Logos, Pathos, Ethos,

Logos

Logos references the usage of logicality when writing or/and speaking to persuade someone or a group. This can include making an appeal to the logical applications through stating facts, quotes or statistics. These assist with writing and speaking by giving an explanation or reasoning that appeals to less emotionally inclined situations such as business and political involvements. 

Pathos

Pathos references to the usage of an emotional standpoint. This can include using emotionally provocative language, stories or hypothetical situations to appeal to those who are more motivated or convinced by the emotional standpoint rather than the logical or ethical points. This can be seen with many charities and how they use an emotional standpoint in order to convince the watchers to donate.

Ethos

Ethos is particularly set apart from Logos and Pathos due to its principal and usage. The idea of Ethos is to use one's credibility, trust, or status to convince someone or argue against them. This can be seen in many advertisements through celebrities giving the product status by being involved with it. 

Art Board and Art Technique Progress

Since the last blog post, I have worked on one piece in particular. This is the charcoal sketch that I have since updated to show a black outline and a colourful background. The progress shown below is what I had done before the beginning of this term. The feather was incomplete and the picture had no background.

The picture has since been improved upon and shows a completed feather, a colourful background, and a solid black outline that separates the charcoal sketch from the coloured rainbow background. This finished piece relates quite well to the kaupapa I have of hidden or obscured truth. This piece shows a girl completely separated from the colour and brightness of the world around her. The quill she wears behind her ear represents old fashioned ways and how they keep her from this colour and the beautiful surrounding world. These old-fashioned ways and this knowledge obscures her from the truth and colour and keeps her in a bubble with only this old and unreliable knowledge. 

This set of pencil drawings was a piece I recently rediscovered. I worked on it before quarantine while still considering my kaupapa and subject matter. While the camera drawing doesn't fit into my kaupapa as I originally thought it would, it started a good process for me to eventually develop my kaupapa. The apple doesn't hold much meaning as a drawing in relevance to my kaupapa, but it did make for some good work to look into toning and shading with real objects. 

This is another pencil drawing that I recently rediscovered. It was a still-life that I worked on during the quarantine period. This helped me with drawing realistically with proportions. 

This recordation shows my progress with art technique. The internal contains the task of creating media (wet and dry) that shows still life subject matters. The progress I have made so far is to begin the process with mainly dry media drawings. This can include everything I have worked on that shows tonal differences throughout the piece. I have started the wet media, but at this point have less subject material for it. 

The second internal which is to demonstrate an understanding of artworks from a Māori and another cultural context using art terminology. This internal is one that I have already completed with Excellence.

Artwork Progress

 

Since my last update, I have mainly worked on the professional of my physical artwork. Since quarantine has ended, I have worked on basic forms in different forms of mediums, including charcoal, pencil and watercolour, I have printed four separate pieces as a series through lino printing, I've completed a sketch and am currently working with charcoal to produce a portrait.

The basic forms were done to teach us how to create different shapes with different media. When drawing, we can apply these shapes to the image and have a proper idea of size and shading.

The next piece was lino work that had three separate drafts before I printed. The idea behind the initial drawing was to depict a broken camera. In the pictures, we can see how I changed where I put the colour due to stylistic preference. The idea of different colours based on the broken piece was a result of wanting to have more variety and interesting points to the art. I believe that had I printed based on my first draft it would not look as good. 

The next part of lino printing, besides cutting, was the printing part. This managed to confuse me very much as lino printing does not require a press, but wood printing does. The last time I did any form of printing, it was wood printing where we used the press. At first, I only planned to use one colour but have multiple prints to choose from to find the best one. However, my teacher instead suggested that I use multiple colours which resulted in the next three variants being yellow, blue and pink. I chose these colours after it was suggested I use pastel colours.

This helped me find out what I wanted to do with my artboard. This piece (series?) is focussed around broken cameras and impaired vision. This leads me to what I believe my Kaupapa will be. Lying in media. Now more than ever, we see journalists, news industries and photographers taking the situation in front of them and twisting it to their companies beliefs or what will gain them profit. Their businesses profit from the extremities in the lives of celebrities and the accentuation of the worldly situations surrounding us. The media lies and lies again for the entertainment of viewers and the profit of their watchings.

The next piece I did, my sketch, used a camera as its subject. Cameras is something I wanted to incorporate into my artboard before I even knew what my Kaupapa would really be. This shows us woman using a camera, but whos finger is slightly covering the lens. I made one main draft before moving onto the resulting piece as seen. The piece isn't heavily realistic compared to how I would like it to be, however, I'm happy with the outcome as it was one of the first pieces I have done for art and was done before learning about basic form and such. 

One of the most recent pieces I have been working on is one using charcoal. This will be my first solely charcoal piece. This occurred due to the random drawing of a face with long hair and a feather over their ear. I drew this while experimenting as I had no idea what to draw. After my teacher saw it she gave me the idea of expanding upon the premise of the drawing and using one of my own friends as the main subject. From this, I took photographs to base the pictures from and I created a rough draft based on them. I did this in basic pencil in order to not smudge it. The final piece, which I am working on now, is drawn completely in willow charcoal and charcoal pencil. 

