Context Lecture - Week 12

I have to be honest. I found this lecture hard to follow as i could not see any relevance to Graphic Design. Yes you could make a picture from sound using the chords or the image of the music notes but i think thats more common-sense. I get the idea of people challenging reality through sound and film and again i get where the lecture was going but i would like to of seen it linking more to Graphics.  Anyway here is the lecture... 

Paradigm


Paradigm is used to describe experiences beliefs and values that effects your personal perception of reality. The phrase 'Paradigm Shift' is used to describe a change in how a group or society goes about in understanding/organising reality. 


Classical Paradigm

1. Story
2. Film
3. Image

Fin de Siecle - End of an Era and beginning of another. 

Realism, Symbolism, Aestheticism, Expressionism, Formalism, Fordism and The Residue of the Decadents.

Realism - The move towards anti-myth within the 18th and 19th Century.

Symbolism - The reaction from realism/naturalism within abstraction which was viewed as more interested in Dreams, Spirituality and imagination. 

Aestheticism - European art movement in the late 19th Century that emphasised authentic values. 


This section I found Interesting. That Realism could be a driving force behind a design/ piece of music or film. 

Gregorian Chant

Within Gregorian Chant, Woman and boys were not allowed to preform or be apart of the group

Sonic Avante- Garde (The Rise of Spring 1948)

This era of music shows great similarities to soundtracks from films today. The build up gives great emphasis to a dramatic scene that many films have adapted and used. 

Charles Ives (Central park in the Dark)

Melo tune that has tendencies to give the view of an Ominous and dark feeling.  

John Cage

Believed that sounds all around could be called music. During a performance he sat for 4 minutes 33 seconds playing nothing, allowed the audience to hear the noise around them. 
Would you accept this after paying admission? 

Wozzeck - Alban Berg

Techniques used.

1. Aleatoric Music
2. Graphic Notation
3. Microtones
4. Indeterminate Music
5. Non Western folk tradition

Agha Work

Dialectical Modernism - Collage, Photomontage and Cinematic montage


Collage 

1912, Papier collee and Charcoal on paper - Georges Broque

1912 - Compotier avec fruits, violon at verre - Pablo Picasso

1914, The sunblind - Juan Gris

1914, Free word Painting - Patriotic Festival, pasted paper charcoal, ink and gouache on board - Carlo Carra

This collage (Free word Painting) is my favourite, due to the layout and colours used. It almost looks like a vinyl record but also gives the feel that it is wooden made. 

Methods of Montage

1. Metric

U.I Design

During my spare time I like to invest in doing some U.I (User Interface) Design for my portfolio. As i have only just begun looking at creating realistic objects within photoshop, my skills are limited but I am determined to reach a level where i can safely say that I am qualified in creating such designs. Here are some examples that i have been working on. 

Lecture - Sheena Calvert talks The History Of Everything (17/11/11)

Key Periods of Western Philosophy

1. Ancient Philosophy - Greek, Hellenistic and Roman
2. Medieval Philosophy - Patristic and Scholastic
3. Modern Philosophy
4. Contemporary Philosophy - 20th century - Postmodernism

The Enlightenment 


The time when people questioned rule and order during the Scientific movement. It ran in western circles form about 1650 to around 1880. Isaac Newton (1643-1727) is seen as the greatest figure of the Enlightenment. 


"Shine white light through a glass prism and emerging rays of light will spread out in the form of a rainbow" - Newton

This area of the lecture where she discussed the london underground map is what i found interesting. I like how the circles have been names after different topics, ie film star names etc.


criticism - do you see it as a negative? 

Advertising and Photography

Photography was invented in 1837. By the late nineteenth century advertisers believed that illustration sold good. It was not till after World War 1 that the advertising industry explored the use of Photography. Photography became viewed as a piece of Truth, Capturing the moment.

The Medium is the Message


The medium that we choose to use within our designs also conveys a message to the audience. Nowadays due to the boom in recycling due to global warming, we can see many companies using recyclable papers and eco friendly inks etc. A good example would be to mention 'The Body Shop' which is a company known to use recycled paper as apart of their packaging. 

Overal I thought the Talk was Interesting, Especially the part about how Medium can convey a separate message but it is hard to see how this will effect my Graphic Design Work as a whole. 

Influences

Spot the difference. Both pictures show great similarities. This is because both were created by Jules Cheret, the same man who painted the images for the productions in Theatre Optique. 

Research Poster

After much research i have come to the conclusion that i shall write about the comparisons of Theatre Optique to that of Art influences and forms of entertainment during the 1880's. For this I shall be focusing on the Art Nouveau period and the establishment of Moulin Rouge, the cabaret built in 1889 (three years before the first public performance of a moving picture show at the Musée Grévin in Paris). Due to the Subject of seduction, love and relationships portrayed within Pauvre Pierrot and Autour d'une cabine, I believe analysing surrounding influences will show how they influenced Reynauds productions. Theatre productions at the time will have also influenced Reynauds. 

An advertisement for Reynauds productions. 

Made very eye catching through the use of colour and also by having the woman as a focal point. The combined performance of all three films (Le clown et ses chiens, Pauvre Pierrot and Un bon bock) was known as Pantomimes Lumineuses. No individual posters were created for each production. The Musee Grevin was the location used to present these movies to an Audience with special music by Gaston Paulin. This stunning poster was created by Jules Chéret.

On 28 October 1892 there was a première - the first animated pictures shown publicly on a screen by means of long transparent bands of images.

Autour d'une Cabine - Emile Reynaud

A couple go bath only to have their privacy ruined by a rude gentleman who peeks while the young lady changes. The young man scares of the rude gentleman and the couple proceed to go for a swim. 

Pauvre Pierrot - Emile Reynaud

The Film shows two lovers who are disturbed by another man seeking her effections. 

One night, Arlequin come to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.

Filmography of Charles Émile Reynaud

Here we can see the films that Charles Émile Reynaud was best known for. 

1. Autour d'une cabine (short) - 1895
2. Rêve au coin du feu (short) - 1894  
3. Le clown et ses chiens (short) - 1892
4. Pauvre Pierrot (short) - 1892 
5. Un bon bock (short) - 1892

Introduction - First Draft.

INTRODUCTION

In 1876 a French inventor by the name of Charles-Émile Reynaud invented the Praxinoscope, which was viewed as the predecessor of the Zoetrope. A circle of 12 mirrors were placed in the middle of the Praxinoscope which allowed multiple people to view the moving images in a spell bounding gaze, compared to a single person examining the image through viewing slits within the side of the Zoetrope. This adaption allowed the audience to have a clearer; less distorted view of the animation and could now be seen as a form of family entertainment, but still only 12 images could be viewed.

Two years after the first release of his invention, Reynaud then continued to further develop the Praxinoscope by creating a glass-viewing screen, which allowed the audience to change backgrounds as the moving images were superimposed on top, but it wasn’t until 1980 that he first invented ‘The Projection Praxinoscope’. 

A lantern was used (much like the invention of Ding Huan who created the earliest Zoetrope in China around 180 AD. Ding Huan's device was called "The Pipe Which Makes Fantasies Appear”) to project the moving image onto a screen that could be mounted to allow a much larger audience to view the show.

In 1888 Reynaud perfected his invention, allowing more than 12 images to be viewed through a projector that would later be viewed as a similar design to the ones used later for cinema projection. So what was it that Reynaud showed within his Animations and did it bring up any subjects of concern or simply put, capture the audience into disbelief?