Digital Imaging and Photography / Project 4 Self-Titled
Project 4
Janice Marie Eng Chia Hui
0361521
Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Digital Photography and Imaging
Section 2
As mentioned before, I wanted to make something like a magazine
cover/collage.
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I pre-composed the layer where I was black and white and followed this
VIDEO to create a
glitch effect. After that, I trashed the file and redid the whole thing
again because it was messy :D. I created a new file and redid the glitch
effect but this time, I actually understood how to open a new composition
file and did it there.
Figure 1.8 Initial Video 2
Figure 1.10 Life's Not Real (Final;6/7/23)
Figure 1.11 Life's Not Real Video (2/7/23)
Janice Marie Eng Chia Hui
0361521
Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Digital Photography and Imaging
Section 2
Project 4 Self-Titled
For this project, we were required to make a poster that expresses my own
individuality and reflects my personality in digital art as a form of
self-expression. The main idea of this project is to build up
self-confidence and discover our interests.
1. Idea Development
I used the slides that Mr. Fauzi gave as a template to write my bio and
statement. This of course helped me to come up with ideas.
1. Write a biography about yourself
INTRO
My name is Janice. I will be 20 years old on November 12. I am very camera
shy but I’m trying to get better at it.
PARAGRAPH 1
I am introverted but act very extroverted with the people I am close with. I
like cats and have visited the same cat cafe 3 times cause I do not know any
other cat cafes. I value responsibility and honesty in a person, but I also
have a hard time saying no to other people :D. After a tough day of
socializing, I like to come home and do nothing.
PARAGRAPH 2
My hobbies include watching any kind of movies or TV shows, sewing, and
baking. I like learning new skills in my free time because I have no
pressure to excel at them and can work at my own pace. Sometimes when I work
I like to listen to documentaries or videos essays and podcasts.
SUMMARY
I am very indecisive and can’t say no. My love for cats will outlive me.
2. Write a statement about your work
INTRO
I would like to explore about my thoughts on my life in the poster.
PARAGRAPH 1
I like flowers and meadows, I guess you can say I like that cottagecore
aesthetic. That's why I tried to dress up to fit that aesthetic when I was
snapping a photo of myself. Sometimes, I would lay in bed and think ‘wow,
I am doing nothing with my life’. That sometimes keeps me awake.
PARAGRAPH 2
As mentioned before, I like the cottagrcore aesthetic. I also wanted to
make the poster look kind of like a magazine cover or something like
that.
SUMMARY
I want to find out what to do with my life but I don’t know yet.
Research/Visual reference
Pinterest Board for more of my visual reference
2. Design Direction
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Figure 1.1 Sketch
Digital Poster Progress
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Figure 1.2 Initial Poster Layout
Figure 1.3 Final Poster screengrab
Figure 1.4 Poster Process
Figure 1.5 Photos used
I set the background with the daisies imaged. After that, I used the square
selection tool and copied a square section of the background before pasting
it on a new layer to make it look like a door. After that, I change the
background into a smart object and changed it into black and white. I added
a new solid layer that was blue in colour, which I later applied a pollinate
effect onto the layer and changed the blending mode to hard mix and messed
with the opacity till I got the effect I liked. I followed this
VIDEO.
I later cut out me, the sunflower and the butterfly from the images and
added it to the poster.
3. Execution and Post Production
I then imported my Photoshop file into After Effects.
Figure 1.6 After Effects Process
After creating the glitch effect, I used the position, rotation, scale, and
puppet tool to animate both butterflies. I wanted to add more movement to
the poster, so I put a glitch effect on the blue monotone
background.
After that, I animated the font following this
VIDEO to create
the drip effect. I forgot to mention, but the font used is called
RETRO COOL.
Moving on, I took the song
Derealization by
Bambi Baker on YouTube, and put the link into a YouTube to MP4 converter
hahaha cough definitely not illegal and uploaded it into AE. After that, I
cut the audio clip, put timeframes for the audio, and added some effects
into it to get something that I was ok with.
After rendering it I realised the transition from normal to glitch was
awkward so I added a glitch transition from a
green screen video.
Figure 1.7 Initial Video
Figure 1.9 Life's Not Real Initial Poster (1/7/23)
4. Submission
Figure 1.12 Life's Not Real Video YouTube (2/7/23)
Channelling Alice in Wonderland, I am walking into a colourful place with
flowers and a blue sky. Outside of ‘Wonderland’ is a monotonous scene.
Life is not real. Every day I wake up, I eat, I do work, I sleep and then
one day I will die. I barely do any of my hobbies nowadays and only do
school and doom scroll on the internet. Is life real or fake, hell if I
know? This poster is me going through a crisis at how uneventful and
meaningless my life is because of my non-existent social life. The
colourful world symbolizes the things I want to do, while the monotonous
world is things that I must do. Colourful me is looking at monotone me
while monotone me is ‘looking’ at the camera to show that I am present for
the stuff I need to do but not for the things that I want to do because
I’m too distracted by the stuff that has to be done.
Feedback
Week 14 : Sir said maybe I can try omitting the BnW version of me from
the video. After doing that, I asked my friends which one they liked more
and most of them said they liked the one without the BnW me so I chose
that too.
Reflection
My experience with this project was decent. Mr Fauzi gave us the basics for each of the software and then the rest was up to us. This of course gave us a lot of creative liberty and allowed me to also learn new things at my own pace. I learned a lot about After Effects from this assignment such as how to use a displacement map, the puppet tool, and the effects presets in AE.
My observation with this project is that After Effects is not that hard to
use if you know what you are doing. Of course, I do not know what I am
doing, but with the help of some really detailed and helpful YouTube videos,
I manage to figure things out.
My findings for this project are that photo editing and video editing are
fun. I get to change a picture into something else and then animate it into
anything I want. Talk about catfishing to the max.
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