Questions

So.. Now i landed on some questions i can use for my infotainment video.

How did the internet change our perception of houmor?

Why did we change from 4:3 to widescreen?

Is bacon overrated?

What happened to email?

Why are emojis so popular¿¿¿

Infotainment

For the next three weeks, we are going to make an infotainment video. The theme is relatively open, with few restrictions. So far, I believe my theme will be something about North Korea's propaganda, that's their illustrations, style, and power it has over the population's minds.

My video is most likely to surround the question "How powerful can propaganda be?"

The video will have a voice over of me talking in English (as this is a cross-subject assignment).
The video will be edited with different pictures, and graphical elements, to emphasize the message.

Olympia Painting - MK

Group: Kent, Zygimantas, Even, Kacper og Marita.

Kunstner: Édouard Manet

År: 1863

Utstiling: Muse d Orsay, Paris

Denotativ beskrivelse:

Maleriet har en kvinne som ser mot deg, og en mann som har en bukett med blomster til henne. Kvinnen ligger naken foran mannen.

Konnotativ beskrivelse:

Kvinnen ligger naken på et silkeskjerf, med en mann foran seg som er i ferd med å gi en bukett til henne. Dette symboliserer at hun er prostituert. Faktumet at hun ser mot seeren av maleriet, gjenspeiler med seerene på denne tiden. Menn som drar på kunstutstillinger er ofte rike, og er potensiale kunder. Ved å dra med familien her, blir mennene "avdekket" da kvinnen ser mot dem.

Maleriets historie:

Maleiret er sterkt inspirert av  Titian's Venus of Urbino. Modellen heter Victorine Meurent, og hun blir referert som Venus. Venus har nylig blitt en prostituert og hun utfordrer seeren med hennes blikk.

Short film week

New week, new project. This time we shall make a 3 minute short film. What we make, is really up to us.

Print-ad (De 12 dramatiseringsformene)

This weeks assignment, is to make a print-ad for a charity oriented organization. Our first assignment, was to make a sketch product in InDesign, which should be based on "The 12 dramatization forms" I chose the first "The product in the main spot", and the 11th "Analogy".

Textures

 MIXED MEDIA 
Here's some textures, i guess. We took pictures of random objects, to find textures in them, and this is what i ended up with.

Iddis

Today i finished the "Iddis" project. I'm not quite sure about my end result. The logo was kind of  mess, the picture didn't quite fit it, and the wave at the bottom seemed weird.

Troll spiddet av bukk.

Troll spiddet av bukk.

Troll (256) ble funnet ved Vidfoss etter slåsskamp.

Trollet ble sendt til Haukeland universitetssykehus søndags formiddag, etter haikeren fant han kl. 8.15 i nærområdet samme dag. Trollet ble funnet med øynene og flere organer revet ut av kroppen, med stort antall ribbein brukket. Som et resultat av øyenskadene blir trolig trollet blind for livet.

Da haikeren fant han denne morgenen var han ikke ved bevissthet. Bukken var ikke tilstede da haikeren fant han, og politiet leter ennå etter den skyldige bukken. Ettermiddagen dagen før skal det ha vært tilstede tre bukker som terget trollet. Den største av bukkene skal ha angrepet han.

Politiet har fått kontakt fra de to andre bukkene. Mandag formiddag var de inne til avhør om saken.

Graphical Profile

The graphical profile is finally done.

Personally I'm happy with the design. Maybe there's too few colors in the color-pallette though.

And the test-photo was not really impressive too.

Graphical profile

Top: Standard logo

Mid: Easter themed

Btm: Halloween themed

Today we got a new assignment for the next two weeks.
This time we got to design the profile to a "Café" (and we could redefine café if we wanted, which i did).

I chose to design a nightclub's profile.

The main theme will be the psychedelic look of the 80's, but a more modern version of it.
I will be mixing grafitti and the psychedelic pictures with modern Sans-serif fonts (Norwegian: "grotesk"), with strong, thin, lines. This will give the club both a retro and modern look at the same time.

So far, i think I'll call my club "Drunkies", with the slogan "Cool kids never sleep".
I also think the slogan should be a part of the logo, as it really reflects of what this place is, and who it's made for.
I have made a draft of the logo, which i had these factors in mind, plus i also wanted the logo to be able to follow holidays. For example if christmas is around the corner the logo would change to a christmas theme. Also if they would be selling official "merchandise", every "holiday" there would be limited edition products. (For example t-shirts, posters, pint glasses, ect.)

Nærvær - Final

Now that the project is finally done, I'm going to talk a little about why i did the things i did.
Which i actually have beginning to doubt myself, now.

I chose the low contrast, black and white style to make a calm and pleasing picture, to the eye, and to create a special mood.

The sound i used, is a mix between, bubbles, echo, babykicks, and so on.

Afterall I'm impressed over how much i actually can make something this bad.

Deffinantly not proud of this. 

Final idea - Signs of two

Here is my final idea for the pictures that will be taken.
Info about each shot is below every column.

We are soon going to take the photos for the "nærvær" project. Here are my ideas.

NO/ Visuell kommunikasjon

1. Folk er først og fremst visuelle, deretter verbale.
- Bilder virker bedre, bilder overtaler oss.

2. Folk handler mer ut fra følelser enn fornuft.


3. Bilder vekker følelser og overtaler folk til handling
- For sterke bilder får oss til å se vekk

NO/ Bildekomposisjon

Det gyldne snitt:
Plassering av objekt på bilder, hvor bildet oppleves mer harmonisk av matematiske og naturlige grunner.

Balanse og symmetri:
Balanse og symmetri gjør bildet mer behagelig å se på.

Kameravinkel:
Forskjellige vinkler gir forskjellige opplevelser av det samme motivet.

Bevegelse og dybde:
Ved lang lukkertid, vil bevegelser som kameraet ser, bli dratt ut. Dette kan skape effekter, eller ødelegge bildet.
Når forgrunnen og bakrunnen blir utskildt, kaller vi det dybde.

"Nærvær"

Today we got a new topic for our next two weeks.
The topic was "Nærvær" which translates to "presence". Our final product shall consist of 5 photographs which tell a story.

Typographic design

Today's assignment was to make a poster by only using words and colors.
The poster was made in Pages.

Pictograms

Update coming soon.

Design principles

 Today we used different objects, to arrange in different ways. These methods are Balanced - symmetric, Balanced - asymmetric,  Focus, Rythm, Variation, Opposite - contrast, and fading.

Balanced - Symmetric








Balanced - asymmetric

Focus

Rythm

Variation

Opposite - contrast

Fade

Pictograms

Ignore my /irony- fantastic -irony/ drawing skills.
Today i finished the pictograms we had to make on paper, before we chose one to make in Adobe Illustrator.
We got a couple of styles/locations to choose from, and my style was made for a "youth club".

My idea was to slice the pictogram in half, to show what each thing does/is. For example an iPhone charger itself, charges- you guessed it. An iPhone.
Same with the vending machine. To get a drink, you put money in the machine.

The results are as showed to the left. Adjustments will be made in Illustrator.