Assignment 3: Review and Revisit

I realised I didn't put up my review for the assignment 3. Basically the class was pretty quiet. But Devi commented that my timing is great, i.e. pictures and sound; and that the music suit the whole mood. Besides that, informally, Mark was telling me some of the photos look very much photoshop-ed. So he suggested that I edit it and make it look deliberately super imposed. So here are some of the photo scenes that I redid.




Basically, I tried to add effects on the photos. Trying all the effects out, 'texturize' seems the best. But I think it feels and looks weird somehow. Especially imagining them to be placed together with the rest of the movie, where the photos do not have such texture and feel. It becomes rather inconsistent... Though the texture makes the photos feel like paintings. Debating on whether to use the new version, I started to think about the media that will be used to deliver it (as learn in 2208). I realised the texture will make the clear pictures look as as if they are pixelated. If this is suppose to go on youtube again, which will automatically reduce the quality further after compressing the movie, it will be disastrous.

Other than that, I wanted to try if I add more stuffs for the text slides, will it look very cluttered and distracted. So I picked one of the text slide with the most words and it's for the second half of the show i.e. after the climax where he 'saved' me because the added flowers will spoil the mood of loneliness...



It looks good. Doesn't look cluttered. Add more feelings to the text actually. So I tried it out on imovie:



But the catch is it has this black letterbox, and I don't know why. For the earlier photos, like the hands photos, the letterbox was due to the size of the image from the ESO camera. Even upon enlarging the image size in photo shop, the text slide still remained with a black letterbox and the text became smaller though I didn't adjust it at all. So I tried to change the black composite:



And now it has black pillars! It's really odd. The black composite was based on the photos which had no letterbox, so it's proper full screen. But upon adding the text slide layer over the full screen photo, the black pillar appears when I import to imovie~ So I made use of it and create and imaginary black border around it since I simply can't remove it:



But there happen to be another catch. That is the font still shrank even though I didn't edit it. It's really odd... So the first part of the sentence: "he brought colors" is bigger than the text slide that says the full sentence: "he brought colors back into my life". I tried for the third time and still the words shrank for some odd reason. So I decided to try and erase away the flowers and the later part of the text "back into my life", and re-save to try make the text of the same size. And it worked! The size is now consistent. However, I refused to give up on why the words shrank without me adjusting it. Thought that it is caused by me dragging the flower layer over the text psd. So I used 'place' instead. But it still ended up shrinking. So I finally gave up and use the tedious method of erasing the flowers so the text will shrink to the same size.