Seamless Facebook Profile Brainstorming

Name: Lacey
Assignment: Seamless FB Profile Brainstorm
Date: April 9 2015

My Favourite Things

-Music

-Michael Bohn

-Max Green

-Craig Mabbitt

-Andy Biersack

-Mitch Lucker

-Motorcycles

-Skateboarding

-Warped Tour

-Art

-Drums

-Baton

-Cheerleading

-Horses

-Anime

-My Little Pony

Art Movie

Name: Lacey

Date: April 9 2015

Class: Media Arts

Assignment: Art Movie

Medium: Adobe Premiere Pro

TECHNICAL

Almost all of the technical steps I used were new to me. I’ve done things like this on Windows Movie Maker before but I’ve never used Adobe Pro. Adobe Premiere Pro has more features then Windows Movie Maker a lot of which I’ve never used before.

IDEA OR CONCEPT

The idea I had for this piece was to create a sense of chaos by using chaotic scenes together with calmer but still tension filled ones. ie the chaos going on outside with the high tension situation of the heat quickly rising. Then at the very end I would use a photo of Oliver Sykes and make it seem like everything that happened was all in his head.

There was a point where I almost changed my idea. I was trying to get the zoom for the photo of Oliver at the end to work properly but it wasn’t working out how I wanted it to, I got so frustrated that I almost took it out completely but I kept at it and eventually got it to work. It’s still not the way I had envisioned it but it’s close.

INFLUENCES

I’m not sure if I really had any influences for this one, I kind of just went for it.

COMPOSITION

I used the inverted effect on the “CC Smash” clip at the beginning to put emphasis on the explosion he caused when his fist hit the ground. I also added a timer that glitches and ticks down rapidly to put emphasis on the fact that the heat was quickly rising and they were running out of time to make it stop.

MOTIVATION

I was motivated by the idea in my head. When we were given the assignment I immediately formed an idea of what I wanted to do in my mind and I just stuck with it from there. I was determined to take my ideas and make them reality and it worked, maybe not exactly how I wanted it to but close.

As for visual ideas I wanted to try mixing clips from newer media with older media and I think it turned out pretty well.

CRITICAL ASSESSMENT

I think the invert effect with the explosion looks pretty cool and it worked pretty well to. I also like how when I added the music I noticed that some of the video clips matched it already, (the beat of the music go’s with the actions of the characters.)

The thing that surprised me was how hard it is to actually make an art movie. It’s not too hard to come up with the initial idea but once you actually start putting it together it’s not the easiest thing to do. Things don’t always work out the way you planned it, the idea might have worked in your head but looked like absolute crap on the computer, once you start the process of putting the movie together it becomes unpredictable, anything can happen.

With additional time I would probably do more with the photo of Oliver at the end. The zoom didn’t work the way I wanted it to and no matter how hard I tried to get it right nothing worked.

Art Movie Brainstorming

Media Arts
Art Movie
Brainstorming
Lacey Reid
March 25 '15


My favorite part of "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" is when the guy takes the list out of the locker, you can't really read the list so it makes you wonder what it could be.

My favorite part of "Metropolis" is when the guy is there with his eye's bugging out of his head as he tries to reach the handles.

My favorite part of "Battleship Potemkin" is when it shows the man swinging and hitting something but you can't tell exactly what he hit. Did he hit the woman? Did he hit the baby? Did he hit someone or something we didn't even see? You don't know.


At the beginning I want to have an explosion into the chaos, then show some scared faces, then more of the chaos, and finally I want the screen to go black and then zoom out really fast so the black is the pupil of someone's eye and after the zoom you see the actual person. (I hope that made sense)


I will be using a shot of someone punching the ground and causing an explosion to start off the chaos, then between the shot's of chaos I will show the man from Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid on the train oblivious to the chaos, then I will show the temperature rising and the man with the wide fear filled eyes, then to end it the screen will go back and quickly zoom out to show a person standing there staring off into space before the screen goes black for the last time. The ending will leave people asking questions like... Was it all a dream? Was it a memory/flashback? Was it all just in his head? They'll never really know. They also will be left wondering what happened when the heat finally rose too high and if the chaos ever ends.

