FMX 210 - Digital Media

 The autoscopy project also gave the ability to self-reflect and artistically showcase a part of myself, and for that I focused on my self-doubt. I wanted to highlight the different aspects of my life that I sometimes never feel enough, whether it be that my work isn’t good enough, my body, my worth - I wanted to represent the parts of me that I doubt. I added the hands with the different categories to represent how these doubts can pull away at your mental health, and then the catches on my face because doubt definitely claws at me all the time. I went with more of a monochromatic color palette, staying in the blue family since that color to me symbolizes doubt and is generally a sadder color. Overall, I am proud of the project and glad that I had the chance to symbolize these doubts, but I would change the color palette and find a different way to show the different categories I doubt myself in if I ever redid this project. (original)

 I really enjoyed myself with this project. There were a few hiccups when shooting the different versions of me, the camera position slightly changed which proved difficult when editing all these version of myself into one photo. However, despite that, I am proud of this project and how the different me’s in the photo look. If I did this again, I would definitely place my phone on a table or something to stablize it and make sure that the camera doesn’t move around in any way.

 My somewhere project definitely did not turn out how I wanted it to. I had trouble finding screencaps from shows and movies I love to edit myself into, and when I finally chose one, editing myself into it didn’t work out how I wanted it to. The texture of my sweater doesn’t lend well to being scaled and in some sizes looks off, and playing with the noise of the scene and the lighting/coloring was difficult. If I did this project again, I would choose a different movie scene and wear different clothing with less texture, however I still think it was helpful to learn how to edit something or someone into a photo.

 My BW to Color project was definitely my hardest up this point. It was difficult for me to select color palettes and figure out where I wanted the colors to go on the photo. Creating the masks took a lot of time and was a painstaking process, and the outcome was not one I particularly liked. I went back and revised the project, however this is still a project I would like to go back to or maybe just restart entirely with a different photo and new masks so I can make it great. Still, it was helpful learning how to create multiple masks on a photo which will aid me in the future.

 I had a lot of fun with my poster. Using Illustrator, I created a poster using the phrase “happiness is a butterfly”. The inspiration came from my calligram project and the self-reflection I went through when asking my future self if I was happy. I didn’t want fully imagine a future and dictate what would make me explicitly happy, rather leaving it open-ended, because searching for happiness won’t yield it; happiness comes in the moments you don’t expect it, so I made my poster to reflect that. My first poster had a lot of noise, which I cleaned up for my final version, but overall I do like how my poster turned out, and I definitely enjoyed the process of making it.

  This was my favorite project of the semester.  As a writer, this form of expression is one that allows me to be the most vulnerable and self-reflective. The words of the calligram came from a letter I wrote to my future self, and already that’s something deeply personal, but expressing my face through these words allowed me to truly express myself in a portrait art style. I wouldn’t do anything differently, I think the texture looks good and the words that I wrote reflect me and my desires for my future self, causing it to be the most personal and my favorite project that I will always remember even if I never make another calligram.