Digital Arts BFA Senior Studio Contract
1. What you will work on (type/genre of digital art). Is it one piece, a series, or several works?
I will be working on digital imaging and video. The final project will be series of works relating to a story that I have created called “Broken Keys”. There will be a series of 5 artworks that will be snapshots of some of the issues that is being addressed in the story. There will also be a video, something along the lines of a trailer that will explain the story’s plot.
2. What idea/concept drives your project? What theme will the project address? If this is time-based, it should include a synopsis of the piece. Otherwise, it should be a concept statement.
I like the process of character design from the visual look of a character to create the character’s his or her backstory or history. The concept behind my project is to explore alternative ways and looks to creating the visual aspect of not only the characters but a glimpse of the world they are living in as well.
3. Formal aesthetics and how they support the concept.
My aesthetic style incorporates the circular abstraction style with the sharp clean edges of graphic design. This unique style will be able to support my concept for my BFA because I will be creating the visual look of a characters and the world that they live in but in a style that is not traditionally use when doing so.
4. What final format it will take (medium & size), that discusses specifically how it will be displayed in the gallery (recall that each student gets about 12’ of linear wall space or 12 square feet of floor space).
The 5 still image are will be on the wall making a V-shape formation while the trailer video on the screen will be on a trolley and in front of the still images. So the position of the images will lead the viewers’ eyes to the video trailer.
Equipment needed for both PRODUCTION as well as for final DISPLAY in the BFA Thesis Exhibition gallery.
- Scanner
- Camera
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Photoshop
- TV or computer screen (to show the “trailer”)
- Autodesk Maya
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Audition
- Large Printer
Comments from first small crit #1:
ReplyDeleteKilo - mistaken identity - tells the story; reveal through details = interactivity; Aesthetic is abstract design + character design; how to present? - hard maybe we ARE Kilo. No new visuals today - showed "the Detectives" (last year) example of digital painting and abstract graphic and project 3 (from interactive class); at Defense: show visual flowchart and sketches of 5 images? story is the most important - see a literature person. Now interactive piece, NOT images: clues added. See pottermore.com . Why is the kid's name "Kilo" - consider respelling if it is meant as Key vs. Kilogram (which has drug immplications). Really be careful about names. She needs to work really hard in getting something visual ready as well as concept for the defense. not enough progress.
nothing visual yet?! developed story: kid (Kilo) thrown into high society, things aren’t ‘good’? kid is trying to figure out what happened to his family. create a website to experience his questions through his point of view (similar to viral marketing for the TV show ‘Lost’). See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Experience and pottermore.com. Needs to have style defined for the visual components of the web. I’M REALLY CONCERNED WITH HER VISUAL WORK NOT BEING FAR ENOUGH ALONG AND HAVING THE CONCEPT BE DEVELOPED OUT TO SHOW ON DEFENSE DAY.
Progress:D, Concept: C