Final Project: Cinemagraph - Surrealistic Parallax

 

19/10/20 -23/11/20 (Week 9 - Week 14)
Caitlyn Aurelia Tjandra (0339381)
Digital Photography and Imaging
Project 4 - Surrealistic Parallax


Week 9 (19/10/20)

Research

Ideation

When we are talking about dreams I would say collecting books. But if I was given a chance to be anything, I want to be one of those characters you liked inside your book. It was clear from my statement before that I love books. On rainy day, I read them while enjoying my cup of tea. My Design would reflect my dream and fantasy of going inside a book. The book that I chose was Alice in Wonderland, since the story actually kind of reflects what I’m doing. Furthermore, I really love Alice in Wonderland when I was a kid, I watch them over 5x.

References

Fig 1.0 Reference 1

Fig 1.1 Reference 2

Fig 1.2 Reference 3


Week 10 (26/10/20)

Exploration: 50%

Sketch
Fig 1.3 sketch 1 'alice in wonderland dimension'

Design Elements


Fig 1.4 Graphic Elements

Fig 1.5 Clouds and Sparkles

Fig 1.6 Background

Fig 1.7 Book and Pages


Week 11 (02/11/20)

Exploration: 80%

Alice in wonderland 

Fig 1.8 Several tryout drafts 

I thought that this was pretty childish and it just doesn't seem right. Although I've achieved the fantasy vibe, the whole composition doesn't seemed to looked good together. Therefore, I tried another one with a library for the background.

Wonderland dimension

Fig 1.9 Tryouts

After feedback from Mr Fauzi, I decided to use the left one to be my final design.


Week 12 (02/11/20)

Animation

After Effect
Firstly, I did simple animation for the clouds and the psarkles. Mr fauzi told me that I could make the sparkles glowing on and off while making the cloud looks like a thunder. This could be achieved by playing with opacity in after effect.


After that, when consultating with Mr fauzi , he ask me what do I wanted to improve and I told him that the animation seemed too simple. Therefore, he told me to animate the book flying like a spaceship. This could be achieved by playing around with the position in after effect


Premier Pro

After doing our animation, we need to export it into MOV and then add sound in premier pro. We were able to choose our own song. I choose my favourite lo-fi song called 'First Date' by Frad. I had been the biggest fan of Frad. His songs's so good and addicting to listen. I particularly chooses this song because it has a calming but still energetic rhthm which fits for my design. I want the song to be have a magical, fantasy nuance.




Week 13 (16/11/20)

Final Outcome

We were told to put our video on youtube. Here is the link: Final Project: Surrealistic ParallaxYouTube video   ‪0 minutes‬

Feedback

Week 11: Mr. Fauzi told me that it's better to go with the design on the left for the wonderland dimension. This is because, it looks more interesting and the dark background made it easier to animate. For animation, Mr fauzi suggest to animate the cloud and the sparkles. Make the sparkles on and off and then make each of the cloud have different opacity to achieved a thunder looked.

Week 12: Mr. Fauzi ask me what I want to improve, then he told me to animate the books and make it flying like a spaceship since animating the book flapping like a bird would be hard and takes a lot of time.


Reflection 

Experience: It was a new journey for this project. I had zero experience with After effect and Premiere Pro. I was constantly going back and forth between Mr.Fauzi's AE tutorial and my work. I was really grateful that Mr.Fauzi take time to teach us adobe after effect from the beginning which really helped me in doing this work.

Observation: I observe that I was able to experience different software that I had never Imagine using. Since Mr Fauzi reached us after effect, I was able to use the software for animation instead of photoshop. This was a game changer for me since it would take a long time editing with photoshop.

Findings: I find that the surrealism project pretty unique, we were able to create a final piece that had elements that never been done before. The final product consists of a video with sound which was interesting to me. I find this project really fun and exciting. 


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