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Michael Ellio+ Exam Prep
Brain Storm This is my brainstorm that I created on mystery and imagina7on. I have thought of as many mysterious things that can not be explained as they’re not fully understood. This brainstorm will make it easier and help me pick a possible idea on what I could do my exam project about mystery and imagina7on on. I am going to pick 4 ideas that I have wrote on the brainstorm and answer a few ques7ons telling me more about the subjects.
Dreams
What are dreams? Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emo7ons and sensa7ons occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.
Why do we dream?
We all dream every night. Some people don't remember dreaming and would swear that they never dream. But dreaming is essen7al for sor7ng out and releasing the emo7onal build-‐up from our day so we can start the new day with a clean slate. If you stop people from dreaming, they become disturbed, confused and can start hallucina7ng. On the other end of the scale, there are people that dream too much. This oLen happens to those that are depressed. Our brains aren't very good at telling the difference between a real situa7on and an imagined one. So hours of thinking about stressful situa7ons before bed7me creates a huge nega7ve emo7onal charge which requires huge amounts of dreaming to discharge. So dreams are a very important part of us and affect our lives whether we remember them or not. And by tapping into them, we can explore and work through issues before they have even come to light. One of the great benefits of dreams is that they can show us what we are thinking about or are concerned with in our lives, oLen at a subconscious level.
How do we dream? There are two theories in why we believe we dream, these are the physiological theory and the psychological theory. The physiological theory centres upon how our body, specifically our brains, func7on during the EM (Rapid Eye Movement) phase of sleep. Proponents of this theory believe that we dream to exercise the synapses, or pathways, between brain cells, and that dreaming takes over where the ac7ve and awake brain leaves off. When awake, our brains constantly transmit and receive messages, which course through our billions of brain cells to their appropriate des7na7ons, and keep our bodies in perpetual mo7on. Dreams replace this func7on. Psychological theorists of dreams focus upon our thoughts and emo7ons, and speculate that dreams deal with immediate concerns in our lives, such as unfinished business from the day, or concerns we are incapable of handling during the course of the day. Dreams can, in fact, teach us things about ourselves that we are unaware of.
What causes nightmares? There's no single cause of nightmares and hence no single way of stopping them. Some7mes physical factors can be involved, such as illness and/or medica7on. Some7mes a nightmare reflects some unusual stress or trauma in the waking world. Some7mes it is just a result of small, niggling worries that have been ignored for too long. It's important to dis7nguish between nightmares and night terrors. The two occur during different stages of sleep. Night terrors occur during NREM sleep, cause screaming and thrashing about in bed. Unlike nightmares they are rarely remembered in detail.
Nightmares occur in REM sleep. They cause fear but rarely the screaming and other symptoms associated with night terrors. Nightmares can be remembered as well or badly as any other dream.
Dreams
Memory We rely on memory to engage in effec7ve ac7ons, to understand the words we read, to recognize the objects we see, to decode the auditory signals represen7ng speech, and even to provide us
with a personal iden7ty and sense of self.
How do we remember?
Fundamentally, memory represents a change in who we are. Our habits, our ideologies, our hopes and fears are all influenced by what we remember of our past. At the most basic level, we remember because the connec7ons between our brains' neurons change; each experience primes the brain for the next experience, so that the physical stuff we're made of reflects our history like mountains reflect geologic eras. Memory also represents a change in who we are because it is predic7ve of who we will become. We remember things more easily if we have been exposed to similar things before, so what we remember from the past has a lot to do with what we can learn in the future.
What is short term memory?
Short-‐term memory, also known as primary or ac7ve memory, is the informa7on we are currently aware of or thinking about. In Freudian psychology, this memory would be referred to as the conscious mind. The informa7on found in short term memory comes from paying a\en7on to sensory memories.
What is long term memory? Long-‐term memory refers to the con7nuing storage of informa7on. In Freudian psychology, long-‐term memory would be call the preconscious and unconscious. This informa7on is largely outside of our awareness, but can be called into working memory to be used when needed. Some of this informa7on is fairly easy to recall, while other memories are much more difficult to access.
Short term
Most of the informa7on kept in short-‐term memory will be stored for approximately 20 to 30 seconds, but it can be just seconds if rehearsal or ac7ve maintenance of the informa7on is prevented. While many of our short-‐term memories are quickly forgo\en.
Long term
Through the process of associa7on and rehearsal, the content of short-‐term memory can become long-‐term memory. While long-‐term memory is also suscep7ble to the forgebng process, long-‐term memories can last for a ma\er of days to as long as many decades.
Memory
The Universe How big is the universe?
