Amusia by Viena Lee

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Viena Lee Lin Tsin U1631151B Pattern, Art, Design and Architecture

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MIND MAPPING

MUSIC Imagination

Perfection

Brain activity

Perfection

Tone deaf

Evoking emotions

Playing instruments

Golden ratio

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Memories

Complexity

Music composition

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Dementia

Nostalgia

eometry

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DEFINATION:

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MIND MAPPING

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PATIENTS WITH AMUSIA:

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RESEARCH

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The projects aims to illustrate what severe amusia patients experience upon hearing music.

It taps on the contrast between music as a pleasant experience, but instead is unpleasurable to these individuals.

CONCEPT

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INSPIRATION

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INSPIRATION

MICHAEL DEFORGE

RUSSELL TAYSOM

Michael Deforge uses many vibrant colours in his work, which is something that

Again, the colours in the works is something that I fancy. The blue, pink, and

I lean towards to and hope to apply. Another thing that inspired me was how

green tones is bright and looks like it is almost glowing. His style is quite similar

he draws his illustration, as the lines are very raw. The details in the pieces is

to the cartoons in the 90s, or things that we see in the skateboard culture. I real-

interesting to me.

ly like the details in the works and the way he draws it as well.

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OJETEFLAVOUR I was also quite inspired by his works that was done in greyscale, so I would definately consider it as one of the colour scheme for my banner.

Again, the details in the works is something that I want to incoperate into my own style and portfolio.

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PLANNING

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INSTRUMENTS

METAL BANDS

As my concept is to make classical musical instruments into metal band

Next, I took a look at metal band members and the type of aestethics that they

members, the next thing I did was to look at these instruments and consider

had, so I could incoperate it into the instruments. Certain elements they had

how I can personify them into such. Hence, a lot of sketching was involved to

made their identity distinguishable, such as the long, unruly hair, spikes, sun-

figure out where to place the facial features and limbs.

glasses, bandana, face paint and glitter.

PLANNING

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PLANNING

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01/SKETCHES

02/ REFINING

So the first step, I did quite a few sketches on my book to test out what works

I picked out the top few sketches which looked good and refined it greatly

and what don’t work. Besides making them look like metal band humans, I also

before scanning it on a phone application. The photo above are the ones which

tried to explore whether giving it animal forms would be an interesting option.

are going to be used for the final banner.

However, I opted to make it look like monsters, similar to the works done by my inspirations.

PLANNING

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Triangle

Drum

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Harp

Harmonica

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Saxophone

Guitar

Xylophone

Tambourine

03/ DIGITIZING I then placed the images in a layer and locked it. Afterwhich creating another layer and drawing over it with the pen tool. To improve on it, the select tool was utilized and points were indiviually adjusted in order to refine the motifs.

The next step was to colourise it.

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SWATCH 1

SWATCH 2

SWATCH 3

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SWATCH 4

SWATCHES

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SWATCH 6

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MOTIFS

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MOTIFS

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The style of the skull does not really suit the rest of the banner

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Since the main features are moved down, the top part of the banner looks empty instead.

Initially, the instruments where meant to be surrounded by vines, again inspired by rock bands aesthetics

I like how the Þre and spikes are more visible in this composition

Patterns were inspired by rock bands, who uses zebra prints in their designs

For this version, I decided to move the skull down as KB suggested that due to the length and height of the banner, people will naturally look from bottom to up

BANNER LAYOUT

The third development is expanding the jaw to Þt all the instruments into the mouth of the skull.

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I changed the skull into something which would suit the style of the instruments more.

To showcase the of amusia patients listening to music, the spikes were shifted above it and Þre was added too, showing some sort of explosion.

However, the top and bottom portion still looks like there is room for improvement.

It looks not right.

As it is a skull, I then decided to have drool that drips out of the mouth.To have a balance bewtween and top and bottom portion,

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During the class critique, Miss Ina also pointed out that the skull area looks too empty in contrast to the rest of the banner. After which I decided to add a bain and also, eyes

Added star and circles of various si the background, inspired by the skateboards. Also reÞned the drool.

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Made the brain pop of out the skull to push the concept and design further.

Also canged the colours of the spikes and Þre to bring a balance to the entire design.

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MEDIA ART WALL

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MEDIA ART WALL

MEDIA ART WALL After playing around with different layouts for the media art wall, I decided to stick with the design below. I then decided to plan what kind of movement would suit the banner best in the wall. The text below was what I had in mind, before officially getting down to executing it into AE.

Seperating the stars into a few different

Make the brain appear like it is throbbing

Popping eyes effect further enhanced by

Turbulent noise used again to

layers to alter the opacity and timing to give

by adjusting its size on AE.

altering its length and position through the

give movement to the pattern at

puppet tool

the background.

a “blinking” effect.

Rotate the shape to make To give the skull more movement, the top and bottom parts both move in synchronization.

it the central focus of the

Move the instruments to

composition.

make it seem like it is floating by adjusting the position

Turbulent noise effect was used on the drool to make it look like it is moving.

in AE.

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APPLICATION

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APPLICATION