Science Museum

Vintage Computers at The Game On Exhibition. These Macs were used for pioneering computer graphics in their time.

London trip

Vintage Junk Food I used to eat myself as a youngster at the Brands and Packaging Museum

London trip

Photos from the Game On Exhibition at the Science Museum

Juxtaposition Assignment

Hello. My first blog here has my relections on where I am up to on my FdA Digital Media Course.

After undertaking various introductory assignments we have been given our first main assignments with "Juxtaposition". I found this initially quite hard as I had to implement a number of new things such as the 5 stage plan, working on paper, worksheets and using software I had until then not used much.

The 3 briefs were:

Black_nwhite_print1.jpg

Black_nwhite_print1.jpg, originally uploaded by kingbloberts.

I found for this i could come up with many ideas on my worksheets, mindmaps etc, but actually ended up trying a lot of variations on the theme before i could get something that works. I feel the resulting image is good, and I admit going through a lot of trial and error to get there.

I had taken a lot of images before this one, and the quality of my photography wasn't really good enough. I came to conclusion in the end that a lot of contrast was needed, and sought help from Colin in the Hub.

Silence Print1.jpg

Silence Print1.jpg, originally uploaded by kingbloberts.

This image gave me the best experience as it meant i had to work harder on the computer and try as many new things as possible. I had tried many variations on my worksheets, and found I had to try the photos then go back to the worksheets to change the composition, the lighting and work with "models" (who are just other students who were about at the time).

The Photoshop side of things were also most rewarding, and it took longer to put this image together then the other two combined. I don't know if the final result looks better than the other two, but I feel i leaned the most from this one.

The one below is the original image, and the one above is one where i tried to place it in a public location (a billboard).

Silence Is Deaf_Roberts.jpg

Silence Is Deaf_Roberts.jpg, originally uploaded by kingbloberts.

This is the Silence is Deafening image

Blowin Print1.jpg

Blowin Print1.jpg, originally uploaded by kingbloberts.

I had gone through various stages on research and wanted to do this idea based on a bi-polar idea. On paper this i felt was my strongest idea, yet when going into production I felt i hadn't got the right photos to begin with.

I had tried a lot of shots of myself, trying all manner of odd things to try and look manically happy of really depressed, but the photos probably weren't good enough. I went on to put the image together in photoshop anyway, and added the ring binder idea, as i wanted to do some sort of split book, or flick-book thing.

I still feel if I could have got an actor or someone to get better photographs, the idea might work better, and I might yet try and do this. Unfortunately at the moment I don't think it works.