time-based final project

So this post is about a month late, but better late than never, right? For my final project for my time-based course we were free to do whatever we wanted with our professor's approval. Mine was a bit experimental for me in the way I produced it. I recorded the audio before recording any video. I wanted to record the music of subway musicians because I started noticing the same guys on my daily routes between Brooklyn and Manhattan. After recording a few musicians the visuals to my video came to mind and I just wanted to present New York City as it is --- a great metropolis with the constant hustle and bustle of people.

I've mentioned before my audio skills are not great. And I think the soundtrack could use a lot of work, but I guess that was part of the challenge. I didn't want to make it too easy for myself. I also ran into a few obstacles during production and therefore I didn't get all the shots I had planned to get, but I made do. Anyways, here is the finished product!


It's So Nice from leslie canoy on Vimeo.

photography

For my design class we were instructed to take photos all semester and treat/edit some them in Photoshop and present our best ones. Some of the photos have obvious treatments, but others are more subtle in that I may have just adjusted the contrast, the brightness, curves, etc.

Here is a collection of my faves:

sound editing/film scoring

This is an update to an existing video, created earlier in the semester. The assignment was to add a soundtrack to one of our silent videos.

Hibernation (with audio) from leslie canoy on Vimeo.

mic check, 1, 2, 3

I'm a little behind in posting some of my projects. One week left to go in the school year, so I've been extremely busy. I haven't shared any of my audio projects, so I will do that now. Although another reason I haven't been in a rush to post these is that audio is not one of my strengths. The second half of the semester for my time-based class focused on audio production using ProTools. And, I'm sorry to all my audiophiles, but I am not a fan of ProTools. Anyhoo, here is my remix of John Cage's "Lecture on Nothing."


[Vocals: Phil Henken]

I definitely don't have a future being a DJ..haha.

flashy

The last time I created something in Flash was when it was still part of Macromedia, so it was definitely a new challenge. My original concept for an animation was a lot more difficult than I had anticipated so here's a much simpler one..haha. I'll get the other one up eventually...although it won't be as cool as I thought it was going to be..haha.



[Picture is of Black's Beach/Cliffs in La Jolla. I've made tributes to NY and SF, so it was time for one to SD]

creating a brand identity, pt. 2

So here is our complete brand identity kit.

Logo Guidelines (designed by me)

Images found by Laura Cresthol and Rachel Flora

Business Materials designed by Erin Sullivan

Website Landing Page Animation designed by Natalie Sacco

Website designed by Rachel Flora

Publicity Materials designed by Laura Cresthol

creating a brand identity, pt. 1

Assignment: Create a brand and design an identity system.

We were split into groups according to our own values using The Distributive Justice Game (give it a go...it's quite interesting). We were the meritocrats, plus the one and only communist in the class..haha.

Anyhoo....

My group came up with the idea of creating an online museum specifically for digital art. We wanted our museum to be perceived as hip/chic, innovative, creative, and sophisticated.

The name we came up with is Gallery 72. Why 72? Because in terms of resolution, 72 dpi is used for the screen.

These are my brainstorming mock-ups:

When our group came together again we were surprised to see that we all had very similar ideas/concepts. Once the group saw everyone's ideas/sketches/mock-ups, we had a clearer vision of what we wanted our logo to look like. I was put in charge of finessing the logo.

These are my refined drafts:

And finally we agreed on this as our final logo:

With the logo complete, the rest of the group was responsible for designing various aspects of our identity kit.

To be continued....