skill learnt - Adobe's After Effect's Position, Scale, Rotation, Opacity
Through exploring Position, Scale, Rotation, and Opacity in Adobe After Effects, I enhanced my ability to create dynamic and visually cohesive designs. Adjusting Position brought movement to the music notes and cassette tapes, while Scaling emphasised the music notes’ importance. Rotation added an engaging spin to the vinyl records, and Opacity gave the butterflies a delicate, layered effect. These techniques helped me create a harmonious and expressive composition, improving both my technical skills and imaginative storytelling.
Overall Reflection :
Reflecting on my journey from Week 1 to Week 14 in the Digital Photography and Imaging module feels like looking back at a vibrant mosaic. Each week is a thread, weaving together skills, challenges, and creative development. What began as a simple exploration of tools like Photoshop and Adobe After Effects and their methods transformed into a deeper understanding of how to create stories through visuals, with every detail serving a purpose.
In the beginning, I was learning to navigate the basics like compositing, layering, recolouring. These were simple but full of potential, like learning the notes of a new instrument. As the weeks went by, I found myself creating harmonies, using composition and balance to turn static elements into dynamic narratives. The shift to combining physical and digital collages taught me how to connect the tangible and the abstract, bringing ideas to life with a sense of intentionality and flow.
Halfway through, the challenges became more exciting. Tasks like recolouring black-and-white photographs, double exposure and creating digital surreal compositions gave me the chance to experiment boldly with colour, texture, and emotion. It was like discovering a hidden colour palette inside of me, where every shade carried meaning and every element told a story. I learned to trust my feelings, embrace experimentation, and use creative risks to give my artwork alive.
By the final weeks, everything came together. In my lastest assessment, Poster : Self-Titled, I was able to concentrate on conveying stories in a more purposeful, professional manner since every skill I had built like layering, balance, movement, and attention to detail, felt natural. In order to give the artwork a deeper significance and a more fluid meaning, I also learn how to use Adobe After Effects to create some little movement. I started to see my work not just as individual pieces but as part of a larger creative vision. Each project became a stepping stone toward something greater.
In conclusion, my 14 weeks have been like an artistic odyssey—challenging, informative, and deeply rewarding. This experience has not only deepened my understanding of digital photography but also ignited a passion for creating meaningful, dynamic compositions that tell powerful stories. This journey has left me inspired, and I'm excited to continue exploring and refining these skills in the future.
Week 5 Lecture : Topic - Double Exposure Today's session covers double exposure, which is the process of merging multiple images to create surreal, emotional, or hilarious effects. We also learn how to utilise blend modes to generate double exposure in Photoshop. (sample - Double Exposure) (sample - Blend Mode) Tutorial & Practical : Project 1B - (1) Hearst Mansion 1. Hearst Mansion (Shazam) 2. Hearst Mansion (My Reflection) 3. Follow instructions from the W5_HEARST MANSION https://bit.ly/3CsxWyK 4. Submission of E-portfolio 5. Attach your Week 5 E-portfolio link on this submission Work: (video - Progress) a. SHAZAM + = b. MY REFLECTION + =
Timeframe : Week 1 - Week 3 Instruction Press Link to View MIB (A) Describe the design principles & select suitable design examples. (B) Select and explain the chosen art/design work that piques your interest. (C) Lecturer's feedback. (A) Design Principles 1. Gestalt Theory Gestalt theory is a set of psychological concepts that describe how the human brain naturally organises visual information by viewing things as a whole rather than individual pieces, creating a coherent and meaningful image, even when presented with complex arrangements. (i) Similarity Similarity refers to the concept of having multiple elements in a design share visual characteristics such as colour, shape, or size, giving the impression that these elements are related and belong to the same group. Resulting in a sense of visual unity and organisation within the design. Sky and Water I Artist : M.C Escher Year : 1938 Medium : Woodcut print Size : 43.66 cm x 43.82 cm Example : The artwork "Sky a...
Timeframe : Week 3 - Week 5 Instruction Press Link to View MIB (A) Visual analysis. (B) Sketch and describe 3 ideas on how the selected design can be improved. (C) Lecturer's feedback. (A) Visual Analysis Chosen Design From Task 1 The Silence of the Lambs Artist: Dawn Baillie Year: 1991 Medium: Print / digital Size: Standard movie poster size (27 x 40 in) Phase 1 - Observation (Definition : Observation means carefully looking at a design and describing what you see in your own words without jumping to conclusions.) This movie poster is in portrait format. It features a close-up of a woman's face as the main focus. Her skin is pale, almost ghostly, and her eyes have a weird red hue. The most noticeable element is a large moth covering her mouth, with its wings spread wide. The moth's body bears a distinctive skull-like pattern. The background is plain and fading, so the woman's face and moth are the most prominent aspects. The title of the movie "The ...
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