• What is the focus of your project?

Transformation as a movie trailer. Putting the meaning of the word into the identity shifts in the conversation. (Then make the ending of the video reverse)

• Who is your target audience?

All ages. The orientation of this short film will be a comedy.

• What’s your work direction?

I will focus on the theme, then write a story based on it, then shoot it into a full film, and finally cut the video to the appropriate length.

• Reflect on your work and ideas from the course so far. What key things did you learn, what was successful, what was difficult, what you enjoyed, what you wanted to do more of?

From the beginning of the school year to now, my homework production has been smooth sailing. I have learned some new production techniques that I have not tried too much before, such as stop-motion animation. So far, I have been most successful in the production ideas of the subject, while the more difficult ones are the new ideas that need to be carried out during the shooting. What always drives me to make is my love of writing. At the same time, it is also an aspect that I want to do more. I transform each topic into something I am interested in by changing my thinking.

• Explain how your transformational project will expand your knowledge, understanding and ability to innovate. Then write down the subject area you intend to research and possible sources of information, such as: books, journals, galleries, locations, etc. What media and materials are relevant to your project and how might you use them to explore and develop your ideas?

I will do a lot of research, learn what I can from it, and then apply it to my shooting. The search channels I chose were usually online videos and books, and the subject of my video reshot was Anwar Jibawi’s polygraph series.

• How will you critically review and analyze your work and judge whether it has been successful?

I get the main feedback through weekly class sharing with teachers and classmates. Every time there is a new work process, I will review the previous production results, and then reflect on the previous achievements at this new time point. Do I like and want to continue to develop like this?

• How will you determine your personal and professional direction? Where and how will you evaluate your work?

I will continue to pursue about writer’s work, so I will pick in undergraduate Film and Screen Study this subject to all aspects of the films and television shows to textual understanding, and then in the graduate school of picking Screenwriting for understanding the writers of this door, I’m in the middle of the next career, as a writer should be how to work correctly. If everything goes well, I will choose to be a film writer. At present, I am trying to write an anti-fairy tale full-page animated film adapted from a traditional story (the final form of expression has not been finalized yet). The script was inspired by the old legend of the dragon slayer. “St. George slays the dragon,” and a movie called “Maleficent.”

— What Is Emoji?

“Emoji” are usually a way of using pictures to express emotions.
Emoticons are a kind of popular culture formed after the popularity of social software. They are popular on the Internet, and almost everyone will post memes.

In the era of mobile Internet, people take popular stars, quotations, cartoons and screenshots of movies and TV shows as materials, and add a series of matching words to express specific emotions.

— Artist Research

One app that’s been particularly popular on iOS recently is Moji Maker. The app extracts most of the elements from the original emoji icons to form a package of 16 types of emoji elements, including facial features, gestures, accessories and masks, which can be combined by users themselves to create new emoji ICONS.
The group of emojis I investigated this time actually have nothing to do with this app.

The emojis were created by Sam Cantor, an Art director and designer who runs the Los Angeles-based gallery Cantor Fine Art with his father Larry. Once Larry asked his followers on social media, “Which artist or work would you most like to see appear in an emoji? Do you suggest, we make…” It quickly became a hot event.

What’s interesting about this collection of icons is that they are all based on famous artists or works of art, such as Dali with a goatee, Van Gogh with his ears missing, Mona Lisa, the lovely Vitruvian Man, etc… Even though they look nothing like themselves, if you know these artists and their paintings, you will recognize them at once because they have strong symbolic feature.

— Draw My Own Emoji

According to the requirements, we need to find nine words that sum up this period of time according to the aspects of study, life, body and mind, from the beginning of school to the present. And then we draw them into emojis using our own imagination and the form we want to express.

• The Nine Words

I chose LCC, airplane, virus, ear, computer, camera, two human expressions and pen and paper. Obviously, I have taken up the majority of the vocabulary in study, and of course I have picked some in life as well.

The LCC represents my arrival at this school, the plane is my route between the UK and China, and the virus represents the dangerous situation in the world at present. These three symbols represent the emojis before I go to school and get to work.