The meaning behind the artwork is that the feather represents the past. The feathers references to a quill of sorts. The meaning is that the past clouds the hearing of people in modern times. The ink that I will add soon shows the words of the past leaking onto the face beside the ear. The effects and words of the past cloud what people hear in modern times as they focus too much on the past to see the future.

The Meth PSA - Jessica

Within the PSA Jessica, we witness the narrator tell us about how the harmful effects of drugs have affected the girl Jessica he discusses. He tells us the story of a girl named Jessica who does meth and the negative impact that it has upon her life and the lives of others. For instance, her actions affected her own younger brother when she forces him to smoke meth with her. This is an obvious example of how meth altered her mind severely. Enough that she would force her own brother into drugs. This might affect him later in his life as he develops a powerful addiction. This may be catastrophic as he could influence his friends to do meth with him and cause a never-ending cycle. The purpose of mentioning the brother is to emphasise how her choices affect others, not just her own health. We see this aspect similarly in Walk the Line. This movie displays how Johnny Cash’s actions affect his family and his friend’s mental health as his declines. This is where we recognise the correlation between the characters Jessica and Johnny Cash. Their health and state of their lives worsen as they expose themselves to drugs.

1.1 Visual Arts Assesment

Due to lockdown, a lot of work has gone off track. So have assessments. I do hope we'll be back soon, but I know that it's only a matter of time until the lockdown is extended.

In the meantime, I've been attempting to complete my work to the best of my ability. This includes the art assessment that we've been working on for some time. Recently, I have been able to complete this, and while I cannot share the final product so I don't get copied, I can share some pieces that I am particularly proud of within the work.

Part of this assessment was describing the artworks of one of the artists we looked into. This is my description of Sofia Minson's 'The Other Sister,' this was the first of the four to be completed.

The painting is displayed as landscape, longer than the typical size, and without colour. The background is shades of gray, white and black, the white shines as if it is light in the upper right corner and it fades into gray and then into black as if it is shadows. A woman’s face is the focal point of the painting, showing from the very top of her eyebrows to the bottom of her chin, she is likely standing sideways and having to turn her head towards the focal point considering the angling of her face. The mentioned light before is shining onto her left cheek and creates shadows across her face, particularly on the opposite side of her face due to her nose and her eyelashes, despite this, light shines onto the left side of her nose, upper lip, bottom lip, her chin and most of the left cheek. She has short hair, that even with the gray scale would likely be graying or a light colour if she was to be shown in colour. The roots of her hair are dark as the light isn’t shining onto them. She has a set of defining wrinkles on her face, a pair that stretches from the bottom of the outside of her nose down towards her mouth, but not connecting, the lines are curved and display the right of her face more prominently as it makes the skin near her cheek where the wrinkle is shown puff out slightly. The woman has a traditional moko on her chin, two images reflecting over the centerline of her face to create a symmetrical image. The reflected image shows two swirls, one stretching from the bottom of her lip and the other stretching from the bottom of her chin, they connect at the center of her chin before splitting off and becoming smaller and smaller. The ink is dark, defining and makes an outstanding image.

In the third Artists picture description, one of the questions we answered for each artwork was 'What particular information can you pick out and explain further to show you understand the meaning of this artwork.' This was my answer about Roy Lichtenstein's Crying Girl (1963 version).

The artwork was created to represent the female identification in the 1950s and 1960s where they were fighting for their rights and against the stereotypical confirmations they were forced into, including how they appeared and spoke and who they were in a relationship with. The crying girl is stressed as seen in her face, she appears to be running from something or someone. This shows us how she can be running from the entrapment of the female identity during those times. She has broken this perfect idealisation of a woman through the outward showing of her emotions, and now is running.






Another question that we answered, for only two of the four artworks, was 'How does the context (time and place) the artwork was made affect your understanding of its meaning?' I answered this question in alignment with the artwork of Lisa Reihana's Mahuika.

The idea behind this artwork and the series it belongs to is to paint the Māori legends in an accurate way while the method creates a way of communicating this across the world. The time in which we do this will always affect the depictions of the people and the legends as time goes by. Years ago, Mori were painted as a dying race and their culture was used as a tourist attraction, but not something they could indulge in otherwise. Now, we see Māori legends and people depicted accurately and without bias, by people who respect the culture and it's ideas.

SEXXXY Analysis about The Albatross

Recently, we've been trapped. So, I'm doing English work so I can do something useful with myself. The following paragraphs are centred around varied film aspects shown in the short film 'The Albatross'. This is the final work before I look at introductions and conclusions and then begin my essay. I will show a slideshow and then have the text written below in order to assure myself that there is proof and yes, yes, I did do my work regardless of whether or not technology wants to work with me.



