Lecture Number 3

Todays joyful lecture was on the term Intertextuality and how its used in film and tv. As i already knew about the term and how its used, i found this lecture to be just repeating on what i had already learnt previously. To start we was told what the word intertextuality stands for; how things link together, or my understanding, a reference to text that is held within another text. In the lecture we looked at a clip from Pulp fiction, where John Travolta is dancing with Uma Thermon, i found this particular clip to be quite clever on Tarantino's behalf, as by including this it refered to the previous films that John Travolta has appeared in. These being Saturday Night Fever and Grease, this link comes in to how he dances within all these films. It also shows the audience how he has grown as an actor over the years as you instantly think of these films when you see the clip. We was also shown an image of a model called 'rock drill', after this was shown the discussion came about on how it links in with the film Alien and the similarities between the two. These being shown through the shapes involved and the visible rib cage on both, it makes you wonder whether Giger had seen this image before doing the designs.

Whilst in the lecture i thought of  the refernces with the two films, Avatar and Pocahontas. Avatar holds many references to Pocahontas in the way that they are trying to protect their land, a love interest from the opposing side and the sacred tree. These are just a few of the intertextualities that are held within Avatar.

Lecture Number 2

This post is abit late but it covers what was discussed in last weeks lecture. The topic for this being 'Communication', a common language and/or a mutual understanding between two people which was discussed on how we use it in everyday life. To begin with we was set a task, this being for two people to be sat face to face, with one person drawing and the other using communication to direct. We did this to see demonstrate just how we communicate with one another and what the outcome is to the actual image. This task proved the restrictions with in communication, as you can't create an exact copy without seeing the original, but what you will get is something similar.

Lecture

In our latest lecture we had a discussion on realism and how its used in art, throughout the lecture we was shown a group of artists work, with the first being a photo realistic painting. As a painting i didnt really think much to it as i like more expressive art, Frank Auerback Jackon Pollock etc, rather than seeing paint thats been applied accuratley. I find this approach to be somewhat boring, as it doesn't henhance the image in anyway or create an exciting piece. By doing this it can also put the viewer into a faulse sense of observation, making them believe it to be a real photo image. Moving on from that image we was then shown work by the artist Ron Mueck, his work differed from the previous as he played around with scale, whilst inlcuding the realism element. For example, he did a realistic sculpture of is portrait, but up scaled it to create more of a dominance. This for me, was a more interesting view than the previous, as he did add to the final outcome of what he created. Rather than keeping to the same dimensions.

As an art form itself, realism isn't the kind i would get drawn into, i would usually do the opposite and take a quick glance whilst walking by. As it just doesn't interest me. If i wanted something to look realistic i would just take a photo myself.

Here are two render images of my Pacman scene that i created in Maya, i added a directional light in the second photo to add more of a atmosphere to the scene. Looking at the final renders i think more could’ve been done, but as it was my time modelling in Maya, i feel i did quite a good job.

Here is a digital painting i did for one of my first uni projects, the software we used was Corel Painter, this differs from Photoshop as the colours blend. Like a normal painting would. As it was my first time using Corel, i feel i did a good job, but more could've been done to improve it.