The computer has clearly shown that because of the epidemic, we’ve changed the format of our classes to online classes. The camera represents my chosen professional category. These are the ones that I represent in the class.

There are two facial expressions of characters, one is confused, the other is the appearance of a new idea, which represents the appearance of me when I usually conceive homework (I habitually wear glasses when I edit homework).

The last two are the emojis about my life. In the bleeding ears, it means that I have to have another operation due to my ear problems on my way to study. And paper and pen represent my biggest hobby in my spare time, that is, writing stories.

• The Final Emojis

Because in the beginning I just imagined things that happened in school and put them into words. My group members told me that my thinking should be expanded to cover my entire time, not just study. So I took their advice and reimagined it, and after finalizing the final draft, I drew it on the computer.

— The Preparatory Work

I found my classmates, and then we chose a spacious room with some glow sticks. After turning off the lights in the room, we took a series of pictures by using the delayed photography of the camera.

— The Final Shot Image

In this process, I took several pictures that can represent me (the blank figure on the left has a halo on the back of his head), which represents my longing for and preference for non-human creatures.

Then we also shot symbols, fonts and animal styles. The second chapter on the right is a painting of butterflies and caterpillars. (but it’s too abstract)

— Contact Sheet And Some Reflection

After I took the picture above, I tried to use people to do similar shooting, but the final result was not particularly ideal. The whole picture would be particularly blurred and messy after people moved in delay photography.

Key Words: artist research, Collection obsession, definition of collection, self-understanding, comparison, specimen, animal, animal protection, painting, painter, painting works, color collection, oil painting, self-portrait, an extended discussion, slow motion, photography, post retouring, PS

Brief Introduction: For the post-production of this work, I set up a blog for them because there are so many artists that need to be investigated and discussed. In this page, I will introduce my research content from two aspects.

— Collector in Life

Do you have hobbies like collecting? Maybe some people like collecting stamps, some people like collecting coins, some people like collecting records, and some people like collecting toys and models. Now Buzzfeed has put together a series of photos of collectors to show how crazy they are.

— Artist Survey, About Taxidermy

• Gerard Geer

“Through the cylinder and the glass, the material object is fragmental and looks like a digital malfunction.”

The alternations of size, shape, and position of these water-filled contains offer an endless array of combinations. “Desrspective” is an interesting study of everyday life, challenging the single identity of ordinary things to reveal a multitude of visual represent tat ions.

Melbourne Artist Gerard Geer has opened an exhibition at Binary gallery to showcase his bizarre and deadly animal bones.
Fantasy, bold idea. Hands-on ability and other color matching, beautiful and quirkiness.

Taxidermy, the practice of making lifelike specimens of real animals, was mostly popular in England during the Victorian era, but with the help of modern science, the ancient art is beginning to come back to life. According to one survey, the stuffed animal industry is worth more than $600 million a year in the United States alone.

Amanda Sutton, who runs a workshop at the Museum of Pathology at Barts Medical School in London, teaches taxidermy to people, including the historical and scientific background behind the technique. The taxidermy process varies from person to person, and from animal to animal.
The taxidermist’s policy is not to use animals that have been specifically killed, but to accept only those that have died naturally or accidentally, in a way that preservers the beauty of the animals in life.

— The Exploration of Color And The Continuation of Works

• Blue, Yves Klein

In 1956, Klein synthesized a unique lapis lazolite Blue with the help of a chemist, and five years later he patented the color, called International Klein Blue, or IKB.

Klein’s blue frees the viewer from the game of “finding a theme” and letting his mind wander.
But on the other hand, this use of color seems to echo Klein’s mystic tendencies. He was fascinated by all the mystical ideas, the infinite, the indefinite, the absolute, which had always occupied his mind.

Klein was so enamored with blue that he loved the different colors of the sea and even learned to sail for them — “blue is the color of sky, water and air, depth and infinity, freedom and life. Blue is the essential color of the universe.” His blue monochrome paintings can even be seen as a mockery of the abstract art of the time. For they are “not only themeless, they are, as it were, nothing, if anything, ’empty'”.

