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Ideas:
Racing: A picture of me in my car, as the camera screen and the background is a camera taking a picture of me
Cats : Me reaching up while a cat paws at me

Final:

Toy Hack Reflection

1) My toy represents the many masks and costumes we put on as people to cover up our true selves and fit in. Here, the dog has put on a rabbit costume, with whiskers, duck feet and patches and a pig patch, yet his true self is showing through by the rip in his stomach, his tail and his face. Like us, we sometimes try to patch together different personalities and ideals that aren't our own so we can fit in with others. But when we do that, we start to look ridiculous and we begin to fall apart, like the dog is pretending to be like other animals, but has to keep himself together with messy patches. Instead, we should be working on just being ourselves and taking off our costumes, which would look much better.

3 things to do better:
First, I would have liked to have the batteries for the voice box, especially if it was a dog barking, because it would have represented my theme even more because although you're not sure what this animal is, it's true form still shows through. I would have also liked to do a better sewing job on the head, but it was my first job and I wasn't used to it yet. Finally, I think I should have mixed more styles of toys instead of just stuffed animals

3 things I like:
I like the way it's still cute and attractive to kids even though it's a hybrid of many animals and a lot of others look really creepy. Plus, I like the way the duck feet turned out looking like they could really have been a part of the bunny's body originally, my sewing job wasn't too bad. Finally, I like the way it all kind of fits together in the end, and I think the message could be guessed without me explaining it

3 things to do with more time:
I would have had more animal parts to add, like a horn or different paws. Next, although this would have taken some sewing skills, it would have been cool to make the costume removable so as to teach a lesson to kids that you can take off your costume and you look a lot better just as yourself anyways. Also, I would have liked to find a way to make my project interactive

Art Movie Reflection

Leandra Urbanek

Title: Beware

Medium: Technology

Date: April 10th 2015

Technical: In this project, I used Adobe Premiere Pro, which was new to me. Although I have used video editing programs before, this one was much more complex, with many more options. I learned how to use this program to put videos together, put effects on them, insert new sounds and music, and how to make it all go together nicely.

Idea or Concept: For my idea, I really stuck with the same thing as my original idea, making the man open the locker and then having disaster strike after, like the temperature going up, the baby going down the stairs, and just any scene of chaos I could get from the clips. I added bits of extra pieces like eye close ups, and static at the end, and I took out the building exploding at the end. Otherwise, everything from my original plan was almost exactly as I planned it in my head in the beginning.

Influences: I did watch some of “The Tree of Life” movie to give me some ideas on how an art movie actually works. I also had the horror movie ‘Sinister’ in mind and the way it uses videos taken by someone of murders being discovered, which was what gave me the idea of using a video camera in the first place.

Composition: I tried to make everything look like they came from the same movie and time, using all black and white and also some noise and grain. I also changed the movement between the videos, sometimes making a smooth transition, while other times it was a choppy one. This helped give it the effect I was looking for at that moment, like nervousness for the choppy parts and a bit more calm in the smooth parts.

Motivation: If I’m being 100% honest, I had to work up a lot of motivation to do this project because art movies are most definitely not my thing. I didn’t really get the idea of watching one, let alone making my own, so I never really got the knack of it. It was kind of cool to see my work go from an idea in my head to a real video, but it really was not a project I enjoyed.

Critical Assessment: I feel like the part with the camera in between each shot turned out looking pretty good, and it really adds to the rest of the video. I also like the music I found, I thought it fit nicely with the video and it gave it a sinister feeling and invokes a sense of anticipation to what will happen next. For me, I was surprised at how easily everything did come together in a whole video, and how, using the endless effects and options, anyone could make a really nice video using this program. If I had more time and knowledge, I think I would have made the ending with the static go a little smoother, and I would have worked on the effects more in detail.

Art Movie