Proposal for Stop Motion

I have thought about what I could do for my stop motion animation.
I will have a Hockney style background image, and I will animate some objects in the photo, but because it is in the style of Hockney it will be very abstract. I will have a sun that goes across the scene, im not sure at the moment what object will be animated in the animation.

Hockney Style Photomontage

I looked at some of David Hockney's 'joiner' pictures and I was inspired to create one of my own under the title 'Changing Landscape'.
I feel changing of landscape is the seasons changing therefore I found a tree near my house that had some of its leaves deep red and orange in colour, and also with some leaves dropped and surrounding the base of the trunk of the tree.
I took a series of photos of the tree from different angles and using the inspiration of Hockney I created a joiner picture that is shown on the left.
I was happy with the compostion of the photo and I made it so it was slightly not matched up making for a more abstract look.
However I started adding warming filters to it and they improved it greatly in my opinion, because the warming of the photo adds to the colours that are shown in the leaves.

Below is a screenshot of the filter being added to the picture:

Below is the final picture after being warmed:

My Photomontage

I have now completed my photomontage, and it is shown below. First I took a picture of a carpark entrance in Southborough, near my school, and copied it to make it mirrored. This created a surreal feel to the image. I then scanned in images from bmx magazines of different bmx riders. Some of them were in colour and some were in black and white. This is similar to other work by Martha Rosler. My once I had put all the images i wanted in the picture which is shown below:

I was happy with this as a final image but then I started to play around with the photo filters, and I added a warming filter to the image and it turned the sky a purple colour which I felt was a much more vivid colour. Below is the creenshot of the two together in photoshop:

After I had changed the the filter that was on the picture i added two lens flares to the streetlights in the background and then i felt it was finished. The final photomontage, inspired by Martha Rosler's work, is shown below:

Proposal for Photomontage

My idea for my photomontage is to take a picture of one area, like a street, and place lots of different bmx tricks being perfomed in the picture. The background will have edited backgrounds, using images from magazines and my own photos.
I am inspried by Martha Rosler in the way that she uses different images and puts them together to make it look real but it still looks very abstract and out of perspective. I will do something similar to this but mine won't have a political message, it will just be the things I like.
I will take pictures of the background and use images from magazines to create the forground interest.

I am inspired by this photo below by Martha Rosler where there are more than one of the same person in the photo. My photomontage will not be of the same person loads of times, but there will be lots of people on bmx's and there will be sequences of tricks involved in the image.

Martha Rosler

Martha Rosler is an American artist who creates these quite, at a glance realistic, montages, but after looking at it further you can see the cleverness of how they are put together. She uses images from times when only black and white camera were used and modern photos, but the way she makes them interact is what I like about these images. There is also a mixture of of moods in the montages aswell as there is war-like scenes and models. This is a very surreal thing and it makes the images more in depth than they first appear.

Hannah Hoch

Hannah Hoch is a german artist, who's work includes these photo montages, which I think are very effective as they incorporate a varying range of objects and people that don't really create anything in particular but they are very abstract and in some cases very surreal. I like them as they are very weird and the way the different things are put together is very clever.

David Hockney

David Hockney is an English painter, print-maker, stage designer and photographer. He creates photo montages like these. He takes various photos of one place and puts them all together to create these very abstract and distorted views of one particular place. I like these very much as they incorporate art and photography. They also are very abstract and give a very different view than a normal photo of one place.

Stop Motion Animation

Stop motion animation is where individual photographs are taken of an object. In each photo the object has been moved slightly. Once all the pictures are put together the animation is very jerky and creates the effect that the object is moving. This can be very abstract as any object can be moved making stop motion animation a very arty form of animation. Sometimes clay figures are used in this animation as they can be repositioned easily and stories can be created using the models e.g. 'Morph'.