Visual Languages project 1: Exercise 2 - Cut Ups

 Collecting some newspapers from family members I started cutting words, people heads and bodies, animals, colours and put hte all into piles to be used as one.

The piles were:

• Backgrounds/ colours
• Newspaper writing for backgrounds
• Limbs of people
• Animals
• Peoples heads/faces/eyes and noses
• Words and phrases.  

I created 6 cut up images in total. Using these cut outs I didnt have any specific context for the pieces, I kind of just randomly picked from the different piles to see what would happen.

 

Nap time 

This cut up creation again didn’t have much direction to begin with I just found a hidden dog head under one of the piles of images gave it a body with a completely different vibe and just imagined as if this dog had has a busy day on the red carpet and is giving their management team the ‘I want to go home and nap now’ look. 

Clown friend 

This is the most random picture. I started with the word clown and added body pieces, face features mashed together to create mutant looking characters and added a ‘clown’ in the middle. Because the title suggests some sort of question being is my friend a clown? It kind of reminds me of a game of guess who and keeping the collage busy used tiny texts and Collums of writing in the background. 

Sniffin’ 

I like the mixture of the text, colours, fonts and sizes in this one. I find the variety of colours is effective. As you can see, STOP is written in a bold red contrasting with the blue background I have behind, the ‘AAA’ are all different sizes, fonts and colours. I got lucky to find some random words because when I went through the pages of the newspaper for punctuation, there wasn't much anywhere. The A’s being different from each other communicate the scream as a visual, I maybe think the A's would have made more sense for them to be positioned from biggest to smallest. But I think because I try to give the collage dog energy the sizing also works as it is. For the background, I wanted to just fill the space to have the small pages of text provide a bit of chaos, but also not take too much away from the text and the dog pictures. 

Aliens frozen in time or a dog in the lake. 

I saw the word Alien in a title Above the article and immediately thought it would be good to use as an idea. I collected some words that are frequently used in sentences such as (I’s, The, and ect... I then found a picture of a weird looking bug and used it as the ‘alien’ in the collage. Try to be creative and a bit random i involved a picture of a dog wearing sunglasses in the water and the title then followed with the words I had already cut out. The colour scheme I didn't consider too much, only that I wanted to use greens to represent the alien, and blues for the frozen aspect. 

 

Stop dancing!

This one I was most experimental with the words, I like the playfulness and sharp edges all these pieces of paper make up are wacky and chaotic. I used limbs, faces and features of people to merge into new characters. This technique reminds me of being a kid and cutting out people from magazines and putting them in a similar way to this in my own skecthbook. Theres somethign so fun about mixing and matching bodies to make new wierd looking characters.

Not a dog 

Finally, in each paper I looked in I cut out any images of dogs I saw and put them all in a collage together. I didn't have any idea for the words until there was an awkward empty space on the bottom, so a couple of orangutans took that place because I ran out of dogs to use. I think it's funny because If I didn't involve text, it would not be as easily spotted that there is an orangutan hanging there because all of them have fur.