Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Final Project

Again in my final project, I want to explore the idea of uncertainty. I want to explore this idea using a mirror. There are many stories, songs, and movies about mirrors. Sometimes the plots are magical, scary or even beautiful. Why is that? We are looking at a same object, but why do people feel different? Why is it that we look at ourselves through the mirror the first thing in the morning? It is I believe because the mirrors explore the idea of uncertainty, and we look for answers desperately to find it. I want to explore this idea using photoshop. I want to give the project an eerie feeling, so I can leave the viewers something to think about after looking at it. And I want to use an endless loop, so they can stare at it for a long time. It would be very cool if my art is shown in the art gallery in the TV near restrooms, so they would be afraid to look at the mirror.
I got many of my ideas from the mirror scare scenes from various movies, and Michael Jackson's song the man in the mirror. While the movies main reason is to scare the audience, and the song was trying to make the lyric very meaningful, deep down, they were all trying to explore the idea of uncertainty using the mirrors. The movie is trying to scare the viewers using the uncertainty, and Jackson is trying to know who he is looking at when he sees the mirror.
In this project, I am going to use many filters, photo filters, and piles of layers to give the different feeling to the mirror. Also I am going to use animation to make sure that viewers stare my project for a longtime.

1 comment:

  1. you did a really great job on your final. I like the way you associated Michael Jackson's song "Man in the Mirror" with your final project. You really showed how you were influenced by different artists, yet still put your own twist on it. the animation you used was very intricate yet did not draw away from your artwork's meaning. good work!

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