Monday, November 26, 2012

Work in Progress










My final project is going to be a commentary on the thought of someones "dream car" and the reality of how much time and money it involves. Everyone wants a dream car, built to their specs and with the colors and style they want. They all think that as long as they have enough money or the drive, they can built it with no issues. They are wrong though because there is hours, day, weeks, and months involved in building a car.
I will be posting my car, how it come off the lot, next to a series of other photos. The other photos will be objects that I would put onto my car to make it the way I dream it as. I will put the photos of the bodykit, rims, exhaust, paint, engine, and other mods next to my original car. I will post the prices of each item and the time involved in the setup of the parts.
I would love to know what you all think of my idea/ what needs improvement.

Monday, November 5, 2012

A Comentary on Video Game Warfare

Loading screen.. Basically the same as waiting to get deployed
How the game shows night vision

How the game show infrared goggles
Two people dead

Same person dead. Same person as previous photo, just different retry

Failure menu

Dropping into the hot zone from a chopper

Setting a breaching charge

A man surrendering, but still killed

    
Massacre   



























This fictional project was especially close to my heart because it has to do with the military. I took pictures of game play and cinematic from two different  games. The first game is Rainbow Six 3 and the next is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I took these specific photos simply because i wanted to do a commentary on what REAL warfare is like, compared to what the game designers portray it as.
  To make this project, I took photos of myself playing the same level over and over. I used manual mode on my camera, and that was especially difficult due to the fact that the lighting on the video game was constantly changing. For the other game, i watched a cinematic from a level in Modern Warfare 2. I  this one, i wanted to try and get photos of things that a very close friend of mine has personally experienced in combat.
  I decided to take photos of a copyrighted game because i wanted to show people that no matter what a game may say or do, it is nothing close to real warfare. I have talked to a close friend of mine and i have talked to him about warfare itself. What it is, what it is like, and how it affects someone. He told me straight up that no video game will EVER be able to show what real warfare is like. He said that there are some missions and such that are portrayed the same as it may have really happened, but it can never do it justice. He told me that the dropping from a chopper (shown in a picture above) is very similar, but it is a very dangerous procedure. Also, an obvious difference is, there is no "retry". If you fail a mission in real life, you are either killed or you are fired. You also only have ONE life in real warfare. So, i want to get across that Call of Duty and Rainbow Six will never be able to show what REAL warfare is. Warfare is truly hell and it is no joke. Anyone can play a video game about warfare, but it takes a certain type of person to be able to live and fight warfare in real life.