Things that need to happen

phone too loud

start on zoom in

woman has no hair

dump girl ear is odd

record scratch is fast

dump girl should be more annoying

dump man has different shirt on

Self Critique for final first draft

Intent: address possible and farfetched relationship problems while using a similar structure to robot chicken
synopsis: A number of different scenarios occur dealing with relationship issues.
Changes or things to work on: Better title and perhaps a better way to close it.

Storyboard

Revised Logline

Things spiral out of control when we see what people will do in relationship and sex problems.

Story 1. Couple has sex, only for woman to find out afterwards that the man didn't use condom.

Story 2. Woman uses witch kraft to attract man only to find out later that he gives her aids.

Story 3. Boyfriend gets dumped by girlfriend, but he leaves her in the dumpster in an alley.

Story 4. Woman stands in line of seamen donor line.

Proposal for Final

1. 
   
   My final project focuses on the effect that a failing economy has over the decisions of people.


2. Different scenarios in which individuals are affected by economy will be presented. These scenes will by encased in a television that is in the form of a domino. I will change from scene to scene in a drastic manner. In one particular scenario, a man works at mcdonalds after losing a high paid job and takes the position before his daughter can get it. At the end of the scenarios, the dominos will fall after being pushed by the economy.


3. The failing economy has an effect on everyone.


4. The content will switch from screen to screen as if people’s lives were only scenarios, but these are actual events that can and have happened. The domino will emphasize the overall theme of how one event affects the next.
Storm Trooper

Gummy Bear

TV Static

Call of Duty

PS3

The Race

The Car

5.

6. Set-up: I establish failing economy by first scene when stock market drops and man is fired.

conflict: scenarios end badly for these characters

resolve: There isn't a peaceful resolve but the dominos at the end make the connection with all of the events that I show.

Midterm corrections

• there is a line in the beginning of the movie in the fade in
• take st, ave, and rd out of signs
• the other work sign should be moved above the horizon
• descriptor for other work is problematic
• Who's Controlling You should have a question mark
• different font in the beginning
• religion scene is too fast and need to be more readable
• blood should run down screen
• in the swallow or gulf in 3rd scene should be more expressive

Pitch for final

I will continue the idea of control making use of the video game. This time it will be about a young black man controlled by economy. First he is seen in store looking at some items that he can't afford. He then gets fired from job. He is very distraught. Quick shots of him not being able to pay for his rent. He starts to rob people. Camera zooms up and he has had puppet strings attached to him the whole time and it is a man named economy pulling his strings.

MIdterm Project

Who's controlling you from RahLeeCoh Ishakarah on Vimeo.

Project Midterm revise

Well after restless nights, this project has come to a close. I was able to link the sound with the image pretty well and I made corrections to my errors. I did notice that there are a few very small errors though that need revision.

Check points for midterm project

Things that need to change

Add Title

Kim Jong-il picture should be smoother

Walk of shame is too slow

South Korea should be better aligned

Korean flag should possibly go on shirt

Look more Korean

Audio

Video game music

Make more a video game theme

Cut between second and third scene is a bit slow

Surprised look after intranet is problem – make different web page

Change name of Google

In the early scenes he should walk into the grass and then get shot – maybe have someone yelling no walking on grass or have words that come up and say you loose a life

He gets shot in intranet room and blood scatters on screen

Gets wound by religious gate

Have a sign that says you have a freedom to religion

As he is walking he should have a blood trail

He should die at the end

Assignment Critique for Midterm

The Project

The basic idea was thought out for a while but it took a while to decide how I would show complex information through simple visual imagery. So far I have gotten all of my assets completed and the After Effects file is underway. In order for completion it needs to be timed better. I have a number of different compositions that all represent different scenes and it will be difficult to transition from scene to scene. I also plan to add visual cues and music at certain points because it might be over a minute.

Revise

RahLeeCoh J. Ishakarah
Dynamic Imaging Proposal revise
-The general concept for my project is control.
- I thought of forms of control and puppets initially came to mind, but I decided use video games as control and what if you were in a video game.
- Who would be pulling your strings?

Plot:
1. Begins with close-up of face. Man is running frantically.
2. There are four different crossroads
3. He chooses everything that is not his choices.
4. The camera zooms out and its television screen that someone is playing a video game.
5. It ends and words slam the screen saying “who’s controlling you.”

Possible Topics for crossroads include:
1. Teachers control over students
2. Economic control over citizen
3. Dictator over citizens
4. Bully’s opinion over class-mate

Project Proposal and Outline

RahLeeCoh J. Ishakarah
Project 5 Proposal
My general focus for this class is on different aspects of control.
For this particular project, the focal point will be about the control of a large amount of people in the suppression of one individual (this also represents simply minority vs. majority).