• 何多苓, Gray

In the contemporary Chinese painting world, He Duoling is a remarkable figure.
Since the release of the oil painting Spring Breeze Has Awakened in 1982, his new works have been published constantly. His painting style has changed quietly, and his form and language have been gradually improved. However, his face as a painter is distinct and his image to people is overall. He is regarded as a realist painter of great talent.

Grey is the most basic color on He Duoling’s canvas over the years, and it turns out that he is really good at it. If you go to his studio, you will find that the colors on his palette are pure, even monotonous. It is a challenge to use the simplest materials to represent the most complex objects.

In recent years, the persistence and persistence of He Duoling’s depiction of the female human body, the simplest yet most complex field, has been a test for him. The so-called distinction between “creation” and “study” has become unimportant under the pen of He Duoling, who has already injected the soul for those shadowy figures while conducting formal experiments.
Most of the models he photographed in the process of collecting materials did not have any clear expressions, and the motion was also the most general. Of course, this must be the appearance that the painter himself required.
They usually just stand or sit idly. However, their bodies and eyes become the most direct carriers of language. Then, in pictures simple enough, peaceful enough, peaceful enough, gradually you can feel the uneasiness behind the silence, feel the compulsion to be constantly subdued, and if you are attentive enough, you can even listen to the sounds of desire.

• Pierre Soulages, black

Pierre Sulage has been called the spokesman of the “black” in the art world. Black is almost always the theme, from his original 1946 walnut plant-dyed paper paintings to his latest large oil paintings on canvas. He was fascinated by black as a child and always covered his paper with black. “What are you drawing?” he was once asked. He answered, “I am drawing snow, because black makes the white snow whiter.”

He allowed the paint on his canvas to dominate his work year after year, making no resistance and concentrating more on the texture and effect of the paint as it appeared. Thus, he is not so much painting black as “carving” it. The painting tools he used sometimes made the surface of the painting flat, and sometimes produced many texture effects on the surface, so as to fully reflect the effect of light, shadow and color. Soulages’s paintings give each viewer a unique experience, depending on the environment and the time of day.So some critics say Soulages “liberated black from darkness.”

• Research Summary

The three artists I investigated above have played a great role in my later works. These three colors basically determine the color trend of my works.

Apart from blue, especially the black and grey, these two colors are almost on my emotional tendency, maybe my work is becoming more and more single color now, and my work is becoming more and more close to through various angles pour out human those seemingly elusive emotion – fragile, sad, sensitive, dismay… Just like the gray, black and white on the picture, it gives people a feeling of uncertainty and hard to let go.

I think the tone of the next works will be introverted, unable to stop but also wanting to talk back. However, the meaning space of these images will become more open and broader, and can enter the collective unconscious of more viewers. I will not add too many figures in the work, the single color and the only model standing there, their body is often the best expression.

—The Continuation of The Artist’s Work, The Combination of Colors, The Meaning of Oil Painting

In the old times, in order to leave some important memories and facilitate recording, people in the old times would draw the scene at that time by finding excellent painters, recording with paintings and collecting indelible memories with paintings.

When the society develops gradually with time and the technology progresses gradually, when the camera and a series of advanced equipment are invented, it is hard to imagine how terrified the painters who depend on painting at that time, because there is no more realistic painting that can compare with what the camera brings to us.

But today, in the production of this work, I want to go back to that era. I want to pick up the colors that people gradually ignore, and then shoot a group of pictures based on them.

Key Words:artist research, Collection obsession, definition of collection, self-understanding, comparison, specimen, animal, animal protection, painting, painter, painting works, color collection, oil painting, self-portrait, an extended discussion, slow motion, photography, post retouring, PS

Production method: Photography(4 groups of 43 photos in total)

Content summary: this page focuses on the production process of the work, as well as the reflection on the work and attempts to improve it

— Contact Sheet

— The Production Idea of The Work

• In the literal sense, the original meaning of collection is to collect and preserve. Collection is divided into national collection and folk collection. And since there is a collection, there must be collectors. They will do it for some reasons, probably because of their personal interests, or because they want to make a culture pass on. But they usually have a certain economic strength, and have a certain amount of professional experience, so that they can reach a considerable collection scale of collectors.

