Assignment 3: U C what I C: Critique and Changes
Monday, October 1, 2007
After looking at my pictures, one main concern was how the 'sleep' and 'dreaming' factor was not obvious at all. There were suggestions to either sepia print or greyscale the images that belong in the dream. However, I do not agree to doing so as it might make it a bit too obvious that it is in fact a dream , then the twist will not be of a surprise.
However, I agree that something has to be done to create the difference between the dog's dream and reality. Thus I decided to blur the edges to give it a dream-like feeling. Using Photoshop CS2, I selected a circular area and used the 'Feather' option, setting it to a value of 50. Then, I used a white colour soft brush with an opacity of 60% to colour the edges. Then, I copied that layer and applied it to the rest of the photographs which I wanted to have the 'dreamy' feeling.
For the first picture, I changed it to the one where Lucky and his owner was already in the park. This will allow me to insert another picture of Lucky waking up from his nap later in the story, which will show the actual twist that it was in fact a dream. I also added black text 'ZZZZZ...' to the first picture to show that the owner actually fell asleep in the park.
Some of my coursemates asked me why I did not show the face of the owner, I explained that I did not do that because humans tend to give their attention to other humans, and this will take the attention away from the dog, which is the main protagonist in this photograph story.
I wanted to take some new photographs to improve on this project, but from my experience in Visual Communications, I have come to realise that circumstances may not always allow you to change your projects even if you want to. My dog was not as co-operative as the first time and my second attempt at the pictures was not usable for the story.
Here's the final pictures for this assignment:
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