Friday, May 29, 2015
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Movie Questions: The Corperation
1. The principle purpose of this documentary is to show how corporations are "taking over" .
2. The film critiques how corporations are basically psychopaths and should not be a major influence in peoples lives.
3. The filmmaker showed how corporations, if they were considered a "person", show many characteristics of being a psychopath.
4. I think their most effective method of supporting their position on corporate responsibility is that they showed how corporations mainly care about themselves and their profits. They don't care what kind of mess they make in 3rd world countries as long as they can have their product/s made and manufactured cheaply.
5.I had no issues with the documentary. It gave valid points along with proof for the ideas.
6. I haven't seen a past film that had an impact on my values.
2. The film critiques how corporations are basically psychopaths and should not be a major influence in peoples lives.
3. The filmmaker showed how corporations, if they were considered a "person", show many characteristics of being a psychopath.
4. I think their most effective method of supporting their position on corporate responsibility is that they showed how corporations mainly care about themselves and their profits. They don't care what kind of mess they make in 3rd world countries as long as they can have their product/s made and manufactured cheaply.
5.I had no issues with the documentary. It gave valid points along with proof for the ideas.
6. I haven't seen a past film that had an impact on my values.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Art Video Game Reflection
Austin Schnurr
Art Video Game
May 12, 2015
Technical
I changed the fonts and layout of the menus and changed the background and card faces (front and back).
Idea
My original idea was to make it a flappy bird game but I couldn't change the "bird" and have the game work so I made it a memory game instead.
Influences
I had no influences from any artists to make the game.
Composition
I put a darker colour of some of the titles so they would stand out more and catch the readers attention more.
Motivation
I enjoy fishing so I wanted to do my game on over-fishing so other people will be able to enjoy fishing in later generations.
Critical Assessment
With additional time I would have inserted a URL to some various websites that have information about over-fishing and how it will affect our world.
Art Video Game
May 12, 2015
Technical
I changed the fonts and layout of the menus and changed the background and card faces (front and back).
Idea
My original idea was to make it a flappy bird game but I couldn't change the "bird" and have the game work so I made it a memory game instead.
Influences
I had no influences from any artists to make the game.
Composition
I put a darker colour of some of the titles so they would stand out more and catch the readers attention more.
Motivation
I enjoy fishing so I wanted to do my game on over-fishing so other people will be able to enjoy fishing in later generations.
Critical Assessment
With additional time I would have inserted a URL to some various websites that have information about over-fishing and how it will affect our world.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Friday, April 17, 2015
Art Video Game: Brainstorming
Themes
Deforestation - A chainsaw could be used to represent this problem. This is a problem because our forests are natural sinks of carbon dioxide and produce fresh oxygen, also they help in regulating temperature.
Over-fishing - A fish could be used to represent this problem. This is a problem because if we constantly over-fish there will be hardly any fish left for people to catch. Also it will destroy the food chains in the locations where they are over fished because there would be other creatures that need that fish in order to survive.
Our First Nations - A totem could be used to represent this problem. This is a problem because our First Nations people are being neglected. They take care of the Earth better than many of us do today. They take what they need not what they want.
The theme I am most interested in from above is Over-fishing because, I enjoy fishing with my brothers and if all of the fish get over-fished there won't be many fish left for other generations to catch them. Fishing can teach people patience and how to be quite for varying periods of time.
My plan to make this game is to have it styled like Flappy Bird, but instead of a bird it will be a fish swimming through the ocean avoiding the fishing nets above and the rocks below. The font I will use will have to "flow" like how waves flow across the ocean. The instruction/home screen will have a link to a website to learn more about over-fishing and it will show the title of the game and how to play it. The lose screen will say something like "Congratulations, you avoided __ fishing nets before you got caught" and it would have a button if you wanted to play again. The background will be underwater with a few fish in the background.
Deforestation - A chainsaw could be used to represent this problem. This is a problem because our forests are natural sinks of carbon dioxide and produce fresh oxygen, also they help in regulating temperature.
Over-fishing - A fish could be used to represent this problem. This is a problem because if we constantly over-fish there will be hardly any fish left for people to catch. Also it will destroy the food chains in the locations where they are over fished because there would be other creatures that need that fish in order to survive.
Our First Nations - A totem could be used to represent this problem. This is a problem because our First Nations people are being neglected. They take care of the Earth better than many of us do today. They take what they need not what they want.
The theme I am most interested in from above is Over-fishing because, I enjoy fishing with my brothers and if all of the fish get over-fished there won't be many fish left for other generations to catch them. Fishing can teach people patience and how to be quite for varying periods of time.
