Digital Photography and Imaging - Final Project: Cinemagraphs - Self Titled

2023.12.18 - 2024.01.08 / Week 10 - Week 14

Teo Mei Hui / 0358315

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Final Project: Cinemagraphs - Self Titled

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INSTRUCTIONS

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IDEA DEVELOPMENT

Biography

Intro:

My name is Teo Mei Hui, I’m 19 this year and I was born on 11th August 2004. My zodiac sign is Leo and my MBTI personality type is INFP. As an INFP, I tend to be quite idealistic and imaginative, so I love to daydream about wonderful things. 

Paragraph 1:

Currently, I am a Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media student in Taylor’s University. It was my dream since young to pursue a career in the art and design field. I had always been interested in discovering or creating beautiful and aesthetic yet meaningful things. 

Paragraph 2:

I wish to utilize my imaginative and creative nature to achieve my best potential in this field. I love to see the ideas in my head being brought to life and presented to others.

Summary:

As an INFP, I will to let my creativity and imagination help me achieve my best potential as a designer.

Statement

Intro: Tell us about your work.

My work narrates my trait of being a dreamer that loves to daydream and imagine about wonderful things, and how it leads me to success.

Paragraph 1: What is the concept behind it?

“Endless light” represents the never-ending ideas and thoughts that goes through my head everyday. Besides that, these ideas help light up my path as an aspiring designer. I used celestial and galaxy elements as I think they symbolise infinity, to represent how I have infinite potential in me.

Paragraph 2: What is the message you want to convey?

We all have endless potential, our ideas and thoughts have the power to create a bright future for us.

Summary: What is your life motto?

Live out your full potential, love and enjoy life to the fullest.

References

Sketches

SKETCH PROGRESS #1	SKETCH PROGRESS #2

 

FINAL SKETCH:

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PROCESS

Photoshop

DIGITAL POSTER PROGRESS #1	DIGITAL POSTER PROGRESS #2
Take picture in the pose and with desired expression. Crop out picture and combine it.	Create clipping mask to do double exposure of galaxy on the face.

 

DIGITAL POSTER PROGRESS #3	DIGITAL POSTER PROGRESS #4
Insert vector elements found from internet.	Add double exposure of clouds to shirt. Adjust color and contrast of cloud.

 

DIGITAL POSTER PROGRESS #5	DIGITAL POSTER PROGRESS #6
Crop out picture and insert at the bottom	Do final adjustments on all the layers such as color, contrast and levels. Add shadow to (small figure me) and apply recoloring to lips (face)

After Effects 

Apply rotation to all the planets for the entire 15 seconds.

Apply mask path to make the frames reveal itself slowly from top to bottom.

Use position to make the elements (cloud and andromeda) hover up and down.

Combine position and opacity to create the effect of (me) appearing and jumping out of the portal.

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SUBMISSION

Title: Endless Light

Artist Statement: 

“Endless light” represents the never-ending ideas and thoughts that goes through my head everyday. Besides that, these ideas help light up my path as an aspiring designer. The celestial and galaxy elements as I think they symbolise infinity, to represent how I have infinite potential in me. The way the planets line up to form a pathway towards the portal, it can be interpreted as the road to success.

We all have endless potential, our ideas and thoughts have the power to create a bright future for us.

Video link:  https://youtube.com/shorts/Yajgv2XDQP0?feature=share

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REFLECTION

Personally, I enjoyed the ideation process for this assignment the most out of all others. Since the main topic of the poster is ourselves, and we were given a lot of freedom, it was easy for me to come up with ideas. It actually took me quite long to come up with something at first because I wanted to try too many things and couldn't really decide. I really appreciate the opportunity for us to express ourselves through this task.

The digitization process was not too tough as we were already well equipped with skills to use Adobe Photoshop proficiently from all the practice we got during the previous tasks. However, it is the first time we are integrating 3 modules in one assignment, so we had to make sure all 3 modules were equally touched on, and we had to use multiple software to complete digitizing it. The style of each module's components had to match well together.

Here's a not-so-fun fact though, my laptop almost crashed multiple times when animating in Adobe After Effects, so I didn't dare to do too much, and it also took super long to render. That being said, I'm guessing it's time to get a new laptop.

Overall, it was a really fun and enjoyable experience in my opinion, being able to use skills learned throughout this semester to create a unique artwork of my own was quite fulfilling. Lastly, I'm very happy with my final artwork, and i think it represents me really well.