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junnm major & soci minor
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This is my first draft that I presented during tutorial. It shows the man, who is my father, that is carrying fake weights. The tagline is 'age is as you define it, don't let it weigh you down'. This is to pun on the 'weigh'. Also, I used the blue parts of the poster as space fillers.
For this lecture assignment, Delon and I also did it together. The word given to us was tremendous. Thus we decided to draw a very big white circle (as white makes images look bigger) juxtaposed with a puny solid black circle (which makes images look smaller).
To decorate it further, I made the title, Tremendous, of the drawing, using letters from big to puny to further emphasize on the whole theme of TREMENDOUS! ((:
For the final, I changed 3 pictures, the third, fourth and fifth picture, as well as the arrangement of the photos.
For the third picture, I changed the 3 pictures in the previous draft into one picture, with each different flashback as a thin strip.
For the fourth picture, I took a more zoomed in picture of the computer screen as compared to the previous draft to make what the person in the picture look more obvious. To further emphasize on what he is looking at, a more zoomed in version of the screen is shown and I highlighted the change in status of his wife to 'in a relationship with Mark Soon'. All these would help bring attention to the many words on the screen which is likely to divert attention away from the main intention of the picture of the screen. Also, if I didn't highlight the main part, people might not know where to look or focus on in the first place.
I chose to focus on the story of a divorce, despite this issue not being easy to express without words. To show that the main character’s marriage is having problems, the scene opens showing him staring intently at the ring on his finger. Several flashbacks occur after, showing his past relationship with his wife. Going on to the next scene, the problem arises as he sees his wife being happy with someone else after they separated.
After looking at his wife’s facebook photo with someone else, he makes up his mind and texts his wife about the divorce procedures. At the end of the last scene, their wedding ring is seen on the table, showing the decision between the two parties.
I re-took these photos several times so as to be able to convey the message more accurately. Also, the use of sepia for several photos is used to convey the flashback idea, so as to distinguish the present and the past.
I used a bunch (3 to be exact) of framed pictures for the flashback as well as a different way of presenting all the individual frames to defy the more standard way of presenting the storyboard as I felt it would be different and not so boring.
The abstraction begins with doing a replication of the boat traveling before the buildings and shophouses surrounding the river. The abstraction continues to the next level, as the details within the windows and building are removed, and the iconic boat is left without the details of its parts as well.
In the next step of the abstraction, only the foreground with the shophouses are left, and the boat is further stripped of its details, only retaining the iconic eye at the front of the boat and its shelter. The other obvious detail which is left till the end is the tyre in front, and therefore at the end of the abstraction process, i chose to leave only the circle in front of the boat, which may not be recognizable anymore. Therefore the chosen design is the fourth one, with the boat still having its shelter thus allowing others to recognize it if it is placed on a sign to indicate directions.
For the final draft for this assignment, I added more details to the first abstraction stage. Consequently, it made the abstraction process too drastic from the first to the second stage. I thus created another stage in-between to solve the problem and took out the last stage as a result. Also, I changed the fourth stage (which became the last stage) by removing the 'shelter' to make it more abstract.
Chosen Abstraction
For this new draft, I edited the 'floor' for each stage to make it more consistent as compared to the previous one where only the 2 stages had a straight line right to the end of the abstraction. I also straightened the 'nose' of the boat for the third and fourth stage. In addition, I changed the buildings and the shelter of my chosen abstraction (the 3rd stage). The buildings are now short tall tall, tall short tall, from short tall short, short short. As for the shelter, I changed the stand from 2 lines to 1 instead.
The main change for this assignment is actually straightening each and every line
painstakingly from scratch, manually, to make it look neater and less 'sketch-y'.
Chosen Abstraction:
This assignment requires us to do an abstraction process on a place in Singapore.
For my assignment, i chose to use a scene of Boat Quay, focusing on the iconic image of the boat for sightseeing.
This are sketches I did for tutorial presentation.
For this lecture assignment, Delon and I did it together. We decided to use a theater for the indexical mode and use popcorn to represent it (i.e. for the iconic mode).
Indexical Mode:
Iconic Mode:
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