• But this is just a professional explanation. For me, collecting has two meanings. One is what people apply to things or phenomena, and the other is what objects and phenomena say to people. From this view, my definition of collection is mutual, is the existence of opposites. However, there are too many kinds of objects and phenomena, so I choose the fields that fall within the scope of art major. At the same time, they are also what I am interested in and good at.

• In this work, I chose photography to express my ideas. I took and produced three sets of pictures. Before this, I took a series of pictures outside to help me make the final work, and the objects I shot were classified according to the requirements.

• One group is about “human beings towards substance/phenomenon”. I named this group of shooting work “STAY”. This is an expression of the way people think about collecting things. They buy them for various reasons, and then keep them around. This can be both a comfort to oneself and a valuable inheritance for the collection to survive.

• A group of “Matter/Phenomenon for Man,” which I named “Escape.” As we all know, most collections are inanimate, so the best place for them might be to go into the hands of collectors and stay there. But not all collections are worthy of being collected, and some are alive before they become “collections.” As for the specimens, most of them certainly do not belong here, so they will never change the heart of wanting to escape.

• In the last group, I discussed in depth the “human definition of matter”, which is an explanation of “collection”. I chose a “color” that will last for centuries.They are displayed on canvases by artists in various artistic means, and then. After they become famous, purchased as collectibles for the rest of their lives. In this group of shooting, I selected some painters and photographers to conduct research, and then made my own collection of colors.

—  Extended shooting of two groups of color research

• The preliminary color mixing practice and retouching attempt

After the investigation, I chose to shoot and make some attempts about color first, because it would run through the whole production process of my work. Therefore, taking this step in the first place would help me save more time in the shooting and production of the last two groups of pictures.

I took a lot of pictures and put them into Photoshop to try out different color retouches.
In this way we can also get different kinds of pictures.

• New ideas found in color research

The shooting objects of this group of pictures are water and the table top. In the later stage, I selected all parts of the water pool and added color. As you can see, I changed the transparent water pool into blue at the beginning. After this I woke up to the background blurring and light processing.

This makes the color of the water pool and the background rich and full, and it not only reminds me of the appearance of the planets in the universe.

— Display of finished products

• “Human definition of matter” is an “interpretation of collection”. I chose a “color” that will last for centuries.

< The Universe >

After the color research and simple photography, I thought of the rich surface of the planet because of the attempt of production. Therefore, I paid special attention to this idea when creating color. Finally, I turned my eyes to the flagstone road near my community and shot them into a group of pictures.

The stone path.
Local shooting.
After a simple post-processing.

< Blue >

This series of pictures is mainly a continuation of the artist research on the previous page. For the collection of colors, I choose Klein blue, which is easier to create and find.
And with blue as the main body, I found different objects to create the following picture.
Most of the images I have done post background processing, I have made the background white.

Plastic foam paper, blue highlighters, toning ink and brushes, filling paper of different colors, gouache, gloves with large paint

—  Two Meanings of Collection

Pre-shooting.
The first attempt at post retouching.
Pills and plastic ice cubes were chosen to give it a try.

• This set of pictures is about people’s instinctive thoughts about matter/phenomena

Here, I liken humans to collectibles. I ask the model to curl up, which is like a specimen/collectibles placed in a glass case with limited movement. After that, I pulled the model out of the background and placed it on a white background board. Finally, I rendered it with a black ink effect.

The white background represents their new, completely blank life, while the black ink represents the so-called decoration their owners have given them. Retouching increased, until the final black completely covered the collection, like their owners, decorated and then forgotten. The choice of these two colors was also a result of the artist research on the previous page.

