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Photography pieces from a current unit at the time

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Photoshop VS Illustrator?

Photoshop:

Adobe Photoshop is a brilliant peice of software for modifying images or graphics, like photos. Photoshop is by far Adobe’s most popular and well know programme. Raster or bitmap graphics are created in Photoshop. If you zoom into a photo or grahic created by photoshop the lines will be all jagged this is because raster images are made up of individual colored squares, known as pixels. Everything in Photoshop is just a series of pixels, so if you're scaling something up or down, it can lose its quality very quickly. Photoshop is a popular choice for web graphics, photo editing and designs since those projects will stay at a fixed size. Editing photos is probably the main reason photoshop was created thats why it is brilliant for it! There are so many tool that can help edit images, pretty much every publication will use photoshop to edit or just to sharpen up the images.

Illustrator:

Adobe Illustrator is an advanced vector-based software. In Illustrator, a line is composed of two dots connected by a computer algorithm, instead of just a line of pixels. Because of this, Illustrator is used often to create logos or anything that may need to be printed or displayed at different sizes. A vector graphic will never lose its quality if it's scaled up or down. Illustrator will also give you a better print output since it's not resolution dependent. A drawback of Illustrator is that it can't be used easily to modify images that are already created, since there are limited filters and image editing tools available to you.

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Narcos GIF

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PlayStation logo made for Unit 19

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Narcos TV Show 80s Ident

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The Microphone

When was it first invented?

The first microphone was invited in 1876.

Why was it invented?

The first microphone was invented to make the quality of telephone calls sound better.

How did it change the way music sounded? The way it was listened to?

It changed the way music sounded and the way it was listened to because it was a lot clearer and people were impressed with how it made singers and instruments sound and it showed what people were really capable of.

What impact would a microphone have on the musician?

The impact on a musician would be making them put in 100% percent because the microphone could pick up everything with in distance to singers would sing to the best of their ability and musicians would play to the best of their ability.

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Social, Historical and Political Context of Hedda Gabler (1890s Norway)

Unit 19: Principles of Acting

Henrik Ibsen:

When Ibsen was seven his father came into various financial issues which resulted in the family moving to a much smaller house in Venstøp, a small distance away from Skien.

His father’s endless financial complications strongly influenced Ibsen’s later works. Ibsen’s work often depicts characters that struggle with social descent (lowering of class and status) mirroring the situation that his father was in. In Hedda Gabler a similar financial struggle is show through Miss Tesman. Miss Tesman sacrificed her own money to pay for a mortgage for her son.

In the early days of his writing Ibsen was suffering from depression and went through a more macabre phase of writing (e.g. A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler). The thoughts of suicide in Hedda Gabler mirror the emotional state that Ibsen was in during the time of writing the plays.

Although a lot of his work may seem provocative, in fact this is not the case. Ibsen copied many other working playwrights at the time of his writings, such as Eugene Scribe and even some Greek Tragedy writers.

Hedda Gabler follows Eugene Scribe’s idea of a well-made play. A well-made play must include: A secret - Hedda’s baby being the secret; discovery of the secret – Inferred to the audience that she has a baby; dramatic irony – The audience continuously knows more than the characters in the play; a happy ending – which Hedda Gabler arguably has; chronological form – Hedda Gabler is set in the same house throughout the play, and lastly a hero-type (hero, anti-hero or false hero) character who reaches their demise – Hedda?

Although Ibsen doesn't stray too far from this theatrical form, he does have a variation of his own and unlike his fellow writers; he was unafraid to break this structure. In Hedda Gabler there isn't a happy ending scene, it is far less farcical and contains elements of Greek Tragedy. Ibsen cared too much for social realism to restrain his writing to this exact form.

Sweden-Norway:

Ibsen wrote Hedda Gabler in 1890 and it appears that it is set contemporary Norway. However, it is believed that the historical setting is meant to be earlier. This is based on multiple assumptions such as the lack of electrical lights and Hedda’s mentioning of walking back from parties, barefoot.

During the 19th century there was a diplomatic struggle between Sweden and Norway about the unequal representation of the issues in Norway. It is also important to consider that there were two Swedish men representing the two nations; not a Swedish ambassador and a Dutch ambassador. During this time many Dutch civilians urged that they should take strong action against the Swedish and there were many occurrences of fights between the two countries. This conflict between the two countries posed a struggle for many – what side do they fight for? Hedda’s irrationality reflects that of the uncertainty of the members of the public. Perhaps Hedda’s confused as a result of two contrasting ideas of Victorian ideals.

