Evaluation

 

Evaluation

 

I pleased with my photographs; I have put a lot of effort into them. It has been an experience, as I have never done anything like this before.

I have found a numerous of things hard like organising the story line and which photographs should go where, text and a story line was difficult to.

It has given me a lot of practise using Photoshop and I now know a lot of things, which I didn’t know before.

 Inspiration from comic books has been the real help in this project; I am glad that I decided to something different like this.

I have found that I can do things when I put my mind to it; even though it was really difficult I eventually got there in the end.

I chose to print them individually as having 3 photographs on 1 page, I think looked wrong and totally took the spark away from each individual photograph. I think they look better on their own. Also by having them on 1 page I found it looked cheesy rather than artistic.

I chose them to be different sizes as comic images are often different sizes.

 

I chose not to put the halftone effect on in the end as I thought it looked like there was too much going on in the photographs, and I still wanted them to look like proper photographs.

 

If I could do this project again, I think I would try and photograph them during the dark so it would give that bigger horror effect.

Layout

I chose not have them like a comic book layout, as I thought it looked rather cheesy, and not artistic.

I chose to print them off all different sizes as comic book images are often different and unusual sizes.

Final images with text

Text

Adding text and choosing a font.

I have chosen to use a vampire font on the narration and a normal comic book font on the speech and thought bubbles.

Photoshop

Photoshop 

I found it really difficult to choose between my photographs be normal or with the half tone effect.

I finally decided to just have it without half tone, as i think it looks like there is too much going on in the photograph

Practice makes perfect

Practicing half tone and other effects

Half tone effect

I have been researching on the interenet how to get the comic book effect on my photographs.
I have found a very useful document which i have been practising with on some practise photographs.
I have found it very useful and will consider using it on my final photographs.

Here is what i have been using to help me.

Old halftone print effect
Download and open this photo in Photoshop. Now we are going to increase the overall contrast of the picture by burning it a bit. Go to IMAGE > ADJUSTMENTS > LEVELS…With this image we are going to set the INPUT LEVELS to 60 / 1.00 / 220. But this is only for this example. Choose the best settings for each photo.

In this step we are going to give the photo an illustrated look with some graininess to give the illusion of an old and bad quality paper. It is not a realistic effect, it is just some distortion to the image to help us achieve the final look. Go to FILTERS > ARTISTIC > FILM GRAIN. In this case we are going to use: GRAIN: 4, HIGHLIGHT AREA: 0, INTENSITY: 10. Try different settings for different photos.

Duplicate the layer and name the new layer HALFTONE
In this step we are going apply a halftone pattern to the image to give the final old comic book printing effect. Go to FILTER > PIXELATE > COLOR HALFTONE. Set MAX RADIUS: 4 and leave the rest with the default values. Press OK and then go to the LAYERS PALETTE and set the BLENDING MODE to DARKEN.

Adding comic book elements to the picture
The effect looks nice so far. It is not a realistic old comic book effect, it simple resembles that look. To make it more real, now comes the fun part. We are going to add some unique elements that are very popular on comic books and stripsSelect the HALFTONE layer and set a STROKE LAYER STYLE of WIDTH: 20px, POSITION: Inside and COLOR: #F5ECE1.

Research

I have been researching alot of things about comics.

Looking at stories,comic scripts and researching horror comics.

I have just been looking at how i could do my photos and make them look like a comic book

Here is a script i found, which has helped me think of how i can do my comic book and layout of it!

Jeffery Stevenson: humour, fantasy, sci-fi, and horror writer of comics, screenplays, prose, and more.
Invisibility

Spiderman Script

PAGE ONE A young girl falls forward onto the sidewalk after tripping up while running. The girl sits on the sidewalk crying as a white delivery-style truck (like the UPS or laundry service trucks/vans) speeds off down the street. Until the last panel on page three, no discernible markings can be made out that show what the truck actually is. Spiderman stands next to the girl now as she continues to sit on the ground crying. As Spiderman helps her up, she points off towards where the truck went. She looks up towards Spidey with a big grin as he tells her he'll help her

PAGE TWO

Spiderman holds the girl under his arm as he swings up from the sidewalk. She's all smiles during every minute of this thrill ride. Spidey still holds the girl tight as he clings to the side of a building and shoots a new web line. Soon, we look out over the side of a building from the rooftop and see the white truck moving down the street below. Spidey leaps with the girl from one rooftop to the next, and then he leaps off the building into a freefall headed towards the truck.

PAGE THREE

Spiderman and the girl continue the freefall until they are almost on top of the truck, and then Spidey shoots a web line out to pull into a swing at the last minute. Spidey lands on top of the truck and startles the driver when he leans over and taps on the driver-side window. Spidey goes somersaulting through the air with the girl as the truck comes to a screeching halt. The girl gives Spidey a big hug, and then pull back on the scene to see Spiderman making an order with the ice cream truck as the little girl devours an ice cream cone next to him.