My plan to make this game is to have it styled like Flappy Bird, but instead of a bird it will be a fish swimming through the ocean avoiding the fishing nets above and the rocks below. The font I will use will have to "flow" like how waves flow across the ocean. The instruction/home screen will have a link to a website to learn more about over-fishing and it will show the title of the game and how to play it. The lose screen will say something like "Congratulations, you avoided __ fishing nets before you got caught" and it would have a button if you wanted to play again. The background will be underwater with a few fish in the background.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Art Movie Reflection
Technical
I used Adobe Premier Pro to make the video and also a few website to get some of the clips.
Concept
The concept of the video was that the baby was in peril, but the Angel couldn't do anything but watch since it was made of stone. Later the father of the child decided to leave town and went insane with the loss of his child, eventually blowing up the factory he was working at, leaving his wife alone.
Influences
I had no influences to make the video.
Motivation
My motivation was to try and show a story without just completely giving it away.
Critical Assessment
What surprised me the most was how short 1 minute really is, I wanted to add more but if I did the video would have been over the time limit.
I used Adobe Premier Pro to make the video and also a few website to get some of the clips.
Concept
The concept of the video was that the baby was in peril, but the Angel couldn't do anything but watch since it was made of stone. Later the father of the child decided to leave town and went insane with the loss of his child, eventually blowing up the factory he was working at, leaving his wife alone.
Influences
I had no influences to make the video.
Motivation
My motivation was to try and show a story without just completely giving it away.
Critical Assessment
What surprised me the most was how short 1 minute really is, I wanted to add more but if I did the video would have been over the time limit.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
How is Hero an Art Movie?
- One way that the movie Hero is an art movie is because it does not have a straight forward beginning, middle and end. It is full of flashbacks and at times it could be hard to tell what was a flashback and what wasn't. Another reason this was an art movie is because it was based on the Qin Emperors dream of uniting all of the dynasties.
- The director makes this movie for everybody by including martial arts in it. Another way he does this is by making the characters in the film able to connect with some people.
- I didn't like this movie because I would have preferred that it was in English. Another reason was that the "flying" ruined the fight scenes. Furthermore it seemed too repetitive with it going back and showing the different re-tells of how he killed the assassins.
- Zhang Yimou used colour to emphasize the fight in the Golden Forest when Broken Sword's assistant, Moon, died the leaves all changed from a golden yellow to a blood red.
Monday, March 9, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
Friday, February 20, 2015
Media Arts Reflection
Media Arts Reflection February 19, 2015
The assignment was called, "Memories in My Skin". The focus of the assignment was to create a collage of photo's that related to a significant event that happened in our life. The significant event I chose was when my grandpa had a heart attack because, I will never forget that event where I could have lost someone I really care about. The medium I used was my grandpa's Facebook photo, various brushes I created using photo's and various photo's from Google images.
Technical
Some of the tools I used in the photo were, dodge/burn tool, layer blends, and colour balancing. Also I used a variety of opacity's to emphasize certain parts of the photo. Furthermore I repeated some brushes so it was easier for the eye to move around the photo.
Idea/Concept
My idea for the photo was to show how his heart attack had affected me. When I first found out about it I was extremely upset and, later once other people started to find out about it, they began to try and help everyone else out who was taking the news hard. It allowed my family to become closer together and they prayed that he would recover from the heart attack. So, in the photo I tried to show that by, having faces crying, a father comforting his children and hands praying. I also included a picture of a doctor because of all the work he did to help my grandpa so he could live to see another day.
Influences
There was no particular artist that influenced me on how I designed this assignment.
Composition
I balanced the composition symmetrically by having around the same amount of dark and light pictures on each side. I emphasized the movement of the photo by having solid images "boarder" the photo. The movement that was intended was you start at his face in the bottom left, then move across the horizon line to the right, next you would go up the heart rate lines, continuing across the butterflies at the top and flow down the tears from the faces in the top left. made the movement path clear by making all of the objects darker than the rest of the photo so they would capture the eyes attention better.
Motivation
My personal motivation to complete this assignment was that my grandpa means a lot to me and since it was about him I wanted to make sure it was finished to the best of my ability. Also I planned on showing him the photo so he would know what I did with it. He knew I was doing it about him but he hasn't seen what it looks like.
Critical Assessment
The most elements that I think are the most successful are the layering, repetitive images/shapes and the eye movement. Some parts of the process that surprised me was how hard it was to find the right pictures that showed what I was trying to convey through the picture.
