Task 4

Body Language

Body language is a form of mental and physical ability of human non-verbal communication, consisting of body posture, gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements. Humans send and interpret such signals almost entirely subconsciously.

Facial Expressions

A facial expression is one or more motions or positions of the muscles beneath the skin of the face. These movements convey the emotional state of an individual to observers. Facial expressions are a form of non verbal communication. They are a primary means of conveying social information between humans, but they also occur in most other mammals and some other animal species.

My Own Example of Body Language and Facial expressions. 

Depression (Girl) 

 I think this piece is a good line drawing that I drew from reference, that reference being the image below, I like how you can still see the similarities even though all the main details are gone and it's just plain colours left. But I prefer the other image more because you can see the Main body language more and it just works more. you can see that she is depressed because of how her head and facial features tell us, you can obviously see that she has things on her mind and that she is lent on the block of stone without a single smile, that's how you know she's depressed

Depression (Guy)

 I prefer this image to the other one, you can pick up on the body language more, you can see it's about depression/sadness and that's what I like most the fact that you instantly know what it is about. I also gave him a "black eye" as it is commonly known  these days, I gave that to him because then it looks like there is a reason for him to be depressed, gives off the impression that he might be getting bullied or something recently happened that was violent for him. You can see he's depressed from the way his shoulders are slumped, and how he obviously has things on his mind, especially the way that he is sat down, that is one of the MORE obvious give away's that there is something the matter.

Happiness:

Confusion:

Task 5 Banner Summary

There are many different types of ads, some good some bad but they all have the same purpose. These are 10 examples of banner advertising:

This "Ladbrokes" banner is too plain and doesn't catch peoples attention very well, it may have a website link but it doesn't want to make me click it, This is a bad Advertising banner especially to represent the Franchise that it is.

 This "Eden Eternal" banner is defiantly a bad example of an advertising banner, although it has some good features for example: It's straight to the point, explains that you can play free, and it shows some artwork. But... that bad points are that it's not very colourful which means that it's not going to catch someone's eyes, the banner is poorly made and the fonts aren't exciting to look at.

 This Is probably the worst example of a advertising banner I could possibly show. It doesn't explain anything and it's poorly placed on the website it was on, There is nothing that I can find that's interesting or exciting about this banner at all.

This Banner for "Watch dogs" was place on YouTube as there main advertisement. The banner includes a trailer, a link to there website and they're YouTube channel. This is a Really good Banner as it involves interactivity that the user would click on usually without hesitation if the user is interested. The information it gives is pretty good as well, with the game platforms that it is on, details on pre-ordering etc.

This banner for "O2" is simplistic and it's something I can't say it's not good to because it's most well known for the colours and textures used for that particular brand, and because that is so successful in how it's so recognised, that's how something that is so simple can work, it's rare to find Branding like this that works with people

This banner for Edgeworld is not a very good banner, it's not interesting too look at, and it doesn't give off any information, and who in the community these days wants to play a game they know nothing about. The only information it does give us is that the game is about sci-fi blue creatures that have spaceship like things, I'm probably wrong about the game itself though, it could be a really good game that has more too it and nothing about what i picked up on, but it doesn't show that and that's the exact point of good banner.

These are multiple banners that can have a pretty good reasoning behind it, because instead of asking you to join something it asks you to advertise and spread the word for them, for example it quotes that "it would help if you put these banners on forums to spread the word" and that's a Really social thing to do and that's a really interesting way to advertise and it's a good example for banners

This is as simple of a banner that you could probably find around. for a bank this is really boring. I would have expected more from a conglomerate of money. obviously I'm not expecting something exciting and bright flashing colours, but it could have been a little more, interesting. this isn't a very good banner and on the advertising market this is shameful to the bank.

This is annoying to say, but this is a good example of advertising because it gives us the right amount of information, it makes the client interested because it Boldly says bet £5 and get £20 which means that if you bet the £5 then you get a free £20 bet, it tells us where to register, the main website link, and it's colourful. this is not how everyone should make there banners look but this is probably how "Ladbrokes" and other betting companies should have had there banners.

This is  a pretty good Banner, it may not give off much information, but it's colourful, the image fits with the advertisement, shows us the main website and it's button that says "Play Now" is very inviting. this is another example on how other betting companies should advertise.

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Task 3

My Pictures

I originally started with this image below:

Internet Research: The word “Resurgam” is Latin for “I shall Rise again” and this was saved from the bombed church of Plymouth in 1940, and then placed at St Andrews Church as a sign that Plymouth will RISE again after the bombings of World War Two.

The original image:

The Edited Image:

 And as I was editing it I think the image got corrupted and in the best way it could. By this of course I mean that it created its own pop art like image and considering I found it to be a confusing moment I believe this a suitable confusion piece.

Shortly after I decided to type the word confusion in different fonts and spread it over the image, but it seemed everything I did to the image changed what it looked like and the ending image turned out even better…

Task 2

Graffiti

Banksy

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.

His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.

Banksy's work was made up of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. According to author and graphic designer Tristan Manco and the book Home Sweet Home, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s." Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and Jef Aerosol who sprayed his first street stencil in 1982 in Tours (France), and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass, which maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However Banksy claims that he based his work on that of 3D from Massive Attack, stating, "No, I copied 3D from Massive Attack. He can actually draw."

Reference:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy

Gnasher

Dave started out in 1985 doing graffiti in Harlow, Essex, at that time he was predominantly painting 'letters' or words spray painted in a graffiti style. At the time, there was a growing graffiti scene and lots of well-known artists visited the town. Dave was inspired by the images of characters some the artists of that time were creating, he was hooked from that point and spent years developing his own style of graffiti.

In 1993 Dave studied art, graphic design, stopped doing graffiti and instead spent his time doing working in graphic design, travelling the world and DJing (his tag 'Gnasher' comes from his DJing days). Sixteen years later in 2009, a friend invited Dave out to go spray painting again, so he bought some paint and spent the day painting - he has been hooked ever since.

Reference: http://www.gnashermurals.com/

Expressionism

Vincent Van Gogh:

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died aged 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted (although no gun was ever found). His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still.

Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. His work included self-portraits, landscapes, still lifes, portraits and paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

Edward Munch:

Edward Munch 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. One of his most well-known works is The Scream of 1893.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch

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My Pictures

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