week 6-sin city and animating masks

Before ------------------------- After

Part A of the tutorial-create sin city look
For the first part of the exercise we were asked to alter an image to have a sinister look. I tried this in both after effects and photoshop. Above is what i did in photoshop after completing a sin city tutotial. In this exercise i finally sucessfully used a font that added another layer to the piece and fitted in with the overall style.

Part B graffiti video

week6-graffiti exercise from lara hughes on Vimeo.

This weeks tutorial explores the concept of animating masks.

I used this opportunity to use try a camera flash transition( as seen in a music video i published earlier), achieved by using levels to get the white out effect and 'fast blue' to achieve the blur. I used to as a means of an event. As the aim of the exercise was to make it street style - I feel that because graffiti is often photographed that this fitted in well with the piece.

I used stickers as my graffiti in which i animated using the cc page turn effect to appear that the stickers are being put on and off. I tried to randomise this event -to look like it was peeling. Because stickers are used often to graffiti I found that by using the cc page turn effect and by layering the images that this successfully fulfilled the tutorial brief in creating a graffiti wall. I added a light and a camera to further create a sense of street-mysterious and secretive. However I still need to show more control over the camera- i just alter its position, not thinking about how this affects the visuals or the mood.

Looking back and looking at other students tutorial exercises, I could of also tried to change the look of the graffiti stickers -to look all the same- to create a sense of style to the piece.