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• 1960s withdrawn from film work - corporate clients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.