Digital Photography And Imaging// Week 13

25/10/21-26/11/21(Mr Fauzi)

Chan Siew Ni #0352518
Digital Photography and Imaging//Week 13

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FINAL PROJECT// PROJECT 4

PROJECT 4: SELF-TITLED [30%]
Timeframe: WEEK 9 - WEEK 14
Duration: 15 second
Output: .MOV or .MP4 less than 20MB
Size: 1080 x 1920 px (I.G reel/ story size)

Submission: WEEK 14

Self-titled is an exploration project for the students to express their own individuality and reflect their personality into digital art self-expression. 

The main idea is to build up self-confidence and discover their interest. 

BIOGRAPHY ABOUT MYSELF

My name is Chan Siew Ni. I am introvert person but If I with friends I could be the craziest. I am a pessimistic person and think of the bad result first when something happened. I can’t live without listening music.

I like to watch dramas and movies. I used to decorate my yearly bullet journal very nicely and It makes me feel happy too. I also like to draw.

I want to give my parents and I to have a better live in the future. And I think this motivated me to work harder so that I can choose my own life.

I want to make the whole artwork is full of what I like about, to brings out the real me.

STATEMENT ABOUT MY ARTWORK

I want to make a poster that is full of what I like and keep it simple.

I want to bring out that we should love ourselves. We should love what

we love and think of it when we are upset and unmotivated then we shall move on.

Just do what you like, Live is just too short to let us hesitate too much. Don’t regret when we get old.

Quote/ Summary : Reveal Yourself

MOOD BOARD

Figure 1-1.2: Visual Research about self titled(mood board) sources from Pinterest

Based on what I have searched, I have an idea to create a self portrait in the middle then put many elements around me. And the elements that I put is all what I like or I think is beautiful. 

DESIGN DIRECTIONS (SKETCHES)

                                          

Figure 1.3: Sketch self titled 

DIGITAL POSTER 

Figure 1.4: Photo of myself (self titled)

Elements In The Poster

Figure 1.5-1.8: Some elements sources from Google  

Work Progress on making the poster

Figure 1.9: Work progress on the poster

Figure 1.10 : work progress on the poster

Figure 1.11: Video progress on making the poster(Time-lapse)

Link: https://youtu.be/4o8E7Mr1Mo8 

Drafts

Figure 2-2.2: Attempts on poster 

So these are some attempts that I did for the final project. The first one I try to make a sliding button with a smiley face and when I can myself to 'Happy' mode then the elements will appear. Then, the second one I tried to make this is what inside of me is full of what I like and this one is simplest one. And the third one I make is something like a zip pulling down from top to bottom and the 'real me' will slowly came out. 

Feedbacks: Mr Fauzi said that the face tearing into two parts was not a good sign or positive so he ask me not to focus on the faces and play around with the composition and the elements.

Figure 2.3: Final decision of poster 

And I made some changes based on the feedback, I put the original of myself not doing any changes and make some changes on the elements. I put some flowers on the top of my head like wearing a crown. Then I ask move some plants to the front to reduce the negative space. 

Feedback: Mr Fauzi is good with this one and he ask me to proceed to the next stage.

 Work Progress on making the video

Figure 3: Work progress on making 15 secs video of final project

Figure 3.1: Work progress on making 15 secs video of final project

Figure 3.2: Work progress on making 15 secs video of final project

 
      

Figure 3.3: Work progress on making 15 secs video of final project

So for the animating part, I try to make the elements appear one by one. And the first to move is the ocean and it will slowly came up from the bottom to the top. Then , I also make two leaves slowly came out from outside the frame to bottom left and right. After that, I also make the flowers and plants behind me to show up beside me. I also change the opacity of these elements from 0 to 100 so that it has the fade in effects. Lastly, I also make the flower crown slowly flew down from outside the frame to the top of my head. I also make it rotate on the way its down.

Outcome without audio: https://youtu.be/1EX3A262wck

Figure 3.4: Work progress on adding audio to 15 secs video of final project

Figure 3.5: Work progress on adding audio to 15 secs video of final project

For the audio part, I find two audios from Youtube. One of the audio is sea waves sounds and another one is forest natural sounds.

Sea waves sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nI8EyKMo2E&ab_channel=5MinuteMeditation

Forest Natural sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc4dHR3Ang0&ab_channel=ASoundEffect

I went to learn how to fade in and fade out the sounds so that they can combine together in the video . I put the sea waves sound effects during the animation of the ocean appearing so it make sense and looks real. Then, when the flowers and plants appearing, I slowly fade out the ocean sound effects and added the forest sound effects. 

Final outcome with audio: https://youtu.be/8x_MWUBN_GE