Photoshop

Photoshop

I have changed many things on my photographs.

I wanted to have my images in black and white but have the vampires in colour. I have changed my photographs in to black and white and gone f=round everything I wanted in colour using the art history brush.

 

For Willow which is my good character I have left her in black and white and only changed her into colour once she was a vampire.

 

I have also given the vampires weird strong coloured eyes using Photoshop. I used the burn and dodge tool to do this and added a strong luminous colour to fill them.

 

I am pleased with the way it has turned out and even though it took me a long long time it was worth it!

 

My images

Images before i photoshop them.

Story board

My storyboard

Ideas for story

Ideas for story


Vampire
Horror comic?
Lonely vampire?

Evil vampire has found someone she wants to make a vampire.
Follows them and watches them. Lurking around in the darkness, always quiet.
A nice girl notices she is being followed and realises something is not right with her.
Image of good girl looking confused as if she knows there is something wrong with her.
Eventually attacks girl making her a vampire.
Girl notices the changes, pale skin, and exquisite eye sight.
Evil vampire tries to make her evil by killing humans for fun and for food.
Good girl refuse to be evil.
Making one good one bad?

Decide

I am not sure either to have story like a comic book or just tell a story like a comic book?
I need to decide quickly as i want to do test shots by the end of this week!!

Project Proposal

Project Proposal
Negotiated Final Project
PHVP2406 Research and Practice in Still and Moving image Production
Sarah Bridgman

What is the idea behind your project?

My idea for this project is to base my photographs on the style of a comic book, and have a story to them. I want to include they style of comic books in to it and maybe have text in them. I would also like to display my photographs like a comic book.
I will look into regular stories used in comics and develop my own story, and use that as the basis to my photographs.
I want my work to be seen as a comic book, but instead of drawings or cartoon images I will use photographs.
I will use the style that is regularly used in the drawings in my photographs, like the actions of the characters and look of them.
I am interested in doing this as project, as think it will be different idea, and I do enjoy reading comics. I think it will be interesting to see how it would look in the end. I also like the stories which are used in comics and think they would make good photographs. It is always interesting when films use comics as their base. It would be exciting to see how it would look in photographs.

What do you want to achieve through this work?

I want to achieve an exciting and interesting piece of work. I want it to work well and for the viewers to think that it is a good idea and an interesting way to have a comic book. I want to have an exciting story but also an easy one to describe through photographs and maybe text.
I think either viewers would like it or hate it, some people would prefer an actual comic some others might enjoy the change.

What research and development have you defined for the project?

I am going to thoroughly research comics and their stories. I will look at the mains comics such marvel comics and magna (Japanese.) I am also going to look at films that are based on comics.
I want to have my story before I take my photographs, so I know exactly what I need for my photographs. Like models and equipment.
I think I will have most of photographs outside, on location, so I need to consider where I could do this.
I will regularly add up dates on my blog as a diary to myself to help me with my development, I will also have an R and D book.

How feasible is the project?

I think one of the problems which may arise is locations for my photographs, because i don’t know Leicester that well. I need to ask people who live here for advice.
I also need to consider what colours I want use in it, as comics have bright colours in them, I think I will have to do some work on this in Photoshop.

Weekly Timetable
Week 1- Idea development
Week 2-Research and script
Week 3-Script and Test shots
Week 4- Photoshop practise and more shots
Week 5 –Final Photographs
Week 6-Devlopment of final photographs
Week 7-How to display them
Week 8-Finish

What are the influences that have helped you in thinking about this project?

I have had influence from comic books, stories and layout of comics. Films based on comics and characters from comics.

Research

Comic Book Idea
Research
Comic Books
Marvel
Magna
Regular Story lines used in comic books
A story that I could use for my photographs, from looking at comic book stories
Look at the styles used in films like: Sin City, The Sprit, X-men (based on comic book), Spider man, and Batman etc.
Look how they have made them into films, could use ideas to help me with my photographs
Look at actions and poses they use in comic books and use in my photographs.
Super heroes
Hero and villain
How
Will use a digital camera, will have to do some work on photo shop, to change colours, shape
Want to try and present it like a comic book?
Maybe have sound

Ideas

I chosen to a still image piece for this brief as I feel a moving image would be hard to complete on my own and feel I need more practise in video.

I think I would like to do a set of narrative photographs, that tell a story of some sort.
I have looked into the idea of doing a comic book theme,or a fairytale set of photographs I need to research into what story I am going to do or use.

I need to decide on this quickly.