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I’m experimenting with Core Painter Essentials. It’s a lot harder than photoshop. And I can’t paint in the lines. D:
Black of Class Tee design
This was done as a collaboration between Shu Zhen, Guo Shu and I. 
I wonder if this can be counted… either way is fine by me. 
Header for Generation NY
This is the header I created. Or should I say “assembled”?. Fonts from dafont.com
(Font names: Marcelle and Collegiate)
Photoshop brushes from the standard set. 
I did the words in the background first, just some simple cut and paste stuff. And then I lowered the opacity to about 20%. Then I searched for another font and thought that Marcelle looked nice, so I put that in. At first I wanted to superimpose it on the background words, but I thought that this was a nice effect. But then the Marcelle “Nanyang Girls’ High” was in the center so I shifted everything to the right a little.
Then I turned the backgound light grey and added the butterflies to make it a bit more fancy.
It’s in greyscale because the old GenNY logo was printed in different colours and by using greyscale, it can be colourized without much hassle.
Reflection of Movie Screening-”Pleasantville” (1998)
Response to discussion point #1:
The immediate differences that David and Jennifer expeienced were that firstly, everything was in black and white. Then they found that everything seemed so predictable, as the people there followed a strict routine and sequence in which they go about their daily business. In addition to that, it seemed that nothing could go wrong in pleasantville, an example being that when Jennifer/Mary Sue tried to set a handkerchief alight, it would not burn. Everything in Pleasantville followed a routine, and nothing could go wrong or deviate from being perfect and orderly.
Response to discussion question #2:
I have noticed that, throughout the film, the people filmed are homogenous. So when I saw this discussion question, I was quite puzzled. However, laer on during the show, there were signs of “coloured people” and Whitey called David/Bud Parker’s girlfriend “coloured girlfriend” and since “coloured” was used(is being used??) as a not-very-politically-correct term to describe non-whites, then I guess if they use it in Pleasantville, that’s racial discrimination as well. Ah well, anyway, I think the colours used to show the theme of race, would be any colour, that appears on a person which causes the person to be labeled as coloured, since it would be different from the monotonous tints and tones of grey.
I think the colours used to portray sexuality would be red, since the first colour we are shown when Skip drives Mary Sue home was the red rose. And when other kids are seen making out at Lovers Lane, the lights at the back of the car had a red/orange hue.
For David and Jennifer, they became techni-coloured only when they did something that was atypical of themselves, specifically when the “nerdy” David ran up to a boy and punched him; or when Jennifer put on glasses when at the start of the show, even though she seemed to detest being nerdy. So by exercising their personal freedom to break out of the prejudices which they were given in the real world, they started a change and had colour. The presence of colour on the citizens of Pleasantville came about when the citizens did things that were against the unwritten rules of their society, like getting drenched in the rain or getting angry, or even breaking their typical daily routine, as seen in the case of the guy who works at the restaurant.
Discussion Point #3: The conservative lives and values led by the citizens of Pleasantville seem pleasant at first glance, but it’s too perfect. And hence it seems so surreal. (I mean, come on, how could parents not know about sex when they already have children? I don’t think they have even heard of adoption, so I’ll rule that out.) The values of the people are so mild and happy. It’s stupid that they have to put on a smile even when they don’t want to, as seen at the part where the mayor keeps his cool until Bud purposely provokes his anger. I suppose that negative feeling aren’t allowed in Pleasant ville. And the extent of their values is probably their reliance to the order of life by which they follow faithfully. Betty is one of the characters who is subjected to this rule. She has to make breakfast, lunch and dinner for her family and say the same things every day to the same people. As I have mentioned that the people have been accustomed to the monotonous and predictable lifestyle, change is shunned and labeled as “unpleasant”, (Although I’m wondering why the people didn’t become techni colour when they smashed the restaurant.) Hence, the lives and minds of the people are restrained and kept inside the little box known as smallville, complete with the lame assumption that at the end of Middle street is Middle street again. And their life was boring, predictable, “pleasant”, and boring. At least until David and Jennifer came along.
Yeah! I’m done! I wrote a little too much, but I hope that’s okay. I’ll find time to edit the spelling mistakes and other stuff. While I’m commenting about the movie, did anyone find that in the part where David/Jennifer were getting ready to watch TV, the music was kinda like that of Monsters Inc. (the part before the start scaring kids)?
