Thursday, January 24, 2013

Madness - Artist Statement

Name: Norhafizah Binti Mohamad Noh
ID: 1111114962      
     
Artwork Title: Madness
 
Target Audience: Teenagers 
Artist Statement:
Teenagers always dealt with emotional unbalance. This is the time that they just feel to be rebellious and wanted to try many new things. Some of the common feelings are “Madness”. It can be either madness of anger, love, anxiety and much more. And it would sometimes become bad if not solved rationally. Well, that’s the teenager’s madness.
The video I made, I wanted to catch the madness in attitude that someone especially teenagers can do in order to release out their emotion. It can be in various ways but most common is to smash down things and do some chaos. So in this video, I play around with bright color to represent young age. All the splattered color is to represent how imbalance emotion can be as well as the process of releasing it. But some actions, when you grow older, you just wish you can go back in time and change some of the things you’ve made.  For the poster, it’s a simple image that I edited to show the imbalance and madness feelings.
Artwork Treatment:
I capture the video using a digital camera. While all the color, I used normal water color because the color is vibrant and easy to tidy up after the shoot. Later, I edited the video in NCH Video Pad Editor. I arranged all the sequenced, adjust the timing; add up some text and lastly I include the background song for this video. For the sound, I edited it in NCH Wave Pad Editor. I cut some part of the song that I wanted to use, put in some fade in and out effect before using it in the video. 
For the poster, I edited the color splatter using Adobe Photoshop brushes. Positioned it later on and lastly I add on the text as the title of the poster.
 

Madness - Artwork

 
The Poster artwork

Madness - Sketches

 
Initial Idea
 
Initial idea
 
 
Changed a bit
 
Idea for poster

Modern & Classical - Artist Statement

Name: Norhafizah Binti Mohamad Noh
ID: 1111114962        
Artwork Title: Modern vs Classical
Target Audience: Teenagers
Artist Statement:
Music has always brought big influence in a certain society. From one era to another, music always changed according to the development of the era it’s created. And today, music has improved a lot compared to the older days, no matter on the music styles as well as the musical instruments and also the moods each music genre gives to the listener. I believe that Music is a mirror of someone’s attitude.
Artwork Treatment:
I decided to use a famous musical instrument from two well-known genre in music which is Modern and Classical. The electric guitar would represent Modern music and the old violin would represent Classical music.
I enlarged the image which I edited on Adobe Illustrator first so that the image won’t be jagged when printed. After that, I added on some simple fonts enough to show the moods of the musical instruments. The electric guitar would have more strong and loud sound so I edited the font to be straightforward and attention-grabbing. While the violin having a more soothing and slow sound, so I edited the font to be harmony.
 

Modern & Classical - Artwork

 
My arteork for the Classical theme
 
 
 
 
My artwork for the Modern theme

Modern & Classical - Research

I do my research and mainly get ideas from these websites:
 
 

Modern & Classical - Sketches

My sketches for assignment 3:
 
Sketch 1
 
Sketch 2
 
Sketch 3
 
Sketch 4 - I use this idea