Sequence- visual narrative (Photoshop) TERROR TO SAFETY

BRIEF: Working independently, you are to choose two out of the four visual samples you have brought with you- a person, place, word and object- to develop into a narrative sequence. By manipulating only the elements contained in these two images, using various photoshop techniques, yu will develop a series of eight frames. You will be introduced to the essential tools, layers, filters, and color balance of photoshop including the difference between RGB and CMYK. The original content of the images is not vitally important: you are asked to develop an understanding of how to use pictorial and abstract devices to indicate a shoft in meaning and feeling. Your sequence may be abstract or representational, ambiguous or clear: the focus is the emotional impact of the visual sequence. You are to choose one of the emotive pairs below:
1. Optimism (1950s) to despair (1990s)
2. Disaster to celebration
3. Loss to recovery
4. Terror to safety
From frame one to frame eight you will attempt to illustrate (visually suggest) the transformation of emotions. Only photographic and found imagery must be used - no drawing.

PROJECT IDEA: The images i used were photographs I had taken of a rose and the beach back home in Bermuda. The emotive pair I chose was Terror to Safety which illustrated the rose being on fire (terror) to it finding safety on the ocean surface where water was.

PACKAGING/ RE-EVALUATE THE BOOK

BRIEF:

You are asked to re-evaluate the book, not just by looking back at its history but by looking forward to how the book might evolve. This may be resolved by making, by exploring the potential of paper, by presenting a proposal for the digital book in a more sensual form, or by identifying the value of reading itself. remember this is a packaging brief and you are repackaging the book in a way that may reconfigure it, remake it or rebrand it. What have we gained and what have we lost in the evolving book? 

PROJECT IDEA: For this project I decided to focus on the value of reading itself when it comes to books today. We are so used to book being laid out in the same way where we have to read from top left down to bottom right. I wanted to be able to challenge the traditional way of reading. I wanted to impose the visual rules of one style of writing to a different system of organising language. The way we read things like reciepts, menus, bus timetables, phone books and maps are completely different to the way we read books, and sometimes those ways are over looked. For my book example I used Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"; a novel I studied quite a lot in high school. I wanted to see how many ways I could change its format but still get the jist of what the book was about. I used key points, characters and the moral which is essential what is most important in a book, what we take away from it and our understanding.