Week 7: Sketches

These are sketches for a radio station with a slogan saying “Escape from the Ordinary Radio.” I made this using computer paper and a pencil.  I needed to make five sketches and the necessary steps were coming up with an idea than simply making a sketch of them. For the first sketch, I arranged it to seem as if the tower was transmitting music to the radio than to the person who is listening to 88.3 and dancing. The second sketch is two people escaping from an airplane that is going to crash in a sea of music. One of their parachutes has their radio station on it. For the third sketch, I drew eight radios, seven of them having 96.3 as their radio station. The unordinary one out of all of them is the red one which has their radio station. The fourth sketch has a man escaping from prison and thru the tunnel, in which he is escaping from, there are music notes coming from the radio in which he reaches when he gets out and dances, listening to their radio station. For the fifth sketch, I drew a train with three different carts. The people are all listening to their radio station. It is supposed to go from the past (boom box) to the future (I Pod).  I am controlling the viewer’s eye by making some objects larger and a different color. These are sketches relating to this radio stations specific slogan. It means that there are many different ways in which I can portray their slogan and many ways to grab the viewers’ attention on something specific in my sketches. I am trying to say that something in these drawings, if not all of it, describe the escape from the ordinary radio.

Week 6: Final Collages

For my final collages, it was easier to understand what and how I needed to change my chicken nuggets to point out the constants and variables. I made this final collage by keeping my third collage from week 5 and making the other two similar to it. There weren’t many steps in creating the final two collages. The steps necessary were keeping the same background that’s in the first collage (actually the third from week 5) and using it for collages two and three.  Next, I clicked on the layer that had the one different chicken nugget, went to Select, then Select All, and copied it. For my second collage, I pasted the chicken nugget and placed it in the middle. Going to Edit, then Transform, and holding down Shift, I was able to make the nugget bigger, medium size compared to the nugget in the first collage. Keeping the lightness at +23 and the saturation at 0 from the original copied nugget, I changed the hue. I picked a hue that was a light orange, close to yellow and red. For the third collage, I used the same steps. The only differences were that I placed the copied nugget in the middle and to the right of the collage, I made this nugget larger than both collages, and finally, I chose a pink hue, which was closer to orange and red. I arranged things this way because I wanted to make the nuggets go left, middle, and right. I also wanted to make them go from small, to medium, and large. I wanted to use hues that were similar to each other as well. It went from yellow, to light orange, to a light red or pink. I am controlling the viewer’s eye by making them look from left to right. They notice that it goes from small, medium, and large. This is a collage of chicken nuggets that have one significantly different one in each. This means that I am controlling the viewer’s eye on that specific nugget. I am trying to say that it is simple to make such a small change in one collage to easily catch the viewers’ attention.

Week 5: Collages - Composition Focus

I made these collages by cutting and pasting my cut out of a chicken nugget. The necessary steps were copying, pasting, and then figuring out what size and shape I would make each cut out on the collage. I arranged things this way because it is easy to point out which chicken nugget is different from the rest. The chicken nugget, which I changed, grabs the viewers’ attention and draws their eyes to it. For each collage I had constants and variables. Within my three collages, the constants are that they are all the same chicken nugget (a chicken nugget painted to look like Ronald McDonald), they overlap, the hue of the image is at +180, and the lightness of the image is at +23. Within my three collages, the variables are that the locations of the saturated and hued chicken nugget are in different places, the quantity of chicken nuggets, and the saturation (collage 1 is +16, collage 2 is +100, and collage 3 is 0). I am controlling the viewer’s eye by drastically changing the hue, saturation, and lightness of one nugget. This one nugget will draw the viewer’s eye directly to it. This is a collage of chicken nuggets which really doesn’t have a meaning. I am trying to say that by simply adjusting the hue, size, saturation, and lightness of one picture, which is among the exact pictures in a collage, it can easily grab the viewers’ attention.