This new third quarter objective is to get familiar with editing video and audio files. An intro into the film aspect was this assignment to find examples of different camera shots. Then we would take these still frames of a camera angle and put them into a photoshop document. We then labeled each still frame with what movie or video game it came from and what example of a camera angle technique it displayed.. After that we gave a brief description of why the director decided to use this camera angle and what they were trying to display by using it. This was a helpful assignment that could be useful in other situations and especially later in the unit when we begin to work on things like creating and composing videos. After this assignment we worked in Adobe Premiere Rush or Pro depending on which one your computer could run. The assignment was to make a montage of pictures of only one color. After I created a folder I chose the color yellow and began to grab yellow images from royalty free websites. After I had about 30 I went into Adobe Premiere Pro and began to import the images. The video had to be exactly 15 seconds long but I couldn't have each picture last the same amount of time because I had to make the pictures increase in speed and amount of yellow shown. I inserted all of the pictures and properly adjusted the timing as well as the picture's order. After the video was in place I needed to add the credits, a title and an audio track. I didn't manage to finish this project before we had to leave school but I am in a good spot. These two assignments were helpful to see into how certain scenes can be enhanced through the use of different camera angles as well as how to use video editing programs.
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Once we had gotten some understanding of photoshop and re-coloring pictures we were tasked with coloring a grayscale or a black and white photo. We had a range of photos to choose from and I chose one that I didn’t think would be too difficult (I was wrong). It was a wooden boat dock with wooden posts about every fourteen planks looking out onto the ocean with some clouds in the sky. After I had chosen this I searched for pictures of sunsets/sunrises over the ocean online until I had a sense of what the colors looked like and how they interacted with water. I began playing with the different tools until I had a good sense of what I was doing and then I began. I used the quick select tools to pull the sections I wanted and then made a new layer to color on (this was part of the masking we learned when working with sandwiches). This was extremely helpful because I could just delete layers when I made mistakes or thought my picture looked better without that certain element. After I had gone through and colored the big sections I did the borders with the pencil and paintbrush tools. I would use the eyedropper to take the adjacent colors and put them into my color palette then use the paint brush and pencil to draw in the pixels. In some sections the uncolored parts were so minuscule that I had to take the size of my paintbrush and turn it down to 1 pixel! This meant that I was coloring pixel by pixel which would drive me crazy if I had to do an entire drawing in that fashion. You wouldn't think that the little uncolored parts would be that important but, they were what held my entire picture together. It is very easy to spot little uncolored sections and the difference between the little spots and the color is an amazing change. When I was done with the cleanup and edges I tweaked the final colors a little bit and then my final product was complete.
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AuthorI am Giacomo Hardin and this is my blog. I will be reflecting on my time in Digital Design and Game Art class. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools Archives
May 2020
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