day 4 response

I know that this blog is meant for yesterday, but I’m just going to try and recap yesterday’s events and start from the beginning. Thursday, like every other day this week, was just a continuation of what we were doing in class on Wednesday with the magazine transfers; but it was also an introduction to what we were going to do afterwards for the remainder of the day. When I first got class, the first thing I did was try and figure out how to fix my first attempt at the magazine transfer. Since I wasn’t all that impressed with it in the first place, I sought help from fellow students who had done theirs and did them well. I got from Maura who, nicely, gave me some helpful advice and tips on how to fix the problem and to do it again for future assignments. All turned out well as it should, I produced a, what Dr. Silva called “very pretty” strip of film. Our next project was to make strip of film that represented the four elements: earth, water, fire, and air. Each couple would pick amongst themselves who would do which element meaning one person would do two elements and the other would do two elements. I chose to find things that represented fire and air, while my partner, James would do water and earth. I looked for pictures from magazines that represented fire and air as best I could like the sky, fire-breathing dragons, the sun, and just the color red in general. I then took a strip of stock film and punch star-shaped holes along the whole thing just to give it fancy look when shown through the projector and because I a star could represent air. Next I took a clear strip and just colored it yellow and orange Sharpies, and red glitter glue to make the film look like flames. I unknowingly and unwittingly dragged clear, grey, and light blue colored glitter glue onto the other clear strip, when I was supposed to create a 100 frame animation. So I trashed that strip and now am planning on finishing the animation at home over the weekend.

P.S. Thanks for the help Maura. I really appreciated it.