The motif of the bird shown in the short film ‘The Albatross’ has an extremely important role to the plotline. We see the bird on five separate occasions. At the very beginning when the elderly man takes the alcohol, when the man is sailing out into the water, after he has lost his fishing rod, when it appears on the shoulder of the creature and close to the end when it flies onto his shoulder. This makes the audience understand that the bird is important. It often appears when the man drinks or is close to alcohol. The bird is what the audience sees as the other option. The creators did this to represent a choice for the man. He can choose the option that the creature reflects is horribly affecting him, or he can choose the bird. When he chooses the bird we see the empty bottle of alcohol dropping to the bottom of the ocean. Coinciding with this is the sound we hear when the bird is shown. There is only the tweeting of the bird and soft music. Contrasting this was the sound when the creature was seen with the bottle of alcohol. It is deep and the creatures harsh voice was terrifying. This aspect can be contrasted to a motif shown in James Mangold’s ‘Walk The Line’ where the phone is a motif representing the character missing out on something or someone.

In the short film ‘The Albatross’ the use of symbolism through the colour orange was used expertly. This is demonstrated through the two objects that we see the colour orange in. These objects are the bottle of alcohol and the feathers of the bird. This makes the audience feel that these are the most important features of the film as they are recurring throughout the film from start to end. The purpose of the colour orange to highlight the aspects that are considered his options. The man has the choice between the bird and the alcohol. Coinciding with this was the contrasts made between the objects. The bird is small and round, while the alcohol has a rigid and rectangular shape. However, the shape of the alcohol bottle can be contrasted to the features of the body of the creature. The alcohol bottle and the creature have ridged edges, but by the end, they are both empty. This reminds me of how the colour orange was used in the film ‘The Godfather’. It allures people through romantic shades but slowly turns red throughout. As the red becomes more prominent, more is revealed in the criminal underworld.

Camera movement is used effectively in the short film “The Albatross’. We see this during the climax of the film. The camera ceases to simply be slowly tracking the subjects and begins to move at a quicker pace and tilting. This shows the audience how drunk the man and the creature are becoming. They are losing their grip on what reality is. This was done in order to show the creature and how the alcohol just passed through him, but he still got drunk. This contrasts to how we see the man take in the alcohol and he still becomes drunk as well. This worked well with the angles we get to see them both from. The angles become more and more tilted as the climax progresses. The creators also used sound well. They distorted different sounds heard throughout the scene and allowed others to be more prominent. An example being the cracking of the creature’s body. This aspect can be compared to the camera movement shown in ‘Limitless’ wherein a scene where Eddie and Melissa discuss her side effects the camera is never still. The camera is always focussed on the two of them, but shaking and it is representative of their drug-affected states.

Music is used amazingly in the short film ‘The Albatross’. Similarly to camera movement, music is seen particularly in the climax of the film where the audience gets to see the creature and the man drinking the alcohol. The music is deep at first, before becoming eerie and high pitched. The high-pitched tones heard in the music are comparable to the sounds heard when the creatures body cracks and we hear the alcohol sloshing. The music is becoming prominent compared to the other features during this portion of the film. This makes the audience think that horrible things are approaching. The purpose of this music was to contrast against the music we hear when the bird is shown on screen. While the music is still high-pitched, it is now a quiet, soft piano tune rather than the harsh, loud and scary music associated with the creature. Coinciding with this is the camera angles shown when focussed on the varied subjects. When on the bird, the audience is looking down onto the bird. It is small and non-threatening. When on the creature, the audience is scared and sees how large the creature is from the low camera angle. This aspect can be compared to one found in video games such as ‘Undertale’. When approaching a threatening creature, the music changes in order to accommodate the creature encountered. It becomes quick-paced, similar to the music we hear during the climax of the film.



That honestly looked like a lot fewer words in the slideshow and I'm sorry if you really did read that. It would not be set out in this format when properly used in an essay. It would instead seem like it is a continuation, rather than every paragraph seemingly being a stand-alone product.

English Group Work and Critical Literacy Questions

These Critical Literacy questions are focussed around this film named 'The Albatross'. The goal of this task is to learn about film aspects and how they contribute to the creation and the visual and sound effects of the film.

What is the text about? How do we know?

This text is a short animated film titled 'The Albatross' that is just under seven minutes long. It is about a lonely, elderly man and his struggles with alcohol. The man is never seen talking or communicating with anyone besides the creature featured within the film. Even then, communication is simply a bond shared through their desire to drink. He is seen to finish an entire bottle, leading to my conclusion about him struggling with alcohol. The creature featured in the short film is meant to represent a reflection of the elderly man and his only desire to drink himself away. The film has a sweet ending though. The bird that represents the man's other choice is eventually chosen and the creature has left him to die alone. 

Whose allowed to speak? Who is quoted?

The only one who is seen talking is the creature while he communicates with the man, but receives no response. This is seen as a representation of the man's inability to say no to the struggles he has or the insistence of others. 

What does the author of the text want us to know?

The creators of the film want us to know that there are other options. In the end, the man chose to overcome the creature and what he was forcing him to do by choosing the bird instead. The bird is that other option. While he does not know what may come of him by choosing the bird, he has left the demonic creature behind and is shown to defeat him. The ending credits show the empty bottle being dropped to the ocean floor, *COUGH COUGH* LITTERING *COUGH COUGH* representing how he has dropped everything the demon wanted him to do for something as small as the bird.