Assignments
Total: 16 stars
Total Wire related: 9.5 stars
1. Minimalist TV/Movie Poster, 3.5 stars: Minimalism Takes Detail
2. One Story / Four Icons, 2.5 stars: A Bag, A Duck, A Purse, and A Barrel…
3. Learning By Design, 3.5 stars: Upcycling v. Recycling v. Downcycling
4. Truthful Movie Poster, 3 stars: 2011: The Year of Friends With Benefits Movies
5. The Ultimate Merger, 3.5 stars: PJ & SB Goods
Design Blitz, blog post
Balance
Symbolism
Unity
Typography
Daily Creates
Total: 3
1. TDC997 (10/1/14)
Water and Glass Moving, with a touch of purple light.
2. TDC 998 (10/2/14)
3. TDC 999 (10/3/14)
The Wire
Season 2 Episode 9: Stray Rounds
The title of this episode really rings true, not only literally but metaphorically. Literally, there were stray rounds from the shooting between the Barksdale crew and the other local crew that ultimately killed an innocent child. Metaphorically, there were two major characters that ended up straying away from their original organizations. First off, Stringer is willing to double cross Avon in order to get into business with Proposition Joe. Moreover, Stringer is also willing to double cross Proposition Joe in his own deal. I predict that the Barksdale organization will no longer be the Barksdale organization, but the Bell organization. Second, the FBI agent is in contact with The Greek, but not in an investigative way. The Greek may have helped out the FBI agent with finding the Columbian drugs, but I have a feeling this is a mutual relationship so the FBI agent will eventually help The Greek if the Baltimore Police start finding out more information and putting more pieces together.
Visually, with this episode I tired to pay attention to the sets more. The detail office, although still a little shabby, is much better than the one from Season 1. The most intriguing set was definitely the hotel suite where the prostitutes work. The hotel suite was very elegant and had a vibe that they only has very wealthy clients coming to them. I think there was even a Mona Lisa painting in the suite.
Another setting is the funeral home that Stringer uses as the headquarters. We have seen this set before, and I always thought it was amusing that their new headquarters is a funeral home, but this time I paid more attention to the details. They have the wooden cross with the jesus on it, and it’s very red. The way that the scene where Stringer is reprimanding Bodie and his crew was shot has it so that Stringer looks like he a pastor or someone that would lead a funeral service. The whole atmosphere is just the completely wrong place to talk about drug packages in.
Season 2, Episode 10: Storm Warnings
I love how the police are getting more high tech!! I like how we get to the incorporation of more computers and now GPS tracking! It was also hilarious to see them discover text messaging. However, the best part of the episode was also the most intense, which was when Ziggy became enraged and murdered Double G and his employee. It was very obvious Ziggy was upset when he did not receive the amount of money he thought he was going to receive, and we saw him taking out his anger inside of the stolen car, however, then we saw him snap. Watching this otherwise goofball character become a murder was pretty dark, especially when Double G began begging and Ziggy showed no mercy. However, after all of that, was the cool special effects of Ziggy walking back to the car and everything was swirling and blurring around him. The design of this scene was very much literal of how he was probably feeling, with all of that adrenaline running through his body. Throughout this episode there were also a lot of close up shots on Ziggy’s face while he was upset, and I’m not sure if that was for emphasis on how he was feeling, or especially on how he awful he feels after realizing what he has done, or if it’s a ploy to make us feel bad for him. Yes, he’s crazy and messes up and just killed two people, but nothing seems to go right for him, ever. Even though he really annoys me, I do hope we see more of him and that this wasn’t a just a way of writing him off the show.
Season 2, Episode 11: Bad Dreams
In this episode we see how important timing is. First, Daniels doesn’t know about Ziggy being arrested until a whole day after the fact. This messes up his case since now the emotional ties of Frank and Nick to Ziggy are weighing in on decisions. We further see how important timing is at the end of the episode when Frank is going to meet with the Greeks. Frank has told the police he’ll talk but they need to a lawyer there with him while talks. Frank is sure he is going to talk but then Nick comes in with a deal from the Greeks to make Ziggy walk and to make Nick and Frank disappear but with the cost of being in debt to the Greeks. However, as the paperwork is being processed and filed for Frank to talk, Frank takes too long to decide what he going to do. Consequently, the paperwork finished before him and the FBI agent who has some sort of deal with the Greek sees it and tells the Greek right before Frank is going to make a deal with him.
The way they shot this end scene made the whole situation very tense. There were back and worth shots from the paperwork going through the office, to Frank driving his truck over to under bridge. We saw Frank contemplating in his truck, we saw the office worker typing up the notice, we saw Frank walking over to the Greeks, then we saw the notice coming in on the FBI agent’s computer. The uncertainty of how the scene would play out was designed to keep the audience in suspense, and it did just that.
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