Ann Ghafur : Final Major Project

Creative Making.

During our second week of Final major project we was given a collaborative project "Creative making" in which we had to work with students from lens base media and media production.

The given task was to make something creative with only using a kit of parts which were things that are common to all students, what we then decided to do with all of the objects was down to us, the given objects were the given below:

A sock
A torch
String
2 different buttons
A sponge
Blutak
Rubber bands
A book
Paper clips
A map
Masking tape
A ball
A plastic bottle
A box.

We was also given some suggested other resources to use which where the following:

Drawing medias
Pens
Pencils
Glue
Tape
Scalpels
Rulers
Wet medias
Inks
Paints
Brushes
Coloured papers
Card
Layout pads/Sketchbooks
Camera
Cutting Mat.

Our group included 3 Graphics students and 3 lens base media students.

Our first original idea was to create a survival kit using the objects in the box for all different people of all ages and all different careers, in which the graphics students would come up with a brand name and logo for the kits and crate a small brioche or poster for them and then the lens base media students would create a short adverts for the survival kits.

Our second idea was to construct a monster like sculpture out off all of the objects and materials in the box and to then create our own individual interpretation of it, in which we would then display them all together with the sculpture standing in front of all the individual pieces.The point of this idea was that no one would know what pieces was created by which student.

The group thought that the second idea would be alot more visually interesting and the audience would have to think about it more, so we decided to go with that idea.

so then i had to think about how i wanted to show my own interpretation of this sculpture, i came up with a few ideas;

Detailed Drawing.
Turning it into a actual monster/Illustration.
Create a exhibition poster.
Create my own version of the same sculpture using different materials.
Create a collection of an image of the sculpture edited in different ways on photo shop.

I decided to go with the small collection of images edited on photoshop.

firstly I had to get some images of our monster-like sculpture from a few different angles and select which image I was going to use to edit.

The images below are the images that were taken of our group's sculpture.

I decided to go with the first image taken because for I thought it would the best image of the sculpture, for you could see the face of the monster and in all the other images it is not very clear what our sculpture is meant to be.
Once I had chosen my image I started to play around on photoshop with the filers and some of the other different settings and here are some of the outcomes.

Here I have added a Reticulation filter to the image which had made the image slightly pixilated and turned the image into black and white making the darker colours slightly darker than a normal black and white filter would, I feel that it gives off a very old film effect to it.

Here I have used the stained glass filter, which makes the image look like it is a piece of painted glass that you would normally see in glass windows in doors or churches.

This images shows the vibrant red filter, which had made all the red shades and tones in the image brighter and vibrant, it had also made all of the other colours in this image slightly green.

Here I have used the wind filter, which has made the outlines of the sculpture look smoother with a slight ripple.

Here I had added a normal black and white filter to the image, which has just made the darker colours in the image black and the light colours in the image white.

In this image I had made it so that the bright colours are lighter and brighter and the darker colours are darker and dull I did this by changing the colour levels and curves in the original image.

Firstly I inverted the image so that everything was in negative, I then added a red and white gradient map over the top because I thought the negative colours really did work with the sculpture.

Here I have added the liquefying filter which has given the image the effect of a piece of dripping water.

I feel that this filter didn't really work very well with the sculpture.

This image had the motion blurred filter added to it, also I have added a red and green gradient map as well as a green filter over the top, I feel that this edit gives the effect of something that you would see in a scary film or a poster for a scary film.