WEEK 4 Stop Motion Animation

What Is Stop Motion Animation: Stop-motion Animation works by shooting subjects one by one and then running them through a sequence to create a living character or any other bizarre character you can imagine. Stop-motion animation is usually performed by clay puppets, puppets, or mixed material characters.

Type of Production: Rectilinear motion, sequential design, circular motion, frames (frame rate), rotational motion, periodic motion

—Shoot at least 24 pictures to create a stop-motion animation, in 30 seconds

—The Idea of Making: Because it was in the classroom, I selected the sticky note available around to make this stop-motion animation. I chose L and T at the beginning of my name as the theme. In this stop-motion animation, I show the appearance and disappearance of the two letters, and I added a little snippet to decorate the video before actually starting to write.

< Beating letters >

—The Improvements I Want To Make: The light needs to be fixed at one value and the overall picture needs to be brighter. The background needs to be the same color that echoes the main object(It’s best to pair with objects) At the same time, you need to fix the Angle of the shot.

WEEK 3 Zine Make Research and Work Produced

—The Category of The Zine: Political zines, craft zines, poetry and short story zines, queer zines

—Zine Inner Page Making Category: Concertina, thread bindings, acetate cover, tracing paper

—Artist Research

Nick White, “Washing Up”
My feeling about the work
Inner page making category: minimalistic, full Image, no text
Survey of websites
My typographic design, covers and inside page

—Ideas Before Results

Use the work I have done before < Running in winter >

Ordinary page- turning

Presentation of Samples: https://m.weibo.cn/7490620122/4572807059211542

—Display of Works, One Animation and One Script

Location: Home
Location: Someone’s home

Presentation of < Orange cake roll >

https://m.weibo.cn/7490620122/4572807638287004

Presentation of < An impromptu little story>

https://m.weibo.cn/7490620122/4572807688356425

—An Impromptu Little Storty About a Conversation

—Reflections On Works

Before and After

WEEK 3 Street View

Pick a fixed place on the Google map, and capture 10 images to make a story.

—Screenplay Category, The Idea

Picture Location: Los Angeles 1665 – 1699 Willox Ave, Los Angeles, “YOU ARE THE STAR”

Express Theme: Movie scene stitching and adaptation in La La Land

Conception of the story

—Production Process and Expression Center

Explain the process of production
Research on artists in related fields, Helley Docherty

—Partial Works Display

< Story In Story >
The effect on the sketch book
< Running In winter >
Animation category works

—A Detailed Display of Story In Story’s Works

(The story is provided under the picture)

Every story has twisted and turned.
Sadness into river upstream.
I for who the desperate.
But just like springs do eventually converge to the sea.
The water that loves the stream will stay in the puddle.
The water that loves the sea will jump off the cliff at all costs.
What should meet will meet.
After all, you can not stay from your fingers slipped water drops.

—Reflection

Next time, look for some pictures from different angles and try to get clearer when taking screenshots, or look for some clearer pictures to make.

WEEK 2 Character Sketches And Interior Classroom Collages

Choose something in the room to draw about it
Three five minutes character sketches
Collage from classroom
One research about collage
Street sketches
People waiting for buses on the streets of Britain
Sketching at the police station
People waiting in line to register
Sketching at the police station
People waiting in line to register
Sketching at the police station
People waiting in line to register

WEEK 2 Primary and Secondary Research

—Primary Research

Data collection, Photographs, Video, Interview, Mind- Map, Observational Drawing, Collecting, Writing, Record Sounds

Primary Research, Vivian Maier
Primary Research, Vivian Maier

—Secondary Research

Books, Articles, Artist Study, Internet (Reliable Sources), Library, Museums, Galleries, Old photographs, Maps

Secondary Research, Sense 8
Secondary Research, the Lord of the Rings

CCS Title Sequence of Watchmen

Tell the story of the rise and fall of superheroes in the time of a song

https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/watchmen/

Watchmen From DC comic

MAIN TITLES DIRECTOR — Zack Snyder

MUSIC — The Times They Are A-Changin by Bob Dylan
FILM DIRECTOR — Zack Snyder
COUNTRY — USA
LANGUAGE — English

Created by Alan Moore, painted by Dave Gibbons and colored by John Higgins, the comics have been acclaimed in both the comic world and the mainstream media as classic works in comics.
Watchmen is one of the “100 Best English Novels from 1923 to the present” selected by Time magazine in 2005, and it has also won the Hugo Award, the highest honor in the science fiction and art world, for its comic works.


