About Project
The explorations project I had to base my work on a chosen photoshop artist: I chose Christophe Huet. Using his methods and style of photoshop I had to create between 6 – 15 images. Then put these images in to a slideshow with a soundscape in the background which had to run for the duration of 1 minute 30 seconds. I created 14 images including the transition, 13 photoshopped: 10 based on Huet’s work.
The images used were: photographic images of me, resources of the internet & designs I created in either photoshop or illustrator.
The sounds I used were: voice recordings of Shant Younki (which were recorded in the sound studio at Hertfordshire University), ambience sounds + sound effects from the internet, sounds from YouTube (Superman + TV static) & audio from an old home movie.
The programs I used to create this project were: Adobe Illustrator CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Audition 3.0 & Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.
About images
The images came out better than I expected, there were a few photos which were easy and I managed to get them done in 5 minutes or less, however there were a few which took up to an hour to create. My technique was to use big files and shrink them down, cut around myself to add in to the master file, smoothed the edges, changed the lighting and using the tools photoshop provides adjust where the light hits the body. I also used the adjustment tools a lot so that the exposure of each image worked with the background. I used a lot of over laying for the image textures. For the shadows I copied the image of myself, turned the lightness to 0 then added a zoom blur and changed the opacity and fill; then rearranged the shape and size to create the shadows.
About Sounds
The sounds I used were mostly taken from the internet then mixed in with audio which were recordings of Shant Younki. For the narrations I had to slow some of it down where Shant spoke too fast in some bits. In the transition and Motorola image where I appear nowhere I added an echo to symbolise the fact that there wouldn’t be ambience just a big space of nothing. I also added a small echo for the mind is angry at me scene as well as lowering the pitch. Most of the sounds I took from the internet I also improved using Adobe Audition.
Conclusion
The end result from all the work I put in to this project I feel was pretty good. My ideas worked well to the style of Christophe Huet and the sounds compliment the images well in the sequence.
I did have some minor problems with getting some of the images to come out as I wanted and struggled finding the right sounds I needed: but by improvising finding alternative sounds and editing the image differently they worked well.
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