Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Art, Consept, Flash, Flash Kit, Identity, Printscreen, Website
I’m soon finished with the final assignment, and when I’m looking back on the concept I wrote some weeks ago, I can see that a lot of things have changed since then. Even tho the idea and thought behind it is the same, the way I have expressed it visually turned out quite different then I expected. I have made some decitions about the look of the site as I went on with the work, and saw what I was capable of, and what flash alowed me to do.
It is a while since I have worked in flash, and I needed to refresh some of my skills there, but internet provided me wi answers to most of the questions I had. And eventually things came back to me.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Design, Faces, Final Assignment, Identity, rollover, web
I have decided to make most of my site in flash. I have started on the intro which is supposed to be work as an introduction to the site.
The viewer are not suppose to do anything, just look at the introduction, (maybe there will be a possibility to skip the intro, I haven‘t decided yet) The intro will consist of words that can be connected with the theme (Identity) crossing the screen. My main focus is that people can have several identities in different situations. The words will be written both in English, French and in Norwegian which is my language. In addition to the words crossing the screen it will be people, or the outline of people sliding over the screen. Identity have a strong connection to the term human/person. The last word sliding over the screen will be identity.
Main page:
To make the page a bit more unpredictable and exiting I will use pictures of different people with different features. And when you click on them different things will happen.
Here are some ideas:
Face 1:
- rollover – removes different features of the face, mouth/eyes ++
Face 2:
- rollover/clicking – The mask on the face changes
Face 3:
- rollover/clicking – The mask is removed, you see what’s under – can be a painted face, nothing, a normal face (angry, happy, sad ++)
Face 4:
- rollover/clicking – The colour of the skin changes
Face 5:
- rollover/clicking – animation – the face starts to talk, maybe in different languages
Face 6:
- rollover/clicking – twoface: a person in profile, the face turns to the side when you click, the other half side of the face has other features, maybe scary/robot/machine/old ?
Face 7:
- When you click on the face a new picture displays, the person in hole figure standing and holding a poster, the word on the poser changes frequently. Words connected to the theme.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Commercial, Face, Identity, Monoface, Potatohead, Web art
Mono is an advertising agency based in Minneapolis, MN that lives by the motto that “simpler is better.” The “Mono”face site lives up to that motto by presenting visitors with a fun and simple Flash application that allows them to sculpt a Mr. Potato Head style face that contains 759,375 entertaining possibilities.
(http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/best-flash-sites)
See the site here: Monoface
A question which came up in class yesterday was “what happens if you remove a person’s mouth?” Someone answered “you remove their identity”
If this is correct, it means that by changing the features on a person’s face we also changes the person’s identity.
But then what about plastic surgery? Does a person changes his/her identity just because he / she faar nose embellished a little?
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Draft, Faces, Final Assignment, Identity, Words
I came over an article about identityby Matthew Palmer which I felt reflected a lot of what I will show in my final assignment. The name of the article was Just an Image or True Identity?
I woult recomend to read this article, an as a teaser here are some sitats:
“Our true Identity is obscured and ignored to make way for our made-up image-the way we want others to see us.”
“In defining our image, we take all the things that appeal to us in the world to create how we want to see ourselves. We set out to make ourselves visible in the world so our images are reflected back to us through the desire of others.”
“Constructing our identity has become a requirement in our modern Western society where we are constantly facing choices of identity and lifestyle. We have seen various ways in which popular ideas about “self” in society have changed, so that identity is seen today as more fluid and transformable than ever before.”
“The problem of defining our identity from exterior influences is they are unreliable; even seeking definition from within ourselves can be unreliable with our fluctuating emotions and confidence.”
What Matthew Palmer said with words I wil try to say with visual elements.
What is your identity?
I am an Norwegian
I am a girl
I am a student
I am an person
One person can have several identities.
I define my selves by these terms, not necessary in that order, but they are all descriptions of me.
Religious view,
Political view
Organizational memberships,
Nationality
can all contribute to shape you as a person.
How can art or design represent an identity? Here are some of the resolts I got after searching for identity+art on www.google.com:
