Art Evaluation and Our trip in time

As our teacher had promised, we made a brief visit to Mohatta Palace, a well known art museum where anyone can easily find tremendous yet amazing and inspiring art creations. Therefore, we went there and we were given a quick task to analyze any one of the art pieces we think are the best. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to take pictures inside the museum and this makes me blank about how the art 'actually' was. Therefore, right now I just have these questions answered.


The artist's name is Mehreen Murtaza and the name of the art itself is (which is basically a collage) Anthology of comic snippets series: The architect. 


Questions and their answers :


Q-What is my first response to the work?


A- I was at first confused of what was the initiative behind such an art as it was politically controversial and critical too, but then I realized it is a perspective of what artist is trying to define.


Q-What is the title? Does it help illuminate the work?


A-The title was Anthology of comic snippets series: The architect. To me, the title has almost truly illuminated the work. 


Q-What do the clothing, furnishing, accessories (swords, clock, etc) and facial expressions contribute to the settings personality?


A-This question is rather a limited one and may not apply to this sort of an art, as it was a collage. Although well designed, this collage did not really consist of any special accessories or furnishings.


Q-What is the focus of the composition?


A-The focus of the composition is towards history, defining it from a biased view. The composition relates to one of the most well known personalities of the region and the society and as well as some of the actions occurred either by that personality or through that personality.


Q-What is the purpose of this piece?


A-According to how I perceive this art, the purpose of this art is to highlight a misunderstanding which some parts of the society do not realize yet or maybe, just to highlight the misunderstanding.


Q-What is the medium? Does the medium have significance?


A-The medium was basically a type of photo paper. It has no significance.


Q-what effect does color have?


A-Again, this questionnaire itself is based on a perspective, therefore, on me the color played a great impact. Primarily because it was based on history, which they inner grey scale scheme supported with and secondly, the red scheme for the stage curtains made a huge impact on what I can perceive from the art.


Q-Is the size of this piece important?


A-The size of the piece may not be considered important as far as things are clearly visible. This is due to the fact that primarily, this piece reflects history and probably one of the major events in history. There is nothing unique about this image, except that it is entirely a different version defining what has been described in books.

Logo Creation

Initially, it is very important to explain why did I create a logo for the team. Logo simply adds up more passion and interest in the study of Media and makes me more determined towards my work for the OCR. This is because having a logo means having some sort of recognition in one way or the other, depending on how we perceive it. Therefore, for me, logo was necessary for the team and myself too.


Below mentioned are phases I went through to create this logo, unfortunately, I could not save the images with that great amount of detail. 

This was the basic shape I created on a vector graphics designing software namely, Adobe Illustrator using simple a simple pen and some rulers and guides. After that I copied these shapes and rotated two of them on +90 degrees and -90 degrees having copied, while one on a 180 degree rotation having copied. Which made it into a shape like this.

After that I drew 4 circles on each corner space available, with a simple preset drawing tool, the circle name being eclipse.

This is the basic shape of the logo which I had. After that, I filled these shapes with different gradients, although, the colors I had in mind are different than what was the result of these gradients, where gradients proving to be better.

The shape visible above is just the basic logo, remember, the basic version. I might try explaining why I chose the colors I have chosen for the blending gradients. Generally, dark colors usually symbolize seriousness and deep thinking while light colors symbolize creativity and vividness. This seemed a perfect combination for the team and they also like it. From here onwards emerges some basic/advanced software functionality featuring primitive additions and subtractions. As shown below.

Here, I simply drew a small circle and copied it on the other larger circles on the corners. After that, from the pathfinder panel, I intersected these small circles from the larger ones which as a result produced a slightly different and a more attracting shape.

This looks better. Now the logo is almost complete. Basically, it is still a bit dry and for that, I thought I should additionally apply a filter and so I started searching for a good filter to apply, where I saved the images of 4 of the filters I found better. 

This completes the logo being made. I am still working on how to improve the appearance of the logo, making it more appealing for our media product and I hope to have it completed by the time we finish our video production. 

Additionally, this logo has been made in such a way that this can be used in motion effects for the video, most probably on Adobe After Effects. 

The Preliminary Poster ; Remastered

This is the poster made out of the same photo the team took just after the shoot. Not much has been omitted in this poster, except that I added a more vivid heading, with a funky sort of a font, representing something other than seriousness. I added extra elements, just to make it look like it's a poster relating to a film. Also, I made blur the rest of the photo except for the characters themselves to emphasize on the characters.

When certain things don't work out.

It is not rare watching your idea not working out due to some conditions, the same happened with our team. We worked with enthusiasm, not noticing how absurd our ideas were becoming, especially in terms of practical execution. What I mean to say here is that I learned a new lesson. While making a film, you have to keep in mind 2 perspectives, the possibilities and the realities. Possibilities are always endless, but realities cut down those possibilities. 

What actually blew the whole planning away was the lack of sensibility in our senses. Yes, I need to be really honest here. We were not sensible, somebody, somewhere made some mistake, which led to the crash of the whole planning and we have to do it again. 

I consider this good, because when you fail, you try even harder. I could not execute my idea, now I would not dare try thinking something as absurd as the previous idea. Also, there's another important thing. No matter how excited you get planning your film (as far as the story and the plot is concerned), it is always important to 'note' everything down in order to make it a little bit serious. Of course, it is human nature to think, reflect and portray, but in things like these, you have to make sure you are not doing so many mistakes, because it takes a lot of time to recover those mistakes. For instance, we were excited about our story, but there was nothing practical about the story it self and I, from the beginning, had an idea of where were about to get, but it's good that the whole team feels the same way.

Institutions ; A Vital Organ

Institutions are basically firms which distribute films. The institution I have chosen for analysis is :- 

Dimension Films 

This firm formerly belonged to Bob Weinstein's firm namely Miramax Films but currently it is a part of The Weinstein Company. The firm's parent company changed to the new one on October 1' 2005.

Films made and distributed solely by Dimension Films are :-

Bad Santa (2003) 

The Crow: Salvation (2000) 

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995) 

Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996) 

Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) 

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999) 

Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) 

Cursed (2005) 

Darkness (2002) 

Dracula 2000 (2000) 

Dracula II: Ascension (2003) 

Dracula III: Legacy (2005) 

From Dusk till Dawn (with Miramax Films) (1996) 

From Dusk till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999) 

From Dusk till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000) 

Equilibrium (2002) 

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) 

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) 

Halloween: Resurrection (2002) 

Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth (1992) 

Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996) 

Hellraiser: Inferno (2000) 

Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002) 

Hellraiser: Deader (2005) 

Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005) 

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

Mimic 

Mimic 2 

Mimic 3: Sentinel 

Mother's Boys (1994)

My Boss's Daughter (2003) 

The Prophecy (1995) 

The Prophecy II (1998) 

The Prophecy 3: The Ascent (2000) 

The Prophecy: Uprising (2005) 

Scary Movie (2000) 

Scary Movie 2 (2001) 

Scary Movie 3 (2003) 

Scream (1996) 

Scream 2 (1997) 

Scream 3 (2000) 

Sin City (2005) 

Spy Kids (2001) 

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2001) 

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) 

The i Inside (2003) 

Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) 

The Faculty (1998) 

Venom (2005)

Automaton Transfusion (2006) 

Buried Alive (2007) 

DOA: Dead or Alive (2007) 

Feast (2006) 

Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds (2008) 

Feast 3: The Happy Finish (2009) 

Grindhouse (2007) 

Planet Terror (2007) 

Death Proof (2007)

Halloween II (2009) 

Piranha 3-D (2010) 

The Promotion (2007) 

Pulse (2006) 

The Road (2009)

Scream 4 (2011)

Youth in Revolt (2010)

Dimension films mostly distributes films associated mostly with the genres such as Family, Comedy, Parody and action/adventure. The audience being targeted by this institute mostly revolves around the teenage group, mid aged, and eve children but some of their movies are rated R.

The regions of distribution covers almost the whole globe but it has it's mass coverage in the U.S.A., as it is an American Firm.

Treatment for the Upcoming film.

Treatment

The movie starts with an establishing shot of a school. Followed by a long shot of the main corridor. The alien teacher is a psychic who gets visions. When he goes inside his classroom, he keeps slamming into the wall until someone guides him. Inside the class we see Celine Dion outside window singing my hear will go on and the teacher taking attendance. When coming across Celine Dion he says three times 'she is no more'.

Harry is confused but shrugs off and starts looking at ugly Betty who tries to   dif out food stuck in her teeth.

Later, when Celine walks out of the room an all time serial killer (dressed in black hood and holding a dagger) kidnaps Celine Dion.
Next day the news comes that Celine Dion was found dead in school parking lot. Harry gets even more confused.

Ugly Betty hearing about Celine's death starts crying loudly that she is a wall flower and no one notices her. On that Harry appears to become more suspicious.

A scene when Harry sits next to (any character) during lunch hour
Harry : There is something wrong!
Malay : (silent) looks at Harry.
Harry : Believe me. The teacher acted strange. Don't you think?
Malay : (shrugs) Harry : I can smell it. How did Celine vanish after he said she is no more? That means he has a vision just like that girl in Final Destination.
While Harry is thinking, the mummy drops his lunch starts chasing a girl.

He looks at his magic ball and finds the serial killer doing something stupid and then looking at Betty's picture. Harry immediately rushes to help her.

Betty is tied up when harry dramatically enters the room. 
Harry : Stop! Before i do something you will regret! (killer stops)
Betty suddenly starts laughing hysterically. Harry and the killer look at her strangely. 
Betty: I just got a joke cousin told me yesterday. Anyway, oh Harry! Thank God you saved me! Kill him. He caught me while i was taking a bath. 
Harry making a face: did you? I am so sorry.
Serial killer (shudders) yeah. so am I! (Betty offended.) Kill him will you. He also called you a confused man who cannot decide between Cho and Ginny. 
Harry now offended : Oh now you are so dead.
Serial killer : Oh no! (white light of magic from the wand than the name of the movie.

Second Analysis : Opening Title

Superhero Movie


Opening Title 


Analysis

The title starts from a light pitched diagetic synthesizer tune which progresses involving a slightly higher pitched synthesizer while the 'Dimension films' logo is being viewed on the screen. The frame changes showing abstract designs, particularly designs involving shiny meshes. Then an amphoteric trumpet tune is being played while the frame shows the 'Superhero Movie' title fading in white color, the background has been kept black to sustain simplicity. The logo zooms in and shines. The frame changes showing the camera moving upward and changing it's focus, now viewing those meshes in brief detail, blurry in technical photo terms. Transition is applied, then after a few more frame cuts, the detail gets better and it is being made obvious that these structures which previously seemed like a mesh, are actually a part of some multicolored dress. 

Meanwhile the suit is being viewed upon, the frame also shows cast names dissolving in and out one after the other or concisely in a particular sequence. Gradually, synthesizers are progressing and then we observe slight drums are introduced in the scene. Approximately after 15 seconds, a person is being shown equipping that suit, exhibiting a behavior similar to that of a person preparing for a mission. Perpetual repetitions are being shown of that same person equipping that suit until the camera zooms in the middle of the suit, which shows a shape like a bird throwing an outer glow of green. The opening title ends with a dragon fly focused in the camera in an urban area.