Week 10

Assignment:
-The assignment was to work on the story slides in our groups using all the knowledge that we have about the photoshop program and its tricks.

Craft:
-For this project each and everyone in class was divided into group; some groups have two people other groups have three. I was paired up with Jessica Greene. The backbone of the story for every group is that there is one person traveling, one person waiting, and one of these people has the package for the other. After some brainstorming and deliberation Jessica and I settled on an idea. The idea for the story is that a husband of a newly wed couple goes to Italy for a medical convention, and while there he falls for another woman. Having this general view of the story Jessica and I collaborated and created a dialogue. It is best to shoot the photographs of people and places separately and later combine them using the photoshop program. Before any pictures were taken we have some to an agreement that I would be in charge of taking pictures of places and things, and Jessica would be in charge of getting pictures of people. Having the dialogue as our guide map we set out and took the necessary pictures. Next time we met we combined our photographs and began working on the project. During the whole process we were both providing inputs to each other. This allowed for mistakes to get fixed before they got out. This is one of many advantages of working with someone else. Having another pair of eyes helps catch mistakes and provides another perspective on the same images, thus allowing the images that was created to undergo a message test. Having someone to collaborate with allows for more time to be spent on each slide because you are not rushing to get the assignment done; this means that each partner will have more time to get the details straight and make sure the image says what it is intended. After having completed all twelve slide we combined the slides, placed them in order, and printed them out. The slides were passed around and each group was allowed to look at and give feedback on the work. This is also a form of collaboration because other people are looking at your work and providing opinions on how to improve the story.

Composition:
-When we were working on our slides we used each other to make sure that the applied filter as well as other things did not ruin to readability of the photograph and that it conveyed the intended message. Also, when slide had more than one layer subsequently more than one object of interest, Jessica and I worked together on the arrangement of these objects. This makes sure that the eyes of the audience will follow the path that our eyes followed. The first thing to get noticed in the first picture is the leaning tower of Pizza, and then the two people in the picture. The second picture has the people in the center because this is where the action is happening in this frame of the story.

Concept:
-Collaborating with someone on an art project, research or writing a book is one of the best things that anyone can do. This is due to the fact that you have another set of eye to inspect your work, and you have another brain which can be picked at for new ideas. Working with another person on a project while using different programs can be helpful; for example, one member of the team may have forgotten how to do something thus the other member would help. Overall, working with someone else on any project is fun that is if they pull they share of the work. Working alone may create unique style, but when two people combine their styles it becomes even more unique, and example of our styles being combined can be noticed in the two pictures above.