and still able to grow strong and live on. Small blossomings of young plants need the protection of the old tree from the storm yet still able to shed light to them by showing them how prepare themselves to treat the world. 

The artworks are all Photoshop products and the font is base on Swansea.

Assignment 3 Ideation

Assignment 3 Personas

Now that I had collected my info. I started with constructing a persona to each of my topic, in this case a student and teacher.

Persona 1
Name: Muhammad Albani
Age: 34
Occupation: Teacher
Interest: Reading (newspaper, magazines)
Characteristics: Feel responsible and caring for his job and students he dealt with but can be strict at times.

Persona 2
Name: Abbas Muhammad
Age: 16
Occupation: Student
Interest: Games and Sports
Characteristics: Lazy and forgetful but only applicable to what he did not have interest. He know it is not right but he just cannot help it. No interest is no heart in doing it.

Assignment 3 Expression Through Specified Audience

To begin the expression, first I must gather information and opinions of my targeted audience regarding my topic. In this case, I chose two different topic- 'Student' and 'Teacher' for teenage students. To collect their comments, I made a survey to 12 students of Maktab Rendah Sains Mara of Transkrian in Nibong Tebal, Penang.

SURVEY REGARDING OPINION OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS NOWADAYS

This survey is designed to gather opinions and comments on students and teachers nowadays in school. Please tick the answer box which you found suitable and comfortable for you. Thank you.

Name:

Age:

Occupation:

Assuming that you are the Science teacher for the Class 2Epsilon, what action will you take when one of your students is skipping his/her PEKA?

       Offer him/her copies to redeem the PEKA scores.

       Warn him/her sternly and minus few points from her PEKA.

       Ask and advise him/her about the reasons and request redo PEKA.

You saw a student who seems depressed. What will you do?

       Say hello and off you go.

       Greet and ask about the recent no-good performance during classes.

       Leave as the student might need space to think.

       Warn the student for behaving inappropriate during classes.

What action seems suitable when dealing with a dispirited class?

        Pop out a sudden quiz to make aware of your teaching

        All students stand on table with their hands grabbing their chairs on top

        Offer special incentive such as homework pass for students who able to answer the question from the topic today.

You accidentally overheard the conversation between a teacher and a student regarding the dropping performance of the student. What will you think the teacher will do?

        Listen and advise earnestly.

        Just keep nodding head.

        Listen with straight blank eyes.

        Warn the student to lever up the dropping grade without listening.

When bringing your homeroom students to outside, what is your first priority rule for them?

        They must be at the gathering spot at the time given.

        Keep together in a group of two or more when going around.

        Just don’t cause mischief that you need to be answered to.

You happen to bump in to your schoolmate who is going for an extra class. What do you think of him?

        He should be otherwise he will fall behind due to his incompetence.

        No fun. He is too boring.

        It is good but he should watch out for himself also.

        He feels responsible for the progress of his grade. Keep going. 

Of all behavior, what is the most comfortable sitting style when listening to classes?

        Sit with straight back with head hold like perpendicular bisector to the back.

        Relax and put your hands on the desk with your upper body leaning to the table.

        Put your head on the table with your arms.

        Lean behind to the chair and cross your arms and legs.

You have been called by a teacher on your way to your class. What do you expect?

        Oh man. I forgot my homework.

        Maybe the teacher needs help.

        Did I break something?

        The teacher comes to complement me of my outstanding performance.

You did not pass up your form that should have been submitted by today. What will you say to your teacher?

        “I leave it at home, what should I do?”

        “I leave it at the desk when I gone home, sorry”

        “I did not know how to fill in the form.”

        “I forgot it at home (smiles), can I bring it tomorrow?”

In what ways do you prefer when greet and address any teacher you meet?

        “Yo, still kicking around?”

        “Good morning, how is your day, Mr.… (Teacher).”

        “Morn’, serge’.

        “Teacher(slight bow with a smile).”

END OF SURVEY

THANK YOU

Improved Assignment 2

Since the mistake of Assignment II, the improvisation is underwent and come out with the theme "Alone"

Learning Typography

Ideation Sketches

Color Studies

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Color Composition

Final Artwork

Final Work

Assignment II sketches

Assignment 2 Type Expression

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ARTIST STATEMENT

     In this assignment, I decided to explore what is on my mind about this topic. So, I make a few simple little sketches then chose one from which I like and do some mock-up.

     The assignment is done largely on Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended. I use images that I collected via D-SLR and web search, patch them up using magic wand for selective part editing and configuring and also layer mask properties to complete my work. I would like to create a nature jungle-like environment for my Type Expression so I arranged the word' BoA' (not that Korean 'BoA' please) with boa constrictor skin texture and on wooden log. 

Final Artwork

Sketches

Artist Treatment

In the beginning, I decided to express my thought about my theme by 3D art. I cut a board about 10x10 inches, prepared plasticine/playdough and iron wire, and water colors. I splashed the black color on the white surface and painted white on the black surface of the board. Then I shaped the knife as if it is a twisting snake and attached the hilt and the point of knife on the board.

This expression of art should be enough to show and clarify my idea on the related topic.

Artist Statement

     There are different and variety ways of interpreting the nature of light and darkness, good and evil,

God and Devil. It struck on me as the mixture of balance and life. There will be clusters of dark clouds amidst the seamless white of cloud bed and within the dark cloud there will be a Sun hidden

cover away from common eyes. In a way, you can say there are reasons and agendas of every action

taken whether it is in affect of present dilemma or past confrontation even future prospect.

    Here is my say: The line between right and wrong is like a fabric so thin that even a simple knife

of probe and logic will cut it right through. Moreover, what flow out from the wound of darkness is

not necessary black and what has been spill out from the immaculate white does not entirely white

either.

    To express my idea, I form a board of black and white surface stabbed by a knife but the wound from the black side bled white and beyond the surface of white the knife twisted to become a snake and it bled of black even though it was white. 

Introduction

Hello, my name is Saw Quan Nen, ID 1102700821. In this assignment of Visual Expression, I will present my theme "Darkness in Light, Light in Darkness"