  Women

Henrik Ibsen was an enthusiastic supporter of women’s rights (yet he does not call himself a feminist) and created many seemingly flawed, complex heroines throughout his plays. In the 19th century the play’s impact was huge. Many critics struggled with the concepts of the play and called Hedda ‘monstrous’ and yet some supported Ibsen’s criticism of women’s treatment by society.

The suffering of women, another prevalent theme in his text, is inspired by both his biological mother, Marichen, and his mother-in-law, Magdalene (the leader of the feminist movement in Norway). From his mother he learned about sacrifice and the difficulties of being a woman, especially the occupational restrictions – reflect in Hedda’s lack of job.

From his mother-in-law he gained a new voice - one that was not afraid to criticise marriage. Ibsen has a history of portraying leading, multifaceted female characters that are trapped in the constraints of Victorian traditions.

Upon first reading Hedda Gabler it is hard not to mistake Hedda Gabler as an extremely malicious and vindictive person but is this really the case? There is evidence against the negative connotative portrayal of Hedda. We have to look into the context to really see if Hedda’s behaviour can be defined as unreasonable.

 Hedda is a young bride, newly married to George Tesman. Society pressures her into believing that she should be enormously happy or at least pretend to be but instead Hedda is dissatisfied and makes no real attempt of hiding it. From the outset, she expresses her feeling of suffocation as a result of society’s expectations of her; to be a housewife, a mother and powerless. Hedda’s motivation to manipulate people is a result of her incapability to remonstrate. ‘Penis Envy’ was another common factor that played a part in the struggle for women. Women started to wish they were men and they would compensate by acting rebellious and how a man would; against societal principles. Hedda could be subconsciously projecting these thoughts through her dialogue and actions.

 Hedda’s intentions are fascinating because in some ways they could be deemed acceptable, as the strict views imposed on her supports the idea that it is a rational decision for her to rebel. Hedda’s life was entirely dictated by men - they say what she should or should not do, and it is this constricting force that made her manipulative in the first place. This poses the question is Hedda’s suicide courageous or cowardly? The intentions behind her suicide are fairly unambiguous: she either committed suicide to break free from the societal boundaries that are enforced upon her (she is unwilling to be capsulated by society) or she is unable to live her life as a housewife and she would rather die than be conformist.

  Men

Prior to the 1890s, a husband had entire ownership of all of his wife’s property and his wife’s wealth. Obviously there were many men who detested this idea, for many various reasons. These men wanted women to have more responsibility in the working environment as well in the general upkeep of the family home – these men started to pave way for an attitude change among many men…passivity. Men were no longer 100% dominant. Although generally they were still dominant over women (more laws to protect men) but women now had more of a say and some even went on to gain an education and helped Norway advance in fields such as medication and technology. The Victorian ideals of what roles men and women should play were starting to crumble and new ones were made.

Men were no longer forced against their will to be the provider of the family and some even became ‘house-husbands.’ Society as a whole was becoming more equal and this could have perhaps inspired Ibsen’s portrayal of Hedda. Hedda Gabler was a force to be reckoned with – she was educated, witty and most of all prescient (she is aware of the things around her and how they may affect her future). Hedda is the representation of the ascent of women in Norway during the early late half of the 1890s. Hedda has more theoretical power than George Tesman, the man she has married. Some have even gone to say that Hedda is more of a man than George. 

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Retro Hero: Evaluation!

For the past six or seven weeks we have been given the task to create our own retro hero. The start of the process was in my eyes the most needed but yet the most painful, shall we say for now, which was looking into different heroes and seeing what kind of retro hero we could place together by looking at different elements of different heroes that we like. Even though I didn't really like this part all too much I still found it useful in seeing different heroes and what powers they process that I didn't know about. Even though I did find some aspect of different heroes that I liked, I wanted I create someone that I have completely made up from my imagination, hits forth, I ended up in creating Hunter Fox.

The second part of the process was the idea generating. When it comes to me creating ideas I don't tend to write them down, but rather, draw what come to my mind and try to improve on some aspects on the charter. This might not really help my paperwork side of things, however, this is why I was able to come up with the design I got for Hunter.

The third and final stage was in actually making the charter that we spent doing research and thinking up different ideas on the subject. This was clearly the most time consuming, but in a strange was most entertaining part of the process. However, it was also the most frustrating part of everything that we had to do, this stage also includes in making a background setting for our charters to be in.

Through out this project, I find that I have developed mew skills in Photoshop and Illustrator, also finding new and different things that I had no idea that we could do in the first place. I think that my final piece for this project was quite well made at the end and looks okay and not too shabby. I do wish that I am able to edit a few things such as Hunters weapon and the colour of his hair, but by the time I had thought of these things it was already too late to go back a change my mind. But the end story of the novella is that I am quite happy with my end results for my first project.