Friday, November 7, 2008

comm models: object postcard

3 comments:

Nik Smith said...

I'm sorry Nick, but looking at this I get no specific position. I feel like it's a static image on a black background. I think you were trying to communicate a negative connotation because of the black background (this is really all I have to go on). If this is the case, I'm questioning why there is no drama to your composition. You could have cropped it in a different way (close up would be effective) or you could have shown more contrast with your lighting (deep shadows with very little highlights, just enough so you can tell what the object is). I feel that the mood you are trying to relay really relies on the black color field and not the object itself.

As far as noise, I think it's a cultural kind of noise that influences my opinion. Storm troopers are the bad guys in Star Wars. Perhaps that is shaping what I think about how this object is being represented, because it is a toy that represents the bad guy I want it to be a negative object.

The two artifacts are two different modes of transmission. The postcard is representational because it is a real photograph I am able to hold while the internet image is mechanical because it is a photograph being represented on the internet. It is not a physical (tangible) object you can hold, but a digital object transmitted electronically.

Nick Karn said...

The idea was based on the the fact that the empire is like the ritch force in the unverse and everything is clean and shiny and thats were the reflection comes from. Then it was like they are a dark force so this dark background and the clean reflection of the abilities of there wealth. The rebels are poor and just scrounging together what they can to fight back against them so i guess if i did one about the rebels it would be like distroyed and kinda pieced together. I think overal i was kind of confused about the diliverable cause i used photoshop and i guess from looking at everyone elses its supose to be purely photographic so i will probably do a re-shoot and send you the files from that.

Nick Karn said...

NEGATIVE...my bad but bad guys are bad