This document provides an analysis of the film "Train of Thought" by Leo Bridle. It discusses the filmmakers, the basic film structure, and analyzes the content and themes of the film. The student believes the film is about love based on the main character searching for a woman he loves on a train. The character uses drawings as a map to find her. When he doesn't find her on the train, he returns to the station and finally sees her there. The student praises the filmmakers' use of animation and cutouts to give the film a cartooned yet realistic style.

1. Gallery of Student Writing
Shernel Woodman
Principles of Design
“Train of Thought” by Leo Bridle
Simple Outline
“A Journey for Love”
I. Leo Bridle and Ben Thomas were the film makers.
a. I believe they are in their late 20s and early 30s, and they
graduated from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.
b. From the United Kingdom.
II. The basic structure of the artwork is Film.
a. Material used was digital compositing software and all the
animations were done by hand and not the compositing
software.
b. The subject of the seemed to be the young artist and he
seemed to have been in search of someone. Everything seemed
to be between and a gray/sepia scale with a design using cut
outs and wooden toys.
III. I think this whole film was based on love.
a. My 1st idea is that he is trying to find the woman he loved.
He may have seen her before at the station and drawn her out of
memory and may have come back to find her there. When he
didn’t, he hopped on the train in search for her only to come up
empty. I believe he used his drawing pad as some sort of map as
to where she may have been. When he doesn’t find her, he
returns to the station once again and this time, he finds her. He
then realizes that she may be an artist as well and may have
gone through the same processes to find each other.

2. b. My 2nd idea is that he may have drawn her as well as the
other drawings in his book subconsciously and realized this was
a woman he had to meet. He then returns to the train station,
which is the setting of his drawing. When she doesn’t come, he
hops on the train and then goes in search for the woman that he
loves. When he doesn’t find her he returns back to the station
and that is where he finally sees her. They go towards each
other and hold hands, seeming like they both went through the
same measures to find each other.
I think the way the film makers used photography and film
made this a very interesting form of media. Everything looked
cartooned and real at the same time. The train station and the
train themselves looked like they were made out of wooden toys
and the people all looked like cut outs that were animated to
look like they were moving, inside of their cut out frames. This
was a well done film and they filmmakers did a wonderful job. I
must say it sure caught my attention.
Linda Hoffman-Ostroff
Techniques, Materials, and Form
Introduction to the Drinking Maiden Exhibition
Story Style
"A Maiden in Born"
My color is milky white and thus a maiden is born... I was
created by the great sculptural artist Ernst Wenck in 1901. He
created my soft white body by using his strong meticulous
hands. He is indeed an artist. I was created in a time when
conservatism was not very popular. Because of my intricate
detail and the delicate image I carry I became a model for
porcelain miniatures.
If you study my structure you see the qualities that may have

3. lead to my continued popularity. I lean forward and you see the
muscle tone of my leg by the light that is reflected from my
body. My body is heavy while I lean so far forward and place
the weight of my body on my knee. You can see my smooth
silhouette. My arm and leg conceal my privacy. This image of
me captures my long wavy hair and cast a heavy bun on the
back of my head. I have small facial features and they project
from my sculpture in a way that makes me fragile and still.
I have reached the cold wet refreshing spring water. I bring it to
my soft white face and the next moment in time is captured.
Carrsandra Thompson
What is Art? Who Makes Art?
Wimp.com/“How to be Alone “by Tanya Davis
Poetry
“You”
To be alone sounds so sad and blue
But that existence does not have to be true
Be patient in finding what is inside of you
There are so many hobbies that you can do
Spending time alone doing things that you like
Like reading, dancing and riding a bike
For all of the things that you do and say
Learn to be happy with “you” everyday
Chris Kelly
Principles of Design
“Design and the Elastic Mind” by Paola Antonelli
Compare and Contrast
“Innovation”

