Yeung Ho Tai: “St. Anger: I’m madly in anger with you!”
Yeung Ho Tai – Intensive Production (Photo)
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A music video for presentation
I made a funny music video for presenting the final photos of my project. The background music I used St. Anger by Metallica, which matches my project topic. And I used Walk by Pantera for one of the photos because that one was inspired by their album art. I used some shaking effects to enhance…
online photo album
I made a wordpress website to present the final photos. Later I will also upload the video. https://angermanagement634065213.wordpress.com/
Recreating St. Anger Album Cover
I made this just for fun during the photoshoots to find more inspirations for the project. The background is the original album art.
Final Photos
I used Adobe Light Room to crop the photos, and to adjust a little exposure and contrast. I also used the texture and clarity effects. Tomorrow I will try making a music video to display my photos. I am going to create a website for my final product. I’m excited!
Final Photo Montages (6 pieces)
I have made 6 photo montages for the final project, and I have them pinned on a cork board for better presentation. I will take photos of them to present them a fun way. My inspiration were from the research I made in this blog before, and 3 metal albums, Metallica’s St. Anger and Kill…
Final Product photo shooting
I used my Canon camera again to photograph my final product. My visual reference are mostly from heavy metal album covers, thus I think I can try to make a music video with the photos (also Leo suggested me doing it).
Torn and Stitch
Today I got the photos all printed out, and I bought a cork board for the final presentation. I am still working on making the photo montages.
Shooting Day (Dec-16)
I am using the Canon EF 50mm 1.8 lens today for shooting. I took some more photos of my mouth and angry body poses (hands and elbow). I also tried recreate the St. Anger album cover, which is the cover picture of this blog. I will select the better photos, and print them and the…
Angry hands and faces
Grosbras, Marie-Hélène & Paus, Tomáš 2006. Brain Networks Involved in Viewing Angry Hands or Faces. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991), 16(8), pp.1087–1096. https://academic-oup-com.eproxy.lib.hku.hk/cercor/article/16/8/1087/455362 this article is very difficult to understand because it involves a lot of biological terms about human brain. But I think the key findings of this research essay is helpful to…
Anger, over-control and serious violent offending
Davey, Linda, Day, Andrew & Howells, Kevin, (2005) Anger, over-control and serious violent offending. Aggression and violent behavior, 10(5), pp.624–635. https://www-sciencedirect-com.eproxy.lib.hku.hk/science/article/pii/S1359178905000029?via%3Dihub I believe I need reference about the relationship between anger and violence, because I want to show violent symbols (eg. hammer, fists, cracked monitor) to represent anger. I was watching the Netflix series Chilling…
The feeling of anger: From brain networks to linguistic expressions
Alia-Klein, Nelly et al. (2020) The feeling of anger: From brain networks to linguistic expressions. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 108, pp.480–497. https://www-sciencedirect-com.eproxy.lib.hku.hk/science/article/pii/S0149763419302167?via%3Dihub ABSTRACT” …Given the ubiquity of anger in both its normative and chronic states, specific language is used in humans to express states of anger. … we explore the language that is used to…
Shooting Day (Dec-14,15)
It was extremely exhausting to take photos of myself, but it was fun to do it all by myself. I am picking out useful photos tonight, and then I will go print them out for making photomontages. Below is my set up on the second day. I wanted to take photos of the cracked monitor…
more about Annegret Soltau
https://www.instagram.com/annegretsoltau/ https://www.annegret-soltau.de/ According to her personal website: Annegret Soltau is a female visual artist from Germany. She was born in Lüneburg, Germany in 1946. From 1967 to 1972 she studied painting and graphic arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (University of Fine Arts) in Hamburg. Since then she started her career as an artist.…
Tutorial on Dec-11
I had a tutorial session with Dino today and I decided to do my production project in the direction of Annegret Soultau’s style. I will make 5 pictures of facial expression using photo restitching. This kind of photomontages is very unique and can express anger easily. And it creates scary feeling as well. We both…
Screaming in Metal Music
I always find Metal music a way to express and release anger, and one of the reason is that most vocal singing in metal music involves the crazy screaming. Thus I decided to put screaming mouths in my photo project.
testing Photoshop
blending, opacity, blending, color, channel mixer, brightness/contrast I combined two photos by blending them together.
