Picture of my True Self

One Shot Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASD8KjKZtdU


This is the link to our final video, and personally I thought this turned out a lot better than I expected. Everything worked out really well and we got the right people to do the right things and it looks really good through out the whole entire film. The theme was Narcissus and we had the people do things everything backwards so when we would reverse the film it would look like the person walking backwards, was walking forward. I thought this was a very unique way to film and it ended up working really well and looks really cool.

The group as a whole worked really well together. We all met multiple times and were very productive at all meetings. We worked with everyones crazy schedule and finally got a time when we could film and run through what our process was. We all did something, which was cool to see how it all came together. I would have to say this was my favorite group project out of the two we did because of the teamwork and cooperation we all had.

Mask

This is the picture of my mask. The Reason why I took this picture is because it portrays how people are putting on masks and people struggle to be themselves and this is saying that we need to leave our masks behind and continue to live out as ourselves and be comfortable in our own skin. This demonstrates festivals of renewal and how we when we take off our mask it is our own new-self. This also shows theater and how people try to put on an act to make people like them and we need to learn how to not put on an act, take off the mask and be ourselves.

The mask covers up our true self and we need to learn how to get rid of our ideal self and just be our true self. If we all take off our masks and be ourselves there would be a lot less drama I would think and people would not judge other people not nearly as much as they do now. If we do not take it off it will distort who we really are deep down.

I think that if we can take off the mask we can truly express ourselves the right way then. In my picture I was trying to make it so it looked like I was looking back at the mask that I put on to express my self, and when looking back I am determining whether or not to keep it or get rid of it. We can express our true selves if we just forget about it.

The dialogue between our true self and false self has a lot of tension on both ends. It is hard to believe that we are unable to express our own self because we are so caught up with things that define us that are around us. We are afraid to show our true self.

Portraits

When taking the portraits of my self, I was pretty sure with what I wanted to come out of the pictures. I had a good idea of what I wanted my ideal picture to be like and what I wanted my real picture to look like. I think when I first started to understand the concept of real and ideal it helped me interpret pictures and gave me a better idea of how I wanted my pictures to turn out. I think that these portraits do not really show the true "me", I think the real me lies in between my real and ideal self.

Earthwork

The Earthwork picture was a lot harder because of the group aspect because there would be mixed feelings about many things but when it finally came together it worked out and went well. This picture that we took was one of our favorites and it involves the use of a mirror and how it reflects the sky into the palm of your hand. The way we split up the work was some people brought materials to use for when taking pictures such as mirrors, water, tinfoil, and more. We all sort of thought out of each picture together and made them unique in a way to satisfy everyone in the groups need. We all pitched in for something and it ended up working well.

Historical Landscape

I chose this historical picture of landscape because it has a lot of the same features of my picture of landscape. The coast has a curve along with the mountains in the back ground. Even though this may be a painting they both capture the moment along the coast of somewhere beautiful. Also it shows how much pictures are similar even though they are many years apart in age.

Landscape picture

My Landscape shot was taken over spring break on the beach in the Domincan Republic. It was taken when the sun was going down. The Mountains in the background look really cool with the ocean to the right. This is one of my favorite pictures. The color of this picture has a little darkness but just the right amount. The Coast line shows the use of lines and how it almost looks like it could continue to wrap around the whole island.