Interactive collage

we are working on the theme of dream and exploring the realm of the unattainable dimension. hence questioning if we are living in a dream or are there actually another world out there dreaming or imaginating the world that we are currently living in.. so what is the real world?

Photo collage

I tried to make the as seamless as possible so as to ensure a smooth transition.

 

Screen shot of the final work

The cursor is represented by the boy flying through various world.

However due to technical difficulties, some of the images are slightly out of place. although not really obvious.

   

 

Urban Fantasy

Version 1                                                                                                        Version 2

           

I’m working on the theme of nature’s revenge.

Due to the frequent natural disasters happened recently all over the world, this should sound as a wake up call for us to protect the nature and minimise pollution and love the world better.

the first version was said to be very clustered and random. the idea of nature’s revenge was not clearly conveyed. Hence i change and use the second version. where the buildings are attacked by the forest fire, roads are frozen and lastly. The roots of the trees coming out as hands trying to tear down the roads and buildings as a form of revenge. paying back what the humans have been inflicting on the nature for the longest time ever.

 

 

 

Class assignment

Lecture:

During my jc days, i was very into surrealism as it allows the artists to create the impossible. Photomontage requires alot of creativity instead of just random collage of juxtapose various items to it.. It often questions the viewers on what they see. I did a photomontage painting of an orange in an apple for one of my assignment during my jc art class. The painting is inspired by Rene Magritte’s this is not a pipe.

Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte are from the Surrealism art movement. i really love their works because they are constantly questioning what our perspective of items in daily life which we tend to either take for granted or overlooked.

Tutorial:

The follow works down during tutorial are done via these 3 techniques

1) masque/ quick selection

2) masking / refine edge

3) adjustment layer.

to be honest.. i used all of them before.. unconsciously..  i didnt really read up on tutorials, i played around on my own and explore what these functions can do.

adjustment layer is really helpful but somehow i always end up editing on the original picture itself, which is a point to take note else it totally defeat the purpose of the “non-destructive photo editing”.

I’m still not really good at masking and edge refining as i tend to overdo it.. something new that i learn is to change the picture into a smart object so as to maintain the clarity if the image for resizing in future… this is extremely helpful.. but we can only rasterise the object if there are no more changes to be made..

Assignment 2 – Keitai phenomena

I’m wanted to protray how people sub consciously include picture taking in their daily life..

They are always busy snapping pictures of almost everything without thinking twice..

However, when it comes to proper photography for school work.. lots of consideration is taken and nothing comes out most of the time. HAHA

    

  

I wasnt really please with these so i took a series of pictures to show the intrusion of mobile phones in our daily lives

we bring phones all round with us and might have subconsciously allow them to replace bits and pieces of our lives

  

 

Milestone 1

All right, all NM modules seem to require blogging to keep track of our progress.. I ought to have more initiative to blog and keep up with my own progress.. but kinda lazy switching between OS using different software etc.. and too occupied to be motivated to even blog religiously like some people out there..

Assignment 1 – Exposure Triangle

1) Motion Blur

Location:  A cross junction between Clark Quay and City Hall facing the coloured building

Comments:

In order for the light trails to be nicer and cleaner, avoid panning motion. Have to mount the camera on tripod for more stability.

2) Deep Depth of Field

Location: Clark Quay, across the the river facing Riverside Point

Comments:

Using water as the foreground is tricky. (details of the water), Might end up as a SDoF instead.

3) Shallow Depth of Field

Item: Laptop Motherboard

Comments:

Would be better is the center piece with “Intel” is in better focus.

4) Freeze Action

Location: Fountain in the middle of Clark Quay,

Item: Water shooting up.

Comments:

Burnt white spots resulted from over processing. Water spurts turned out to look like dust and dirt.

Class Exercise 1 – Panning (Using S mode, shutter speed 13, Olympus E-pen 1)

P.s. i did not keep the original photo done during assignment, hence i took a new one.

Still have not get a hang of the panning motion. Although the taxi is not exactly very sharp.. but i guess the background is blur enough to make it count haha.

Class Exercise 2 – Look for the extraordinary within the ordinary… (Camera apps for mobile phone, Htc Desire)

1. Fire Hydrant behind the lift of AS6

Took this photo and made it looked abandoned than it already is. The idea behind this was seeing the fire hydrant in out daily life make it seems so ordinary, something that is just there, with the just-in-case mentality. But yet the extraordinary this item can do is to safe lives and buildings. Yet how many of us would pay attention to it. Not when it is placed at an area when people hardly walk past.

