Exploration with examples and people
These are the G.A.P Ads i was telling u about. These will be how i’ll be doing this in a magazine form. These images express who these persons are, which is just what i will be pushing for the most. They help give me a good impression of how and what exactly i want to do, since the G.A.P ads are my favorite ads because they feel so natural.
More Exploration
Portraits i’m inspired by. I’ll be doing all that i can in experimenting with lighting as much as possible. Since lighting isn’t my strong point i really want to use this opportunity to focus on light and angles.
Exploration In Class
For this final assignment I’m thinking about doing a few things. One is, a six page spread of fashion photographs you would see in a magazine, something very classic. Another idea is a sequence of portraits. Simple shots that are very clean and fresh, allowing the portrait’s simplicity to speak for itself. This allows me to experiment with lighting and angles alot more. The idea that I’m leaning on doing is the portrait sequence, because i love taking photos of people.
EXAMPLES
SELF-PORTRAITS 
PORTRAITS 
First Two Sketches
Here are two of my sketches. These may ba revised later on. The colors i’m thinking about using are flourescent or pastel colors.
Techno/Trance Research
Techno Music
Techno music came out of Detroit in the 1980′s, and carried the influences of popular electronic music of the 1970′s to the dancefloors. The music features regular, pouding beats coupled with distorted synthesized sequences.
The best known early techno producers are Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson, sometimes known as the Belleville Three. They made music for clubs that was a urban take on the music of German musicians like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream were making. While Techno made it to the clubs in Chicago and New York, it was a largely underground style throughout the eighties.
What is Techno?
Techno is pure electronic music, originally designed for dances, that combines the sound of classic German electronica with an american Urban feel. The music emphasizes the machine sound of electronic drum machines, especially the Roland TR-808, and often is based around repetitive riffs played on bass line sequencers like the Roland TB-303.
The history of techno starts in Detroit. The style emerged there when musicians took cheap, used electronic instruments and abused them in ways never intended by their creators. Early techno artists drew on science fiction and futuristic themes in their music. The techno sound depicted a place unlike the aging Detroit city where it was born. The music and the themes of the songs were intended to sound like something from the future. “It’s an attitude to making music that sounds futuristic,” according to techno pioneer Juan Atkins, “something that hasn’t been done before.”
One of the best known early techno songs is “Alleys of your Mind”, by techno artists Cybotron. Works from Atkins, May and Saunderson didn’t make the charts, but were very influential because they were played in major clubs in the US. In 1988, a compilation called Techno! The New Dance Sound helped define the style.
In the 90′s, artists in Europe began to take the Detroit sound of early techno songs and morph it. New variations were created, including acid, ambient techno, hardcore, and jungle. The techno style has gained more popularity in Europe than it has in the United States, because electronica has been popularized more in Europe than in the US.
Techno has been associated with raves since the nineties. The idea of a rave is just a techno party where like-minded techno fans can get together and dance to continuous dj mixes of electronic music. These have been particularly popular in Europe. In 2000, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival became one of the largest and most significant electronica events in the world. It was free and attracted hundreds of thousands of techno music fance from all over the world.
Jungle was as aggressive as hardcore, combining driving techno beats with breakbeats and dancehall reggae. Acid Techno was born after the squelch of mid-’80s acid house music was given time to sink into the minds of impressionable youths and they became quite influenced by the sound. Many who began to make music in the early ’90s applied the sound to harder techno instead of the warm sounds of classic Chicago house. Acid Techno includes the earlier recordings of Aphex Twin, Plastikman, and Dave Clarke, among others.
Progressive Techno is just a little different from Acid Techno. Usually it markedly develops in time, by gradual addition of instruments. That’s why it’s called progressive. Acid Techno will keep you longer on the floor, while Progressive will offer you more intense experience for a shorter period of time. Very common is a mixture of those two styles, that gives you both a LONG and INTENSE experiences. Since the electronic music got born it evolved into a cultural movement worldwide bringing together variety of music styles and millions of followers.
Trance Music
The past years have seen the rise to fame of the music genre called trance. Defined loosely as a type of electronic-based music or club music, trance has a beat of 124 to 160 BPM and features repeated synthesizer grooves in the whole track. Sometimes including vocals, this genre is actually very similar to techno and house music. But mainly, the genre earned its label of trance for the repetitive sounds and beats that put a person in an almost trance-like condition. It is even said that trance music has a hypnotic quality which induces partygoers to dance until the wee hours of the morning.
