Reality/Fantasy-Sound-Project #2

      We kept our videos the same, but shortened the reality video, for we wanted both videos to match up in time, as close as possible. Our goal was to represent our video themes (i.e.: reality and fantasy), through the sounds on garageband, Sound Bible, and a recorded sound from ourselves. We wanted the reality to be fun and up beat, which would be more like real life, while the fantasy video would sound dream like.

Diptych Animations: Reality/Fantasy

Through animating our diptychs, we chose to express the way we viewed reality/fantasy, through the motion of our 25 lays. While thinking of fantasy, we thought of how fantasy is like a dream, and it almost turns into a memory. They interchange with each other at points. In dreams, it seems to occur in one place, not moving, just always occurring in your mind. While contrasting this fantasy with reality, we wanted our reality to be moving. Reality occurs everywhere, even nature. We had our reality seem more like a wake state of mind, instead of a dreamy state.

Reading 1- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Critical Thinking Questions.

1- Regarding Epilogue: Was the start of more technology based art such as photography, film, ect., scene as fascist, and why?

2-Regarding Section IV: Did a piece of art have to be part of a ritual in a cult, to prove that the work is authentic?

Project 1- Diptych - Partner: Chelsea Houston

        While picking themes with fantasy/reality in mind, we went in the direction of what advertising does to the public's expectations of beauty. Advertising often distorts what is real and natural, and in some ways, what society sees as truth. The way we saw it, was that true beauty is what is real, healthy, and every day actions of a healthy individual. Beauty seems as though it is a product that someone wants to buy these days, as if it is "beauty in a jar". Through going through magazines, and we created a collage of 25 layered pictures in two montages, both constructed in ways to interpret different meanings. In one montage, it is to express the "fantasy" of beauty and what advertisements make it seem, while the other montage is to express the reality of what is natural, not Photoshopped or edited beauty.