< Stay >

• The use of slow motion. The meaning of the existence of matter and phenomena for human beings

Why use this expression in slow motion? Compared with the expression of the lens with normal speed, first of all, “slow motion” is more like adding more details to the description and characterization of the subject, because the scene with normal speed in reality may end before people can see clearly. Secondly, the atmosphere can be created by slowing down time, such as the death of characters and so on.

Take one of the most famous of the matrix of an example of “bullet time”, at the moment the shot, leading by slow motion back and dodge bullets, leading the lens to focus, rotate 360 degrees, except on the narrative expression character very much, also brings the audience is not the same visual experience, such a surprise picture excite the audience call for.

In this set of pictures, I want to express the significance of material and phenomenon to human beings. In this case, the subject is the collection of freedom seized. As we all know, most collections are inanimate, so the best place for them might be to go into the hands of collectors and stay there. That’s what most collectors do, but not all collections are worth collecting. For those who are alive but are being taxidermied on the pretext that they are alive, the moment they see the gun, they want to run away.

In this group of image processing, I found a background as simple as possible, a place with good light.And then I thought about it, this image, but because I was shooting on a human model, I thought about it a little bit further, and I added a little bit of a human element to the escape. Finally, I adjusted the shooting Angle and distance to make the camera closer to the subject so that the subject could be emphasized enough.

< Escape >

This time the topic is a question of collection. In the primary research, I proceeded to a simple survey on this topic and a series of pre-shooting.

In this survey, I divided it into two categories. One is the work of artists and my understanding of them, and the reason why I choose them as the research object. The other is the history of my collection of artists I like.

— Artist Research With Feelings

After the shooting assignment in class, I researched this type of art work. How should I collect and use such objects to shoot a group of similar photos?

• Claude Monet/ RouenNotre-Dame

Combine this natural atmosphere with a creative imagination and turn every second of action into a unique painting. Through this series of paintings, we can feel the mood, temperature and atmosphere of Monet when he painted.

Because of the shooting of the work, I can easily think of the painter Monet. The most memorable is his series on the cathedral of Rouen. Duomo de Rouen is the first time that Monet has developed a series of work on the same object. When Monet painted the Rouen church, he observed the change of light in different time periods. The stone walls of the church refracted with the sunlight to produce different colors. Monet has long been exploring the expressive effect of light, color and air. He is highly sensitive to the changes of light. He often paints multiple pictures of the same object, expressing the instantaneous feeling from the pure light and color changes.

Similarly, this style of work is also reflected in artists Suzanne Saroff and Megan Cooper.

• Suzanne Saroff

The beauty of the perspective, the perfect lighting, the creative imagination comes from New York photographer Suzanne.

Saroff’s group of photographs of abstract perspective photographer and art director Suzanne Saroff was born in Montana in 1993 and lives and works i new york. Her series, perspective, is an interesting study of everyday life that challenges the single identity of mundane objects by distorting vision. Using food, plants and transparent water-filled containers as props. She uses reflection and directional light to adjust the size. Shade and position of the containers to show infinite combinations and wonderful colors.

• Megan Cooper

“Chead” by Megan Cooper

Blood, lipstick, represents different stories. Having made a few puffs or used the fire excessively. Snuffed out, flattened or printed. Black ink, represents, the dead soul.

• J.C. Leyendecker

After conducting a series of surveys on artists, I did the same with my favorite illustrators. I collected and edited out his parallel advertising drawings and newspaper designs. Then I typeset them, followed by an introduction and a description of my feelings.

Here I’ve put together a collection from Joe and his brother Frank, who started painting, to when he met his life partner.
I have listed and collected a lot of his and Frank’s painting collections. Through sorting out the magazines and periodicals they painted, we can find the similarities between them.

Joe, a painter of the golden age of American illustration. He drew his illustration on the public in a fascinating way of life and the foundation of modern advertising illustration.

— Display of Shooting Works

After doing all the research, I made a similar shooting according to the requirements of the assignment. I took a total of nearly 50 photos, but finally according to the requirements of the three groups of photos, I arranged and typeset the following photos of photography and post-shooting. After selecting the things to shoot, I shot them, and then I did some post-processing and draw according to the requirements.