Serene Heng NUS,CNM 22 Dec 88 profile This blog is dedicated to my NM2208 module and it serves as a platform for me to reflect and reminisce upon what I have learnt, created and enjoyed throughout the entire semester. I hope that when the journey finally comes to an end, I would have gained valuable knowledge that will last me for a life time, be it academic based or not. As I read through my archive, I hope to see myself growing yet having fun at the same time. To my friends who viewed this, please enjoy and read it with a light heart. Comments are greatly welcome. Please direct them to HERE. Thanks! archives affiliates my personal blog credits you can remove this if you don't have a conscience. i assure you i will not hunt you down. skin by: Jane |
Friday, October 3, 2008 @ 10:38 PM
Assignment 3 Classroom Design Exercise!  As you know, my sketching skills can really match those of primary school kids. maybe they are even better than me! So, i did my design using illustrator again. haha. For this week design, we need to capture a ''freezing time'' scene and tell a story about it. From my picture, you see a girl who is trying to act like a boy( insert ciara's song : Like a Boy") holding a gun on both hands. I know its a girl because she is actually me. YES. This scene is about a sucidal scene where she has already lost all control over the situation. She couldn't face the truth/consequences and so deicided to kill herself to end it all. Her left hand gun is pointing towards another person who is trying to approach her. * Models: Daddy Heng, Mummy Heng, Xiao Qiang Venue: Our cosy house Photograhper: Miss Heng         Hope you enjoyed my story. =) You know, the setting at a house as background can be quite distracting. With so many colourful furniture and messy tools around, these things are going to compete fiercely for attention with my models. And that's the last thing I want to achieve. I don't want audience to lose their concentrations on my models. It's easy to tell the location is at home because my male model isn't wearing any shoes, even though you cannot get clues from the background. I shoot the scenes against a white wall so as to leave out so much distraction as possible. However, I wasn't satisfied with a white background. I tuned up the highlights, changed the pictures to black and white to create a consistency between my pictures. Most importantly, to leave out any potential eye-catching colours that will steal attention away. In lecture, we learnt the differences between shooting horizontal and vertical lines. To create a peaceful, gentle feel, shoot horizontally. For a picture full of strength and action, go for vertical/diagonal angels. Hence, for picture no.7, to create the ''action picture'', I shot Daddy's hand in a diagonal angel to protray a forceful feel. Nonetheless, I feel that this picture can be further create the motion feel if I could blur the background like those we seen in a comic strip. But, as my background is already white, the effect could not be seen clearly. For other pictures, I try as much as possible to shoot my pictures following the rules of third. But, I can conclude it is really quite difficult. You need to position the model in the correct pose while taking into account conditions such as the lightings and the shadow casted(if any). Overall, I pretty much like the story=) Im very sure there are rooms for improvement. Like the composition (especially for picture no.1 !) and the consistency in lightings for each picture. and like what other photographers always tell me," shoot more and you will learn more." =) |
