This post is a compilation of everything I've done up until the deadline. For the Word and Image module I chose the poem "Orlando" by Andrea Gibson as my point of interest. I have spent many hours analyzing it top to bottom, bottom to top. Most of the analysis and research can be found here: …
Category: Word and Image
Text and Image: Cover and Double Page Spread
Here is my attempt at trying to create an abstract cover for the poem Orlando. I designed it in a way that would allow for it to be use for displaying the final piece. However, due to shortage of time, I don't think I will be able to prepare the final presentation, I will make …
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“Orlando” Gif
Made by taking each individual frame from the final piece, scanning it in, cropping and aligning them for the maximum fluidity, then putting all the images into a gif maker program.
Composition Workshop
For this workshop we had to pick one of the 2 provided texts and create an abstract visual interpretation of the narrative using different points of view: first and third person. It was very early in the morning, the streets clean and deserted, I was walking to the station. As I compared the tower clock …
Breaking Down Orlando Into 12 Pieces of Narrative (Development)
This has been a task so tedious that I had to return to it time and time again with hopes of solving the riddle, but to no avail. However, with less than a week left until the final hand-in, I feel as though it is time to settle down on an answer to the question …
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Semiotics Workshop: Main Narrative Development
For this workshop, we were given bodies of text and were asked to alter them in a way that would create new narratives using snippets from the source material. I chose to use this workshop to further the development of my narrative for the final piece. The texts that I was "blessed" with the chance …
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The Bloody Chamber Narrative
THE BLOODY CHAMBER I reminisce about the place once considered a sanctuary for those who had been refused and abandoned simply for how and who they loved. It was a chamber, in which love and acceptance would travel in the form of a wave - a pulse - that would be echoed and amplified by …
Abstract Narrative for Orlando Rough
I have broken down the Orlando poem into a set of narrative pieces and have created a unique design for each piece. Each piece represents a certain point within the poem and I have used Colour and Pattern as a means of translating the text into an image. The introduction of new colours or the …