There are people who believe the universe is infinite with an infinite number of stars and galaxies. There are some very valid mathema7cal explana7ons of why this can't be true. However, as in many other theories of the universe, we simply don't know. With the most distant objects we can see, es7mates currently are that the universe is over 156 billion light years across. Some theories say that the universe is expanding at close to the speed of light, so we can't even conceive of traveling to the edge of the universe to measure it.
How did the universe start? No one actually knows, a theory that I am going to look at is the ‘Big Bang Theory’. Summing up the big bang theory is a challenge. It involves concepts that contradict the way we perceive the world. The earliest stages of the big bang focus on a moment in which all the separate forces of the universe were part of a unified force. The laws of science begin to break down the further back you look. Eventually, you can't make any scien7fic theories about what is happening, because science itself doesn't apply.
How long has the universe been around for? It is believed that the universe has been around for 10 – 20 billion years.
How many stars are there in the universe? Stars are not sca\ered randomly through space, they are gathered together into vast groups known as galaxies. The Sun belongs to a galaxy called the Milky Way. Astronomers es7mate there are about 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way alone. Outside that, there are millions upon millions of other galaxies also! It has been said that coun7ng the stars in the Universe is like trying to count the number of sand grains on a beach on Earth. We might do that by measuring the surface area of the beach, and determining the average depth of the sand layer.
Skateboarding What is skateboarding?
Skateboarding is an ac7on sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most oLen referred to as a skateboarder, or colloquially within the skateboarding community, a skater. Skateboarding can be a recrea7onal ac7vity, an art form, a job, or a method of transporta7on. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years.
How many skateboarding tricks are there? -‐ Flatland and Flip tricks (125) -‐ Slides (28) and Grinds (32) -‐ Aerials and Grab tricks (36) -‐ Lip tricks (34) and Inverts and Handplants (16) -‐ Freestyle tricks and oldschool tricks (39) This isn’t 100% correct but is close.
How long has skateboarding been around for? Skateboarding was probably born some7me in the late 1940s or early 1950s when surfers in California wanted something to surf when the waves were flat. No one knows who made the first board; it seems that several people came up with similar ideas at around the same 7me. These first skateboarders started with wooden boxes or boards with roller skate wheels a\ached to the bo\om. The boxes turned into planks, and eventually companies were producing decks of pressed layers of wood – similar to the skateboard decks of today. During this 7me, skateboarding was seen as something to do for fun besides surfing, and was therefore oLen referred to as "Sidewalk Surfing".
How many people skate? A 2002 report by American Sports Data found that there were 18.5 million skateboarders in the world. 85 percent of skateboarders polled who had used a board in the last year were under the age of 18, and 74 percent were male.
What styles of ska7ng are there? There are various styles of riding a skateboard and each and every one of those styles are unique and dis7nct from one another, involving different methods and techniques that a skateboarder incorporates into his skateboarding ability. Freestyle Skateboarding Ver7cal Skateboarding Transi7on Skateboarding Transi7on to Ver7cal. Most commonly known as "Vert" Skateboarding. Street Skateboarding Park Skateboarding Cruising Technical Flatground Skateboarding Downhill Skateboarding Big Air Skateboarding
Skateboarding
Ar=st Research
Zane Benne\ is a graphic Designer known for his vector work. 21 years old and currently Living in Launceston, Tasmania (Australia) where he studies Graphic Design and Photography. I like this artwork that Zane has produced because it is about skateboarding and I may use skateboarding as my exam. I couldn’t find much informa7on about this ar7st as he isn’t a well know graphic designer and is s7ll studying. I like the way how it’s plain but very effec7ve, I would like to produce an artwork like this. I would like my artwork to be in colour though as I feel this work is too cartoony, but I love the way it is set out and put together.
Ar=st Research Radim Malinic / Brand Nu is an award winning art director, illustrator and graphic designer based in London, England. Radim has firmly established himself over the last few years as one of the most successful and prolific commercial illustrators working today. His award winning work is renowned worldwide for its innova7on, passion and a\en7on to intricate detail. Radim was born in Vietnam 1981 and currently lives in Toronto, Canada. Graduated from Humber College (Toronto). To produce his work he uses adobe Sortware and a MacBook. I love Radim’s work, I believe he is great at what he does and inspires me too try some of his techniques and also experiment with different things. I like how his art is always busy and the use of layers is managed very well.
Ar=st Research
Visual Response
These next few slides are work that I have created using my research on the topics and ques7ons, using ar7st influences of the ar7st’s I have looked at. I am looking at what topics I have looked at and then crea7ng a piece or two seeing what I like and don’t like and whether I believe it is a good topic to do my exam on. Most of the visual responses I have made have been from primary uses, such as photography. I have tried to use different styles and techniques so I can come out with my favorite, and what I feel is the best work so I can use similar styles in my exam.
