AFTER EFFECTS II

AFTER EFFECTS II

Glitch Effect

Our second workshop was using the special effects features in After Affects in adobe and the various uses they can have to apply to our work. We did this by collecting various cartoons and glitch videos and joining them together by overlaying them and then using displacement map to distort the figures and blur them. Afterwards I took the the clips to toner and enhanced their colour and over saturated the characters, making them look negative or even gold brown. I'm proud with my video because it teaches me the fundamentals and useful techniques I can use in order to be more expressive with my creativity in digital arts.

EXPERIMENTAL SOUND PROJECT

EXPERIMENTAL SOUND

DULLE GRIET -

A PAINTING BY 

PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER

Dulle Griet by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562.

The saying goes in a book of proverbs, published in 1568. One woman makes a clamour, two women a lot of trouble, three an annual market, four a quarrel, five and army, and six the Devil himself has no weapon.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's work has been inspired by local culture and towns folk beliefs. This painting was created around c. 1568 during the time of the renaissance era. At this time famine and poverty was ripe throughout Europe. Isolation became common amongst townsfolk and such beliefs began to play upon minds of the locals.

Griet which is the name of this piece is a denigrated name given to bad tempered, shrewish woman. It speaks a lot of how Bruegel's depiction of hell was clearly inspired by Boschian like creatures from the painter Hieronymus Bosch. Hence, Bruegel's intentions about this piece became clear. This painting depicts the mockery of ill tempered woman and their outbursts charging through hell, plundering the realm of its possessions and emphasising the fact that bad tempered women can run to hell and back, unscathed and unhindered due to their robust nature. What I found interesting was that the first time I saw this painting I believed to be another depiction of hell and the chaotic damned souls being punished by unnatural creatures. However upon learning more about it I became aware that this is a stampede of women plundering the caverns and sacking hell for all its treasures. This Painting can also relates to the saying "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." This piece creates and alternative meaning to the idea of Hell being the worst place on earth and into, a victim of greed and covertness.

For my Experimental sound project I'm going to try and create and eerie tune with various sounds of strong winds and raging fires down to loud screams and roars of onward plunderers moving deeper into hell, perhaps even creating sounds to accommodate the Boschian creatures, which hopefully will intensify the overall feel to this piece. My recording will begin over this week and I will be recording how I achieved my sounds.

The result was unexpected, yet however I am very pleased with the end result. My idea was to create a soundscape that had an western styled heart beating sound yet my end result came out a lot different and more to the style of dark ambient background. With this in mind here is my final version of my experimental sound project.

EXPERIMENTAL SOUND PROJECT

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dulle Griet Painting image :

https://www.sartle.com/sites/default/files/images/artwork/1000008.jpg

EXPERIMENTAL FILM

CONTEMPORARY FILM - TRUMP

The purpose of this short film is to touch down on the situation thats been happening over across the atlantic and the recent protests against America's 45th President Donald Trump. Considering Trump is the most talked about issue of late with his new foreign and domestic policies, I wanted to comment visually by merging the protesters against the voice of Trump. Personally I liked the contrast this film created with what we see on the news and how American society depicts him. In my short video those who stand against Trump, silenced by the overwhelming voice which is ironic as Trump being the leader and spokesmen for his country is meant to be singular voice speaking on behalf of his people to the world. 

The image below is my own propaganda pieces made to accompany the short contemporary film about the conflict today with Donald Trump. I used the Statue of Liberty because it signifies freedom and felt this was a interesting contrast to play upon. To complete the propaganda piece I added elements of trump to symbolise control over freedom which relates back to his immigration bans and Mexican wall policies. 

AVALANCHE SOUND EXERCISE

SOUND WORKSHOP III



As part of our continuation of our sound workshops we were tasked to create a multi mix track of sounds that resembled the noises of an avalanche, provided as an image for us. I used a collection of wind, footsteps and loud cracking sounds to create my piece and within  Adobe Audition I was able to lower the pitch and create effects, which helped immensely to getting the sounds right to the image of the avalanche.

Sound Exercise