On Saturday a couple of us from the group went to Washington Square park to fully experience roaming around with our sight. Apparently I got weird looks but that’s fine.
After this experience I truly believe that texture affects mood. The spiky fences when disorderly really made me feel agitated, while the well kept trees made me feel relaxed.
I spent the day on friday at the park so I got to feel the sunset and the park at dark. It was refreshing because I was able to feel it with a hindered sight. I occasionally took my glasses off as well to further hinder my sight. I also had head phones in so I wasn’t able to hear much.
I took data on a map I got for orientation because I wasn’t able to take an extra copy of my map. I made sure to number each pole according to the order of the pictures I took.
I added circles on top of the other one, but when I sent it to Gigi she said it looked like a dirty photo copy.
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So I tried it again.
This is the black and white version
And this is the one with color. I decided to stay simple with the color because I’m planning to
As a group we made a mind map of out feelings in relation to texture.
I went to the Washington square park during mid day on thursday. It was filled with mostly locals. I immediately noticed that the texture of the paths varied on texture depending on how close it was to the most populated area.
I started focusing in on the poles. I noticed that the poles furthest away from the fountain connected were broken and jagged. Which created an unwelcoming environment. While poles closer to the fountain/more populated areas were more tamed and well kept, which made me feel more welcomed in the space
To the left is off to the side where not a lot of people are and the right is near the fountain.
While editing I realized that not everything was the same size. I kept looking at the screen and wondering why the boarders would change between every 5 pictures or so.
I went to Photoshop from Premiere Pro to edit the size from 43 in by some obscene number to 28 by 17–ish. And the boarders are now consecutive.
Also when I dropping photos to Premiere, some would import upside down. So I had to go to photoshop again to fix that.
I didn’t want to do transitions because I felt that the jump cuts were more raw feeling.
Note to self: don’t panic.
I have decided on an order, so now comes editing. We went over photo shop in class–but I ended up doing a lot of google/lynda-ing. It…didn’t really helped. I kept having trouble moving the edited photo to the final plane sheet– it kept just copying and pasting the original. I saved it as it’s own file and copied and pasted it, not quite sure if that’s the write way of doing it but it worked.
I scrapped the idea of speech bubbles, because it was a bit too literal. I didn’t think it was doing anything for the mood of the piece.
Color was a large part of editing. The photos go from warm to cool, to show my emotions going from feeling peaceful to feeling alone. Simply put a visual representation of indifferent to sad.
So originally I wanted to used three photos, but when I re-read the assignment it said four. Which was a good thing that my roommate and I went back in, because a photo from that session might will be the fourth photo.
(This is the original order I wanted it in)
Another order I’ve considered
But I didn’t think it conveyed the sense of loneliness, more–boredom.
Then I come across this order,
But inserting the photo below between the last two. I think it conveys loneliness and impatience more.
My roommate and I had a mini photo shoot, and took a couple of photos a few days ago. Pictured are a couple of them– I’ve already gone through and picked ones I wanted to edit.
Yesterday we went in and took a bit more because I wanted this angle