kill ad poster!

I wanted to do something a little more self-reflexive and oxymoronic.. its form in its type font resemebles that of a slasher movie poster.. but it was against ads, the very same medium that the message is against. the low angle shot further plays up the monstrosity of this everyday image at the local bus stop. the body of text overlaps the boundary of the ad, blurring the line between the clear channel ad and this poster against the ad. it is an ad within an ad.

I was inspired by this ad that i saw on the net.. the fact that is was completely meaningless and carries a tinge of truth really captured me.
also, along this line, i created another ad for a film project last semester that had the words 'Do Not Read' which we pasted in the forum. Please comment! =)

photo essay

here's a story that initially appears to be about maid abuse, but later reveals that it is actually from the perspective of a dog, hence the black and white since dogs are colour blind. the final shot is not from the perspective of the dog and is one of rage, and is thus saturated to be more red. However, the feedback i got is that the black and white pictures are too low in terms of contrast.

web design

this is an interesting link that theorizes on the effects of simple web design with crazy results, based on an actual website www.tired.com
the article (well sort of) can be found here http://www.slate.com/id/2103823/

class sketch -still image

this is the image we drew for our group.
at first glance, it seems like an ordinary image of students at the desk. However, upon closer look, one will realise that the left person is actually touching the feet of the person on the right. As the top portion of the body is not revealed, the gender of the person on the left is also unclear.
Is this just a matter of angle? Are the feet really touching at all?
If so, is this a girl flirting with a boy? Or.. a boy flirting with another boy?

abstract - horse

These are just some random sketchings when looking for an idea of what to symbolise. it ranged from hair to elephants to burgers and finally settled for horse.

Here's the final five progression..

1. The realistic horse

2. Reduced the curves to straight lines, kept the ears, eyes, mane, sadle and tail.

3. Lost the eyes, ears and tail, kept the mane and sadle. Looks pretty decent.

4. Lost the mane and sadle. Even though i only dropped two things, it seemed too drastic. The forms looks like a mammal, but nothing points to a horse.

5. Put the hair back to the animal. I felt it looked the best.

I felt that the image still points to a horse if i lost the tail. So I kept the mane and added 'movement' to the legs to bring the speed element visible to the horse. This is done by splitting the hind from fore legs a bit more, so it does not look stiff and straight.

ta daa! my final outcome.

comment!

class sketches-iconic & indexic

the topic chosen was dogs.. the iconic final is the bottom-most one as the ring around the eye points to the specific breed rather than the animal type.
indexic final is the bowl with the bone as the two elements when separate points to a wide range of things rather than 'dog' (bowl may mean cat bowl while bone may be just bones or dinosaurs or what not). the combination narrows down the representation.

photoshop

Here, the error is more attention grabbing and hopefully more effective in the message of my hating maths.

To prevent people from thinking that i love trees, i have included a tribute to Nightmare Before Christmas by putting in the iconic face of its main character, Jack Skellington. This merger of Big Fish and Nightmare Before Christmas should be more effective than just the trees. I had wanted to use the background for the poster of Big Fish, but it was too technically challenging. haha. If i was better at photoshop, i definitely would have done it. however, this black and white also works as it is characteristic of Tim Burton to use such monochromes.