Vintage Photography Editing

Original image

Halftone Texture and Black and White Hue

Film Grain and Black and White Hue.

Sepia Tone.

Costumes and Makeup

Our piece will focus primarily on the use of costume and face paint, colours are not so important in the piece as it will be of a sepia tone or black and white hue, however shades will matter.

Using simple black and white face paint can show the emotions of a mime.

Tears, lines and curves are used to show emotion on the face.

Facial expressions are used and the makeup enhances these expressions.

Story Ideas

It is essential that our project has a clear and structured narrative. Therefore the best way to incoperate this is through having a story line.

I have been trying to come up with ideas so that I can start the groups storyboard, and so far have personally come up with a few ideas:

Idea 1: The idea of the very vintage mime, contrasted with some very modern comedy. I would like to present the mime in very old and aged fashion and looking like a professional. Further into the sketch, I would like to incorperate some comedy value, by making the mime a very poor one. As different characters would try to provoke silent reactions from the mime, the mime would end up talking to each one of them, as if he had forgotten to be a mime or had given up on the idea of being a mime.

The end result of the story would be with the final character (his love interest), following the same pattern the love interest would try talking to the mime, but this time he would not respond orally, and will finally acheieve his goal of becoming a professional mime by acting out his love feelings towards his love interest. Not only is the mime happy for finally becoming professional but he is also happy because he has found his love interest.

Idea 2: The next idea is based on the first, however instead of the mime meeting different people, and struggling to show his emotions, it is a mixture between modern day and vintage. The mime will be given different types of technology and modern day objects, and forced to use these different pieces of equipment. This will also add comedy value to the piece.

Lecture 3: Historical and Artistic Backgrounds: The Visual World

Historical and Artistic Backgrounds: The Visual World

This is a focus on 20th century Avant Garde (after revolution/renaissance period) artists and poets.
Futurists include: Dada, Surrealism, Bauhaus, Letrists and Concrete poetry.
20th Century experimental designers and artists.
21st Century language media art: Artists/Poets and Writers

They were all well known for breaking boundaries, changing designs and experimenting with ideas out of the norm.

Prominent Names to look up:
Marinetti
Speakermann
David Carson
Neville Brody
Glen Ligon
Jasper Jones
Jenny Holzer
Shirnan

Using Photoshop

I have created some 'Andy Warhol' style images within my seminar workshops. These images play around with different hues, saturations, colour styles and effects.

I used a "canvas" on photoshop to create the four different images as one larger image.

Narrative Theory

Narrative theories I could apply to my group project:

Todorov:
His theory consists of three simple rules which make up most narrative structures and have been used for years to define between a narrative and a non narrative.
He said that one must start with an equilibrium, a setting where there are no problems and everyone is going about their everyday lives (that is normal to the context).
What proceeds this is an upset of the equilibrium (a problem) this then becomes a disequilibrium.
Once the problem has been sorted out, the equilibrium is restored back to how it was at the start of the narrative.

Propp:
Propp had a few theories that related to the narrative of the media text. For one, he said that there were different types of 'character' within the story, and these characters relates back to old fairytales. The characters are as follow
The villain
The donor
The helper 
The princess 
The father figure
The dispatcher

These characters are nearly almost present in films and other media texts with a narrative. 

Research into Group Project - Photoshop Effects