The Nutshell Statement

Kenneth Kwok is a native of Toronto, home of the TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival). He has experience in filmmaking and video editing and possibly even sound editing. He is currently studying at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Material Arts and Design since Fall of 2011.

My art style varies from short-films to portraits of random celebrities and friends, and even woodwork. When making videos, I prefer to make videos of love and friendship and often without any dialogue. I believe the theme of love and friendship is really easy to work with because this theme is so broad that anything like comedy or thrillers can be added in the work. Like many good films, my videos require a well thought-out story line. Aside from that, to make my videos, I use whatever equipment I have, like a tripod, to get high and low shots without the use of a ladder or a higher platform. A decent camera is required as well of course.

In my opinion, I think all films are similar, if not the same. But I guess my work is different from the others such that I use cheap and good quality equipment and I like to include some sort of comedic relief in most of my videos.

There is inspiration everywhere; you just have to know where to find it. My inspiration is all over Youtube ranging from singer and song writers like ClaraC, to film makers like WongFu Productions

As a young artist, my goal is to learn from the best and hopefully become a well-known artist.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Assignment #1: The Electronic Project

Creation:  Portable Tic-Tac-Toe

            Not so long ago before there were machines like film projectors, there were stage performances.  One of many things that were older than stage performances were puppet shows through a really thin piece of paper and performed with a really bright light behind the puppeteers.  Inspired by this ancient art of story telling, I have decided to give it a little twist.  Instead of telling a story, I have decided to give it another kind of entertainment: a game.  Behold my portable tic-tac-toe machine.  However, this portable tic-tac-toe game isn’t exactly a game.  It can be used as a babies’ toy by just pressing the buttons and individual x’s or o’s would light up.  Before I began making this assignment, I pictured an arcade like machine were the x’s and o’s would be put in specific places on the screens made of normal white paper.  Below and in front of the screens would be individual buttons that would light each square that would either show an x or an o.  Materials that I have used are cardboard, heavy construction paper, LEDs, alligator clamps, electrical tape, and multiple types of batteries for testing.  
First I made a large box to create the main part where the screens are going to be.  The screen is split into nine smaller screens where the x’s and o’s will appear in front of an LED light.  Behind each screen will be a mini platform that will be used as support for the LED light that will be mounted on each platform.  The x’s and o’s will be taped onto each screen to hold them in place.  I thought about the possibility of using fishing line to hang the x’s and o’s up but I realized that the fishing line would be too hard to work with especially when working with a light material like paper.  Next step was the make the bottom half where the buttons are going to be situated.  After making the body, I began wiring the circuit, which then I ended up playing around with it too much resulting in most of the LEDs I bought to burn out. 
The major problem about making this assignment was the concept of tic-tac-toe.  When one thinks of tic-tac-toe, they usually think of a game of outsmarting your opponent by placing an x or an o in a box.  However this creation of mine does not give the choice of placing and x or o anywhere the player wants.  The x’s and o’s are in fixed positions.  Another big problem about this assignment that I have had was that the surface that the buttons were placed on was too fragile so I had to try many times to find ways to reinforce the surface so when I press the buttons, the buttons won’t sink into the box.  Another problem was about the wiring of my circuit.  I really wanted to use 3 batteries to run 3 separate circuits but was still able to turn out each LED light individually with the individual buttons.  I have had some problems with making my circuit so I decided to keep it simple and make 9 separate circuits, where each one will control only one screen.
In the end I guess I had a lot of fun doing this assignment.



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