April’s Blog ;)

There are many different moods, and different ways of showing them.  If you want to show it in a visual text, there are many things you have to be aware of, and different things you have to do to create it.

For a drawing, there are many things you have to consider while creating the piece.  Colour is a big thing.  Colour helps you create a piece by showing the mood.  If you want a happy piece, bright colours should be used. For depression or anger, darker colours should be used. You have to know which colours to coordinate to create the overall piece.  Lines and shapes are another thing to think about. Depending on the mood helps you decide the shapes and lines. Jagged, thick lines and shapes should be used for a mood like anger or depression.  Swirling, flowing lines should be used for happier pieces. It all depends on the mood.

Photographs are another type of visual text, and another way to express mood.  You have to consider colour. Do you want the photograph to be colourful, or black and white? Black and white usually shows a more depressed, calmer scene. A colourful photograph normally expresses excitement or happiness. There’s not a lot of lines in photographs, but shape is a big thing. You have to think about the shapes and items in a scene, how they’re placed, and what angle they should be at. There’s a lot to consider for photographs.

And last, videos are a form of visual text. Colours in the video almost always express the mood.  If you have a dark scene filled with shadows, then you usually have a scary scene. Dark videos with barely any colour usually express depression, sometimes even anger. If the video is colourful, with a lot of movement, then it’s usually a happy video or an exciting one. Shapes in a video are something else to consider. If you have jagged shapes with straight lines, chances are your mood is anger. If your lines are swirly and have a lot of shapes and sizes, then it’s probably a happy, exciting video. Sometimes it could be depression too. There are a lot of ways to look at it.

This painting is called “Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh. I think this mood is calm, and quiet. I think this because it’s mostly dark colours, and it looks like night time. Also, the city below in the painting doesn’t have a lot of action going on, so I think the people are relaxing at home. What mood do you get out of this picture?

Here is a link to Vincent Van Gogh’s website. To see more of his paintings, and to learn more about moods, go there.

This is basically how mood is created with visual text. If you ever have to do something like this, consider the things explained above.

*April

(P.S. - The first three paragraphs of this post was written by me and Toni, so thanks for help Toni )