Week 15- Comparative analysis of Exit through the Gift Shop and Comic Book Confidential

  

        For our final week of classes, we watched two different movies. The first movie was Exit Through the Gift Shop which is a film directed by the street artist Banksy. The film follows Thierry Guetta, a guy who films his every waking moment who decides to start filming street artists in their natural habitat. The second film was Comic Book Confidential, directed by Ron Mann, is a movie about comic books through the years up until the 1980s, when the movie came out. Seeing as Exit Through the Gift Shop was released in 2010 the movies definitely have some differences. For one, Exit Through the Gift Shop is directed by one of the artists that is featured in the film, somebody who is a part of the world being filmed. On the other hand, Comic Book Confidential is directed by someone who is not involved in the world that is being talked about. One gives an insider’s perspective and the other gives an outsider’s perspective.

        Another thing is that Comic Book Confidential follows along a linear timeline of the development of comic books and how outside influences affected the content while Exit Through the Gift Shop provides a look at different street artists through the eyes of a main character in the order that he met them. Exit Through the Gift Shop feels more like a vlog of some sort and Comic Book Confidential flows more like a staunch documentary.

      Also the type of artists that the films are about vary. Comic book artists like Jack Kirby or Harvey Kurtzman did very commercial work compared to people like Banksy or Space Invader, who did a more unconventional type of art that bordered on illegal.

Banksy

Jack Kirby

Space Invader

Harvey Kurtzman

Week 14- Finished deck and box

This week we sent our card decks out to be printed. In addition to the cards that I designed, I designed the back of the cards. I made the design simple as to contrast the very busy and colorful front.

 Along with sending my cards to print I also sent a box to print to contain my cards. For the box I used the template that Makeplayingcards.com provides for the 330gsm cards. For the design of the box I just used a simple galaxy design I made using the brush tool and the Gaussian blur effect and the symbol sprayer. I used the design I used for the back of the cards for the sides and the top of the box.

Week 13- Finished deck

For this week we had to have the whole deck completed. My whole deck consists of 54 cards, 52 suit cards and 2 jokers. They 4 suits that I substituted for the hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds are the stars, galaxies, planets, and comets. The completion of the deck went the same way as completing half the deck. I used a master page for each suit and then I used Shift+Command+Click to change the letters and numbers as I went. As an after-thought I decided to add a white rounded rectangle with just the stroke on to the cards to tie the design together.