One Day Task #1

I know it’s a little late (almost a week to be exact!) but I have finally got round to putting the result of our first one day task up on here.

The word that I was trying to respond to was “Encounter” and because the theme of this task was Nature and Technology, I initially thought about the interaction or rather then encounter between two animals. With this in mind, I went to the park with a flatmate armed with a bag full of nuts in the attempt to try and get a squirrel to eat out of her hand. I succeded in getting the photo I wanted however, the grass let the photo down.

This is where I started to edit the photo by trying to either airbrush the grass and make it look more appealing or to completely replace it with another image. Both of these attempts failed miserably and I’m not going to put them up on here as they are shockingly bad!! Joe had a look when I was trying to edit it and said that it was obvious that the two images (the squirrel and the grass) weren’t meant to be placed together and that maybe I should take it to the extreme and make it even more obvious…

…and so as you can see, I sent the squrriel into space!!

The space image I used for the background was taken from Google Images as was the spaceman himself. I used a couple of techniques we learnt from our Workshop sessions for example, the lens flare and the quick mask tool. I also stole the image that Will gave us of a flame and editted this to make it look like it was coming from the space shuttle.

By including the hand in the image it makes it obvious that its not meant to be there, but at the same time makes you look a little harder and the image I feel and this is when you spot that it is a squrriel in the space suit rather than a human!
The text on the image was meant to appear in a speach bubble but for some reason Photoshop wasn’t playing ball at the time!

I think it is a pretty poor attempt to be honest, but this is where I feel I struggle…I can’t create an image from scratch. My knowledge and previous experience with Photoshop has been to edit a photograph that I had previously taken so effectively I’m only improving/airbrushing what is already there.

Who knows….on the next task maybe my skill may have improved a little and I might get a better idea to develop and experiment with (thats going to be a task in its own right!) OR on the other hand, maybe not! LOL.

The Beginning of Time…

This blog marks the start of my BA in Interactive Media Production at Bournemouth University. My understanding of the blog, along with the ‘Visual Diary’ is to document our thought process/ideas/emotions as well as our achievements a long the way – so here goes!

When asked by Joe, “What do you want to achieve from doing IM?” my inital reaction is, I haven’t got the foggest! When asked the same thing again by Mik today I managed to come up with “To get into an industry where I will get rich!” (or something to that effect).

But thinking about it, my ultimate goal is for a carrer in Advertising/Marketing, so I guess I want to learn how to use different computer programs in order to make a product(s) for future clients, whether this be a website, animation or even just a static image/advert. And after all, I’m told thats the industry where all the money is!!

To bring you up to speed on the progress of my course, I have offically started my visual diary today. I have been all around my flat collecting images, cuttings, stickers to go into it (whether my flatmates what the paper or not they don’t get a choice!). I will begin sticking these into my mini sketch book tomorrow, although I’m not really sure where it’s going to lead. I find I’m not one of these people that can plan out loads of different ideas and respond to them and bring them all to a conclusive point, but rather find one idea which seems to come from nowhere and stick with it and that would become my final idea. I’m also not very good with the whole experimenting with the idea as I’m going a long, so I suppose you could say that is something else I want to get from this course…to learn or rather to gain the ability to let ideas flow freely and become much more creative than I have been in the past (although once thing I can be sure about is that there will be NO artistic sketches or drawings going on – I mean just look at my Pictionary attempt earlier today!).

I think I’m going to call that the end of my first blog entry, its pretty late considering I haven’t been out or done anything other than playing Floorball for the very first time today which was certainly entertaining…think I was gradually getting the hang of it though so I might try it again!

Until next time – Byeee!