0:03 The second you see the crosshair on the screen it appeals the viewer making the viewer think that there is much more behind this video

0:05 Overlapping Action takes place here when the black overlaps with the white to change the scene.

1:15 Lines in the background create a secondary action.


-Pacing in this video is based on voices in the background of the video and change of tone in people's voices

-The Colours that were used where just black and white, these two colours indicate the both sides in the conversation (good and bad).

-Many secondary actions throughout the video are very effective in making the video more visually pleasing.

-The mood of this piece is dark because of how emotional this scene is in the show the typographer had to portray this in his art making this piece have a dark emotional feel.

Lighting 

Lighting here is overall this portraits best feature, the photographer in this photo uses darks and lights to show off the curves and details in his face that work well with the black and white.

Expression 

This photo shows Robert Downey Jr. looking very concentrated at a object that could be out of frame. The photographer took this photo in such detail sort of showing the viewer a more tough side of Robert.

Background 

The background of this photo is black, I assume the photographer chose this simplistic background to contrast with the lights and darks contouring his face. 

Pose and Posture

The pose and posture of this portrait show a more relaxed side of Robert using exposed close up photography in a relaxed, mid action pose.

Eyes and Direction of Gaze 

Robert is looking away from the camera as if it isn't there, this says that he is trying to portray a more natural side of himself. 

Color and Contrast 

Color isn't a very important part of this at all because it contains no color at all, but contrast is very important here because it creates the contours around his face.

Why I picked this photo

To start I picked this photo because my favorite types of portraits it seems are close high detail photographs in black and white. I think those three components are just a very good combination, I was also drawn towards this because I think it takes real skill to perfect lighting in such a way this photographer portrayed Robert Downey Jr. here.

For my portrait, I went for pop art styling. Originally I was planning on choosing a graffiti style based off Michel Basquiat, but I came across a portrait of Michel Basquiat by Andy Warhol which gave me the inspiration to do a pop art style. Overall I feel that it was a good choice to do pop art because it seemed easier to do that art style digitally.

When making art in any medium you need to make artistic choices to bring the piece of art to a higher viewing level, I had to make allot of choices making this piece of art. The first decision I had to make was how am I going to make was what am I going to do and how am I going to make it. The first big decision was to chose I program I was going to work on, I decided to use photoshop because it's the program that I was most familiar with and it made the most sense for my project. The second big decision I had to make was what am I going to use for the background of my project, I chose a more surreal acid wash looking background to make the photo brighter. These two decisions affected my picture because Photoshop effect they way I drew myself in the picture, and the background affect the contrast between my dark outline and empty space on the picture.

When making this picture I started by looking through art by my favorite artists to get inspiration. After I chose what style I wanted I started by taking photos of myself to help myself create an outline later on. After getting the photos I traced out my photo in a gritty style. After getting down the outline and focus of the picture I started to make my background. I wanted my background to look like gray acid wash so I did just that, I got a photo of gray acid wash jeans and manipulated the photo into being my background.

Overall I am not very satisfied with the final project. I wish I was able to create a similar background with my own patterns and resolution because the photo I picked for the background ended being a very low resolution by the end of manipulating it.