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Digital Journal Week [3]

Sketches
Studies of the Torso

Bryan Schulte

THIS IS THE GENERAL DIRECTION I WANT TO GO WITH THIS SEMESETER LONG PAPER

FILM

                 Art has its own sense of evolution, from paintings in caves of the primitive man to the height of pieces blasted on the sides of buildings. People have their own way to express their ideas and visions in art. Some draw, some write poetry, some paint, and some even create it through music. For me, I favorite way to communicate art is through film making.

                 There are many components that go into making any kind of film. It could be a narrative (science fiction, fantasy, war, romance, comedy), a documentary, visual art piece. There is a process, and one must know and understand the stages to become successful at making it into the film industry. Yet, most don’t know the history

                 In the early history of film making, we can look as far back as 1832, when the zoetrope a small optical toy that is a rotating drum and, on the inside, has successive phase drawings of things in motion. Eadweard Muybridge popularized this technique with his very famous “moving picture” reel of a horse at full gallop to see if horses did in fact have all four hooves completely off the ground at some point.

                 Even when you understand the history behind film, knowing the five stages of processing is a whole other thing. There is development, pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution. However, when you are just talking about the building process, you only have to worry about the middle three.

Pre-Production: In this stage you work out your filmmaking idea and how you will tell your story.

Production: You should shoot a bit more than you need, but if you shoot hours of footage it’ll take you forever to sort through it to find the bits you want. For a one-minute drama film you might need to shoot between three and five minutes of video. Documentaries – where you can’t control what there is to film – will need much more than this.

Post-Production: Do a ‘rough cut’ of the whole film (if it’s short) or individual sequence so you can get a sense of the bigger picture.

                 Sure, you can make your films on your own, but when your looking on getting into the industry. There are many avenues you can go and jobs you can take up to have a good career. Some of the most well known ones include and not limited to Editor, Cinematographer, Colorist, Director, Actor, Producer, 1st Assistant Director, and many others. 

Research material

https://www.careersinfilm.com/

https://learnaboutfilm.com/

https://www.britannica.com/art/history-of-the-motion-picture

The use of very little color and just relying on the use of basic tones and shading to create a simple, yet an amazing piece of art. The symbolism is use very well to portray whatever was going on in Blake’s mind.
My attempt at Blakes version of The First Book of Urizen 13.
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Color Blindness test results/Questions

  1. ROYGBIV

Rakshasa

Owlbear

Yeti                                                                            These are a few of my favorite beasts!

Giants

Beholder

Invisible Stalker

Vampire

  • Merce Cunningham

American Dancer and Choreographer

Movements and Styles: Neo-Dada, Performance Art, Queer Art, Postmodernism

Born: April 16, 1919 – Centralia, Washington, U.S.

Died: July 26, 2009 – New York, New York

Merce Cunningham was an American choreographer and dance instructor who taught at Black Mountain College for several years, playing an important role in the school’s interdisciplinary approach to art instruction. He founded the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in New York, and is considered one of the founders of modern dance. (The Art Story)

Jacob Lawrence

Lawrence became the most renowned African-American artist of his time. Known for producing narrative collections like the Migration Series and War Series, he illustrated the African-American experience using vivid colors set against black and brown figures. He also served as a professor of art at the University of Washington for 15 years.

  • Why can’t color blind people be pilots?

Instrumentation, and warnings, in a modern flight deck are color-coded to give different meanings e.g.

Green=All is well
Amber=Urgent but not critical, Red=Urgent and critical

Not forgetting also, that the navigation lights on aircraft are green and red so one can tell if they’re coming or going.

In situations such as a radio failure, pilots also rely on color coded strobes from the ground for communication. Though this is unlikely to happen, it is still mandated in licensing requirements for most countries.

https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-colorblind-people-be-pilots

https://www.theartstory.org/artists/lgbt-artists/

https://www.biography.com/artist/jacob-lawrence

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Digital Journal Week [2]

    Bryan Schulte

    William Blake

    Blake was an engraver, artist, poet, and visionary, and author of many pieces which were etched, printed, colored, stitched, and sold with the help of his wife Catherine.  Even though in life he was neglected, by the early 21st Century Blake was regarded as the earliest and most original of the Romantic poets.

    Visions were commonplaces to Blake, and his life and works were intensely spiritual. “His friend the journalist Henry Crabb Robinson wrote that when Blake was four years old, he saw God’s head appear in a window. While still a child he also the Prophet Ezekiel under a tree in the fields and had a vision, according to his first biographer, Alexander Gilchrist”(Britannica).

    Blake was christened, married, and buried by the rites of the Church of England, but his creed was likely to outrage the orthodox. He was a religious seeker but not a joiner.

    Started his career as an engraver and based his work and his commissions on that type of work. Blake apprenticed James Basire, a highly responsible and conservative line engraver who specialized in prints depicting architecture. While pursuing his career as an engraver, in 1779 Blake enrolled as a student in the newly founded Royal  Academy of Arts: His greatest ambition was as an artist was to be an artist and nothing else. His materials were watercolors and paper, not the fashionable oil on canvas, and he painted subjects from the Bible and British history instead of the portraits and landscapes that were in vogue.

    https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Blake/Blake-as-a-poet

    Bryan Schulte

    FILM

                     Art has its own sense of evolution, from paintings in caves of the primitive man to the height of pieces blasted on the sides of buildings. People have their own way to express their ideas and visions in art. Some draw, some write poetry, some paint, and some even create it through music. For me, I favorite way to communicate art is through film making.

    Research material

    https://www.careersinfilm.com/

    https://learnaboutfilm.com/

    https://www.britannica.com/art/history-of-the-motion-picture

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    Say What Final

    I don’t know why this final video is faster than my Maya file, but I am submitting something instead of nothing. Here is my video