Media Blog 4

Nashwa Rockingster
Media Blog 160
May 13, 2015

Blog 4:

      My experience at the MOMI was wonderful! I really enjoyed seeing all the different artifacts. However, the one that stood out the most to me was the Bill Cosby set make-up. The colors were so vibrant and light, it ranged from a floral pink to a rosy red. There was an array of blushes, lipstick and powder. I personally love this aspect of the museum because I love make-up so much, especially that particular make-up color range. I found it interesting that the colors used on the Bill Cosby set was similar to the time period. In other words, the 80's was a time period of glitz, glamour, flamboyance and pop (when I say pop I mean the colors although the 80's is tremendously known for it's pop culture - music). The artifact I chose relates to this class in that different aspects of film can affect the way things look, even something as small as make-up can make a wide difference in the way things appear. We can see examples of this in all kinds of films. We know that when we watch something (particularly a film) a tremendous amount of work was done to shoot a scene or to make a character look a certain way to showcase an emotion or even an action. A great example of this would be a scene in Citizen Kane starring and directed by Orson Welles whereby Welles puts a shadow paper in front of the character who is wearing a starch white shirt so that the white doesn’t take away from the character and the deliverance of his performance. My time spent at MOMI was truly enjoyable and I look forward to going back.

Response to Working with Nicole and Janine

Nashwa Rockingster
Media 160
Final Project: Video & Audio 
May 13, 2015

                                     Final Project Response to Working with My Group
            
             I really enjoyed working with Nicole and Janine! They were amazing, we all worked well together. It was pretty easy to distribute between the three of us who would work on the audio aspect of the project and who would work on the video aspect and by the end we all finalized the project together in terms of tweeking and re-touching. I would gladly work with both of them again. The process in which we shot was pretty straight-forward, we spent the first week coming up with ideas and questions for those ideas (we came up with an idea pretty quickly - NAILS). By the second week we were shooting, we alternated between holding the camera and recording with the microphone device. By the third week we divided the work load, I worked on the video footage and Nicole and Janine worked on the audio, then we came together and put it together and tweeked and re-touched. It really was a wonderful experience. I enjoyed this project the most compared to the last two. I didn't expect to have so much with this. The interviewees were great also, I appreciated how friendly they all were and how willing they were to cooperate with us. I hope you enjoy the project as much as we enjoyed creating it. 

Nails Nails Nails

Media Blog 3

Nashwa Rockingster
Media 160 
April 15, 2015

Blog 3:

           I chose the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. The sound in relation to the scene evokes in the audience a sense of fear and unease. The visual aspect of the scene in relation to the sound showcases a sense of uncertainty. The film was shot in what most people would determine black and white but if one wants to take it a step further you can say the film looked gray. I bring up the color gray because gray brings about  a level of uncertainty. In the shower scene the audience didn't know what was about to happen until the door opened and the knife came out, there was a sort of suspense Hitchcock placed  before the eyes of his audience. The different angle shots served to showcase to the audience all the ways in which Marion Crane (Janet Leigh's character) was vulnerable. Hitchcock could've just put the camera on Marion Crane's face but this would not be effective for it would not allow for his audience to become Marion Crane in that moment. Of all the different angle shots Hitchcock shot in, the shot where the drain becomes Marion Crane's eyes was the most revealing. In other words, the opened eye serves to show how we're watching Crane and in a way Crane is watching us. Hitchcock kept the audience engaged from beginning to end. 

"Let's Travel..." Project 2

https://soundcloud.com/nashwa-rockingster/media-project-02

"Define A Space" Project

Visuals Through Words from Nashwa Rockingster on Vimeo.

Media Blog 2

Nashwa Rockingster
MEDP 160
March 19, 2015

Blog 2:

       

In doing this exercise I found that my neighborhood is a lot noisier than I realized. I walked through my neighborhood for about an hour and found that almost every 15 minutes cars honked. I must admit I couldn't close my eyes and walk for fear of bumping into someone or something but I did zone out and take everything in. I could even hear the exhaust fumes from the buses as they drove out of the bus stops and people chattering and yelling at each other among other things. I decided to enter the park in my neighborhood and take my sound-walk in there. One thing that stood out to me as I walked in the evening during rush hour (between 5pm and 6pm) was clashes between the sounds of the park and of the street, as I walked deeper into the park those clashes seemed to fade. I heard nothing but trees swaying back and forth due to the wind. The sound of the trees allowed me to lose myself in my thoughts. For a moment, I felt the loudest thing I heard throughout my walk were my thoughts. The textures of the sound from the buses and cars were heavy and dense; the sounds of the wind sounded very strong, it felt and sounded like a ‘force’. The sound of the trees in relation to the wind was like two forces coming together, though the wind seemed to be stronger in force. But again, my thoughts seemed to take over, it seemed as the loudest thing I could hear.

 

Media Blog 1 - Creative Statement

MY art is all day staring at the ceiling making friends with shadows on my wall.

MY art is knowing that they all have been talking about me, I can hear them whisper and it makes me think there must be something wrong with me.

BUT...

MY art reminds me that I'm not crazy, just a little unwell and I know right now you can't tell but stay awhile and maybe than you'll see a different side of me.

.... Maybe I got lost in translation, maybe this thing was a masterpiece before I tore it all up - so casually cruel in the name of being HONEST.






-Excerpts from Matchbox Twenty's "Unwell"
and Taylor Swift's "All Too Well"