Shooting Day (Dec-06)
I walked around my neighborhood (Sham Tseng) to find things that are useful for my study in photoshops. I tried to look for things with color red. I will try using them to do photomontages with photoshop.
The Middle Finger : 凸
The middle finger is considered as the cursing hand sign, a way to express anger. It is one of the easiest and direct way to express angry emotions. The hand sign referenced from penis. A song from Hong Kong hip hop group raps about it. This song in my opinion is rap metal, which makes…
Trying Annegret Soltau style
This is my test product of Annegret Soltau’s style of photo restitching. I took pictures my of my face and printed them out to stitch. I think it looks very raw and scary. I felt like I was operating a surgery. The process was fun. but I think this method limits my photoshops experiences. I…
Why is Metal So Angry
https://loudwire.com/why-metal-angry/ This article explained why metal music is always emotionally angry, which is why it inspired my project topic. ”I think the anger comes from family of origin, a feeling of not being heard, a feeling of manipulation, probably still a teenager in here somewhere that’s still sorting out some past issues — you know,…
Making of Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Leo sent me this behind-the-scenes video of a Green Day music video for referencing. The distortion and ruined effects in the music video was actually because the director used film camera to make the video. He scratched and destroyed the film with sharp objects like pencils, and a burning cigarette. It is a very rock…
Reference: A Clockwork Orange
I was watching YouTube today and I found this analysis on A Clockwork Orange very useful for my project. So I decided to watch it to to find reference. It was directed by Stanley Kubrick. The movie is very violent and has many disturbing and violent images. At the start of the film it is…
scratching & distortion
According to the notes from previous lectures, the slide above mentions the direction of my project, which are torn and stitch.
Works by Annegret Soltau
https://www.annegret-soltau.de/cycle/n-y-faces/ this artwork was done without computer software, and the artist uses real threads to stitch images together. I think this style makes the art look raw, brutal and scary. it is useful for my topic, to show angry emotions.
double / multiple exposure photography
“Combining two or more exposures into a single image is a technique that almost certainly began as an accident (much like photography itself). When using early film cameras, it was all too easy to press the shutter button while forgetting to change the plate – a faux pas that was generally rewarded with an overexposed…
juxtaposition photography
https://skylum.com/blog/top-secrets-of-juxtaposition-in-photography-revealed#:~:text=A%20photographer%20puts%20two%20objects,viewer’s%20eye%2C%20juxtaposition%20is%20achieved. … What does juxtaposition mean? Merriam-Webster describes juxtaposition as “the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or to contrast an interesting effect.” The Collins Dictionary defines juxtaposition as “the fact that they [two contrasting objects, images, or ideas] are placed together or described together, so that the…
[Nov-11] Peer Evaluation Day
My teachers provided a lot of example for me to reference on, and some terms and methods. Below are the things they suggested in the zoom chatroom. Leo P. H. Chan對所有人說： (15:17) double / multiple exposure photography juxtaposition photography Tang Siu Hang Wesley [IC]對所有人說： (15:21) Works by Annegret Soltau: https://www.annegret-soltau.de/cycle/n-y-faces/ Leo P. H. Chan對所有人說： (15:36)…
Coronavirus: Hong Kong residents unhappy with Covid-19 response – and surgical masks one big reason why, Post survey shows
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3077761/coronavirus-post-poll-shows-hong-kong-residents-unhappy A news report related to our society that the quarantine life under the pandemic had create an unhappy atmosphere in our society.
Anger as Italy’s new ‘red zones’ prepare for lockdown
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/anger-as-italy-s-new-red-zones-prepare-for-lockdown-1.5176540 The world is currently suffering from lockdown lives, and people are living in a quarantine lifestyle. we cannot travel and gather with friends, making us stressful. Especially in cities like Hong Kong, where people live in packed buildings and small rooms, the atmosphere among people is even more stressful.
