Telling My Own Story (ISP)

Nicala Henderson Presents My “Telling my own story” is based around a vacation that my family took last year. It is a new, thrilling experience that none of us had ever anticipated being able to go on. Before I begin though I should mention that my family and I have been on several trips before, including Florida where we went para sailing Niagara Falls, Georgia, Great...

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Beauty Of A Second

For the Last 30 days of class we have been filming and accumulating short video snippets so that we can create our own unique video's for our Beauty of a Second Project. Here is my video for that project that is around a minute in length. Part 1: Beauty of a Second part 1 Part 2: Beauty of a Second Part...

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Finished SPLATONIC - Video Advertisement

It's finally ready! Our Splatonic Advertisement can now be viewed here on our google blogger accounts or on YouTube! Diclaimer: We do not own the music or any products within the video, just the video itself. Proper Music Credits: Calvin Harris - Feel So Close ( instr. ) Robyn Miller - Un-finale Woralks - Flacon De Neige ...

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Business Cards for SPLATONIC w/ Julie Thanaparamy

Today in Media Arts we were assigned to create business cards for our fake company. In my groups case with Julie Thanaparamy (Whose blog you can view here!) we decided to go with a simple design for our fake company SPLATONIC. Here, I have designed two business cards for each of us with the basic information on it. It has our slogan "Get Ready. Get Splat." our company name SPLATONIC and our logo...

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Pre-Production of SPLATONIC w/ Julie Thanaparamy

Hello again! For the latest project we were assigned we are expected to create and promote a product. We decided to call ours SPLATONIC which is a line of running shoes and t-shirts designed for young teens and adults who make up the sports demographic. For example, some of the sports our product promotes are displayed by showing a silhouette of a person doing so on the product. In...

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Media Arts: Video Editing

A couple weeks ago our class had a project to use the provided previously filmed clips and create it into a video that suited what we were trying to present. In other words we had to edit the film. The video that I pieced together can be viewed above, I've named it "The Intruder...

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Media Arts: Personal Logo

A personalized Logo that I have made. It features my initials N and H as the main focus, although flipped around and surrounded with 3D style boxes. It was interesting to make but I like the way it came out, as it is possible to use both the top part of the image as well as the bottom or just the bottom as a logo applied onto all of my work...

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Media Arts: Logos

Logo 1: Starbucks The first logo here is the starbucks logo that features a twin-tailed mermaid image on a simple circle as the now-famous logo. It is easy to spot out and can be seen in all of their franchises and on advertisements all around. Logo 2: London Olympics I also like the London Olympics logo because it is made using only one shape repeated in sync. The meaning...

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Media Arts: Colour Wheel

So, this is my part of a project we had in class that was to create a colour wheel. We were to use only traditional media to create it and had to use magazine pieces from all sorts of different articles to get the different tint and shades you can see here. I started with the more "easier" to find colours like red and orange. Oh yes, I found lots and lots of orange. We (my group, we all have our...

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Media Arts: Andy Warhol Tutorial

Video Tutorial For how to make portraits of ourselves look like Andy Warhol's works of art.  First we made a draft/practice piece of the work by selecting and coloring in Marilyn Monroe. This is my practice piece of it. We then proceeded to make the first part of our Warhol project using our own images. Afterwords we colored in six different boxes of the Andy Warhol style tutorial...

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Media Arts: MoMA Principles Of Design

The Gardener - painting- 2001- John Currin [Link to artwork on MoMA] This painting titled "The Gardener" by John Currin has several examples of principles of design included within it. The one I wish to bring attention to however is the principle of unity. The two people featured in the painting are within close proximity and as such we naturally group them together. However,...

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Media Arts: Annie Leibovitz

This photographs is just one among million that Annie Leibovitz can proudly claim to have had the  honor of taking.  This photograph features Tiny Fey, it was taken January 2009 for Vanity Fair magazine. It gives a "party animal" or "wild girl" feeling to it and displays Tina in different poses, and interesting concept for the Leibovitz to experiment with. What...

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Media Arts Extra: Pink Trees and Blue Macaw

Just an extra coloring warm-up that I have completed. I liked multiple different styles of the image and have posted them all below. The original lined art for this piece can be found here Here is the basic Macaw image that I finished. I added all the flat colors to the image, although for the bird wings I had used the gradient tool to make the colors fade into one another. Every...

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Media Arts: Giant Food

So here today we have the class project we our class was working on earlier last week; but apparently couldn't post because of computer complications. I, myself was sick during the days we worked on this assignment so I apologize for any quality loss or very evident mistakes I made. Regardless please enjoy this picture I've titled Giant Food. It was a very basic Photoshop project that...

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Media Arts: Coloring Pages

 Hello again! This is what our class ASM3O has been working on: coloring in Photoshop. This was basically for those not used to Photoshop to get used to coloring with it; but I decided to go off on the web and find a random coloring page for practice for future assignments. Above, is a picture of the coloring page I spent time both coloring and shading and adding a simple blue...

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