What is left to do?

Friday 19th March 2021

So, today I decided (because I don't have a lot of time left) to do all the things that I may not have done yet. So as not to forget all these important things that I may or may not have been putting off, I wrote a list and saved it as an image. I created a list with the intent of ticking them off one by one one I had done them but then decided to save it as an image because WordPad probably doesn't have a function like that and this way I can put it on my blog. It doesn't really make much sense because I could still put the list on my blog once I was done, however it was late at night and I was tired so my brain might not have been at its best.

I need to make sure the tri-weekly blogposts are all there, I need to redo my project proposal, I need to edit the Martin Parr inspired photograph, I need to film The Thomas Schaefer inspired video, I need to take a screenshot of every sheet that I have done so far; and at this point I am just repeating exactly what's on there.

So first, the image. The image started of as just an ordinary self-portrait taken in black and white with a sort of solemn face, but I wanted to colour it because with all the self-portraits in Martin Parr's Autoportrait (that I had seen) he was in a brightly coloured background and so I wanted to emulate that or at least try. The result was pleasing but not pleasant.

(image 1) I am not too versed in Adobe Photoshop, I know what things do but I don't really know what I want to do with them or when I might want to use something else so all this was experimenting and trial and error. I wasn't fully sure what I wanted to end up with, I just thought "colour". And so with that in mind, I set off to do something with this image. (image 2) I clicked something and I thought I liked it, it was interesting but by the time I realised it wouldn't help me achieve what I wanted but would only hinder my progress, it was too late to go back. (image 3) I inverted the image and got a scary result, I decided to be careful with the rest of my testing. This was nothing like what I wanted to create. (image 4) So I added a colour filter, it wasn't exactly what I had envisioned but at least I was getting somewhere, there was colour! I played around with the colour balance but decided that just using the filter was enough on that front. Periodically, after some new changes, I would click on the auto tone, the auto colour and the other auto one but they did nothing to the image and I would realise again and again that I would have to colour this by myself. (image 5) I experimented with tools I hadn't used before and although they gave and interesting result, most of them were not going to go past the testing stage. One that I did end up keeping and using was the bucket tool (the one that fills things), I used it to colour various things in the background like the trees, the windows and window panes, and the walls. (image 6) I found a pattern colouring tool and I tried it out, it had an interesting effect, and it gave me the idea to not just keep the lips "solemn" but to change them. I tried to change the colours to see if that would help towards the "colour" that I was trying to achieve but I was not happy with the changes and went back. (image 7) I found an interesting colour tool which I used to colour the face and the neck, I then played around with the colours to see what that would do. This was one of the big moments when I thought to myself that if I hadn't added that metallic effect, then perhaps the image would look properly coloured and less unreal but I liked the effect and it made for an interesting canvas. (image 8) The final image. I actually like what I ended up with. I just searched 'smile' on the Google Images and chose a random mouth to save and added it onto the face and coloured it and with that I felt like I was done. I felt like the wacky effect reminded me a little of some of Martin Parr's pieces. Not necessarily the self-portraits but some of the beach photographs too. And finally I saved the interesting image and accidently did not save the photoshop file so all the history of how that was made is sadly long gone. But I remember a lot of it so here it is sort of written down.

Looking back at my most recent blogposts, I can see that I already have three blogposts so that is great. I like to have at least three blogposts because it shows that I am actually working and every blogpost that I publish I try and make sure that they are at least 2 minutes long to read.

My tutor sent me the feedback for my project proposal yesterday at 4pm but I only saw it at 10pm so I will have to be doing the rework today. I would love to show that here but that would make this blogpost too long so I will just add it into the blogpost for yesterday. With the video, there is not much to explain so I will just add it here. I had originally intended to have myself in the video but I decided against it. It was a one-shot video, it strayed away from the initial idea I had for the video and in the end just became a video about me looking through seemingly "junk" and thinking about what the objects meant to me. "One man's trash is another man's treasure". I think with some music in the background it could be come a pretty interesting music video. I think the video is more interesting without audio but I left the audio in to show what it sounded like when recording.

I thought it might be a good idea to show screenshots of the documents that I have been completing during the project. Below are the documents that we were given to help us with the project.

There are five different sheets (the last two are from the same sheet). The first sheet is the 'Assemble Identity' sheet, the second sheet is the self-evaluation sheet, the third and fourth sheets are similar sheets, they are the peer review sheets. The third sheet is my peer review of someone else and the fourth sheet is the peer review of my project presentation. The fifth and sixth sheet are the review of the example project proposal that I did.