“Watchmen” was released in 2009. The R-rated film received mixed reviews from the public and polarized media. But no one can deny its artistic opening, which uses a lot of slow motion and brief pauses to create the visual illusion of a time machine going back to history. Its grand historical background, American thinking during the Cold War, and the reshaping of American history, both shown and fabricated, make it one of the most memorable classic film clips of this era.

There’s a lot of shooting going on in this opening sequence. And the techniques used are often matched with long shots, close shots and panoramic shots.

—Shooting Methods

There are five main shooting methods used in the opening sequence.

  • Push the lens
    Push the lens is video shot one of the commonly used gimmick of du, cameras and gradually close to the picture, designed the picture frame by is gradually narrowing, scenery gradually enlarge picture, the line of sight of the audience see a from the overall layout, this push lens can guide the audience more appreciative role inner activities, strengthen the emotional climate of the foil.
  • Pull the lens
    To pull a camera is to put a camera on a moving car and pull it away from a person or object.
    As the camera moves away from the subject, the image expands from one part to another, allowing the viewer to move back and see the connection between the part and the whole.
  • Pan
    Shaking the lens is a kind of shooting technique in shooting video, which refers to the shooting method of changing the axis of the optical lens of the camera with the help of the movable chassis on the tripod or the cameraman himself as the fulcrum when the camera position is still.
  • A close-up
    A close-up is a shot of a person’s face, a part of the human body, or a detail of an object in a movie.
    It was first created and used by the early American film director Griffith et al.
    Its appearance and application enrich and enhance the unique expression of film art, which has always been film aesthetics.
  • Move the shaft
    The effect of the photo taken by shifting the axis is like a miniature model, which is very special.
    The function of the axle-shifting lens was originally used to correct the perspective problems caused by the ordinary wide-angle lens, but later it was widely used to create photography works with varying depth of field focal points.

—Cinematography

Cinematography is full of technique, which can not only give people a high sense of style visually, but also bring people into the story through the tone and tension of the photos themselves. In this opening scene, I combined several common and commonly used shooting methods to explain.

– The composition
In this opening, the photography mainly uses the method of symmetrical composition. And in the film, the shooting uses a lot of slow motion and deliberate pauses to strengthen the overall storyline and give people time to discover what needs to be discovered in the whole picture.
Central composition is one of the most common forms of composition because it is the most conservative and error-prone one.
For symmetric composition, whether it is architecture or people, there are many USES of symmetric composition. The advantage of symmetrical composition is that the picture is balanced and stable, while the disadvantage is that the overall picture is a little dull. However, since most of this shooting technique is used in the film to deal with architecture, this shortcoming is also perfectly concealed.
– Color
Compared with composition, color can more directly express emotions and render emotions. Whether a movie is brilliant, color also accounts for a large proportion, the same is true of photos. In this film, the head is tilted in the old-fashioned way. The whole picture is dark and tends to cool colors. This post-processing makes the story more relevant to the feeling of the time.
– Storytelling
The film is usually the carrier of the story, and the picture full of “film sense” must be very pictorial and story-like. In short, to make a photograph feel “cinematic” you have to make it tell a story like a movie. And this opening shot makes it very clear that this is about American history.

—The following is a detailed description of the entire opening

BEGIN

“The Times They Are A-Changin” by Bob Dylan in The 1960s.
In 1964, Bob Dylan released The album The Times They Are A-Changin.
The words anti-war, equal rights, the pursuit of freedom and equality were added to Dylan, and he became the voice of America in the 1960s, the idol of young people rebelling against the establishment.
The director chose this song well, because he couldn’t have chosen a better match for the opening sequence.

