Blog Assignment 8B:

#1: Mary Swick

Mary’s hero and villain were Finnigan Strongjaw and Sinastra Pikespear. She did and excellent job of using contrast and affinity to differentiate between the hero and the villain. The villain looks much more evil than the hero making the difference easily noticeable. The villain is also much pointier, which usually is symbolic of evil. The villain is also much more shadowed and darker which continues to add to that effect, as well as that of the mood. The evil eyebrows and the curled pointy finger also create a sort of subconscious sense of evil that helps differentiate between the hero and villain.

#2: Michael Garrett

Michael also made good use of contrast and affinity for his hero and villain. The villain is much more sinister looking and includes much darker colors so that you can easily tell which one is which. The shadow on the villain helps add to a much darker mood, something that is not seen on the drawing of the hero. The spikes on the villains outfit are also very likely symbolic of evil. As with Mary’s villain, the spikes on Michael’s villain also create a subconscious sense of evil in the character helping to differentiate between the two.

#3: Michael Mulig

There weren’t any pictures included in the post, but from what I can tell from the animations these characters also used contrast and affinity in order to differentiate themselves. The hero was bright green and the villain was very dark hues of red. The villain is also significantly less bright as well as less saturated which adds to his look of evil. The animations also give a pretty objective idea of who is the hero and who is the villain. In the hero’s animation you see the hero helping out a child, and in the villain’s animation you witness him stealing a jewel and (possily?) killing a person.

Blog Assignment 8A:

FLIGHT:

This American Life: Act 1

I couldn't get the audio to embed so here is a direct link to my audio.

Characters:

Villain:

Hero:

Blog Assignment 7

I used the video posted here to compare to our video.

When it comes to the talking about space in the two videos, you pretty much couldn’t be more opposite. Our video was very closed in the entire time, even when outside. All of the inside scenes were in pretty narrow spaces. When we did go outside there was always something behind the characters so it was still a fairly flat shot. On the other video however there were quite a lot of outdoor shots that gave the video an overall very open feel.

The use of shape in the videos was also present, but in different ways. In our video, shape was used more in the toys that Jimmy was playing with. The train was rather round, and so was the small ball he was playing with. Both of these shapes represent a sort of innocence from being a child. In the other video shape was also used to depict the characters but rather than being done by toys, it was done in the face shape. The male characters face was more of a round shape, which once again gives an impression of innocence.

Both of our videos also make use of tension and release, however in different ways. Our video really messes with tension throughout the entire video. Whenever Jimmy curses it creates a bit of tension as he is just a young kid and the mother doesn’t want him speaking that way. You get a bit of release when the mother interjects but then right away you get more tension when she starts using the language herself. The other video uses tension in a much more linear way. It just builds more and more as you realize that the girl might not be as nice as she seems.

Our videos also made use of contrast and affinity. Our video for the most part made use of affinity between the mother and son, mostly in their language used. The other video on the other hand made use of contrast between the characters, which was made more apparent by initially creating a false sense of affinity between them.

Blog 6B

Joke Video

Blog Assignment 6A

Hugh MacLeod's article

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