Design For A Cause Assignment

Here is my Design For A Cause assignment. The poster is based on the the concept in psychology of the inner child. This idea has been written about extensively by Charles Whitfield and others. The basic idea is that we have an inner part of ourselves that we are sometimes out of touch with. This inner part forms the basis of who we are but also influences our actions as adults. Some of the fears and insecurities we face as adults are unresolved issues that we need to learn to reconcile with our child within. This is a very large area of study and this short blurb does not do justice to the subject.

The poster is meant to be a reminder to listen, honor, protect and encourage the child within. I have used color in an attempt to communicate the differences between an adult and the child within. I have made use of the concept of scale to show the difference in size between the adult and the child within. The lack of facial features of the adult and the child looking upwards show a disconnect between the two. The child is shown at 50% opacity to illustrate that the adult is not fully aware of the child. The child's emotions are shown in warm and cool complementary colors. This is intended to show the range of emotions, the good and the bad, that the child has experienced and not really understood. I have used the same color scheme to portray the adult's emotions but in the opposite order. This again is intended to show that as adults we are out of touch with the child within. The emotions we see and express as adults are not those of the child within.

I have made use of balanced symmetry in the vertical axis with the adult emotional background. Unbalanced symmetry is used in the horizontal axis to show the relationship between the adult and the child. The complementary colors of the background are shown with high intensity that gradually softens as both sides reach their complementary color. The high intensity colors show color conflict in the same way that cool and hot emotions can be intense feelings. I have used the child's color as an emphasis by one element.

There is probably more that could be discussed but this should be sufficient to describe the bulk the work and ideas used in this project.      

Color Assignment

Here is my color wheel design for this weeks assignment:

 

Here are my color studies based on my color wheel design:

Hue to White Value Scale - Primary Blue

Complementary Value Scale 1 - Primary Blue to Secondary Orange

Complementary Value Scale 2 - Tertiary Red-Violet to Tertiary Yellow-Green

Online Hue Test:

Color Strips:

Color Strip Results:

Value Self Portrait Collage

Here is my final version of the self portrait value collage. I've used a number of the patterns and textures that were gathered during the week 10 assignment in Photoshop to work around a photo. The light color on the nose is intended to be a light spot and uses one of the lightest patterns that I found.

Illusion of Space and Motion Assignment

Illusionistic Space: I've chosen the following three examples to show the devices of exaggerated space, aerial perspective and linear perspective to show the illusion of space.

Exaggerated Space: The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman movie poster shows the contrast              between "normal" sized people and the 50 foot woman.

Aerial Perspective: I've chosen a part of the opening scene of the musical The Sound of Music to give a sense of aerial perspective.The grayscale image does a nice job of contrasting the point of emphasis, Maria, with the background which gives the aerial perspective.

Linear Perspective: I've used a poster from the movie The Vanishing Point to show linear perspective. All the space is coming from a singular point on the horizon above the mountains in the center of the picture.

Illusionistic Motion: I've chosen the following three examples to show the devices of anticipated motion, figure repeated and blurred outlines to show the illusion of motion.

Anticipated Motion: Here is a shot from Star Trek showing the Enterprise entering what could be warp factor 1. The anticipated motion is shown by the stars.

Figure Repeated: This scene from the movie The Last Samuri shows a line of soldiers each holding a bow and getting ready to shoot. Each figure is similar except that as you progress down the line the figures decrease in size and the bows are raised higher. This also shows linear perspective.

Blurred Outlines: I chose a picture of a hummingbird in flight to show an example of blurred outlines. The hummingbird's wings move so fast  when in flight that all we can see is an outline of the wings.