Light Painting

March 9 '15
Media Arts
Light Painting
Lacey Reid

Photography Final Edits

March 9 '15
Media Arts
Photography Final Edits
Lacey Reid

Contact Sheet

Media Arts
February 27 '15
Contact Sheet
Lacey Reid

Memories On My Skin Reflection

Memories On My Skin
Lacey Reid
Feb 19 '15

Lacey Reid

Memories on My Skin

Adobe Photoshop Elements

Feb 19 ‘15

TECHNICAL

                For this project I used burning, dodging, and layer blending. I used burning and dodging to fix up the photos of Brandon (left side) and David (right side) to make them look more professional and I used layer blending to make the puppy in the top right corner not stand out as much. I also used layer blending to make Brandon (left side), fit better into the piece as a whole.

IDEA OR CONCEPT

The idea behind the piece to show my experience at the Vans Warped Tour. I wanted to include photos of the bands I saw and other music related pictures to emphasis the fact that Warped Tour is a music festival. I used other cute pictures, ex: the puppy in the top right corner and the sleeping star in the bottom right corner, to show how I was feeling throughout the day. Happy, tired and excited!

                The one idea that changed while I was putting the piece together was the idea of having only one actual band member included, which was going to be Brandon (left side). As I continued to work I felt the right side needed someone as well so I added David. I really liked the way it looked with him in it so I decided to keep it that way. By doing this I had to change where I was going to place the puppy and I also had to mess with the opacity of the sleeping star until it looked right.

                Another idea I had was to liquefy the background image and make a new layer out of it. This added a wavy effect to the background and helped to complete the motion of the piece as a whole.

INFLUENCES

                When it comes to art I only have a few major influences, they’re not famous artists or anything but they still create some awesome and unique pieces as a hobby. These people are Angelo Parente, a tattoo artist and the former drummer of one of my favorite bands called Motionless in White, I really like his work, he designs clothing and tattoos, I don’t know what it is about his work that I like but everything he does has something there that just screams “Angelo!” Another person that influences my art is Davey Suicide. He’s the lead singer of his band, Davey Suicide, he paints as a side project and like Angelo all of Davey’s work has something that screams “Davey!” He likes to take famous people and paint them in his own way, you can still tell who he’s painting but it’s always somewhere between realistic and cartoony. Other people who influence my work are Andy Biersack, Brandi Annette and Michael Kuza.

                All of these people influence my work. I’s hard to say exactly how they influence me though, I always have these people in mind when I’m working on something new but I think the way they influence me the most is through motivation. They’re all amazing at what they do and that motivates me to do better so one day I might be as good as they are.

MOTIVATION

                Like I said before there are a lot of things that influence me and most are members of the bands I like or even their girlfriends, like Brandi who is the girlfriend of James Cassells drummer of Asking Alexandria. My motivation for this particular piece was how going to Warped Tour and meeting some of my favorite bands in person affected me. I can’t remember a time that I’ve ever been as happy as I was when I was at Warped. I felt at home and accepted, everyone there was like me in a way we all bonded over the fact that we liked the same music and that none of us were easily accepted by our peers or the people around us. At Warped Tour we all accepted each other no matter what we wore or how we looked, it was like you were suddenly part of this big family of outcasts that actually understood you! It was an amazing feeling! By using Warped Tour as my main focus of the piece I got to relive that experience and I also get to share it with others who see my work.

CRITICAL ASSESSMENT

                I really like the way the liquefied background layer looks and how it added to the flow of the piece I feel like it worked out really well even though I was only messing around and trying out the liquefication tool. I also feel like the music notes on the ledger lines ties the whole thing together and just completes the flow of the piece as a whole.

                I was surprised to find how much changing one little aspect of a photo could affect it! In some cases you don’t have to do much to make a photo look professional or more put together than it originally was.

                With additional time I think I might have played with the colors a bit more and tried to use mostly red, yellow, and blue seeing as those are the Vans Warped Tour official colors. It would have just added to the emphasis I was putting on the idea of being at Warped.