4. “The word design is both a verb and a noun, thus design is both
a process and a product” (Sayre 5th ed). Design and the Elastic
Mind is an exhibition, at the New York Museum of Modern Art,
of approximately 200 pieces involving science and technology.
Paoloa Antonellie, the shows curator, described the pieces as
“running the gamut from minute chemical innovations to
cutting-edge computer and sophisticated data visualizations,
effectively chronicling the expansive breadth of design today”.
The pieces in the exhibition are all different in their design,
materials, and purpose, but they all have a scientific or
technology aspect about them. One piece in the exhibition is
titled “Mapping the Internet”. This piece is a colorful
representation of the major internet connections around the
world. This piece is described as a graphical map, with the
brightest nodes, representing the locations with the most
incoming and outgoing connections. This piece was designed
for aesthetic purposes. It shows one of the modern world’s most
innovative technologies, the internet or a representation of it, in
a colorful creative way.
Another piece in the exhibition is titled “Bees”. This piece is a
very intricate handmade glass device with two separate
chambers. The piece is described as being a prototype for a
medical diagnostic device. The device was designed to assist
with diagnosis of diseases by utilizing bees heightened
perception of odor. The process involves a patient blowing into
one end of the glass devise, and bees trained to detect a certain
disease entering another separate chamber guided by a trained
odor response. This piece, unlike the previous piece is an actual
device that serves a purpose. Even though they are both
beautiful in their design, one piece services dual purpose by
having functionality.

5. Shawn New
Essential Elements of Art
Build a Bot Website
Design Analysis Style
"Mechanical Personalities"
This site is an interactive experience designed to challenge the
notion of beauty, while at the same time allowing the creator to
defile the sacred images of our society. The designer of this site
is merely a facilitator, providing the viewer with the tools to
create. Here, meaning is derived through use of proportion,
color, space, unity and balance.
On a blank grid, the viewer assembles a bot from a selection of
body parts -- an eye from one source, an ear from another. All
of these are taken from popular icons - Darth Vader is one
example. By enlarging a particular feature, the viewer-artists
can create dominance and a focal point for her/her work. And
because the pieces can be resized, the viewer-artist is using
proportion. However, while this principle is often used to create
a sense of depth or size, with the bot the proportion is distorted.
This is a desired effect for this exhibition; the popular icons
that society worships are larger than life. We give them a
disproportionate amount of validity.
The bots are composed of 3-dimensional illustrations, yet they
never come off as more than a 2-dimensional collage on the
screen. This is significant, because it speaks to the lack of depth
our sacred icons have. The bots also lack unity and balance, and
it is through this that the site designers again reinforce their
message. Finally, the colors of the various parts do not match;
the left eye is a difference color than the right eye, the skin
tones vary from part to part, etc.

6. The point here is to distort the elements of design to attack the
popular images of our culture that are so burned into our minds.
By deconstructing them and reassembling them as something
grotesque, the creator can see them for what they truly are.
Karen Hughes
What is Art? Who Makes Art?
The Blue Chicken, by Spassmonkey
Adjective Style: sonorant, unfocused, stagnated, faded,
spectacular, upbeat, solitary, eremitic, intoxicating, stark,
unblemished, alabaster, dazzling, enlightened
"A Bird's Eye View"
The sonorant, external stimulus emanating from "The Blue
Chicken", artwork by Spassmonkey, slams into my unfocused
retina. It vibrates to my stagnated cerebral cortex allowing
filtration through my being, a sorting of the senses is occurring.
The fourth role of the artist, "to help us see the world in new
and innovative ways", has been accomplished and a
transformation for this viewer is achieved. I am jousted out of
my complacency, uprooted from narrowed expectations of art,
and forced into seeing life anew (Sayre, 3rd ed.)
Writing Styles
Curators are curious about art and careful how they write about
it. These six writing styles are examples that give the curator
practice in being creative and putting their thoughts in print.
Each style expresses a unique approach to looking at art. The
six have been adapted from an early version of Rita Gilbert's
"Writing Guide and Projects Manual" for art. As an expert, you
will want your writing and thinking to be viewed in the best
possible light, so always compose your ideas in your word-
processor, then save your work, use spell check, and grammar

7. check before publishing. Study Tip! Print this page.
List of Six Writing Styles
1. 1. Using Adjectives
2. 2. Tell a Story
3. 3. Simple Outline
4. 4. Compare and Contrast
5. 5. Design Analysis
6. 6. Poetry
Using Adjectives
The adjective style is the hardest to use effectively because
each sentence is LOADED with poetic feeling throughout the
ENTIRE (short) essay. In other words, the placement of each
and every word counts, just like poetry. To start your essay,
view the web site and jot down 6-10 adjectives that express
your feelings about the interactive art then use some or all of
them in a tightly constructed, descriptive essay. I want to be
able to see, hear, feel, smell, even "taste" the aesthetic
experience with the art.
Do
· Be poetic. Every word, each placement counts.
· Exaggerate your use of adjectives.
· Every sentence should be alive with adjectives.
· Punch the first sentence with the power of expressive
adjectives and maintain that emphasis in every sentence that
follows (not easy to create that sort of consistency, you have to
think a lot).
Don't
· Don't string together a list of adjectives with commas; instead
empower each sentence with multiple adjectives.
· Don't wait until midway into your first paragraph to start
using descriptive adjectives.
· Don't just go back and find the adjectives you happened to use
in your essay and list those at the top in your labeling.
Tell a Story