Photomontage
Anon, 2020. photomontage. Encyclopædia Britannica Online, pp.Encyclopædia Britannica Online, 2020–07-02. “Photomontage, composite photographic image made either by pasting together individual prints or parts of prints, by successively exposing individual images onto a single sheet of paper, or by exposing the component images simultaneously through superimposed negatives. In the 1880s the juxtaposition of separate images through…
1st progress
I broke my laptop and monitor accidentally. And broken screens match one of the ten signs of anger (mentioned in my last post, What is anger). So I decided to take photos of them to see the results. The images are not angry enough and I still need to find better ways to depict the…
Sontag’s Lament: Emotion, Ethics, and Photography
Parsons, S., 2009. Sontag’s Lament: Emotion, Ethics, and Photography. Photography & culture, 2(3), pp.289–302. https://www-tandfonline-com.eproxy.lib.hku.hk/doi/pdf/10.2752/175145109X12532077132356?needAccess=true “Abstract: Rare is the discussion of ethics and photography thatdoes not reference Susan Sontag’s groundbreakingcollection of essays On Photography (1977). It was thisaccessible, sweeping book, quietly infused with the ideasof Barthes and Benjamin, which presented one of thefirst comprehensive explorations…
Rule of Thirds
Amirshahi, Seyed Ali & Hayn-Leichsenring, Gregor & Denzler, Joachim & Redies, Christoph. (2014). Evaluating the Rule of Thirds in Photographs and Paintings. Art & Perception. 10.1163/22134913-00002024. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259620557_Evaluating_the_Rule_of_Thirds_in_Photographs_and_Paintings “The rule of thirds (ROT) is one of the best-known composition rules used in painting and photography. According to this rule, the focus point of an image should…
Metallica: visual references
I always think that heavy metal especially thrash metal has huge connection to angry emotions. Fast tempo, aggression music and speedy guitar shredding always hype me up and make me aggressive and violent (only in my mind). Thus the metal bands has many useful visual references for the anger topic.
What is anger
I tried to find definitions of anger in academic articles. Forbes, David et al., 2014. UTILITY OF THE DIMENSIONS OF ANGER REACTIONS-5 (DAR-5) SCALE AS A BRIEF ANGER MEASURE. Depression and anxiety, 31(2), pp.166–173. “Anger is a common emotional sequel in the aftermath of traumatic experience” Anon, 2017. Anger. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and…
What color is anger
I found this online article from a leadership training website called Consentia Group. The article used colors to represent different types of people and claimed that every type of people has anger in them. Therefore, the answer of what color is anger is irrelevant to my project, but I find the writer’s ideas about the…
The Colors of Anger, Envy, Fear, and Jealousy
Hupka, Ralph B et al., 1997. The Colors of Anger, Envy, Fear, and Jealousy. Journal of cross-cultural psychology, 28(2), pp.156–171. Abstract: Word associations or verbal synesthesia between concepts of color and emotions were studied in Gersnany, Mexico, Poland, Russia, and the United States. With emotion words as the between-subjects variable, 661 undergraduates indicated on 6-point…
I googled “anger photography”
I googled “anger photography” to find photo projects that are similar to mine for reference. almost all anger photos are faces or body parts that shows an angry expression. It shows that photos of facial expressions are an effective and popular way to depict human emotion. Therefore, I wanted to discover other methods to show…
Metallica – St. Anger
This is the song that inspired my project name, St. Anger by Metallica. In the music video, the video was taken in a real prison, which is similar to the current situation of the world that most people live in a quarantine lifestyle. At the chorus part of the song the lyrics goes “I’m madly…
Project Proposal
In One Sentence I want to capture anger in a series of photos. In One Paragraph In this project I want to create a media project of photography that helps my audience to release their anger and stress, in order to bring awareness of anger management, since we are in a year full of serious…
Anger Photography 