Trance music traces its origins in Germany during the 90s when DJs began incorporating electronic sounds with psytrance in their music. As mentioned, this genre is considered by some to be comparable to techno and house music as they share the same elemental design with regard to their beats and rhythms. Trance music, however, has more melodies which were the trend in the European club stage then. In fact, early tracks of trance music generally have catchy tunes and increasingly repetitive rhythmic beats.
Eventually, trance music began dominating the dance music scene just after a few years after its advent in Germany. Many DJs and artists began creating their own mixes and tunes of trance, which later on led to the creation of different subgenres for this music.
Among the subgenres of trance is the acid style, wherein a bass machine is usually used to make edgy sound effects. Evolving from the original classic trance, acid trance dominated the club scene in the early 90s but during that time, another style of trance was slowly emerging – the progressive style. The progressive trance is a direct offshoot of acid style, and is actually considered the model for the modern trance genre. In progressive trance tracks, bassline and melodies dominate, producing an effect of fast and progressive sounds.
Shortly after progressive trance became popular, the anthem trance made its debut on the dance floor. In anthem trance, there is a prolonged progression on bass and treble elements which give the tracks stronger and distinct melodies. However, anthem trance is not the only subgenre that has earned its uniqueness in the area of melodies and beats. With its beginnings in India’s state, Goa trance is also an early style of trance music and dance trance, distinctly characterized by energetic thumping drumbeats, rhythm, and loops. During its peak, Goa trance underwent a lot of musical experimentation which led to the creation of an altogether different sound of trance music, eventually known as psychedelic trance. The psychedelic style came into the trance mainstream during the mid-90s and was distinguished for its futuristic sound and vibe.
Though the some, if not most, of the subgenres of trance rely heavily on equipment and remixes, trance also has subgenres that highlight the lyrical and vocal parts of music. For instance, the vocal trance is a type of music that features lengthy lyrics often sung by a female vocalist. In this subgenre, artists rarely sing in their own tracks. Vocal trance is mostly even confused with Euro trance because both styles employ vocals in their tracks. The main difference between vocal and Euro trance, however, is that Euro trance tracks are characterized by more enthusiastic lyrics and upbeat tunes – characteristics which are also reminiscent of tribal trance, only the tribal subgenre prevalently has ethnic sounds and bongo beats coupled with percussion and rhythm.
Indeed, whether it’s the catchy melodies or the groovy rhythm, people just can’t seem to resist dancing to the tunes of trance. With the various subgenres and new forms still emerging, there is no doubt that from its inception, trance has held countless partygoers all over the world spellbound and will still continue to dominate the club scenes around the world. Suffice it to say, dance music and party life would not be the same without trance.
Ideas Revised
Tiny/ Galactic
The remainder of the story begins where it left off with my character asleep having a dream and then waking back up to start her day over.
It will begin with the first panel of a black and white photo of her asleep, going into the second panel. This panel will be the Pop art photo inspired by an artist named Christo whose image of inspiration is at the top. I went with the concept he used with the umbrellas. But instead i will be using one large umbrella that will give my character the appearance of seeming tiny, which is one of my words. She’ll be set on a familiar street that she uses everyday, holding the umbrella. Another panel will be the expression and expressionism. This photo will be simple of her seated up in bed contemplating over whether to wake up or not. A fourth panel will be of her taking her keys from the table, a sign of her day starting over again. This will be the cubism photo, inspired by the Hockney piece ,the second picture from the top, this will show the tiny size of her house keys she is grabbing. The collage panel will be of her asleep. This time showing her outer look on how she is feeling. I am going to do my best with coll aging separate images together in one piece for her asleep.
First Panel: Black and White
Second Panel: Expression
Third Panel: Collage 
Fourth Panel: Cubism
Fifth Panel: Pop Art
Final 8 Character Panels
My name is Grace Newman. I am five foot two, with chocolate brown skin, full lips, almond shaped eyes, and a round nose. Life for me has changed drastically since my dad died. Ever since than i have not been the same. I seem to always be paranoid, i don’t trust anyone but myself and i don’t like to be around my mom. Shes changed a lot too, ever since my dad’s death. The only time and place i am truly happy is when I’m at the park or asleep. Everyday i make it a priority to get out of the house and away from my mother, i don’t like who she has changed into. She isn’t the same. It doesn’t matter where i go, just as long as I’m out of the house. Even if its just to wonder around the streets. The only thing I ever wish for is that I can some day get out of this predicament and never look back.
