IvyNorton_DigitalSketchbook

For this project, I went to the library on a few occasions to find example photobooks to use as inspiration for my own photobooks. These books included:  ·        Gregory Crewdson 1985-2005 ·        It’s beautiful here, isn’t it… LUIGI ·        American Photography 35 ·        American Photography 31 ·        American Photography 28 Some of the different things I liked about the photos in each of these books include: ·        The layout ·        Form and image ·        Different ways of representing yourself through portraits ·        Thinking about why some of these photos were taken and the story behind each photo ·        How light and shadow work together and how they affect the phot...

PROJECT 3: PART 1: Video Shorts:  LIGHT:  PROJECT 3: "Light" COLOR:  PROJECT 3: "Color" FRAME:  PROJECT 3: "Frame" CAMERA SHOTS + MOVEMENT:  PROJECT 3: "Camera Shots + Movements" PART 2: Thematic Video: Link to video:  Thematic Video For my thematic video portion of project 3, I decided to do something that holds good memories. My 2-and-a-half-year-old niece loves the Disney movie Frozen. One of her favourite characters is Olaf! A couple of weeks ago her and her family were visiting, and she and I watched Frozen, and while we did, she asked if I could draw Olaf. I happily did so, and she absolutely loved it! For the remainder of their visit, I received many requests from my niece asking me to draw more Olafs. I ended up drawing many, many Olafs. Happy Olafs, sad Olafs, anything she asked for. So, while trying to come up with an idea for the thematic video portion of this project, I decided to do a slowed time-lapse video of me drawing, Olaf! Draw...

 PROJECT 2:  FOLEY  This was a fun group project that we did! We used found objects to recreate sounds, which we overlapped with a funny cat video that we found on YouTube! We muted the original cat video so we would not hear the video's sounds. This helped us use our imaginations to create sounds that fit well with the images in the video. We had lots of different objects. Some of these objects that we used include a pot, pop cans and bottles, hair brushes, books, lip gloss, a case of earrings, and lots more! The items I used were a glass lip gloss, a small case of earrings, a book, and my hairbrush. I have attached an image of my materials to this post. I found this project to be quite experimental and interesting. It was something I had never done before, and I would be interested in potentially trying to do this again in the future. 

ASSIGNMENT 1: PLANNING FOR PROJECT 1: PLANNING: Screenshot → Screenshot → Screenshot (Digital Image Project) Concept – IDEA: ·         Start with one high-quality image (my own photo or a found image) ·         Take a screenshot of it, then screenshot that screenshot, repeating the process 10–20 times ·         Each time, the image loses clarity and detail o    I screenshotted my image 20 times and used the first 15 images Why this fits “The Poor Image”: ·         Steyerl talks about how images lose quality as they circulate but how they can gain mobility and accessibility. ·         My work shows how copying and original image several times destroys resolution while creating a new visual language. Meaning Shift: ·         The image stops being ab...

Hello! Welcome to my blog!  My name is Ivy and I have loved art for as long as I can remember! It has always been such a big and influential part of my life. I have experience with drawing, painting, and sculpting. Aside from those, in the world of media arts I have experience in photography, some digital drawing and design, videography and print making. I am very excited for this course and to be able to expand my knowledge surrounding media arts! This blog will be my version of a digital sketchbook to show my progressions throughout the course and it will be a place for me to post things I find interesting that impact and influence my work. I hope you enjoy my blog as it shows my journey of learning and exploration through this course! Ivy