Written Report - Image Manipulation Techniques/After Effects - Ben Giles

When I first got the project this was my first idea and it was to do a journey of myself getting into college every day. As I walk, catch the train and the bus. I did not get very far with this as it was just one of my ideas. I used two types of cameras, which were my olympus digital camera and my mobile phone. I was hoping that my mobile phone would give me a different effect on the lens, it did sort of. All of the photos on this page are taken with my mobile phone. I then moved on to my second idea which was the journey of decorating my room.

This was my second idea and it is the journey of decorating my bedroom. I thought I would show the changes of my wardrobe, ripping it out to the new sliding doors and the area around. In this idea I experimented cutting up my photos and applying the overlay filter in Photoshop. I was keeping the photos as realistic as possible. I also tried a stencil idea with the out line of some objects in my bedroom. I put a block colour with this but as it was just an idea again I put white, I did think about other block colours but I had another idea coming to me in a another part of my room.

My final idea is the one I finished up with. It is showing my room being decorated again but from a different angle, so I can have more development in time going on. I was experimenting with the different filters in Photoshop and one stood out to me and I tried to incorporate it into my design ideas. In my design ideas I had the changes |(old to new) going from left to right in my images. This was to give a sense of a time line through my image. I then had my images in one tone of colour (for example all shades of blue). I thought up this effect from the old black and white negatives used in cameras. So this was to give my image a sense of been taken again, new.

These are the rest of the photos which I could of used, other angles in my bedroom.

I am pleased with my final outcome and I have made myself a challenge on the next stage of this project. It will be interesting trying to animate this and I am also looking forward to it.

My After Effects side was fun to do as I learnt a brand new bit of software, I picked it up really quickly. My idea was once I got my head around the software was to flow through with the camera to show each progression part of my bedroom. When the camera zooms through the last curtain in the video you get my tv with the video playing again. The video playing came about because my tv has a random black outline but it happens to look like a person watching the video. 

I am also pleased with my after effects video, I found it a fun bit of software. My final still image that I used changed a bit this is because I took all parts of the critique good and negative points into account.