Bedroom Cubist Photograph

What do you like?
Over all I think my favourite part is the bottom half and the left side going up. Just because I feel they are the most correct when it comes to cubism. I like the way I was able to put in the cabinet because it holds the things that are the most important to me. I was also happy to include my dog, Mollie, just sitting on the bed because even though she's not 'a part' of my room she is still a very important aspect of my life and I think that was the point of doing our bedrooms for this project to show what is important in our lives.

What don't you like?
I really dislike the top right area of the picture. It looks really jumbled and not so neat. The jersey's in my room are a significant part and I'm not to impressed with they way they turned out and I couldn't figure out how to fix them. So I am kind of disappointed with that part because I really wanted them to stand out.

What would you change if you were able to do it over?
I think I would take a completely different approach I would actually think about where the pictures were going to go before I took them. That way I could make things look more like they fit there. I would also try to find a better way to get light into my room because I don't really like the lighting. That would be difficult though considering I only have one small window that lets in natural light.

(there I think I answered the right questions see you sometime next week hopefully!)

Barbara Kruger Assignment

1. What do you like?
I like the image over all actually. I like most of it anyway. I like my phrase and how with it every person that reads it can think of something different so it means a variety of things. I like the picture I got and love how I actually found something I really wanted to use for once.

2. What don't you like?
I don't really like how I had to get rid of the edges I liked it better before but I had to follow Barbara Kruger. I don't really like the positioning of the picture I don't really know why. I think it might be to close too the centre.

3. What is the message to society?
The message is for all the fakes all the people that can't accept how they look so they get surgery after surgery to "fix" themselves. I used a statue of the Goddess Aphrodite, in Greek mythology she is the Goddess of love and beauty and is supposed to be the most beautiful of all the Goddesses. People try to hard for perfection and they look at the famous people and the more fortunate and always compare themselves.

Barbara Kruger

a. What do you see in this piece of art (describe it)?I see a woman with a double identity. Maybe someone that isn’t comfortable in their own skin or even someone that is too comfortable. A person with everything on the outside but the inside is a big puzzle.

b. What kind of message is the artist giving in this piece of art? I think the artists message is to be yourself don’t be someone that you don’t want to be because of other people.

c. Do you like or dislike Kruger’s work? Why?
I kind of like it. It’s really questionable and keeps your mind going and you don’t always know what she’s trying to tell people.

Master Painting Animation

1. What do you like?
I like how everything happens at once so it all looks like it's working together. I also liked how my image gave me so much to work with I could move alot of things around. I didn't really have to question much with it. I kind of like my sounds I think some of them make it a little more enjoyable and humerous.

2. What don't you like?
I didn't like that I didn't do this right. I should have allowed myself to seperate some of the animations so that they all didn't start at the same time. I wish I could have got the hand to look more like it was reaching out. I also wish my photoshop kills were a bit better because I had alot more ideas but I didn't have the experience or ability to get it.

3. How have you changed the meaning of the painting?
I really don't think I've changed it much other than making it more out there. It was already a crazy image to start with. I just made it even more unbelievable and unrealistic. I really like the magic realism stuff it is quite interesting.

Brainstorm Animated Painting

1. I can move the faces into different parts of the buildings.
2. I can stretch things to make it look like the buildings are growing.
3. I can make the hand at the front make it look like its grabbing out at the viewer.
4. I can move different objects in the picture.
5. I can make the old man sitting in the chair fall into the hole.
I can use wind and eerie sounds with pops and bangs.

Culture Jammer

1. What do you like?
I like the colours. I also like how I was able to get the Disney font for my slogans. I like how that boy sort of blends with the background. I like Tinkerbell she's pretty sweet. I like overall how I reflected that Disney uses swaetshops.

2.What don't you like?
I don't like that I even picked Disney because they have nothing for advertising posters. I don't like that it doesn't look like a poster. I dislike how I went out with this assignment at all and kinda want to start over with a different idea but I'm so stuck on sweatshops at the moment.

3. What is the main message?
I kind of just wanted to reveal that Disney uses sweat shops. So the main message would be even the companies that portray happiness and fairy tale endings torment and use people in order to make a significant amount of money for themselves. Their sweatshops are some of the worst ones where people make 50 cents less than they need a day. Disney won't up the wages 50 cents so these people can just get by with just enough money for food.

Spoof Ads

1.What company does the advertisement represent?
Nike

2.What product is being advertised?
Sneakers

3.What imagery is shown to subvert?
A girl holding a bear.
4.What message/text is used?
The text tells the viewers what people go through to make those sneakers.
5.What are the elements and principles of design used to convey a message?
The important parts of the text are larger.

6.Who is the target audience of the advertisement?
The viewers and the people that don't know how Nike works.

7.Does the ad jam convey a clear and successful message?
Yes I do believe so.
8.How could the ad jam be improved?
Convey more of the unethical ways Nike works. Show the people what they go through.

1. What company does the advertisement represent/subvert?
Mcdonalds

2. What kind of product(s) is being advertised?
All Mcdonalds products are greasy.

3. What imagery is used in the advertisement to subvert?
Ronald Mcdonald with his mouth taped shut.
4.What message (text, copy) is used in the advertisement?
Grease. Everything Mcdonalds is grease.
5. How are the elements and principles of design used to convey a message?
Used the 'M' of Mcdonalds as the 'E' in grease.
6. Who is the target audience of the advertisement?
Young people maybe. Or parents.

7. Does the ad jam convey a clear and successful message?
I think it does.
8. How could the ad jam be improved?

Be more clear sure there's grease but why should we care?

1. What company does the advertisement represent/subvert?
Calvin Klien
2. What kind of product(s) is being advertised?
Cologne
3. What imagery is used in the advertisement to subvert?
A hairy not so fit man instead of the usual very attractive body.
4. What message (text, copy) is used in the advertisement?
It changed Eternity to Reality.
5. How are the elements and principles of design used to convey a message?
Darks and Lights.
6. Who is the target audience of the advertisement?
Men
7. Doe the ad jam convey a clear and successful message?
Not really. If you don't know about mens cologne you basically don't get it.
8. How could the ad jam be improved?
Be more specific.

1. What company does the advertisement represent/subvert?
Mcdonalds
2. What kind of product(s) is being advertised?
The Big Mac
3. What imagery is used in the advertisement to subvert?
A heart rate moniter with the Mcdonalds 'M'.
4. What message (text, copy) is used in the advertisement?
Big Mac Attack referring to a heart attack.
5. How are the elements and principles of design used to convey a message?
The 'M". And doctors doing surgery.
6. Who is the target audience of the advertisement?
People who eat at Mcdonalds.
7. Doe the ad jam convey a clear and successful message?
Yes

8. How could the ad jam be improved?
Could make the text look more like it belongs there.