Week 3-Its a long one!

It has been such a rollercoaster week!! One of the highlights though, is that I received two major awards at my school presentation!! One for excellence in technology, BOOHYAH, and one for leadership, WOW! I know this blog is meant to be about my majors, not my feelings, but my feelings/week affects my majors. So atm I am feeling pretty good, and obviously got a bit done on my majors!

ITM is going really good. I am really happy with my progress! I have made a few test stop motions. They are pretty bad, but they are only tests. Heres the link. The camera moves around quite a lot as i did not put my camera on a stable area (it was on a bean bag on top of my desk, talk about improvising!), it also did not have ANY preparation or storyboard. I really just did what i wanted to test out. Its pretty weird.
I have also decided to change one of my style groups for the stationery into Animalpop. Ill see if it works out, I don't know, if I don't particularly really like a design i scrap it. I want to put my best forward and something that i like, i want to show me in my project i guess. So far i have seven designs I like. My latest one is for Animalpop. I call it dragon/fish. It could be both! I absolutely love it and how its so trippy! haha!

I have also started on my folio! I have finished the statement of intent, limitations and specifications. Though, this could easily change throughout the project. I have also decided to use Adobe Indesign. I find that it gives you so much more freedom than word, and it is much easier to create a book than illustrator. I just have to learn a few extra things, but its not too bad! I am at least getting the basics. I m not too sure how to add page numbers though, ill have to research that one.
I think that is it. If i think of any thing else i have done, ill post later.

DRAMA is meh. Just having a few group problems with our latest project. s'all good. I have not even touched this major this week I don't think. I was actually sick for a bit of this week. huh.

ART is confusing my brain! We have this massive book with a bunch of stuff we have to do. but the teacher sort of insists that we study something else. I think we are expected to complete it all at home. I am not going to be able to create two artworks from home. I have quite a few questions regarding this project.
I have, although, started my folio with the artist's intentions and contract. I have a fair way to go. At least i have, what, seven weeks to do it!

Keep smiling!

ITM research/idea

ITM
So I was on youtube and i came across this:
Whiteboard stop motion

I thought it was a cool idea. It seems an easier way to use stop motion. For my major I want to create a TV advertisement for my pop stationery. So theres this idea, or there is the idea of using paper. Both would take up a lot of time (even though it would only be 30 seconds), but thats what you have to do to get the marks so...

happy HSCing

Week 2

It was a bit of a weird day today. Firstly I found out that I wont be captain of my school, I had an art excursion which was awesome, and my english teacher is leaving at the end of the year. I honestly improved so much thanks to him. So I am a bit messed up and mixed atm. Sorry if my post is weird too.

ITM: I did end up doing 3 advert storyboards and my design statement. I also finished a few more designs.
Heres my business statement:

'Add a little something to your day'
At POP, We aim to create good looking and affordable stationery for the dedicated collector to the school student. We strive to keep all of our products looking clean and fresh while adding a little fun and imagination.

Drama: I have started to memorise the first few paragraphs. I also decided that the character will be quite girly, seeing as the monologue is very dramatic. I sort of wanted to base my character on legally blonde.

Art: This shadow art thingo is wicked!!! i am so going to explore it.
We had an excursion today to look at the sculptures by the sea at bondi. There were some very interesting artworks there!!
heres an example of shadow art.

BRAINWAVE!!

One of my friends recommended an article going along with my idea of misleading:
http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/03/10/shadow-art/

Isn't it beautiful?? Shadow art. Ill work on it :D

Week 1

Ok, I know I posted yesterday BUT it is friday.

ITM
Is still hopelessly trudging along. I'm pretty sure it is normal not to like your designs but this is getting ridiculous!!
I am going to do a business statement and storyboard for my ad this weekend. Hopefully.

DRAMA
Tis good.
We are practising our group work and we have a project on 'stolen'. I think we have come up with some really good stuff!!

ART
At school today, we did an experiment with truisms (statements true to yourself about a particular subject). I went along the lines of 'Do you really need to do that to feel accepted? ' 'What you are wearing now, was most likely made by someone younger than you' etc. We went around and put them up in the school. I think my favourite was 'How come undies are made of denim, nowadays?' HAHAHA love it. Our class came up with some really good ones.
It was funny how everyone reacted differently!!
My actual major has had no progress.
Here's one of the truisms my friends did:

This is the beginning.

HELLO BLOGGING WORLD.

I'm an Itm, Drama and Art student juggling three majors. This blog is really just for me to keep myself accountable for these projects and work on them continuously. So, I aim to write at least one each week on friday until I hand the projects in. It's going to be an interesting year!!

So far for ITM, I have come up with the idea of creating a stationery company with a website and advertisement. I have already started creating the stationery, it was looking good, but now it's looking bleak! Oh, the life of a designer/artist. I never seem to like my designs, out of all nine i created, i scraped five and kept three.
The company is called POP. I thought it popped, haha! I had originally three groups of stationery; colourpop, oceanpop and playpop. But i think this may change. I find all of my designs, if i go along with these groups, are corny and girly.
but anyway, Ill keep at it. Ill get there eventually.
Heres one of my designs i am happy with :) Being my major work I thought i had better put my naem on it.

DRAMA isn't going too bad. I think i have found my monologue already! Its about a character who is stuck inside a monologue. It's difficult to understand when i say it like that but how else can i explain it? It's actually quite a funny monologue!! I start accusing the audience of being aliens and all that jazz!!
As for memorising it, the first paragraph is pretty much in my head. Ill keep going.

ART is a bit of a tough one. I think i'm going to explore the idea of misleading. I could use the silhouette of a person, but use, lets say, prints of leaves to make the hair and a feather for the dress. I dont know. My art is weird. From far away it looks beautiful but close up its not.

Well, lets do it.