MAS110 PHOTO ESSAY SKYSCRAPERS:
John Mathews & Jonathan Saad
Our theme, Skyscrapers, is aimed to shed a
new light on the ‘everyday atheistic’ on societies common and un-recognized
beauties. It hopes to portray how society should concentrate on these marvelous
mega-structures not as common aspects to society but rather an achievement in
not only architecture but engineering as well.
Researching the artistic developments and representation of structures I stumbled across a quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “I call architecture frozen music.” The methods in which the buildings are designed whether being old or modern are all have a sense of fluency and patterns to them that seem to create a composition, just like a song. This is what’s is attempted through the editing and framing of the photos as each one represents the shape or the patterned structure designed for the skyscraper. The texture is amplified through black and white edits as well as being highly contrasted against the sky as well as the different shading of the buildings windows and structural elements.
Researching the artistic developments and representation of structures I stumbled across a quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “I call architecture frozen music.” The methods in which the buildings are designed whether being old or modern are all have a sense of fluency and patterns to them that seem to create a composition, just like a song. This is what’s is attempted through the editing and framing of the photos as each one represents the shape or the patterned structure designed for the skyscraper. The texture is amplified through black and white edits as well as being highly contrasted against the sky as well as the different shading of the buildings windows and structural elements.
The soundtrack for the video was composed
using apples royalty free software GarageBand. Apple remix jam pack was used;
the jam pack is an additional 2000 loops for the software. It took time
searching through hundreds of drum, synthesizer and techno loops before
ultimately choosing the appropriate sounds that would suit the theme. The track
was intended to be very surreal which appeals to the black and white nature;
also timing was key in getting it down to 30 seconds. Later upon layer of
instruments were made (5 instrument loops were used), speaker adjustments were
also made so that one of the techno loops would come out of the left speaker
only. Certain sounds were more dominant in the volume control, while others
remained much quieter in the background.
Music composed by John Mathews on GarageBand Loops
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012) “I call architecture frozen music.” Viewed the 20 September 2012, Accessed via: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johannwolf109108.html
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