This week I was looking for cardboard from different places. I’m still working on getting more cardboard, but while I was looking I was able to cut out the pieces of the front part of my glasses. I also experimented with different ways of securing the cardboard and I decided its easiest to seal the holes on the side of the cardboard and then hot glue them together. So I picked up some more hot glue sticks and also a can of paint and a can of spray paint that I’m going to experiment with next week to see which gives me the texture that I like the most. Next week I plan to get the cardboard, cut out the rest of my pieces, and decide how I should paint the pieces and start painting.
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I researched the job of a cinematographer. They are sometimes called the director of photography and in indie films, they are the director also. They are expected to work with the director to come up with a shot list and plan out frames of the film. They have to understand how lighting, composition, and camera movements affect the tone and mood of the film. Sometimes they operate the camera themselves, but on bigger sets, they may work with the camera operators to get the shots they need. They also have to collaborate with the gaffer, lead electrician, and the best boy electric in order to get proper lighting. Also to get proper camera movements, the cinematographer must work with the key grip, head of rigging, and the best boy grip. Best boys are essentially the foreman or assistants to the gaffer and key grip. Cinematographers typically need a bachelor’s degree in a program that has technical and artistic training.
Typical majors that provide this level of training are Film and Television Production, Cinematography, or Media studies with a concentration in cinematography. The University of Southern California is renowned for its film program, as well as New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, the American Film Institute, the University of Los Angeles, California Institute of Arts, and Columbia University. I was inspired by the BLM protests and missing children milk cartons. I wanted to showcase a charcoal portrait that also had a meaning behind it, so on the other panels of the carton I included an actual milk carton front, "nutrition label" with ways to support the movement, and just some of the names affected by police brutality. In this piece I wanted to follow up on the relationship between voices and the media, so I created a megaphone filled with the names of stories of people who were given a voice in the media. The names coming out of the megaphone is layered so you can only see some of the names, I wanted to show how although large media corporations are good sources, they also only showcase certain stories and cover up the stories of others.
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Hanna NgaiHi, I'm a senior at Maggie Walker in Art 5 and I'm an installation sculpture artist that turns plastic bags into art. Archives
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