Thursday, April 30, 2009
Journal Entry 5
In class today, we began to learn how to use flash. I wanted to learn flash to use it for one or more of my digital art piece assessments, as I know there is a lot that can be done with the program. However, I know it is also quite complicated, and was sure that I had to either find some online tutorials to learn how to use the program or listen in class. Playing around with the program, I found myself getting really confused and behind, not knowing how to really do anything right or get the same result as everyone else. I'm not sure whether I'm still keen to use flash for my assessments, because it seems very complicated and I am having a lot of trouble understanding the basics of the program. I think that I will go home and watch some online tutorials, or perhaps come into class so I can use the program and have another attempt at learning the program, but I am glad there are other options to produce our assessment other than using flash.
Journal Entry 4
This week I decided to present another photo for my digital art piece, and edit it via an online image editor site, just for something different. The site I chose to use for this week was called www.pixer.com, and is basically a site that allows you to upload photos and apply a whole variety of effects to it, before saving it to your hard drive.
At the moment, I've been having a lot of issues with friendships surrounding my life, so I thought an appropriate topic to focus on would be 'friendship', and how underneath it all, despite all the conflict and drama, friends will always be there for you. To portray this through the image, I wanted to somehow distort the image so that it would be difficult to see the original, but the original would still be determinable, in order to convey the love and friendship in the original image being hard to see sometimes and clouded by obstacles, but there, nonetheless.
The original image I used was one of two girls laughing and holding hands, looking at eachother, clearly a display of solid friendship and adoration for eachother. I then applied effects over the top to distort it, such as blurring, cloudiness and an oil-painting effect. I played around with some other effects to further distort the image such as changing the colour to grayscale and altering the amount of pixels in the image but this resulted in the image being too indistinguishable, and I really wanted the original image of the two girls laughing and holding hands to be seen for the digital art piece to really have the effect I was aiming for.
The site I used was really easy to navigate and use, and the outcome was actually quite satisfying in relation to what I was hoping to achieve. I could have used Adobe Photoshop, but I've already done that before and wanted to try something a little bit different this week. I found the site so much easier to use than photoshop, and I was able to apply all the effects that I wanted to use for my project, so limitations were not really an issue. I'm aware that Photoshop is much more advanced with a lot more options, but I'm happy with the end result and it is basically what I was aiming to achieve.
At the moment, I've been having a lot of issues with friendships surrounding my life, so I thought an appropriate topic to focus on would be 'friendship', and how underneath it all, despite all the conflict and drama, friends will always be there for you. To portray this through the image, I wanted to somehow distort the image so that it would be difficult to see the original, but the original would still be determinable, in order to convey the love and friendship in the original image being hard to see sometimes and clouded by obstacles, but there, nonetheless.
The original image I used was one of two girls laughing and holding hands, looking at eachother, clearly a display of solid friendship and adoration for eachother. I then applied effects over the top to distort it, such as blurring, cloudiness and an oil-painting effect. I played around with some other effects to further distort the image such as changing the colour to grayscale and altering the amount of pixels in the image but this resulted in the image being too indistinguishable, and I really wanted the original image of the two girls laughing and holding hands to be seen for the digital art piece to really have the effect I was aiming for.
The site I used was really easy to navigate and use, and the outcome was actually quite satisfying in relation to what I was hoping to achieve. I could have used Adobe Photoshop, but I've already done that before and wanted to try something a little bit different this week. I found the site so much easier to use than photoshop, and I was able to apply all the effects that I wanted to use for my project, so limitations were not really an issue. I'm aware that Photoshop is much more advanced with a lot more options, but I'm happy with the end result and it is basically what I was aiming to achieve.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Journal Entry 3
For the third digital art piece, I decided to create another mp3 file, as I have the music program (Sony Acid Studio 7) at home on my computer and it was very convenient for me to work on the project. Also, I am fairly proficient in the program, and feel comfortable using it to create a piece of digital art.
I encountered some technical difficulties upon deciding what loops and sounds to use, as there were so many to choose from, and a lot of them did not mesh well together. Although part of my aim was to create a piece of music that had incorporated a lot of different sounds, and almost create the feel of 'too much going on', I still wanted the song to be coherent and mix well together to a certain extent. Also, there were certain sounds that I wanted to particularly convey a certain feeling or sensation, such as dizziness, head aches, fantasy, confusion, etc. In order to do this, I had to find loops and sounds that would represent these sensations, which I found difficult. I managed to find sounds that increased and decreased in volume with the pitch sliding up and down repeatedly in order to mimic dizziness. To represent head aches, I found a loop that played a low throbbing/thudding sound. For fantasy I found a loop that almost had a tinkling sound, and played an incoherent melody, also fitting in with the sensation of confusion. Confusion was also portrayed with all of the sounds playing at once towards the end of the song, where each sound is unable to be distinguished solely, and everything is meshed together.
Even though I posted a mp3 file for the last assessment, for some reason the file would not play on my webpage, nor would the last file that I posted. It took me a long time to finally get the file playing, but then when I tried it again later on, it had ceased from working again. The only way the file can be played is by directly going to the link http://2805art.com/carly_minjoy/art_03/alcohol.mp3 and downloading the file manually to the hard drive. This is an issue that I've yet to sort out, and will have to figure this out before next week's assessment. Overall, I am satisfied with the song I have created and it has effectively portrayed the feelings of being heavily under the influence of alcohol that I wanted to represent, and the overall sound is interesting to listen to.
I encountered some technical difficulties upon deciding what loops and sounds to use, as there were so many to choose from, and a lot of them did not mesh well together. Although part of my aim was to create a piece of music that had incorporated a lot of different sounds, and almost create the feel of 'too much going on', I still wanted the song to be coherent and mix well together to a certain extent. Also, there were certain sounds that I wanted to particularly convey a certain feeling or sensation, such as dizziness, head aches, fantasy, confusion, etc. In order to do this, I had to find loops and sounds that would represent these sensations, which I found difficult. I managed to find sounds that increased and decreased in volume with the pitch sliding up and down repeatedly in order to mimic dizziness. To represent head aches, I found a loop that played a low throbbing/thudding sound. For fantasy I found a loop that almost had a tinkling sound, and played an incoherent melody, also fitting in with the sensation of confusion. Confusion was also portrayed with all of the sounds playing at once towards the end of the song, where each sound is unable to be distinguished solely, and everything is meshed together.
Even though I posted a mp3 file for the last assessment, for some reason the file would not play on my webpage, nor would the last file that I posted. It took me a long time to finally get the file playing, but then when I tried it again later on, it had ceased from working again. The only way the file can be played is by directly going to the link http://2805art.com/carly_minjoy/art_03/alcohol.mp3 and downloading the file manually to the hard drive. This is an issue that I've yet to sort out, and will have to figure this out before next week's assessment. Overall, I am satisfied with the song I have created and it has effectively portrayed the feelings of being heavily under the influence of alcohol that I wanted to represent, and the overall sound is interesting to listen to.
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