The original Nite Owl fights robbers with his trademark iron fist at the Gotham City Opera

Picture to the right the poster on the wall is batman first cover, this is at the gate of Wayne couple, the famous American comic book hero “Batman” Bruce Wayne parents, as well as the butler Alfred, originally in the cartoon should be snatched the purse and died in the opera house back alley Wayne couple to survive, so Bruce did not become batman, instead of his place is the watchmen.

The Silk Spectre stood in the middle of a crowd of policemen holding up the New York Newspaper, which read: “The era of criminals will end in laughter.”

Behind the group photo is the U.S. Supreme Court, and Minutemen, the former watchmen, have officially begun working with the government. Three of the seven men pictured together are eyeing her breasts, and the one standing next to her is brazenly. But she is proud of it.

The Comedian has got hold of The bank robber

The Script has been led by Violent Saboteur after being fired by Minutemen and has been led by Watchman. Is laughing as captured in the 1930 s during the great depression, active in the bank robber in the Midwestern United States and the United States, Herbert John Dillinger gang members, in spite of the police and others dislike, even when the American FBI (later reorganized as the federal bureau of investigation ) crown ” Public Enemy No. 1 “, but it is still a big to him, at that time, people think he is a modern Robin Hood.

In 1940, Minutemen, a fledgling superhero group, formed to take family photos of their Minutemen members

Photo shoot captures Minutemen members’ finest moments, from left to right: The Silhouette, Mothman, Dollar Bill, Nite Owl, Captain Metropolis, The Comedian, Silk Spectre, Hooded Justice.

American bombers dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima, Japan

The aircraft was the Enola Gay, a famous B-29 superfortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan. The front of the plane is painted with a portrait of the Silk Spectre generation instead of the words’ ENOLA GAY ‘originally printed in history.

The famous V-J Day Kiss has been replaced the main character
V-J Day Kiss

On August 15, 1945, in New York’s Times Square, people celebrated the end of World War II, with a striking headline in the New York newspaper: “Victory! Japan surrenders “. But then The famous photo in history, Victory Day in Times Square, where The character was changed, and The sailor came in late and saw himself replaced by The Silhouette and kissed The nurse, and then people saw The look behind The scenes, and it reflects the hostile attitude towards homosexuality in the United States at that time.

In 946, Dollar Bill was shot by a bank robber who was trying to stop a bank robbery when the hood got caught in a revolving door
The Incredibles

Pixar’s The Incredibles has a classic homage to this plot.

Happy Retirement Sally, a Retirement party for the Silk Spectre, the first generation of Silk, whose real name is Sally Jupiter
The Last Supper

The composition is similar to the last Supper. The Silk Spectre generation is pregnant. Standing next to her is her husband. The intimate sight of the Silhouette holding hands with the nurse also confirms their relationship.

Mothman’s alcoholism has led to severe health problems and poor mental health that have forced him to be institutionalized in a Maine sanatorium
The Silhouette and her Lesbian girlfriend were killed and the words “Lesbian Whores” were written in blood on the wall

Newspaper reports of a Lesbian victory kiss, and the scarlet Lesbian Whores on the wall, were the extreme acts of anti-homosexuality on the eve of Stonewall, which is the starting point of the gay rights movement.

Young Rorschach stood outside her mother’s door

Rorschach, the son of a prostitute, quietly and placidly joined the line of clients at the door, one of whom held A newspaper headline that read “RUSS HAVE A-BOMB”, marking the start of the Cold War.

Dr.Manhattan and John F. Kennedy shook hands in front of the White House

Dr. Manhattan, working with the government as a response to the Soviet nuclear threat, should have Dr. Kissinger with him at that time.

It turned out that The murderer was The comedian at The assassination of President Kennedy

On November 22, 1963, In Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a Lincoln. In real history, the official investigation reports that Oswaldo fired the gun at the library, but ballistics experts later determined that the gun was fired at the location of The Comedian in the movie.