Memory – Visual Response
I found it quite hard to think of something to do with memory
so I took a picture of the side of
my dad’s head and edited out
the background so the head
so there is more emphasis on
the head. I added a ques7on
mark above his head so that
you can relate the picture to
memory, with the word
‘memory’ spelt out down the
bo\om. I then drew with the
pen tool and then put an outline
glow.
This is the same sort of design but instead I drew a brain on with the pen tool and made an inner and an outer glow with a ques7on mark in the middle. I mo7on blurred the background so that the head is clear. I blurred the background so that it was like the memory may be blurred as some7mes you can’t remember everything as memory is mysterious. On either side of his head I wrote the words, ‘this..’ and ‘that..’ as they’re words that you use when you’re remembering something.
Memory – Visual Response
Skateboarding – Visual response This is my visual response for my skateboard. I cut out a picture of my skateboard and used the pen tool to do a glowing line wrapping around the board and just around the outline of the board. The background is a gradient of the colours, green, black and white. I put a ques7on mark in the top hand corner of the work as skateboarding is mysterious and imagina7ve as there are so many different things to do. The arrow is showing that a skateboard moves in so many different ways, it’s like an art. You control the way in which the board spins, what direc7on, how fast and how slow, it’s quite mysterious. Next to the skateboard I then took a picture of my friend ska7ng, cut it out and then added it into the art.
Logo
This is a logo that I created on Photoshop. It is the logo of the Berrics. I created a green circle and set the gradients to two different shades of green. I then made the silver shape in the middle and then it out. I changed the colour and the shadows of the logo to give it a more professional effect. I am happy with the way that this logo has turn out, it was how I designed and wanted it to be.
This is a logo that I created on Illustrator and Photoshop. I did the text in illustrator, crea7ng it the shape I wanted and the font. I then moved it to Photoshop and have a play around with the levels and adjustment styles. I added a shadow to it to make it seem more interes7ng and complex. I am happy with how this turned out as I wanted a simple but fun logo to put onto my poster.
Logo
Style of an Ar=st On the next page is my artwork on an ar7st. I chose to do an art work on brand nu as I think his art is very inspiring. I did most of the work on illustrator and then used a li\le bit of Photoshop, for the skateboarding figure, and I added it all together. This is the picture I used for the skateboarder. This is a primary photo.
Possible poster design This is the picture that I have used to have a go at a maybe possible poster idea for my exam. On the leL is a not completed final poster design. I have looked at the ar7sts carefully and have tried to put both of their styles and skills together to create a possible final poster design.
Final poster design This is my final poster design. I will be looking at something a long the lines of this to do as my exam piece. My exam piece will be more edited and have similar styles but will have more techniques to make the work more complicated and more like Zanne’s and brand nu’s. The ar7st research helped me a lot as I feel like looking at their artwork has encouraged me to produce more styled work in their manor and have an experiment with different tools. This poster is quite simple as I cut out the picture of me and added to it a plain background. I then cut out a picture of the Gherkin and set it as the background. ALer that I had downloaded cloud brushes and layered then on the bo\om background. I added the logo’s, on the top and bo\om of the leL hand side. Used the pen tool to create a glowing line going through the image. I then mo7on blurred the image of the Gherkin and changed the adjustments to the photo of me.
Exam
This is the last step before I added the rest to this poster.
Exam
This is my final logo. I wrote the work Berrics on illustrator, played around with it a bit un7l the le\er were the shape I wanted. I then used a brush of the sun to set as the background of the logo. The gradient of the logo is yellow to orange from top to down. I set an outline glow around the le\ers, of neon blue. I set small grass brushes into the text so you can see more detail in the logo. As the finishing touch I placed a thick pink glow going in and out of the logo.
Exam
This is my final outcome of my exam. This is the completed poster with the website and the logo at the bo\om. In this piece I have cut out too pictures of me skateboarding. The middle main image of me has a glowing line around it to a\ract more people to the poster. The other picture has been cut out and added to the leL of me and then duplicated a number of 7mes with the fill reduced a li\le more each 7me. The background is a brush of the sun with the colours of gold and blue. The background is then merged in so it gives more effect. I then got another brush, this 7me cloud brushes, changed the colour gold so it matched the colour of big Ben and the glowing lines, and spread them around. To get this as my final outcome, my ar7st research helped me a lot as brand nu made me think and experiment with the different style background, with a few different things added together. The idea of the ska7ng with the background of Big Ben came from my ar7st research of Zanne Bennet. I am happy with this final outcome and believe I have learnt a lot from this exam, new Photoshop skills and more knowledge about ar7sts.
Exam