Week 9 Exercise

Task 1: Create a Mood Board in Relation to the 1980s

I found this exercise pretty fun. I really like this sort of task and I found it quite interesting to research the 80s style and try to replicate that style in a mood board.

For the task we used Photoshop. It was quite simple. We used tools we've used before, like the pen tool, masking, lines, etc. The technical part was quite easy, and the best part was deciding whether to include images and trying to show a theme in the mood board.

My mood board depicts a woman from the 80s who's face a cut in half. Her hair, the colour and what she is wearing all seem to eminate what the 80s was about, which is why I chose this picture. I cut out her lips, because they were bright and vibrant and copied them so they made a repetative pattern. This I found was what a lot of designers did in the 80s. I used text that was fluro, bright, big and round, as this is the type I found was most used in this decade.

I quite like the overall composition and visual appearence of my mood board and I will apply what I learnt in the tutorial when I create the 5 panel mood boards for my audio driven animations.

Task 2: Attempt to cut out Characters from Video

This task I found extremely difficult. It was quite hard to follow what was going on, and what I was meant to be doing.

The task was to import a video (Duck and Cover) and try to cut a character out from it. Firstly we had to cut out a section that we wanted where the character we were going to cut out was displayed. Next we had to go to the first frame and mask the character. This part I found was easy enough as it was all techniques we'd used before. The next thing we had to do was Rollerscope the character. This means we'd have to go through the sequence frame-by-frame and remask the character to make the rollerscoping easier for the program.

This was easy enough, but what I found most difficult was trying to get the character to stay in shot. Like, everytime I tried to complete it, he was somehow not in the shot, even though I was cutting him out and remasking him. I found this technique extremely frustrating and I realise I need a lot of practice to get somewhere even half-way decent at it.

Note: The file was wiped from the computer and so I couldn't attach a video as an example (even though it was a ridiculous video, I still attempted it and gave it my best go) however, I thought I'd still include my reflections on this task.