8. Identify a theme or any emphasis you see in the online artwork
and let it act as a stimulus for an interesting story. Have the list
below with you when you look at the online art and use it to
"round out" your main character. Then, start your story.
* Main Character's Sex: Male or Female
* Main Character's Job or Profession: This element might be
inspired by the online field trip's theme or subject matter.
* An Archetype: This is a "type" of person, a typical psyche of
an individual which a general person might identify. For
instance, a story could be built around a beautiful princess like
Cinderella, or an evil leader like Osama Bin Laden. Even,
Lassie, the helpful dog has a personality. Decide on the psyche
of your main character and this might be inspired by the theme
or subject of the online art, too.
* A Key Object or Symbol: Is there an everyday object around
which your story might develop? A house, a car, a lake, a key, a
cat, a ring, a book? Use one of them as a prop for your main
character.
* Setting: A time and/or place in which the story occurs. Is it an
era, or is it an hour in which the action takes place?
Simple Outline
An outline uses Roman Numerals. Make sure your outline uses
Roman Numerals, to outline the following information. Make
sure you provide two, yes, two, content descriptions because
your second idea for content is probably going to be the more
insightful one. I pay particular attention to Roman Numeral III
dealing with the artist's content:
I. Artist (or group)
a. age estimation, gender, education if known

9. b. country and/or city or origin
II. Structure of the artwork (what is the primary medium for the
artist's composition)
a. materials, size
b. subject, color, elements of design and composition
III. Content (What is the artist trying to say?)
a. your first idea
b. your second idea
Compare and Contrast
Compare the work or artist's style that you are viewing with
other works you have seen, perhaps by the same artist, but not
necessarily. Below is a list of factors to be considered. You
don't have to compare everything on the list, just choose a
couple of items to compare and contrast.
1. subjects
2. time periods
3. media
4. cultures
5. style qualities
6. space or other design elements
7. how the works are used, where they are seen
8. emotional qualities
Design Analysis
Describe the artist's emphasis of line, shape, space, color, value,
texture or time. What is the artist trying to say by creating
emphasis in this way? Be sure to include in your discussion,
when appropriate, the use of the principles of art such as unity,
balance, emphasis, dominance, focal point, proportion, scale or

10. rhythm and why the artist used them.
Poetry
Poetry Visually
Defined: http://schools.pinellas.k12.fl.us/educators/tec/Tondrea
ult/Kinds.html
The following is a list of poetry types and styles that comes
from Millcrest Academy:
ACROSTIC POEM: A poem in which the first letters of each
line form a word or message relating to the subject.
BALLAD: A narrative poem which is, or originally was, meant
to be sung. Ballads are the narrative species of folk songs,
which originate, and are communicated orally. The narrator
begins with the climactic episode, tells the story by means of
action and dialogue, and tells it without self-reference or the
expression of personal attitudes or feelings.
CINQUAIN: A poetic form invented by Adelaid Crapsey, an
American poet. The five lines of the poem contain, in order,
two, four, six, eight, and two syllables. Iambic meter prevails.
CHORUS: Among the ancient Greeks the chorus was a group of
people, wearing masks, who sang or chanted verse while
performing dancelike maneuvers at religious festivals. Choruses
also served as commentators on the characters and events who
expressed traditional moral, religious and social attitudes.
During the Elizabethan Age the term "chorus" was applied to a
single person who spoke the prologue and epilogue to a play
and sometimes introduced each at as well.
COUPLET: Two successive lines of poetry with end-words that
rhyme.

