Stop-Motion Animation Video

Project 11: Utopia and Dystopia Silent Films

By Nichole Snyder, Nicole Marchesi, and Ellie Pagnano

Magazine Mock Up

Commercial Portraits

For this photo I wanted a happy, effortless personality and I feel that's what it really accomplishes.  This is a fashion magazine and I did a plain background because many known magazines have different background colors. I love how free the picture feels and how her hair is crazy. I know the picture is more natural looking and I like that, I feel it's more relatable. I also wanted to give the picture a summer feel and I think her pose betrays that. 

Magazine Picture
For this photo I just wanted another fun easy photo. I like the contrast in the background and clothes. I choose the aqua because I felt it made the shirt pop. Her hands make the photo more interesting which could potentially be used as an add for pattern shirts. I brightened the photo, changed the saturation, and cropped the photo to make it seem like it could be used in a fashion magazine. 

Fine Art Portrait

Portrait #1
This is my great aunt Leonora. I thought she would be a perfect subject for this fine art portrait since her beautiful skin shows a  story. I really like the contrast between this photo and my second one it shows two different emotions. I wanted to focus primarily on the subject for this photo, also.  Though at first I wanted my great aunt to be straight face and serious I really enjoy that she's not. This shows two different kinds of fine art portraits. For this photo Zizi ( what we call her) is sitting in her chair that has to be at lest fifty years old and is smiling happily. Her face is not only highlighted in this picture it really brings out her eyes, which show years of working hard and struggling. Her wrinkles show that she is older, and wiser, but no one would think that she's ninety seven years old. For this photo I told my model to do different posses and she ended up doing this one. I love her hands and how there placed. Not only can we see how she used to work in a clothing factory, we see her favorite ring on her finger, something she always wears. I edited this photo to bring out her face and hands. I changed it  black and white because originally it had a yellow tint, which I did't like. I had my subject sit down because it adds more of her character to the picture. Overall I like how my subject stands out.

Portrait #2
This is a fine art portrait of Nichole.  For this photo I wanted to experiment something different then my first one and still focus on her face. I choose to show a difference between light and dark. I painted this photo black for two reasons. One, I like the way the lighting hits her face and I wanted to emphasize that and bring out the feeling in the picture. Secondly, because in her eyes we can see anger, envy even, and the black highlights that anger. I want the portrait to express helplessness, the idea that this person is very angry, yet she's stuck in time. When someones angry it's known you see red yet, what you actually feel is betrayed by someone.  Usually the person feels cold, dark, mad, they don't see any positives. That feeling is usually dark and I choose to use black trying to represent that. We can see a big difference between her face and the background. I added some contrast to make that more definite and took the redness out of her cheeks to make her look angrier. I stood fairly close to the model getting her profile. I like how her collarbone looks and the way she expressed her emotion.

Pre Work on Fine Art Portrait and Commercial Portrait Magazine Cover

Miranda Sheppard
I choose this magazine because it pulls you in with the bright and preppy colors. I also think it's interesting how the model is in a squatting position. Looking at numerous seventeen magazine covers their was only a handful where the model wasn't standing up. You can tell this picture is very posed but it works well with the whole look. I like the position of the models hand, it's interesting how her hand closes her off. I also think the dress she's wearing it works really well on the model giving off a sense maturity. The way the magazine is labeled draws your eyes into certain sections . 

unknown
This picture once again looks posed but very care free. It has a sense of happiness, especially with the colors used. The model is posed standing but, I like how one leg is  bent it changes up the usual magazine covers.  Her face is very happy and their isn't anything intriguing about it. Like the model on seventeen, both covers used bright happy colors and different fonts throughout the cover. 

 Michael Williamson
This photo draws you in by the expression on the model's face and how realistic it looks. The lighting is minimal, and I like how well his skin contrast to the smooth black background. From just his face we get the impression that he's a hard working man who probably has been through a lot emotionally. I like how sad he looks because it makes you wonder more about the model. 

Admin
This picture is really affective in my opinion. I love how clear her face is and how her eyes seem to sparkle in contrast to the other half of her face. I like the position of her face and the lighting. Even though she does't have any props or any hints at what she's feeling, the way the picture is taken allows a common person to make assumptions. To me, the model seems that she has a lot of emotion  and that she may be holding in a secret. The editing on this photo I also really like because it's so clear it makes you focus more on the model and her face.

These photos share many similarities and differences. They both have a model they're focusing on and a message they're trying to get across. Yet, the magazine seems to always use bright colors and different fonts to pull the viewer in. The fine art photos depends more on the model and what they're trying to convey using their face. The colors are usually bland or black and white to focus on the subject while on magazine covers bright colors are usually in- place.  The main difference I see is that in fine art its up to the viewer to interpret what the model is feeling. The models eyes or stance usually helps with this. But, in magazines it seems the models is almost always happy and you don't really have to think outside the photo. Light is used differently in both also, in fine art portraits theirs minimal light while on magazines there is a lot of light especially on the models face. The poses also seem to vary many fine art portraits are up close  while in magazines you can almost always see  half the models body or more.  Though these two styles have their differences they are similar in a sense that they are both trying to convey a message, and they both use portraits to do this. 

Project 8 - Surrealism and Photomontage

This is my surrealism photo. For this photo I used multiple techniques to get a surrealistic image.  During our field trip I took a picture of the U.S. Bancorp Tower and of Nichole on a modern staircase in a building. I first used the Bancorp picture as my background and cut out the staircase to hang off the building. Once I arranged those, I put in the ocean and fixed the building to look as if it was floating on water. I took the water and shark image from the internet and put it in my photo to give it a surrealistic feel. I darkened the sky to give the photo a look of a storm brewing. At first, I based my photo off of an image I saw from surrealistic blog but, as I started playing with the different tools and pictures I created a very different image. I really like how it turned out and the placement of Nichole makes it look like she wishing for something. Overall I thought this was very fun and I liked experimenting with different images.