Date: 18th March 2020, DAY 1
Topic: Composition
Objective: Recognize and apply the rules of composition in photography
CC: Respect
Key Words: - Convey
- Dimensional
- Technical Settings
- Compose
- Viewer
Dear students, for this occasion we are going to develop a composition exercise, applying the topics previously seen, of texture, light and framing. Attached there is a video explaining the importance of composition in photography and possible ways to apply and understand it.
The idea is that each one takes at least 3 photographs with the same theme, making correct use of the composition element, texture, frame and light.
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(Fig 2)
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These photographs could be in black and white or colour, but they must be accompanied by a text that supports the conceptual bases that you are developing with them.
For example if you are going to talk about loneliness or isolation or tension, those concepts must be evident in your photographs making a correct use of the photographic elements that we are developing.
Loneliness
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Isolation
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Tension
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The argumentative text of his three photographs and the photographs themselves must be sent to my email: linahernandez@gcmeryland.edu.co before tuesday March 24
Date: 27th April 2020, DAY 1
Topic: LQA
Objective: Close the topics seen in the first period
CC: Respect
Key Words: -Balanced and unbalance
-Narrative
-Element of desing
-Portrait shots
-Lenses
-Subjective
We will close the first period with a test of 10 questions in kahoot, first we will enter zoom, you will type www.kahoot.it and the teacher will share her screen for you to see the questions and answer options, then you will enter the pin and your nickname, remember it must be your real name and last name for a correct identification.
Remember that each question has 20 seconds of time to answer, the results are automatic, and the score corresponds to the number of answers you have correct, for example, if you answer the 10 questions, you have 10, if you answer 5, your score will be that number.
Topic: Second term/colour perception
Objective: Identify and understand the topics and materials for the sencond term/ understand the basic color perception theory and identify the primary, secondary and tertiary colours
CC: Reliability
Key Words: -Temperature
-Perception
-Primary,Secondary and Tertiary
| Colour | Identify and relate that colors have an objective as well as subjective connotation, in Art History: Jean-Michel Basquiat/Marc Chagall, through plastic and visual exercises. | Colour perception |
| Colour from an objective perspective (Color temperature) | ||
| Colour from a subjective perspective (Emotions) | ||
Materials needed
- Paintings
- Pencil colours/crayons
- Paint brushes, thin and thick
- Colour palette
- Art notebook
- hard surfaces like wood, cardboard, canvas
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Paper towels
- Water bowl
Look at this picture. What colors do you see? List the three colors you think are most easily visible in this painting.
How about this one? What colors do you see here? List the three colors you think the artist used most in this painting.
Three things to know about COLOR:
- Color is a way that we describe an object based on the way that it reflects or emits light.
- Your eye can see different colors because a part of your eye called the retina is sensitive to different wavelengths of light.
- Humans are what is called "trichromats," meaning our retinas have three different kinds of cells that can receive color. Those cells are called cones.
To organize colors and show their relationship to each other, we use a color wheel. This shows the colors and how they are related to each other.
On a traditional color wheel, three colors are called primary colors. From these three colors, all of the colors on the color wheel can be made. The three primary colors on the traditional color wheel are red, yellow and blue.
Activity
You are going to develop your own colour wheel in a creative way, here you got some examples
Date: 26th May 2020, DAY 1
Topic: Colour temperature
Objective: Identify and Apply the colour temperature
CC: Reliability
Key Words: -Foreigners
-Slavery
Topic: Colour temperature
Objective: Identify and Apply the colour temperature
CC: Reliability
Key Words: -Foreigners
-Slavery
Activity 1In the frame of the Afro-Colombian week we will read an article about the context of the Afro-Colombian artist and Afro culture, to understand more about the art history of our country.
Activity 2
- We will see this video to understand and identify the warm and cool colours
- You will develop our own colour temperature composition.
This are some examples of warm and cool colour compositions
Date: 3th June 2020, DAY 1
Topic: Colour objective and subjective connotation
Objective: Identify and Apply the colour temperature and emotion
CC: Kindness
Key Words: -scheme
Topic: Colour objective and subjective connotation
Objective: Identify and Apply the colour temperature and emotion
CC: Kindness
Key Words: -scheme
Activity 1
we will socialize the second term missing grades for each students and your self evaluation grade, then we will develop a kahoot quiz about the last class topic: warm and cool colours
Topic: Colour subjective connotation (LQA)
Objective: Identify and Apply the colour psychology/emotion
CC: Kindness
Key Words: -Cinematography
-Hue
-Saturation
Activity 1
We will understand the color in a subjective form, analyzing the use of colour in cinematography, to create your own subjective color composition
“Something that I really love, that is the most potent part of cinematography, is color itself. Color contrast, the juxtaposition of colors, they do have a very unconscious physical effect when watching a movie.” -Seamus McGreevy
McGreevy points out that many colors can amplify the emotions conveyed in a film is a way that a particular camera or lens can’t do in and of itself. Examples of the color palette of emotions look like this:
- RED: Love, Desire, Violence, Aggression, Power.
- ORANGE: Warmth, Enthusiasm, Friendliness, Happiness, Vibrance.
- YELLOW: Madness, Illness, Insecurity, Obsessive, Wisdom, Betrayal.