Sequence:
1. Two mouth-people walk in from both sides of the panel (one-right, one-left)
2. They exchange three blahs (these represent any form of argument) between each other- the one on the left side blah glows more intensely with the louder or larger his blah gets. The right-side mouth’s blah is bolder in black and reduces in size when the other gets larger…
3. …Until two more mouths join him.
4. The left mouth still tries to hold up but when 3 more come in making 6 against 1, the left side words dim a bit.
5. This reoccurs until there are a total of 12 blahs against 6. Suddenly they start to shout blah at the same time and create a massive blah that is shot at left-side blah, whose words have gotten dimmer, smaller, and fainter.
7. The large blah then pushes his blah into his mouth and it pops out the other side as a thought bubble.
8. He has been driven to only personal resistance which he internalizes until it begins to shake and blah!!! explodes out of his mouth and he falls down and shatters before the words reach the other side, it fades out.

Examples:

Stick Fight

Screaming Eggs

Stick Fight - Sword

Project from hell

Project 4 revise

Ok, so I just could not follow the tutorial at first and once i did time began to run out and I stumbled too many times. I'll try it later

Project 4 process

1. create title

2. precompose

3. create all other logos in different comps

4. create particle effect - adjust in effects window

5. bring camera in and operate by null

6. create adjustment label to blur

7. bring all other text in

8. bring final title in

Project 4

Kim Jung-il
Project 4
March 1
This project was challenging because sometimes the tutorial video had his setup a little different from own which made it a little more difficult to follow but I eventually understood it more.
- I decided to go in a direction more in line with the last projects revision.
- I had spoken to someone with LINK Libery In North Korea and it inspired me to go further with my last content; therefore I have created a title sequence for the last project.

Assignment 3

RahLeeCoh
Project 3 February 22
Individual
Everyone mainly suggested that I work more on the idea as far as what was being conveyed by words. They also believed that I need to work on timing.
- I really agree with all of this- and it inspired me to really revise and change my content while still maintaining the same direction.

Self Reflect

Project 3

This project turned out more annoying than I thought. I had to think about a small amount of words to create a larger concept. I had to narrow down my thoughts to get where I got.

Biography Outline

• Saul Bass: “My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film’s story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it”
• Bass, Saul (8 May 1920-25 Apr. 1996)
• Born in New York City to Aaron Bass and Pauline Feldman Bass
• After graduating from public high school in 1936 he received a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied until 1939.
• He had already launched his career as a freelance graphic designer after leaving high school, and he continued that career in New York until 1946
  Brooklyn College during the academic year 1944-1945
  
• 1946 Bass decided to move to the West Coast and settled in Los Angeles
  
• AT&T, Quaker Oats, Minolta, and the Bell Telephone Company
  Designed interior of air planes for United Airlines Exxon Corporation
  Otto Preminger's film Carmen Jones in 1954
  The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
  Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  West Side Story (1961)
  A Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
  Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
  Spartacus (1960)
  Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), and Psycho (1960)
  
• Why Man Creates, collaboration with wife Elaine Makatura, won an Academy Award for best documentary short subject in 1964
  
• 1960s withdrawn from film work - corporate clients
  
• 1987 Broadcast News.
  Several box-office hits, including Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and The Age of Innocence (1993),
  
• Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
  
• A few months before his death, the School of Visual Arts in New York City honored him with a retrospective exhibition
  
• Saul Bass died in 1996, in Los Angeles, leaving behind a flourishing
  design empire with Bass Yager Associates

Useful links

Ann T. Keene. "Bass, Saul";
American National Biography Online June 2000 Update.

Saul Bass

Book Sources

Graphic Design A New History by Stephen F. Eskilson
Visual Puns in Design by Eli Kince

Pictures

Greatest Films

50 Greatest Films

Psycho

Psycho

Saul Bass The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm

Self Critique

Project 2

Awaiting My Fall

Art puppets walk until they combine and fall off cliff.

It is meant to represent our willingness to follow crowds regardless of where it is going until we combine our idiocracy to the same end.

Technically I need to figure out how to create smoother motions.

I noticed as I was working that I had forgotten simple points in process, yet I understood the overall options that I have in AE.

Assignment Critique

This project was challenging as far as using an unfamiliar program to illustrate a concept that has been developed this year. There are things that I need to tweak in order to have a better grasp of the problem to get a more realistic motion.

Apparently, my intent wasn't clear. I need to create a better connection. The class agreed that the cars movement was unrealistic and they questioned the depth of the police officer. I should have created a mask to block out police officer, so flame was behind him.

Conceptual Proposal

I am interested in one’s ability to control his or her actions. In life, we are faced with challenges that will determine whether we become leaders or followers. Even as leader, we often follow corrupt systems. How do we allow ourselves to blindly give up our ability to think for ourselves, due to authority setting guidelines for us, even if these rules are dangerous to one’s development as a fully capable thinker?

I chose this topic, because I’ve been in a number of situations where I have to make a decision that would change my personality. An example is when I was 10 years old, in a class of 25; my teacher gave us a multiple choice question aloud. Everyone except me and three other children raised our hands for B. The rest of the class chose C. When she gave us a second chance to answer, the other three children joined the rest of the class. Confident in my truth, I stuck with my answer, which happened to be the right one.

This event has affected me greatly, because I stood alone against a majority and was right. Often people back down from their perspective truth, just because mass (as authority) says otherwise.

