One day project

The brief for the one day project that was set was to create an image that illustrates nature and technology but also one of 5 words given to us. the words were depth, revolution, encounter, journey and element. I choose to attempt encounter.

To convey the word encounter using the themes of nature and technology I chose two images that epitomise the respective themes, a lion and an overpass at night. The lion signifies nature in a powerful way, being one of the great predators of the natural world. I chose to use the overpass for the aesthetics, the overpowering white conveys a pure, futuristic and modern message. The combination of these images signifies encounter because the lion is encountering the modern, technological world.

I further manipulated the image by adding white swirls that blend into the white floor, and added a green glow that blend it into the background. I also added the shadow and changed the levels on the lion to make it more realistic. Finally I added the text and gave it a shadow that matches the lion's shadow and added some ink splats. I feel that the location of the text helps to draw the eye due to the white space around the image and the contrasting colours.

WEEK 1: My Experiences

In my first blog post I’m going to talk about my initial experiences on the interactive media production course and a few thoughts towards my images project. After a fairly relaxed week of inductions at the university and meeting course mates, the course properly kicked off on Monday. I found the first key note lecture to be quite intense and really had to focus on what was being said despite suffering from a bad case of fresher’s flu. I feel that what was being said in the lecture about signification is extremely important in regards to the images project that we have been set, the images that are chosen and how they are edited must signify to the audience nature and technology in one image. We also had smaller lectures specific to interactive media production on the first day, these helped to relate a lot of what was said in the keynote lecture to the course and obviously focused further on the interactive side of modern media.

From Tuesday the week became a lot more practical, I enjoyed getting on Photoshop and using the Macs and brushing up on the skills that will be required to create the images for this term’s project. I found that the workshop tutorials were run well and the aspects of Photoshop were explained clearly so I now understand a lot more of the tools.

I have also thought of a few ideas for the nature and technology images project so have attached a couple of images below that I may use for the first couple of images.

  

In the week I also went out with my course mates on Thursday, was great to meet them outside of university and get to know each other properly despite the lack of effort towards the fancy dress theme.

Finally, I’m looking forward to the coming week, another keynote lecture at 10 o’clock on Monday morning.... and getting into the project and starting to edit some images.