- GREEN: Environment, Immaturity, Corruption, Ominous, Darkness, Envy,
- BLUE: Cold, Depression, Loyalty, Peace, Passivity, Calm,
- PURPLE: Fantasy, Ethereal, Erotic, Royalty, Mystical, Power
- PINK: Innocence, Sweetness, Femininity, Charming, Delicate, Beauty
Examples in Film
According to Criswell’s Lewis Bond, red seems to give us the strongest reaction in an image, but there are no set guidelines of how a color can be used for a desired emotional reaction. If you look at the list above, the reactions are often contradictory. “But where one would use red to show hatred and cruelty,” Bond says, “another may use it to show passion and love. Green gives us hope, but can also show the mundane and lifeless.”
Once you grasp the use of color in conveying the emotional goal of a scene, you can almost tell the entire story with it alone. The use of red by cinematographer Conrad Hall in American Beauty is meant to convey lust of the fantasy of a teenager laying naked on a bed of deep red rose petals, her white body in stark contrast. It depicts not only the aggressive power of a middle-aged man’s desire but also serves as the launching point for his more self-destructive behavior to come.
In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, DP Peter Pau stages one of the many amazing sword fights within an environment of stunningly fluid green fabric, or a deep green forest seas, the combatants battling in stark contrast or silhouette. It was darn near poetic.
Conversely, the use of the color pink to cloak the evil high inquisitor of Delores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was made even starker by the facade of sickly sweetness she projects. It made her wicked discipline of Harry Potter all the more skin-crawling.
Balance is also critical in conveying a character or emotion. Sometimes that’s in how colors complement each other in an associative way, drawing the eyes, and sometimes that means a transitional move from one color to another.
In The Last Emperor, the Emperor takes the throne as a young child, with his main color being red, for his childlike naiveté. But as he grows, and learns more about the world and his impact on it, his main color shifts, to orange, then yellow and then finally to Green, where he is an adult making his own decisions on his realm. The colors are consecutive on the color wheel, and that shows the balance and growth of the character.
In Vertigo, Jimmy Stewart’s Scotty is bathed in red as his obsession over Madeline (played by Kim Novak) takes hold. Her color, being green, dominates his eye, and he can see her everywhere. So when he meets another woman, he sets to create her in Madeline’s own image, slowly enveloping her in green, making Madeline's presence keenly felt by the audience, even when she’s not on screen.
McGreevy also goes on to mention that the creation of a color palette is definitely different when comparing digital cinema to shooting on film. “Somehow film records color in a chemical way,” McGreevy says. “You get an almost stain glass window effect with celluloid that goes into your head in some way.”
- Hue and Saturation
Hue and the intensity of it through saturation can really change the way the audience is viewing the film, and the story itself. You don't have to look any further than The Wizard of Oz to see how Hue and Saturation open up Dorothy’s (and the audience’s) world as she leaves the monochrome confines of her house (symbolic of her dreary life), and moves into the bright, colorful Land of Oz. And while she returns to that monochrome world at the end, she is never really the same and shares with her friends and family all that she experienced.
Value
Then, there's color Value, the dark or light shades of the color. This can not only convey a power or level of emotion but also where the character is headed. McGreevy says that in complex castings, where you have a lot of characters, you can use various color palettes for each character to provide separation and dimension. A more dangerous character bathed in red light, a priest in black/white to show his battle within, and the innocence of a warm red color.
show his battle within, and the innocence of a warm red color.
Discordant Colors
Lastly, there are discordant color values, where the filmmaker uses color to draw the eye and hit the audience squarely in the face with a powerful thought. This was best used by Steven Spielberg in Schindler's List with the iconic red girl image of a young Jewish girl clad in a red coat, surrounded by the Nazi's leading her, and six million others, to their doom.
Costumes
Costumes can also tell you a lot about the character. In Breaking Bad, Walter White moves from a basic red shirt, indicating his acceptance of the dangerous life he has chosen, but when he removes that shirt to show an even deeper red shirt underneath, the audience can expect his character's descent into his evil nature has a deeper floor than the audience first sees, and will experience as time goes on.
Then there's Star Wars' Luke Skywalker, who begins in a solid white costume in A New Hope, indicating his idealistic innocence. Then, Luke is next seen in gray for The Empire Strikes Back, indicating he's in a time where he is tempted by both sides of the Force, but he's wearing black in Return of the Jedi, which actually indicates his mastery of his powers, not that he's fallen as one would expect. But he's on par with his father, the evil Darth Vader, who he's trying to save. By the time we get to The Last Jedi 40 years later, Master Skywalker is wearing muted colors, indicating he's closed himself off from the Force. A shadow of what he once was. And if you look carefully, you can see the character of Rey in the new trilogy begin to mirror this evolution for herself.
The overall color pallet that a cinematographer chooses, in collaboration with everyone from costume designer to the art director, can prepare the audience for the world in which they are about to journey through. And it can even become a character on that journey itself.
Date: 23th June 2020, DAY 1
Topic: Art History
Objective: Identify and Analyze the colour theory in the artistic works of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Harring
Key Words: - Colour theory
-Essay
-Graffiti
Topic: Art History
Objective: Identify and Analyze the colour theory in the artistic works of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Harring
CC: Kindness
-Essay
-Graffiti
Activity
We are going to see several videos that historically contextualize us about the work of both artists: Jean- Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, understanding their way of seeing the world and their language in their paintings. When we finish the exercise, each one must make an essay analyzing the theory of color in both artists, their historical context and artistic discourse, it must be 2 pages in microsoft word arial letter 12, if you place images, they must be a maximum of 1/4 of sheets (2 per page), remember that it must be in English and I want to be very emphatic about the importance of it being an essay, not a summary, you in your Spanish classes already know how an essay is structured.
This are the videos
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Keith Haring
Jean-Michel Basquiat
