Week 2 Tutorial

Task: Construct a Spatial and Temporal montage from the supplied source materials.

Spatial Montage

Having almost two hours to do both exercises, I found I only had enough time to finish the first in class, which doesn’t surprise me. I have only used Photoshop a few times and haven’t explored all of its features, so I was figuring things out on the way. I selected images that were interesting, but feel I should have considered the composition of the images more and how they could possibly piece together. There is too much blue sky on the right side of the image, and it should have been blended in further with the adjacent image. I feel the montage could have been improved if I had selected an underlying theme, but for a quick project using an unfamiliar program, it’s okay.

Temporal Montage

My temporal montage is very basic and only experiments with movement through position and scaling. When creating this, I was testing out effects but feel I need to explore them further before using them. Having never used After Effects before, a great deal of time was spent learning the basics of the program, and thus the result is very simple. I feel this montage could have been improved if I had selected similar images or presented a theme through movement. I don’t particularly like the black background at the beginning, and maybe should have used another image there instead. Again, it’s okay for my first project, but I’m looking forward to enhancing my knowledge and skills with After Effects.