This week has been a crazy week. As well as my full time job I have worked 24 hours on Tender. My progress has been good and I feel on schedule. I chose to focus on Tender as it was the play I know the most about. Having analysed the script and character the week before, I spent this week gathering images and creating montage digital sketchbook pages for each character. I have found in the past that a collection of visuals collated together on one sheet enables the first discussion with the director to be focused and direct. I collected images from magazines, catalogues and through personal observation sketches. This contemporary piece lends itself to this style of montage. The process of editing and arranging images on the page using exclusively Adobe Photoshop has been productive and the pace has been steady. I have chosen to style the pages with ripped edge effects to echo the plays ‘snip it’ of life scene structure this follows on from using ideas established at the meeting with the set designer. I started by creating a bank of scanned ripped pieces of paper which I used to place the images on. I have learnt a quick and effective technique to do this.
(Place the ripped layer below the image. Hovering over the centre point between the two layer in the layer pallet click ALT and a black circular icon with and arrow on it appears. The layer above is now places over the ripped layer and will only show the image with in the shape of the ripped paper below.)
This process has made presenting the images on a page a quick and affiant method. I have also created a basic template which I have used for each page rather than starting from a blank sheet. By just moving the basic images (text, ripped edges and background) around I was able to create a different look for each character.
The use of gray scaling an image has been effective as monochrome is a mayor feature of my concept.
Instead of scanning in ever image I decided to take digital photographs. This process was quick and by just plugging in the camera to the PC the images were instantly on my computer. The results were fair but for a great deal of images the quality was not good enough and I had to scan them in as well adding additional time to the process. Taking a photograph of a magazine page does not create the best quality picture and correcting this mistake added a great deal of time to my workload.
I feel I have had a creative approach to my work this week and the computer assisted in this by opening up opportunities which may not have been possible without it. My approach as not been formulaic and I have been keen to see what the computer could do. Enjoying the happy accident I was able to stumble across the ripped paper effects has added to the stylish look which I intended. Creating mood board with clear communication, atmospheric style and a visual springboard for discussion was my aim. Not having a strict idea what the pages would look like has been part of the successes.
(Place the ripped layer below the image. Hovering over the centre point between the two layer in the layer pallet click ALT and a black circular icon with and arrow on it appears. The layer above is now places over the ripped layer and will only show the image with in the shape of the ripped paper below.)
This process has made presenting the images on a page a quick and affiant method. I have also created a basic template which I have used for each page rather than starting from a blank sheet. By just moving the basic images (text, ripped edges and background) around I was able to create a different look for each character.
The use of gray scaling an image has been effective as monochrome is a mayor feature of my concept.
Instead of scanning in ever image I decided to take digital photographs. This process was quick and by just plugging in the camera to the PC the images were instantly on my computer. The results were fair but for a great deal of images the quality was not good enough and I had to scan them in as well adding additional time to the process. Taking a photograph of a magazine page does not create the best quality picture and correcting this mistake added a great deal of time to my workload.
I feel I have had a creative approach to my work this week and the computer assisted in this by opening up opportunities which may not have been possible without it. My approach as not been formulaic and I have been keen to see what the computer could do. Enjoying the happy accident I was able to stumble across the ripped paper effects has added to the stylish look which I intended. Creating mood board with clear communication, atmospheric style and a visual springboard for discussion was my aim. Not having a strict idea what the pages would look like has been part of the successes.
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