Sunday, May 15, 2011

Week Eight

Finished Assignment 1

1. Image saved as Full Size TIFF, Adobe RGB (use building image)

2. Image saved as JPEG for web, sRGB profile, 500pixels wide, 50kb in size (use building image)

3 & 4. Image saved as a layered TIFF, guy on one layer, background, with layer mask.

5. Image of girl, B&W, blown to white, Square crop, eyes on a 1/3 line, spot out sensor dust.

6. Moth image, Crop to square, 4 x images, black background

7. Change colour of spidermen to green.

8. Clone out other cars.

9. Square and border, size for print, colour profile AdobeRGB.

10. A4 print on A3 paper, colour profile AdobeRGB.


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Image 10

Assignment 1
So far - Still more to goo, need to edit the legs, they look a little clumsy, bring it all together - spider still looks ut of place, lighting and sky.


RESEARCH
- Watched:
- The Wolf Man (2010)
- The Wolfman (1941)




-Directed by George Waggner the Orignal Movie seems alot more light hearted because of the time in which it was made.
- IMDB - describes the plot as "A practical man returns to his homeland, is attacked by a creature of folklore, and infected with a horrific disease his disciplined mind tells him can not possibly exist."
- Both films are relivialy similar in plot and true to each other
- The orginal was the first film to introduce the characters in the film since The Black Cat (1934)
- love the way the blacks in the first film are quite grey and in the remake they are very dark black scenes.
-Along with frankenstein and dracula the wolf man is one of the most famous horror characters of all time
- Other werewold films that acompany the Wolf Man are they Howiling and American Werewolf in London



- Werewolves are alson know as lycanthrope - the film Underworld uses this term in which the werewolves are called lycans who battle against the vamps!
-mythical or foaklore creature who shapeshifts by being bitten by another wolf or a curse.
- transformation coinsides with the months cycle of the full moon
- most popularly noted by Gervase of Tilbury and earlier amongs greek writings of Petronius
- posseses super strength and senses, vunlerable to silver bullets
-European monster
- Herodotus in 'Histories' - was written that a tribe were all transformed in to wolves once every year for a couple of days
- Greek geographer Pausanius - story of the lycan- transformation into wolf because killed a child.
- Apollodorus + Ovid - give human flesh to Zeus and transforms into lycan as punishment for his murder

- still featured today in modern literature - Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban.


I dont want my work to look like either one movie or the other; I like they greys and the old sytle to the original, but the remake CGI look so real at the same time. I think the figuirne will give an orginal movie feel to the images because the wolf is a fake and obviously not reall but at the same time I'd like my images to be dark with high shadows and have a sence of reality. However my first image I'd like to be aimed more towards the original movie in terms of the text and layout- I want that old style horror text and for it to be quite simple not to complex so it doesnt take away from the feel of how the old horror posters used to be. The following images I hope for them to look more like newer images but I plan to keep them all in black and white - to get a larger tonal range and the ability to creat more shadows - in turn keeping with the the orginial movie which is black and white unlike the remake.