3D Type 2

This time when experimenting with 3D type I chose to work with Skittles. When think of a word the most clear and obvious one is sweet, but this seemed too obvious. I chose to go with the word TREAT as with in this word there in another eat. You eat the treat. This worked well as I was able to create two words from them and they are visually pleasing. 
The reason why I chose use the word treat is that skittles are a treat and not something you can have on a regular basis. As well as the fact that the word 'eat' is within the word 'Treat' and I thought that I would be able to play around with the different ways of showing this. 

Form these images I created a quick frame by frame animation of there word being created.  This works well as it shows the development of the word and implies that a part or the word has been eaten. 

Treat from Eleanor Johnston on Vimeo.

Contextual-Experimentations

The eye

This is an experiment, it is representing that to gain a clear understanding of something you need to see and learn. This is represented by an eye and a globe for a pupil, the eye represents looking searching and discovering and the globe represent knowledge as the world is full of exciting and interesting elements along with different culture, when you see what the world has to offer you can have can clear understanding informing opinions and ideas. 

Contextual

Japan

Japan

The theory and appeal of giant monsters

Entertainment

What is the appeal

Some thing meaning full takes place between the lines of a text

Frederic Jameson- In-text (Jameson, 1981) Bibliography: Jameson, F (1981) The political unconscious. Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press

Master narrative

Literary theorist must detect and reveal the outlines of this

Correspond to broader social structures from which the empirical text derives its meaning

Need to take a perspective on the artist social context: all texts are inherently political and contain some degree of social critique

Joining of this unconscious structure

With the artist drive to say something- to present a critique of her situation.

Entertainment

Entertainment is ripe with social commentary

Communicates with culture-cultural context of production

We are shaped by culture

Speculative Fictions – meta genre

Science fiction

World building: we rearrange components of our world/ shift perspective on it  

                

Official cultural ‘symbolic fiction’- cites race and gender

Gender ‘policing’- toy isles/ clothing colours ect

Giant monster sub genre

Geissbuhler- peace poster

American ‘giant monster on the loose’

King kong (capture/ relocation), beast from 20000 fathoms (nuclear accident thaws rhedosurus), 20 million miles to earth.

Large animal running amok, contemporary setting- unleashed by human hubris that relocates the monster that it was meant to remain separate from

Same (masculine) technology that unleashed it is employed to slay it

King kong Airplanes.

Rhedosaurus- radioactive isotope

Japanese ‘jaiju eiga (‘strange’ monster movie)

Had isolated itself form world colonialism

1869- meiji restoration enforced a from of modernisation

Famers children forced to leave rual life and head to citise to fine work

Atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (final stages of WW2- Japn and Germany were allies- but japan would not surrender)

Contextual- guest lecture

Brass alt are a experienced digital agency that specialise connection strategies, search and social strategies, online display campaigns, content, games, movies, apps and build websites. They are based in leeds and London. 

During the lecture they talked about the power of social media and when it's used in the right way can have a positive outcome for the companies. 
They run some social media campaigns and tweet on behalf a company responding to questions and topics of interest. 

This lecture gave me an insight in to how social media is use and how it can beneficial to a company. This show that social media is an important feature of a campaign and how I can utilise this in some of my studio briefs.  

Research

Thomas Blanchard 

Thomas Blanchard is a designer. He has created work where he drops diferent colours of watered down acrylic paint into milk he then will add washing up liquid to the milk. The soap the reacts with the milk to make the paint move around and interact with each other more. He also adds the paint to oil which creates little paint bubble. I like this work as it very effective in showing a dream like state.

This is relates to some of my coloide work, as I too have experiment with paints and inks in a similar way.


Making of 'Memories of Paintings' from Thomas Blanchard on Vimeo.

Showreel- After effects

Showreel

For this workshop I was tasked with creating a showreel, made up of all the After Effects outcomes I have made in the process and production module. I learnt how to cut my animations down and how to edit them to the music. I chose a fast paced piece of music which was difficult to edit to at times but has also help in speed and motion to create a fiched and coherent final product.

As a showreel I believe it works well , if I am to do this again I will chose a piece of music that has a vary in speed. 



Showreel 2016 from Eleanor Johnston on Vimeo.

Contextual-Artist

http://www.laurakeeble.com/sculpture

Laura Keeble

Laura Keeble sculpts familiar, commonly seen objects and brands and logos made out of reclaimed church glass. She say this:I am interested in creating a pause. 

A brief moment in time, when a double-take allows for an internal question, a need to assess or understand.  I use symbolism and familiarities of the everyday to question what is dictated to us.   

This website documents my work using site-specific Uncommissioned Public Installation, Sculpture and Painting.