Final Assignment (Media Arts Design 1) Artist Statement

Aquarelle is a manifestation of the meaning from my name through watercolour visualization. It was focused on the colours and how it and how it was put together. I decided to use watercolour as my subject as it is my most favourite medium to express myself. Watercolour to me is special as we can manipulated to our own liking to achieve the result that we are looking for. It hits close to home as I too have the ability to adapt to my surrounding and situation. Plus, serene music was chosen with a reason of a biased of myself. I have a temper but I hate making people around me upset so the serene music represented my self control and hopes to the people around me. Overall, I hope with this video the viewer can get a glimpse of my personality and the visions that I see of everyday life.

Final Assignment (Media Arts Design 1) Final Update

Here is my final video. Aquarelle is the name. Aquarelle is the Italian for watercolour.

I have chosen a serene music to compliment my video. 

Final Assignment (Media Arts Design 1) Update 2

Now I am going to introduce the marker that I have produced. I used an eye as to symbolizes the window to our soul.  Most of the artwork that I made carries memories and emotions that I experiences during the time.

The marker

Also, I designed the marker to fit the video arrangement according to plan. (Final storyboard)

Final Assignement (Media Arts Design 1) Update 1

After more research (which consist of video watching on both Youtube and Vimeo) I decided to choose the video Tone by Trent Jaklitsch that I found from Vimeo. You can watch the video here.

Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2

I did some research as to plan my video inspired by this particular video.

Research 2

Since I have been using watercolour for most of my works. I decided to capture this essence and record a close up video and compile them in a slightly different way. And thus I made another storyboard from this info.

Final storyboard.

As you can see I will have 4 separate videos compiled like shown in the sketches. The marker will be positioned as shown too, off-centered.

Final Assignment (Media Arts Design 1)

For this assignment we were required to make a video with a theme of our name and identity. This in my opinion is an interesting concept as I am from Malaysia, a country which have multiple races and tradition background.

Research 1

As from the image above, the meaning of my name are fitness and strength. From that I did my research for the colors that represent both of these meanings.
I did my reading here.

Mind map

So I did a mind map as to make me plan and arrangements for further process. So I did several storyboards based solely on what I did here.

Storyboard 1

Storyboard 2

Assignment 3 (Media Arts Design 1) Final Update

This is the latest version of the multimedia artwork with better rendering and my information.

Assignment 3 (Media Arts Design 1) Final

After much consideration and opinions seeking from friends and lecturers. I decided to refer to one of my sketches as the final.

The Sketch

From this sketch, I made the final A2 size poster traditionally by using watercolour and oil paint.

Final

Also we were required to make a digital work too.

Artist Statement

Both of this artwork was based on The Juniper Tree by The Grimm Brothers fairy tale. From this fairy tale I learned that we could used our bitter experience as a foundation for the our future. Reflected back to the society today, we are facing the news of teenagers and adults turning to suicide as their last resort to their problems.  As I emphasized the positive vibe by using bright colours and the fire bird emerging from the dark depths below, its a quiet direct visual to deliver this message. Overall, I feel that from this artwork and process I improved myself in skills and emotionally and I hope that the viewers to this artwork would feel the same.