Expo E-48 Spring 2012

Assignment 2

Habituation/Defamiliarization

The first three images I selected are of sidewalk paintings that use the art technique, trompe l’oeil, to create a 3D illusion on the flat sidewalk surface.  The images transform a mundane and relatively small stretch of sidewalk, jarring the viewer’s perspective and suggest the possibility of an alternate reality, be it an an underground world beneath the city streets or an incoming Playskool army.

Image 1 – Edgar Mueller

Image 2 – Artist Unknown

Image 3 – Artist Unknown

Assignment 8: The Hunch- Intro/Trailer

Assignment # 3

Framing Technique: Rule of Thirds

Lighting Technique: Available lighting.

For this interview I decided to frame my questions with the introduction “what if the world ends in December 2012” (according to the Mayan calendar), because I wanted my friend to look deep into his own memories and describe that one unique experience that had truly made a mark in his life. An interesting comment he told me off camera was that it was hard for him to imaging the world could actually end in 10 months, and if that were a real fact, he probably wouldn’t be wasting not even 4 minutes with me in an interview, time would become the most valuable thing in life. On the other hand, it was also interesting to find out that the one positive memory he thought it would matter the most in his 23 years of life was actually a social/political event he was able to witness at the age of 19.

Assignment 8: The Hunch- Intro/Trailer