Radio Theme: Hutu Power Radio

This piece introduces the theme for my next four projects. Hutu Power Radio plays an important role in the movie Hotel Rwanda. It gives the Hutus the knowledge and organization they need to find and destroy the Tutsis.

Hotel Rwanda Movie Poster

This is a poster designed around the movie Hotel Rwanda. The different colors signify the Rwandan flag, and the images beneath signify the violence that plagues the country. Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle) stands in the center. The hands reaching towards him symbolize all the people he strives to help, and the sun symbolizes the hope that he gives to them.

Hidden Object

The purpose of this project was to hide an object within a scene, making it difficult to find for viewers. Because it is March, I chose to hide a leprechaun within a bed of clovers. Unfortunately, because of his red beard, he is fairly easy to spot.

Filtered Stencil

For this project, we had to create stencils, showing one image through another using some sort of shape. I chose to show an image of a crashing wave through several different surfboards, with another beach scene in the background.

Animoto Video

This project involved a website called Animoto. This website allows you to create a themed slideshow of various images, and set this slideshow to music. I chose a water theme for my slideshow, and I inserted pieces of my artwork which I though would go nicely with the theme. I chose an upbeat jazzy song for  my video because I thought it matched the video nicely.

Chairs

This project, though difficult, turned out to be one of my favorite projects this year. We coated chairs in paintings and photographs. I chose to coat my chairs in famous pieces of artwork by Andy Warhol. The second chair, which Sam and I worked on, is coated in paintings by Jackson Pollock. The second part of the project was to create a shadow for the chair. This was a fairly simple way to create a realistic effect.

Comic Strip

By: Sam, Ian, and Michael
For this project, we took pictures of ourselves around the school, and made them look like a comic strip by adding speech bubbles, and using the effect Posterize to make them look like cartoons. We could not find a conclusion exciting enough to do it justice, and we wanted it to remain a mystery. So, it is up to the viewer to decide what Michael was doing.