Lipstick Dynamite

Assignment: View Lipstick dynamite.

Craft: Film/documentary by Ruth Lietman

Composition: The film gave you a look into female wrestling from the thirties to present day. I enjoyed the archival clips because the women were fighting like men, they were rough and aggressive. This form of wrestling was realistic unlike present day wrestling. It contained old and new footage and interviews with the former female wrestlers. The women even in old age were still kind of rough around the edges. There was a woman by the name of "Moolah" and she started a business through her career. She would find and train new girls." Moolah" continued wrestling until the age of 80. So she was apart of the new wrestling world which I found ridiculous. I appreciate the fact that at that time the wrestling was real and in the clips I could see the difference. I also found the potty mouths the women had to be very funny. At that time this sport was so extreme a woman died in the ring.These woman worked and trained hard in order to take down and hurt their opponents.

Concept: Even though the woman were really rough, they were still expected to be feminine. They stayed in shape and were made up to appeal to a male audience. Lietman used this media to show the different sides of woman. These woman were not what you typically expected when you think of woman of that time but they were ladylike in every other other aspect.

week 8

Assignment: Take photos for comic book assignment.
Craft: Went to different locations to take photos that would tell the story. we uploaded the pics to photo shop and played with different filters. We experimented with black & white, color, and mixing filters. We also experimented with changing the colors in the image.
Composition: I Chose the last frame because that's when the story comes together and the surprise/package is revealed. It brings together the purpose of the first frames.
Concept: The concept of the images is to show the girls stress and the boyfriends shocked expression. Although it should be a happy time the couple is expressing many different emotions.

WEEK 7

Assignment: Create a story that you will later tell with photos.

Craft:  We were put into groups and told to come up with a story. We were given details of a person traveling, a person waiting, and a package. We came up with a basic story line in class and worked out the details. We created a story board telling the story in 12 boxes.

Composition: The story is about a pregnant 21 year old girl named Katie. she living at home with her parents. She is hiding it from her family and her boyfriend. When her family found out they kicked her out. So she decided to go visit her boyfriend who is in the military. She tells him she has a surprise for him and he is really excited. She travels by train to the base. When she arrives she turns around and shows him his surprise. 

Concept: We want to show the element of excitement and surprise. The excitement is the guy seeing his girlfriend after months of being apart and the surprise is the girl showing up eight months pregnant.     

week 6

Assignment: To continue with the project using things that you are passionate about.

Craft: I combined five photos using photo shop. I took photos using different light sources and angles in the lab. Two of the photos were taken outdoors using sunlight as the only light source. I took one thing from each photo and layered them unto my background. I re sized and scaled each aspect of the photo. I skewed the boot in the photo, changed the photo to black and white, and made the eyes blend in.

Composition: I chose these photo to show domestic violence and the first time I experienced with my grandmother as a child. This is something she and my mother had to deal with, so I decided to depict there struggle. 

Concept: I wanted the image to depict my grandmothers struggle from a personal aspect and the struggle that many women are still going through to date. It seems like the cycle never ends so I used my grandmothers eye and a friends eye to show the history and the modern aspects of the abuse.