thoughts on this course!

Last year as I was choosing my courses I only picked this course because I thought it was the only art course that I would not do miserably in and I was right! I enjoyed this course and I'm glad I took it because I learned some cool new stuff (and I won't need to worry about taking a grade 9 or 10 art credit in a 5th year, that'd be embarrassing). I learned things that are becoming more common in today's society and it is good to have background knowledge on the things we worked with and investigated in this course not only for your own good but for future job opportunities. I really enjoyed creating all of my work for this course but I also had a great time on the trip I went on for a quest unit. I had a great time down at the Harbourfront and I learned a lot of cool stuff!

First project: multiple exposer. I had always seen people do stuff like this, with more than one image of themselves. At first I was dumbfounded. Then I realized they used photoshop but I still had no idea how they did it. I was excited to learn how and very happy to learn that it wasn't even that hard to do. The only thing I regret about this project is not checking the modes on my camera before hand... turns out there is an anti-shake/blur mode type of thing. So my pictures wouldn't have been so blurry. But other than that I think it was a great success.

Second project: circus collage. This was fun to do and I learned a few cool tricks in photoshop but it was almost a bit too much for me. I was getting a little stressed because I thought that it was a mess. Nothing related to each other and there were so many colours. But then, I put my mild OCD aside and realized, it's a collage, that's how it's supposed to look! Especially since I described myself as a clown, it is allowed to be wild and outrageous. How many perfectionist clowns do you know?

Third project: pattern and inspirational person. I never would have thought I'd be so satisfied with my pattern! Like I mentioned before I like for everything to have a certain order about them so obviously I was stressing when I had to use three random objects to create one image. Although I got some pretty random objects (a soccer shoes?! thanks Cormac..) I was very happy with my final product. I was able to create something that looked like a butterfly using soccer shoes, bowling pins and slices of watermelon! I think that my pattern was also appropriate for my inspirational person: P!NK. The colours were obviously bang on (I'm hoping you know what colour a watermelon is) so I think the pattern suited my person. I got a great, eccentric image of P!NK and I'm very happy with the final product. I just got it back today and it was cool to see on paper. Although this project seemed easy enough I'm grateful for Eryk's help! Poor guy, he did his like five different times!!! Darn those slow computers! ;)

Last but not least: I AM video. My partner for this project was Mandy, thank goodness! I can't imagine working on something like with anyone else. Not only did I learn a lot from her but she was great to work with. We had many similar ideas and we were easily able to put them together to fit both of our wants and the overall image that we wanted our video to have. Mandy was the one to choose the song for the video, The Fear by Lily Allen. It was actually very random for her to pick that song, sure it was her newest single but Mandy just suggested it out of the blue. Anyways, I guess it's always good to go with your gut because our video wouldn't be the same without that song. The only diffucult thing about making this video was finding a good photographer. Since we both wanted to be in most of the pictures together we needed someone to photograph us. We tried to explain what we wanted to both my younger brothers but that didn't turn out so well. Regardless we made it work. But for the last several pictures at the end of the video we got one of my best friends to take the pictures for us and she did a great job, thank goodness! I really enjoyed working on this, my only regret is not having it in the Art Show. This was by far my favourite assignment from the whole course!