11. FREE VERSE: A fluid form of poetry which conforms to no set
rules
HAIKU: A Japanese form of poetry, which gives a brief
description of nature. Haiku consists of three unrhymed lines of
five, seven and five syllables.
LIMERICK: A light or humorous verse form of five lines in
which lines one, two and five are of three feet and lines three
and four are of two feet, with a rhyme scheme of aabba.
NURSERY RHYME: A short poem for children written in
rhyming verse and handed down in folklore.
Chapter One: What is Art? Who Makes Art?
Writing About Art
After exploring the links on the right, choose ONE to write
about using ONE of the course Writing Styles.
Note to self- you are required to experiment with a DIFFERENT
WRITING STYLE for each written sample you turn in in the
SEE module.
If the minimum requirements of LABELING your written
sample are not met, the rubric for grading will not apply. It is
assumed you will compose each writing sample in your word
editor such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs, then copy and
paste them, one by one, into the assignment area.
FLASH, Shockwave, Quicktime or Windows Media Player are
minimum technical standards for viewing. If one of the links on
the right doesn't open for you, just move on to another in the
list because you only choose one to write about Who Makes
Art? What is Art.

12. How do I begin?
1. First, view all the possible choices in the list on the right,
simply for fun and pure pleasure.
2. Second, decide which one you want to write about (to dig
deeper by writing about it).
3. Third, use the artwork as a jumping off place for one of the
five writing styles.
What is Art? Who Makes Art?
· Original NY Garbage (Links to an external site.) (Beauty?)
· Kerry James Marshall (Links to an external site.)(Art +
African American Art History & Politics?)
· Princess of the Polka Dots (Links to an external site.) (Mental
Illness?)
· Crochet (Links to an external site.)(Craft meets Street Art?)
· Creepy Crawling Japanese Robot (Links to an external
site.)(Illusion vs Reality?)
· Iris Van Herpen (Links to an external site.) (Fashion meets
new 3D Printing Technology?)
· Tom Shannon's Gravity-Defying Sculpture (Links to an
external site.)(Science?)
· Abby Portner + Reptile Youth (Links to an external
site.) (Entertainment: The Art of A Concert, Video Mapping
Stage Design + Concert Culture?)
Chapter Two: See - Essential Elements of Art
Writing About Art
After exploring the links on the right, choose ONE to write
about using ONE of the course Writing Styles.
A reminder- you are required to experiment with a DIFFERENT
WRITING STYLE for each written sample you turn in in the
SEE module.
If the minimum requirements of LABELING your written
sample are not met, the rubric for grading will not apply. It is
assumed you will compose each writing sample in your word
editor such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs, then copy and

13. paste them, one by one, into the assignment area.
FLASH, Shockwave, Quicktime or Windows Media Player are
minimum technical standards for viewing. If one of the links on
the right doesn't open for you, just move on to another in the
list because you only choose one to write about The Elements
and Principles of Art.
How do I begin?
1. First, view all the possible choices in the list on the right,
simply for fun and pure pleasure.
2. Second, decide which one you want to write about (to dig
deeper by writing about it).
3. Third, use the artwork as a jumping off place for one of the
five writing styles.
Essential Elements of Art
· Incredible Concentration by Miyoko Shida (Links to an
external site.)(Balance)
· Singing Tesla Coils (Links to an external site.)(Light)
· Rollin Leonard (Links to an external site.) (Color)
· SLNOW (Links to an external site.)(Texture and Time)
· Action Painting-Masculine Expressionism (Links to an
external site.) (Color)
· 2,000 Suspended Tennis Balls (Links to an external
site.) (Line)
· Ten Things I Have Learned at Sea (Links to an external
site.) (Time)
· Oleg Duryagin (Links to an external site.) (Form and Value)
· The Islet of Asperger (Links to an external site.) (Space &
Emphasis - may contain culturally sensitive content)
Chapter Three: Design and Everyday Life
Writing About Art
After exploring the links on the right, choose ONE to write
about using ONE of the course Writing Styles.

14. A reminder- you are required to experiment with a DIFFERENT
WRITING STYLE for each written sample you turn in in the
SEE module.
If the minimum requirements of LABELING your written
sample are not met, the rubric for grading will not apply. It is
assumed you will compose each writing sample in your word
editor such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs, then copy and
paste them, one by one, into the assignment area.
FLASH, Shockwave, Quicktime or Windows Media Player are
minimum technical standards for viewing. If one of the links on
the right doesn't open for you, just move on to another in the
list because you only choose one to write about the Design in
Everyday Life.
How do I begin?
1. First, view all the possible choices in the list on the right,
simply for fun and pure pleasure.
2. Second, decide which one you want to write about (to dig
deeper by writing about it).
3. Third, use the artwork as a jumping off place for one of the
five writing styles.
Design & Everyday Life
· Banksy (Links to an external site.) (Everyday Life)
· Designalicious! (Links to an external site.)(Everyday Life)
· Fold, 2010 (Links to an external site.) (Repetition)
· The Shape of Flattened Food (Links to an external
site.) (Balance)
· Lisa Bufano (Links to an external site.)(Movement, Design,
Direction)
· Sahara Tent (Links to an external site.) (Continuity and
Dominance)
· Andrea Zittel (Links to an external site.) (The Intersection of
Art & Design)
Chapter Four: See - Techniques, Materials, and Form
Writing About Art