The assignment was called, "Memories in My Skin". The focus of the assignment was to create a collage of photo's that related to a significant event that happened in our life. The significant event I chose was when my grandpa had a heart attack because, I will never forget that event where I could have lost someone I really care about. The medium I used was my grandpa's Facebook photo, various brushes I created using photo's and various photo's from Google images.
Technical
Some of the tools I used in the photo were, dodge/burn tool, layer blends, and colour balancing. Also I used a variety of opacity's to emphasize certain parts of the photo. Furthermore I repeated some brushes so it was easier for the eye to move around the photo.
Idea/Concept
My idea for the photo was to show how his heart attack had affected me. When I first found out about it I was extremely upset and, later once other people started to find out about it, they began to try and help everyone else out who was taking the news hard. It allowed my family to become closer together and they prayed that he would recover from the heart attack. So, in the photo I tried to show that by, having faces crying, a father comforting his children and hands praying. I also included a picture of a doctor because of all the work he did to help my grandpa so he could live to see another day.
Influences
There was no particular artist that influenced me on how I designed this assignment.
Composition
I balanced the composition symmetrically by having around the same amount of dark and light pictures on each side. I emphasized the movement of the photo by having solid images "boarder" the photo. The movement that was intended was you start at his face in the bottom left, then move across the horizon line to the right, next you would go up the heart rate lines, continuing across the butterflies at the top and flow down the tears from the faces in the top left. made the movement path clear by making all of the objects darker than the rest of the photo so they would capture the eyes attention better.
Motivation
My personal motivation to complete this assignment was that my grandpa means a lot to me and since it was about him I wanted to make sure it was finished to the best of my ability. Also I planned on showing him the photo so he would know what I did with it. He knew I was doing it about him but he hasn't seen what it looks like.
Critical Assessment
The most elements that I think are the most successful are the layering, repetitive images/shapes and the eye movement. Some parts of the process that surprised me was how hard it was to find the right pictures that showed what I was trying to convey through the picture.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Significant Events In My Life
Significant Events In My Life:
- Grandpa's heart surgery after he had a heart attack.
- Going camping at Manitoulin Island
- Going to a Blue Jays Game for my birthday (lasted 18 innings)
- Traveling every winter with my grandparents since I was 8
- Watching my cousin grow up (from a baby - one year old)
- My brother getting the game winning puck (in a shoot out) from a Toronto Maple Leafs game
Last year, my grandpa's life was about to change drastically, but he didn't even know it. He was having chest/stomach pains so he went to the Walkerton hospital. Once he was there and saw the doctor, the doctor told him that it was just gas. A couple weeks later, he was working out at the Knights of Columbus Hall. He was there for 30 minutes and then his arms went numb and he started sweating badly. He left the Hall and went home to my grandma. She immediately took him up to the hospital. While he was in the hospital he had a small heart attack. Once they got him stabilized they air lifted him to St. Mary's hospital in Kitchener.
A few days after he got to St. Mary's, my grandma brought me up to go see him. When I first saw him, I would never have thought that the man in that bed was my grandpa. His positive energy was drained right out of him, his face was droopy, but he still smiled once he saw me. They found out he had at least 3 clogged arteries in his heart and they may find more when they do the surgery. I didn't get to see him again until after the surgery was done. He had to get a quad bypass done so, they took arteries out of his leg and arms. My grandma went up to see him the day after the surgery and she said he was back to his happy and cheerful self since he knew the problem was on it's way from being gone. I got to see him two days after the surgery but, when I was there, he wasn't how my grandma had told me he was the day before. He was in a lot of pain and didn't want to move at all, so we didn't stay as long as we usually did so he could rest. We found out later that day they mixed up his pain medication. They gave him the medication for at night during the day and that was the reason he was in so much pain because the night medication was weaker than the day time medication because he wouldn't be moving much while he was sleeping. He recovered quickly from the operation and the rehab they had him do at the hospital became easy for him to do. Once he was allowed to go home he had to take this pillow with him all the time. If he had to cough he needed to press the pillow against his chest so the stitches wouldn't pop open. Also he couldn't sleep in the bed for at least 6 months after the operation. He had to sleep out in the living room in his lazy boy chair.
I will never forget this event because I could have lost my grandpa and he means a lot to me. I see him as a roll model because he is kind and enjoys giving to the community.Also he has been there to help me when ever I needed it. I've done so many things with him since he had the surgery. Now he has changed is diet to make sure this doesn't happen again.
I will never forget this event because I could have lost my grandpa and he means a lot to me. I see him as a roll model because he is kind and enjoys giving to the community.Also he has been there to help me when ever I needed it. I've done so many things with him since he had the surgery. Now he has changed is diet to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Monday, February 9, 2015
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