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My concept was when I got my acceptance letter to this school. I wanted to convey a feeling a anxiousness, nervousness, and excitement. I tried using a variety of interesting sounds to try to convey this because my earlier piece was too much like just recreating the sounds I heard. I used the ringing to try to convey excitement and a mixture of sounds to convey nervousness. 

I used a variety of sounds like peeling off a layer of a lint roller, squeezing a plastic bottle, and footsteps. I tried to make the sounds more interesting, but it made it too difficult to understand where the event was taking place and what was going on in it. I used effects to try and make the sounds more interesting, but for some sounds I couldn’t find an effect that made them better and some sounds I wanted to use were too confusing, so I had to cut some out of my final project.

I would try to make it more clear what was happening in the environment and make my ending more clear. I would also make the ringing have a clearer purpose and have it actually lead up to things. I would also try to blend more sounds together and not have it lead from one sound to another.

In the modern age the validity and truthfulness of documentaries are always in question, but there has always been an air of uncertainty to their truth. The lack of absolute details makes it feel like people are their where the image was take and can use their brain to make up the details left out by the unclearness of the image. What is not said, or not present in an image is just as important if not more important than what is said or shown. A live broadcast used to prove one thing or another, but in the modern day we can use it as a template to show what should be seen there, or what could be seen.

I want to convey fantasy in real life and make an everyday object interesting (like a coffee pot that can fly or something like). I want to practice surrealism. I was thinking of doing something where one of the pictures seems completely normal, but then with the other picture it becomes something else (like a picture of someone smiling and then next to it the same picture but now the person has something covering their face, or maybe its just the outline of the person, maybe the person is blurred to be out of focus and now you can clearly see something else behind the person.). I plant to go to the Bund and take pictures there (maybe I can get a picture of a boat like I depicted in my first Sound Visualization project). I also plan to just take pictures of random things and just see what happens (I do not have a plan at the moment, but I will get one) I plan to manipulate the second image quite a bit and make it so it is recognizable as the same image, but also different enough that it takes a second to realize.

Ethan Chavez Merrill, Slow Dancing in the Dark, Joji

Concept and Design

When I first made my sound visualization project I depicted a real image which is not allowed. I then started over completely and used a different song. I wanted to convey the slow rhythm of the song and show the motion of falling. I used the gestalt theories of figure and ground, proximity, and closure in order to convey this. Then during the critique I took the recommendations into consideration and changed my project again this time adding a little bit of symmetry as well. I removed the M and vs because they were taking away from the continuity of the image, and I added more Os to represent the bass in the song.

Process

I worked in phases designing a draft on paper and then making it in illustrator and changing it slightly as I did so, then I would get feedback from my peers and make changes based on that. I made 3-4 drafts that I thought were good and were my “final” drafts, but I ended up changing them after critiques.

Conclusion

If I had more time I would have liked to add more gestalt principles and maybe change the size of a few things, but overall I am pretty happy with my final project.