The Silk Spectre witnesses her mother (the Silk Spectre generation) quarrelling with her father
Thích Quảng Đức

On June 11, 1963, Vietnamese Buddhist Thích Quảng Đức sat on the ground in Saigon, set his body on fire and killed himself to protest against south Vietnamese government leader Ngo Dinh Diem and the South Vietnamese Catholic Church’s policy of persecuting Buddhists.

Police on patrol found two men tied to a roadside fire hydrant and a piece of paper with a Rorschach logo on it
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

The two men tied up were Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the journalists who exposed the Watergate scandal and forced Nixon out of office. Nixon was re-elected because they were killed.

Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro parade in Red Square in Brezhnev, Russia
Khrushchev and Castro

Castro visited the Soviet Union for the first time after the Cuban missile crisis in 1963.

Tragedy at Kent State University
Allison Krause

On May 4, 1970, students at Kent State University protested Nixon’s reneging on his promise to invade Cambodia. Alison Krauss, 19, was one of 11 students killed when national Guardsmen opened fire after she planted a white flower in their gun.

Andy Warhol, the godfather of Pop art, stood in front of the painting with Truman Capote
Andy Warhol

Behind them is a masterpiece of Pop art, replaced by the Owl II in 1967’s “Marilyn Monroe,” with Ozymantes in the back and a Rorschach inkblot test in the distance.

Apollo moon landing, seen reflected from astronaut Neil Armstrong’s glass mask, was photographed by Dr.Manhattan
Apollo Program

Armstrong said, “good luck, Mr Gaussian basis”, this sentence has caused widespread speculation, until July 5, 1995 in Tampa, Florida, in an interview, because gaussian basis had died, Mr Armstrong just explained: “his childhood neighbors gaussian Sir Asked his wife for the KJ, wife denounced unless the neighborhood kids can fly to the moon”.

In front of Club 54, Ozymandias shook hands with David Bowie
David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Village People

Next to Mr. Bowie would be Mick Jagger, with the Village People, a famous music group, in the background.

A new generation of heroes – the Watchmen

From left to right: The Comedian, Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattam, Ozymandias, Nite Owl, Rorschach.

END

There’s Richard Milhous Nixon running for a third term on TV, and the Doomsday Clock on another TV. Outside the window was a police strike, which they chose to use as a form of protest against the “watchmen”, the so-called heroes who they believed were robbing real policemen of their jobs.

Richard Milhous Nixon
“Who watches the Watchmen?” on the back glass. The crowd rioted with the police

Week 1 Collage and Sketch In The Classroom

—Sketchbook Workshop – Collage

Improvisation in class
Collage yourself with newspapers and magazines

—Reflections On Works

A review after class
What is successful?
How would you improve it?
The idea of reworking
Artists available for reference

—Sketchbook Workshop – Drawing Exercises

Five time-limited specified paintings in the class
All 3-minute
The view out of the window
30-minute

CCS Health and Environment

Living in the environment, our every move affects the environment, and the environment also affects our health.

As human beings, we should regulate our social behaviors by improving our environmental awareness and recognizing the relationship between environment and health.

For example, we need to prevent environmental pollution, in order to maintain ecological balance, to promote the development of environmental ecology to a virtuous cycle. And the establishment of laws and standards to protect the environment can avoid environmental degradation and imbalance, which is an important criterion to correctly handle the relationship between human beings and the environment.

The reason these measures need to be implemented is because our bodies are in good health when the environment is in a healthy range. If one is in an atmosphere of elegant environment, fresh air and harmony, it is believed that one’s physical health, mental health and social health will be good.

On the other hand, when environmental stress is more than our body can handle, poor health will appear. This phenomenon is very common, with the aggravation of environmental pollution, the increase of work and study pressure, the intensification of competition, physical health and mental health crisis everywhere.

In a word, our health is closely related to the environment. What we do to the environment, the environment will reflect on us all the time. Therefore, for the sake of our own health and sustainable development, we should protect the environment.

