New Album

wassup world!! SGM presents Damone - Love. Lust. Lies

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Love. Lust. Lies

Album/Mixtape Cover!!

Check out the cover art for my mixtape/album Love. Lust. Lies
Coming July 25th!!

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Photographed by: L.A.M.E.

Edited by: Shawn Carter

New Song!! "Stay"

Hello anyone who actually visits this page.
I have released the Love single off of my mixtape "Love, Lust, Lies"
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Extra Credit Soundscape

The soundscape I made is about a city under attack by an evil monster.  It starts with a woman getting ready to start her day in her New York apartment, when all of a sudden, chaos releases itself on the city and destroys everything in it's sight.


Hope you enjoy it!!


Problem: sooo, Blogger doesn't allow audio uploading (HUGE FLAW!!!) so here it is in streamed from via Audio Farm.

New Song

Hey Guys
If you have time to check out my new song you definitely should!!!

                                

And if you like it, here is the link to Download!!!

Mixtape comes out Early July called "Love. Lust. Lies" so look for it!!

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Animation Deconstruction

The two shows that I chose to write about are Family Guy and Nickelodeon's new show Legend of Korra.  I chose these two shows because they are of different genre and format.  Family Guy has a more American style drawing style, while Legend of Korra uses the popular Japanese style of anime.  Both shows have comedy in them, but Legend of Korra is more drama based than Family Guy, which is usually pure comedy than it is serious.

The color used in both shows range from all the colors in the book, but they each have a set focus of colors in the pictures provided above this explanation.  In the pictures of Legend of Korra, (bottom two) they use the hues of brown and red the most.  These colors are strong and give a feeling of power.  They are also bright and use little saturation from the original colors.  Saturation is used in the fire picture just to show the intensity of the fire being thrown around.  In the Family Guy pictures, (upper pictures) the hues are a bit more diverse.  The hues dabble in green, blue, pink, yellow, red and white.  Saturation is used pretty heavily in these only because the colors have to be brighter because it is a happier show.  The main difference in color between the two cartoons is the brightness in both.  Family Guy has brighter colors because it is a comedy and is made to make you feel good.  Bright colors help bring out that feeling.  Legend of Korra uses darker colors to show the seriousness of the show and to show that it is not something to usually be taken as a joke.

The lighting is not similar at all between the two shows.  They're actually the exact opposite of each other.  Family Guy has bright lighting for the most part with having dark parts on occasion. legends of Korra has more dark parts than bright, but like i said before, it is a more serious show.  

Movement for both is pretty horizontal.  This is because they are both cartoons and there is not much you can do with movement in a cartoon.  There are points where they overlap each other but it is not very often that it happens.

Storyboard

Storyboard

Overhead Shot

In this scene, the director follows all of the rules of camera placement throughout the scene.  If you do not know what scene I am talking about, take a look at my third post to watch and compare.  They did not take the camera past the 180-degree line while the two characters were in the house.  The camera did change in rotation in the house, but did not cross that line to make the shot inconsistent.  It did break the 180-degree line when they shot outside by doing a complete turn to behind the character.  It was a good break of the rule because it gave the scene a different point of view from both the actors inside and the actor outside getting questioned.  Rule of thirds was not really used for this scene.  I did notice it being used during the outside and inside scene.  When the camera was centered behind Reggie outside, the way the camera is placed makes you focus on Marcus on the right and Mike on the left.  This was a good use of the rule because the back of someone’s head is not something you want to focus on during a shot like that.  The 30-30 rule was not really used in this scene so much because there was not any real face to face dialogue, and the dialogue that was swiveled on a 180-degree angle and not a 30 degree angle.  The director did break the role for the 180-degree line but it was very effective, also the use of the rule of thirds was very effective.  The actors where chosen to perfection for the shot and made the camera angles work for them and to move forward the movie.  Also, this is one of my favorite movies so if you have not seen the whole movie, I advise you see it and enjoy it.