Final Exam Vulcan Section

Sight

Opinion: I like this picture, it makes me laugh when I look at it just because it seems kind of ridiculous. Everyone in it is actually wearing red which is better than what my team can say about their own pictures. The grass and red shirts also have kind of a cool contrast.

Vulcan: The photo features six people who are all leaning over on one of their leg joints and the other leg is being supported by it's foot and is creating a 90 degree angle with the two segments of the leg. All the people are wearing red on their torsos with the exception of one person who is wearing pink instead and another person is wearing some black clothing on their torso over some red clothing. The red on the people's torso contrasts with all the vibrant green at their backs the gray stone on the ground also contrasts the green and red.

Opinion: I think this is a pretty funny picture, it seems pretty clear that they're all trying to rep the G Unit shirt by giving it a look and emphasizing what's on the shirts by pulling them all out away from their chests.
Vulcan: This picture features the same group of six people that are wearing mostly red in the previous picture. The difference between this picture and the last appears to be their stances. In this picture all six subjects are standing up on their two feet. The main similarity in their stances is that they are all looking at one person in the face and grabbing their shirts with two or three fingers and pulling them outward away from their chests. The subjects are grabbing  their shirts on the upper half and their hands are spaced apart by about 6 or 8 inches roughly. You can just barely make out that the clothing one person is wearing has the symbols "G U N I T." The person with this clothing is also the person that everybody (with the exception of the person on the far left) is looking at.

Opinion: I actually really like this picture, Leitha had the right idea when she struck this pose and asked us to only take a picture of her feet. The orange boots have a really awesome contrast with the wicked green, Maryland grass. It looks like some sort of an old advertisement you'd see for boots or something.
Vulcan: This picture consists of three main objects. There is a large amount of deep green blades sticking out from the earth ground, on these green blades stands a pair of large orange footwear of some sort. This footwear stands out from normal footwear because it has no strings and the area the foot is inserted into extends all the way up to just below the knees. The final object in the picture is some faded looking black object just behind the orange footwear. It looks as though this object is only the base of something that is a cylinder like shape. All the colors in this photo have a very strong contrast.

Opinion: As a man, I am not a huge fan of this photo. I pity any man who may have had to strike this pose but by the looks of the jeans and style sandals I think only women were in the photo. It's a very, very girly pose that I'd expect to see a group of middle school girls doing for a picture. But, to each his own I suppose, or in this case her own.
Vulcan: This picture consists of what looks like six legs. Most of the legs are bare with the exception of two legs which have a seemingly tight fabric wrapped around them. Another similarity is that all the feet featured in the picture are wearing a similar style footwear. The toes on their feet are all exposed and the base of their foot (the area before the toes) is wrapped in some sort of material that binds the foot to the bottom of the footwear. Most of the footwear also has a strap that runs in between the biggest toe and the one next to it and attaches to the binding material wrapping over the base of the foot. Some footwear however, doesn't have the unique strap and instead makes up for it with excessive strapping around the base of the foot.

Opinion: This is a pretty basic pose, but it gets the job done. A pose is a pose. I can't say I genuinely like this picture, but I also can't say I dislike it. Its so so in my book. That's really the only opinion I have of this photo.
Vulcan: There are also six people in this photo, all wearing green on the torso except for one (on the far left) who is wearing yellow. They are all standing on the seemingly hard gray material on the ground and are all standing up on both their legs. They appear to be standing in some fancy pattern though.  The person on the far left is facing away from the camera while the person next to her is facing the camera, then the person next to him is facing away from the camera (in the same direction as the first person) and so on. There is also one person who is just oddly standing alone away from the group of six, I get the feeling this person was not meant to be in the photo.

Sound

Opinion: I think the red team kind of took the easy way out with a lot of these sounds, and the blue team was definitely more creative with the sound section, but I suppose it's also important to think about those not very creative every day sounds you hear such as clapping. By picking such a basic sound it kind of shed light on what you're really hearing when you hear clapping.
Vulcan: As soon as the clip starts you begin to hear clapping. It sounds like sort of a popping noise but the pop is created by the collision of people's hand palms. The clapping sounds like it is spontaneous and that there is no pattern whatsoever in all of the clapping. A few seconds in a deep somewhat crackly voice says "Ya Got it? Everybody got it?" another voice responds in a low, not very enthused voice stating "Yeahhh" dragging out the pronunciation of the word. The first voice then says "Wait a minute, this is a video" and the clip stops playing.

Opinion: This is another basic sound brought to you by the red team, however, like I mentioned earlier I kind of appreciate the fact that the red team chose some basic every day sounds. Its kind of a fun challenge to try and describe such a common sound that is always referred to by it's name, not the sound it makes.
Vulcan: The clip starts and you immediately hear a series of thud sounds made by peoples' feet smacking against the ground. Smack is another good word to describe the sound. The sound is completely random and follows no noticeable order. Near the end a deep somewhat crackly but enthusiastic voice says "You guys gettin' it?" and group of voices responds with "yup" "yes" and "ya" and the man restates the question saying "Everybody gettin' it?" at this point the video ends.

Motion

Opinion: Although none of these dance moves were very advanced (with the exception of Doc Chris) they all got the job done and gave us some motion to analyze, so with the videos serving their function, I really can't complain about them all that much. I just feel like it's gonna be a pain to analyze all of these motions in the soul train line.

Vulcan: The video starts with two lines next to each other and with a large space in between, as the video proceeds people step out of the lines and into this space. The first person to do so is a man, he walks down the line with his head facing down and arms outstretched to his sides snapping. He does fancy footwork as his legs sort of take alternating step sizes one at a time. The next person to go down the line is a girl, she goes down the line with both her forearms crossing her lower chest, and parallel to the ground. As she proceeds down the line she bobs up and down and performs circular motions with her arms occasionally sticking one of her arms into the air and then proceeding with the circular motions. The next person to go down the line walks down the line rotating their body left and right while pulling on their jacket. The man does a few side to side steps here and there and also flings his legs out occasionally. The man ends his walk down the line with a sort of hop. There is then a several second pause in motion. The next person goes down the line hopping off of one leg and then off of the other while throwing her arms into the air like a wave. The next person goes down the line waving her arms in circular motions to her side. She then pulls her arms towards her and sticks one arm out. While doing this she sort of bobs up and down. 

Opinion: My opinion on this video is pretty much the same as my opinion on the red team's motion video. The dance moves are pretty sub par (especially since Doc Chris wasn't going down the line) and they still serve their purpose of creating motion, so, I really can't complain about it.

Vulcan: The set up for this motion video is the same as the previous, but there is one difference, in this video subjects walk down the space in groups of two. The first 2 people to walk down the line do so acting as if they are swimming. One person reaches their arms out in front of them and pulls them in as if they are swimming while another person pinches their nose and ducks down with their free arm waving over their head as if they were pencil diving into the water. The next two people walk down the line with their elbow joints at a 90 degree angle and doing circular motions with their forearms and bumping their hips together. The next group slows down the motion for a while as they discuss what motion to do. Once they start walking they go down the line they do so with their elbow joints at 90 degree angle and leaning to the left once, then again, then they begin leaning to the right, then do it again, and then they repeat these motions. The next two people go down the line very sloppily, all they do is hesitantly bounce hips again and again with a hesitant pause between each bounce.