Week 1 City Pictures, A cyberpunk home

2019 happens to be the year Blade Runner’s futuristic metropolis is set to exist.

At that time, “2019” was a futuristic feeling wrapped in high-tech, which was quite bizarre. On the other hand, we are familiar with the market life, often sparse. The two realities, side by side in the same dimension, are full of contradictions and confusion.

Now the “future” has finally arrived. In Chongqing (重庆), you can see the most homegrown version of the near future.

Chongqing Jiangbei Airport
重庆江北国际机场

At one time, when we were talking about cyberpunk, we were talking about a pessimistic future. But Chongqing’s cyberpunk is, for the moment, a fresh game.

“Wild gas” building, modern and mysterious. Chongqing is damp and foggy all year round. It is like a secret city in the rain forest, known from a certain era as the “city of fog”.

Near the Yangtze river
长江附近,黄花园

Chongqing’s road is so intricate that it has become a no-go zone for have no sense of direction and the fear of heights.

The buildings are uneven in height and strange in shape, with various Bridges across the floors… The streets rise above the floors, and there will be tall buildings on the high roads. Chongqing has greatly reduced the scale of “tall”. Take the elevator to the 22nd floor, and you’ll even find a car speeding out the window.

Moreover, don’t trust the road ahead, no matter how difficult it may be to rely on navigation. Next thing you will know the thins is , the path could go into the ground, it could go straight into the air, it could take a big, sharp turn, it’s a pretty wild road but the simple usual one to the native of Chongqing.

Ordinary buildings in Chongqing
重庆楼房,江北

Leave the road and return to the pedestrian walkway for a turn back that has never been to the past. There are so many steps that one or two hundred are common. Climbing up the ladder is like carrying on a traditional and pious pilgrimage.

And you will see the light rail habitually is actually run in the sky, through tall buildings, and housing friction. Just like the light rail line 2, in Plum dam station straight bucket to the house.

In order to cross the river and the mountains, Chongqing people can also take the cableway, which is the exclusive right of the Cyberpunk people.

The light rail line 2, in Plum dam
轻轨二号线,李子坝站

When night falls and Chongqing lights up, it’s the start of cyberpunk. Light and colour temporarily cancel people’s inability to daydream about existentialism, and timely pleasure is the right way.

This sunshine is not much of the city, but developed a preference for cold light lamps. Coupled with the glass, which is mostly blue, Chongqing at night reflects the cold and depressed nature of science and technology, just like a dream science fiction city. But with just a little warmth, brilliance and dreams can be set alight.

Hongyadong stilted house complex of glinting red light, resemble an extremely happy place, hearsay it inspired “Spirited away” the setting design of big bath place, play inside and outside a reference, fantasy colour is more intense.

Hongyadong stilted house complex
洪崖洞,解放碑

In the development of Chongqing, some original old buildings have been preserved. The “wild” of Chongqing architecture makes modern and “poor” coexist.

Streets of Jiangbei
重庆街道,江北

The traffic teahouse is one of them. The teahouse, still as it was in the 1970s and 1980s, is filled with unrelated but closely connected people.

Here, it is Chongqing civilian life breath most strong place, also be the important component of cyberpunk temperament. This also hits right at the heart of cyberpunk’s aesthetic, “High tech, low Life.”

The traffic teahouse
交通茶馆,黄桷平

Of the four major Cyberpunk capitals in Asia, Chongqing is the most acceptable place for us. Shanghai is too urbanized, Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled city is almost gone, and Tokyo is too far away. Chongqing is just right enough, tear and healing to form a steady state.

Maybe one day, the stuff of science fiction will be the reality that surrounds us all.That day will come closer and closer, just as it is now well past “2019.”

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This brief introduction of my hometown just took me back to a month ago, when I was still at home with my family. I will miss my hometown and the wonderful memories it brings to me will support me every day of my life in London

My dorm study time
A beautiful evening in England
To miss my dog and my family