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Final Project: Composition

The final project for the Composition Module was a group video. The theme of the Video was “transition” which could be a real life reference shown in an abstract manner. Everything from the graphics to sound had to created by the group members.

We had 3 days to conceptualise, create and compile the video along with the music.

We started off with storyboards to come up with our own concepts for the video.

Upon finalising the narrative, it was time to shoot. Here’s a shot of my shooting location

The biggest challenge for our group was to create music since none of us had worked with sound before. Nevertheless, the entire group came through by finding objects and ways to create sounds with and gave it our best shot.

This is what my voice recorder looked like by the end of it.

All in all, it was a fantastic learning experience that made me break my own notion of being rhythemically challenged and tried to create as many sounds I could. The entire team came together to help each other with whatever knowledge and skills we had. Most importantly, we had fun making it and interacting with each other as we were all missing the college experience and this gave us the opportunity to live it as best as we could in the ongoing pandemic.

Final Video:

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Finding Principles of Desing in compositions!

This exercise was in two parts. In the first part we had to create compositions based on the prompts given to us. These had to be made using simple shapes, that could overlap. The colours used had to be solid and the use of textures and gradients was to be avoided.

For the second part, the created compositions had to be viewed through an 8x8cm window in order to observe smaller segaments of the whole composition and attempt to find various principles of design that came out of it.

1. Sour

I have primarily used circles in this composition as most things sour are generally spherical in form. Also their colours range from yellows to greens, giving the acidic feel to it, and thus, the choice of colours. Apart from that I also associate sour with fizzy because they cause a similar reaction on the tongue, therefore, I’ve used a few lines to evoke that feeling.

Principles observed:

1) Pattern

2) Rhythem

3) Point of Interest

2. Infinite

For this prompt, my inspiration was an hourglass and how time is infinite. We do not know the beginning or the end of it. I used a triangle as my shape for this composition because time is also balanced. It is never the same and changes to restore balance at all points and a triangle being the most balanced shape, felt like an appropriate choice.

Principles observed:

1) Point of Interest

2) Unity in Diversity

3) Rhythem

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Understanding Principles of Design through compositions made of dots and lines.

Constraints:

1. The sizes of the dot and lines were fixed

2. None of the elements could overlap

Each element, irrespective of how small or thin it was played a major role in making these compositions. Even a slight change in the position of an element caused a dramatic shift in the composition as a whole. This exercise for me reinforced the importance of details.

Pattern

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Point of Interest

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Balance

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Representing the experience of devouring Rajma Chawal in an abstract composition

It’s a confluence of colours on the plate and explosion of flavours on the tongue. There’s nothing I’d love more than a plate of Rajma Chawal with mom’s magic

That’s what my plate looks like for visual reference.

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As a part of the colour module, we were assigned to create a video using colour as our protagonist in groups of 4-5 students.

The narrative is of a regular day in our lives and what it comprises of in the new normal. It was an engaging process with some brilliant ideas. Due to the restrictions, doing it digitally was most feasible.

https://youtu.be/kUAiyunHd6A

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Principles of Gestalt: Photo Documentation

Similarity

Continuity

Continuity, proximity

Similarity, continuity

Symmetry, Similarity

Closure

Continuity

Figure and Ground

Symmetry

Similarity, Proximity

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Principles of Gestalt: Photo Documentation

Similarity and Proximity

Proximity

Proximity and Similarity

Symmetry

Similarity

Similarity, Proximity

Similarity, Proximity

Continuity

Similarity, Figure and Ground

Note: Since exploring outside was not very feasible in the given situation, some previously clicked photos have been included and studied.

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Pages from my colour journal

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This exploration aims to understand how perception changes when we alter the natural colours of things.

This tree started looking like an installation

The cloud here looks like a blob of water colour

With the third experiment, I picked an inconic building, the Hawa Mahal, as clicked in 2019, and played with its colour. In the resultant video, the sky appears to be changing instead of the building.

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Further more, to study interaction between colours and light, I fixed a frame and observed how the sunlight interacts with the colours through the course of a day.

The first exploration of the sky as seen from the balcony.

The second is of a house plant in sunlight.

The third set of photos is of the London sky conditions and the colours of the buildings as seen from my friends room.

The pollution in the atmosphere here in NCR is also seen evidently in the first exploration.

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This exploration was centred on understating colour interaction.

Colour is based solely on our perception. The same colour appears different under different lighting conditions. Here, I experimented with 4 types of light conditions:

1. North Light

2. Ambient Light

3. South Light

4. White Light

It was interesting to see that the interaction between the colour and light has an impact on the colour of skin. This is probably why so many people mess up with the shades when purchasing make up!

In the second part of this exploration, keeping the colour of the garment constant, I experimented with different coloured lights.

I observed that yellow and red light highlighted my facial features whereas the blue and violet sort of pulled them down.

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Values of Blue

Using items of clothing to explore the values of blue

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A color wheel or color circle is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle, which shows the relationships between colours.

With this exploration, I tried to create a colour wheels using objects and things around me.

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Final Project: Drawing

The brief of the final exercise in the drawing module was to sketch your personal space using the knowledge of construction drawing gained through the module.

Here’s an attempt to draw my bedroom, my space that is a respite from the outer world. With the lockdown, my connection with my room has deepend and it will be my most difficult goodbye when I leave for campus. Hence, this ode to my room, my accomplice through thick and thin.

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Two point perspective

Explorations using two point perspective

Exploring the complexities of geometry using Isometry

This exercise took me down memory lane to my first year in Architecture, when we had first encountered perspectives and isometry. It took countless sleepless nights to get the concept then, whereas now, it took only a few days to get back to it.

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Prompt 5: Blade

With so much violence all around us, I wanted to show that violence is not the answer. So I took this prompt as an opportunity to create something soft and soothing from a word that’s mostly associated with negative emotions.

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Explorations with One Point Perspective using shapes, planes and objects