Comments:

Picture paints a thousand words but this picture does not display the context enough to allow viewers to get the idea at a glance.

Might be better if the picture captures the overall surrounding of the “abandoned” site.

Closure

Finally ended 3208 despite submitting the dvd late but at least i did complete the module.

i hope to do well but.. dont really see light in that. i just gave my best

what really caught me up was the making, i did a walk thru of how i made the videos and was 3-6min on average.. longer den the assignments itself

and then ppl told me their making was 1 min.. o.O omg.. did i do too much or what.. sigh

and my comp is in ICU now.. it cracked so loudly and i tot it’s going to gave way.. burn 3 dvd onli 1 worked.. and that one wasnt printed on.. dammmm sian

i decorated my dvd cover to gave it an ART-ATTACK touch to it.. (art attack is my fav art show since young)

menu layout

it’s meloburst aka mel o burst.. i burst due to exhaustion booo.

i”M PROUD TO SAY I SURVIVED NM3208.. and.. i took 6 mod including this.. INSANE i’m mad..

yes i’m not even thinking soundly while typing this.. that’s the after effect of 2 days without slp (oops pun not intended lolol) .. used to much AE already haha

Group project – NUS and CNM

Group6_NUS_Video_Preproduction_Documentation

we made changes to the NUS video as we faced problem thinking about that objects we can used to connect different students. we changed it to the easiest interview method. BUT the another problem we faced is to denoise  it but luckily it can be done.

I did more on the CNM video, where i key out the green screen and added motion to it.

on nus

on cnm

as you can see from the cnm video the background is fake, the door plate is fake to. so we have to track the motion frame by frame and rotate it.. many sleepless nights and stayover in sch to finish it up.. but i love most is the continuous action of pass right den out of the frame to the real world. it’s kind of what we expect it to look like. happy with the output.. All of us worked hard. YAYA

Assignment 4 – super power

How i came up with this idea is cause i often get black out from studying.. like cannot see clearly also.

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here are the sketches, i managed to film according to the storyboard but made some minute changes while piecing the videos together.

the hologram is rather easy to create, just reduce the opacity of an existing video den rotate it at an angle rather than  a flat images moving without perspective.

the other effect like glowing , smokey, fiery eyes are used using presets mov clips and scaled down, postition it frame by frame as there are blinking motion hence i can use motion tracking.

the tedious part is to match the blinking of the eye with the change of content of the hologram haha that took me some time.

but over all superhero is the only assignment that  i managed to finish the fastest. I was really clear of how i wanna do it and if it doesnot work out will use effects to smoke it thru ahhaha but i’m glad all worked well.

Assignment 3 -Typography

hoho, the song i chose so happen to be julian’s jogging song? o.O

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the sketched i did, sorry for they messy sketch, i just drew what ever i can think of hahaha.

i chose this song cause it was really catchy, but based on the critic session i did not make full use of the screen, alot of empty spaces before the words appear one by one.. which i kinda agree.  The transition between the verse/different composition is not smooth but i still want to keep the rotation of the background.

so i keep the font/word but changed the placement abit. so that there are more movements to it.

such that playing around with the size of the words. zooming in and rotating it in an awkward placement like 45 degrees across the screen.

i also build a 3-D box in the space so as to better facilitate the rotating movement. and also added the 3oh3! hand sign at the ending. i did the skewing of image using the corner pin so as make it look like hands moving rather den a picture moving.

I love this assignment the most and will definitely play around more with typography

Assignment 2- Ken burn

i’m not foreign to this technique before this module.  I picked it up some time ago for some other modules. All i can say is that, ken burns is an easy technique which is difficult to master. we have to direct the viewers attention by slowly revealing and moving across the  photo rather than a still image.

but what i’m worried about the most is the theme, to promote NUS. I dont really have much life in nus other den going home after classes and skating once in a while. At the same time i do not want to work on ideas that other have come up with, like mentioning how GD nus is..

my first idea was to split N-U-S up, finding adjective starting with N, U and S. but i end up abolishing the idea as i cant come up ideas to improve it after the critic session.

so i decided to do something that is more about me, my life in nus, the honest truth on how my life in school has changed from yr 2 to yr 3.

The main character is gloomy at the start but towards the end she fit well with the environment being in full colour.

i was shocked to see that Jeremy’s work is rather similar to mine.. see NUS is a depressing place.

Basically, i just zoom into a small part of the photo then pan as it zooms out, crossfade to the next image, i wanted to use box rotate for some but the quality sux when i render it out. So just keep it simple i guess.

If the topic were not to be on nus, i feel that i might be able to do better. *shurgs..