Introduction
The “Explorations Project” was our end of year project. At its core, it was about learning some kind of aspect in our elective and expanding it. It could be something relating to color composition, understanding motion, and it was even lenient in the “Elective” aspect. This was then used to further something called “The 8 21st Century Skills”. It’s a rack of skills that would probably be used in our future lives if we pursue this kind of creative job areas. To summarize, the Explorations Project was made for us to explore some kind of skill and develop a 21st Century Skill.
The Explorations Final Product and How we got There.
Time for explorations! For my explorations, I decided that I would look more into movie posters. Why? Because the art of advertising is very interesting and movie posters are probably the most interesting form of that. I made a whole slideshow presentation describing the different types of movie posters and going more in depth about what really makes a character poster stand out. So to go over the basics: A character poster needs, the character, the movie title/logo, Some kind of continuity between character posters, maybe a tagline and usually the date or other movie information. As you can see in the poster above, I have captured most of these aspects (that dark block in the upper left representing where a tagline should go). Something not so clear is the “continuity” since there is only one character poster. What I decided to be the continuity would be the throne itself, with various characters (if I had the time) interacting with the throne in various ways.
This exploration project might have made me find out what I want to do in life, no joke. I love making things that get people excited, I find these things better than the actual thing itself. Though, I’m not sure where life might take me, I hope I can do things and make things like these. I think I would be pretty happy if I did. When it comes to the digital art aspect of it, this is the first finished digital art I have made in like a year or two. Which is crazy because I have been struggling to try and make something digitally in like photoshop. “What about the other freestyle stuff like your posters and flyers and album art?” Those were mostly made in Adobe illustrator and was pretty much traced off of a sketch reference. This was a project with multiple drafts and was well more thought out than previous attempts.
Experimental Music
For this project, we had to make (As the title suggests) Experimental Music. We had learned how to use Midi instruments in Protools, plugins and the works. This project is meant to utilize that. I had the inspiration to make some kind of video game type music. I wanted to get some kind of spooky vibes to come off of it. Well it’s complicated, I wanted it to feel like a slasher. So a song from a Video Game OST which has horror slasher vibes.
And I pretty much bombed it. I have no previous music expertise whatsoever so I didn’t know what I was doing, I also am really bad at making two things that go together so the whole song is on one track, and I got really frustrated and need to get several things done so I wasn’t in the music making mood. So this overall wasn’t a good experience for me. Maybe I might comeback with a greater knowledge of music and Protools to make something that’s 10x better than this, but as of right now, this is where i’m at. I really do hope that I can improve one day.