Digital Story Telling

I just wanted to put out there that I’m also in a class called digital story telling.  There’s only one project, so the posts about it will be sparse. Right now I’m in the process of writing my script for the project, and then I’ll move on to story boarding it, which I will post here. The idea is for us to make a three minute movie that actually ends up being an advertisement for a specific product. The first company to do this was BMW, with their series of ten web released short films known as “The Hire,” staring Clive Owen. They totally ignored the conventional advertising methods and created a new and highly effective form of advertising. Our goal is to duplicate the same emotional draw they created towards the BMW Z3 and apply it to whatever product we choose. Good luck to me!

Design & Art Theory: Values of Light and Dark

These are just charcoal sketches I did during class. I’m trying to develop my ability to identify shape using different values of light and dark. Neither of these images are meant to make a statement of any kind. They’re simply shapes that I thought would be interesting to draw at the time. In the image above I was attempting to make the shape highly reflective, while the image below diffuses the light much more, giving it a much softer texture.