15. After exploring the links on the right, choose ONE to write
about using ONE of the course Writing Styles.
The same reminder applies- you are required to experiment with
a DIFFERENT WRITING STYLE for each written sample you
turn in in the SEE module.
If the minimum requirements of LABELING your written
sample are not met, the rubric for grading will not apply. It is
assumed you will compose each writing sample in your word
editor such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs, then copy and
paste them, one by one, into the assignment area.
FLASH, Shockwave, Quicktime or Windows Media Player are
minimum technical standards for viewing. If one of the links on
the right doesn't open for you, just move on to another in the
list because you only choose one to write about the Techniques,
Materials, and Form.
How do I begin?
1. First, view all the possible choices in the list on the right,
simply for fun and pure pleasure.
2. Second, decide which one you want to write about (to dig
deeper by writing about it).
3. Third, use the artwork as a jumping off place for one of the
five writing styles.
Techniques, Materials, and Form
· Soundsuits by Nick Cave (Links to an external site.) (Links to
an external site.)(Craft and Performance)
· Mine Kafon / Callum Cooper (Links to an external
site.)(Materials with Meaning)Embroidered Photos (Links to an
external site.), by Diane Meyer (Digital Media)
· Bill Viola's, Ocean Without a Floor (Links to an external
site.) (Photography and Symbolism)Ai Weiwei's Sunflower
Seeds (Links to an external site.) (Ceramics and Installation)
· Matthew Cusick (Links to an external site.) (Collage contains

16. culturally sensitive content)
· Banksy (Links to an external site.) (Drawing, Painting,
Performance)
· E.m-bed.de/d (Links to an external site.) (New Media contains
culturally sensitive content)
Chapter Five: See - History of Art
Writing About Art
After exploring the links on the right, choose ONE to write
about using ONE of the course Writing Styles.
The same reminder applies- you are required to experiment with
a DIFFERENT WRITING STYLE for each written sample you
turn in in the SEE module.
If the minimum requirements of LABELING your written
sample are not met, the rubric for grading will not apply. It is
assumed you will compose each writing sample in your word
editor such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs, then copy and
paste them, one by one, into the assignment area.
FLASH, Shockwave, Quicktime or Windows Media Player are
minimum technical standards for viewing. If one of the links on
the right doesn't open for you, just move on to another in the
list because you only choose one to write about the History of
Art.
How do I begin?
1. First, view all the possible choices in the list on the right,
simply for fun and pure pleasure.
2. Second, decide which one you want to write about (to dig
deeper by writing about it).
3. Third, use the artwork as a jumping off place for one of the
five writing styles.
History of Art
· Asci History of Art for the Blind (Links to an external

17. site.)(You'll have to Squint)
· The Chinese Teacup (Links to an external site.)(The History
of Porcelain and Glass)
· The Maiginot Line (Links to an external site.)(Urban Cave
Paintings)
· French Architecture - Strata #2 (Links to an external
site.) (Animation of Cathedral Stained Glass)
· Grand Theatre of Bordeaux - Strata # 3 (Links to an external
site.) (Pixelated Animation of Neoclassic Architecture)
SEE Formatting Template
11 pt. font/no word limit
Chapter 1: What is Art? Who Makes Art?
Your Name:
Site or Artist:
Writing Style:Poetry
“Place Your Creative Title Here between the Quotes”
Chapter 2: Essential Elements of Art
Your Name:
Site or Artist:
Writing Style: Design Analysis

18. “Place Your Creative Title Here between the Quotes”
Chapter 3: Design and Everyday Life
Your Name:
Site or Artist:
Writing Style: Simple Outline
“Place Your Creative Title Here between the Quotes
Chapter 4: Techniques, Materials, and Form
Your Name:
Site or Artist:
Writing Style: Story
“Place Your Creative Title Here between the Quotes”

19. Chapter 5: History of Art
Your Name:
Site or Artist:
Writing Style: Adjective
“Place Your Creative Title Here between the Quotes”
Optional Self-Assessment (using 7-pt Rubric on one of the
above)
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