Sketches

Compiled Research

My Compiled Research
Below I will list a number of books, some books have scanned pages that provide possible conceptual directions for this year.
Some books will have scanned material below it.
Lucian, Satirist and Artist by Francis G. Allinson, Litt. D. Professor of Greek Literature and History Copyright 1926 The Plimpton Press Norwood, Massachusetts U.S.
-born Syrian-self-made Greek
idea that sparked from this book
The idea that you belong to a culture based on the values or traditions that you abide by or your mere existance or birth in that region or particular culture.

Democracy and the Police
Critical Perspective on Crime and Law by David Alan Sklansky
Stanford University Press 2008


This page talks about the trade off of "democratic values" for the protection of the police. Already there have been events in which police authority or the position of power drives police officers past social ethics.
Police Brutality
There is also a website dedicated to police brutality called
Citizens Against Police Abuse (CAPA)


Realizing the Impossible
Art Against Authority
Edited by Josh Macphee and Erik Reuland 2007 Second Printing





Artist Influenced by Ararchy


Pablo Picasso


Camille Pissarro


Georges Seurat


Man Ray


Robert Henri


Wassily Kandinsky


Rockwell Kent


Frans Masereel


Mark Rothko


"When reading these essays, his crucial to keep in mind that ararchism is not a singular political program so much as a thorough commitment to substantive equality and the potential for human liberation. "


"Do you want to make a living off art, or do you want to make a life of art?" Cortez K. Carlos




Who Let the Dogs In?

Molly Ivins
Copyright 2004 Molly Irvins
2005 Random House Trade Paperback Edition



Women of the New Right
Rebecca E. Klatch
Copyright 1987 by Temple University


Juvenal The Satires New Translation
by Niall Rudd 1991

Human Genome Project
Cracking the Genetic Code of Life by Thomas F. Lee 1991 Thomas F. Lee

Websites to assist

Censorship in America
Is it Ethical to Assist Desired Suicide (euthanasia)
Satire

Opposite Idea

Image Ideas

Current direction

Sketches are rough but might develope into complex images that have satirical meanings behind them. In order to add a bit of my personality into them it would be nice to be able to use words to create tension through sarcasm. I also want to use small scale situations to illustrated accepted modern and past ideologies as well as social issues that are unresolved.

40 Opposing Ideas

1. Servile
2. Exciting
3. Apathetic
4. Apocalypse
5. Repulse
6. Irrelevant
7. Conceited
8. Malice
9. Conspiracy
10. Imminent
11. Ignoble
12. Extravert
13. Professional
14. Sell-out
15. Vulgar
16. Calm
17. Nature
18. Zealous
19. Melancholy
20. Mandated
21. Considerate
22. Anti-biotic (creating yin and yang)
23. Self-sustaining
24. Negative
25. Self-assured
26. Replenish
27. Menial
28. Extravagant
29. Blind
30. Bold
31. Stopping problem before it starts through the study of pattern
32. Social understanding
33. Offensive
34. Proactive response
35. Personalized attitude
36. Truthful intent
37. Individualized survival
38. Social need
39. Perspective reality
40. Detached influence

40 Ideas

1. Independent
2. Disappointment
3. Inhumane
4. Spaceships
5. Inject
6. Special
7. Ambivalence
8. Benevolence
9. Desultory
10. Retrospective
11. Valiant
12. Introvert
13. Zany
14. Zealous
15. Innocence
16. Tumultuous
17. Conditioned
18. Phlegmatic
19. Obdurate
20. Abdicate
21. Dismissive
22. Bacteria
23. Parasite
24. Optimistic
25. Self-destructive
26. Deteriorate
27. Meaningful
28. Plain
29. Sight
30. Invisible
31. Systematic defeat
32. Appropriation
33. Self-pity
34. Victimization
35. Outside Projection
36. Justified Ethos
37. Socio-economic
38. Sacred
39. Universal truths
40. Personal attribute

Brainseaching and Freewriting

My freewriting took flight into a number of different directions. It began at describing my first encounter of Memphis, which wasn't a very pleasant experience. It spured off into my experience at Memphis College of Art some good, some bad. My educational discussion with myself led to cultural diversity, something I desire for and surprisingly I feel my surrounding lacks due to an only visual art community. Though some people show some facets of other skills and talents, most of the people that I have come into contact with are pronge to the stardards of
"art kids." This personal discussion turned into an exploration of my personal abilities and how the college affected them. This also meant a discussion about my child hood experiences that shaped my personality as and adult and how art became a piece of who I am yet it does not define me. I also started to think about art in relation to personal life and how to create a balance of the two. I even wanted to learn how to make life and art work as a unit which is hard concidering the use of art as an economic gain rather than a hobby. After exploring different ideas about myself and who I am I just decided to write what was on my mind, right at the moment, which happened to be sex, gender roles, my girlfriend, marriage, a fear of not reaching my potential as an artist or simply as a man. Basicly thoughts about life that fired off after I thought of one subject after the next. I ended my brain rant on the topic of conditioned behaviors vs inherent behaviors which led to a sort of conclusion that personal response is affected by social feedback.

Just Getting Started

This is my second blog ever created and it is strictly for my dynamic image class at Memphis College of Art.