DVD Menu

Ok, lets get something straight. ------------- (drum splash.) Sorry that's corny. What's not corny is this great DVD Menu background image I've made.

In class we took turns analyzing each of our peers images and made notes of what we thought works and what does not.
Pertaining to my image the negatives i recieved 9/10 times was that the "title" was illegible. I wasn't aware that i had a title. It works though i guess. Bigote duro frio is "Cold hard mustache" in spanish. It was just something i wanted to me lost in the background but i guess i made it stand out too much. So i decided to make it my title. I also decided to work on the rest of the composition as well. Here is what i have so far:

Thanks
Matthew

Convential Wisdom

For our typography assignment each student had to design eight well known phrases in Photoshop. The one i choose to list below is conventional wisdom.



I created this image with the idea that I wanted to separate the words into. Conventional, a static concrete adjective, i made look overbearing and stoic. The noun wisdom on the other hand i wanted to make look whimsical, as if the idea of wisdom comes from looking at the word in a different way, i.e. the "i" being upside-down.

Replica

For my Computer Image Making class each student had to replicate an ad. They had to use their own photos and find all the correct fonts and combine it in Photoshop.
Here is the original ad.


Here is my ad.


In recreating this picture, I had a friend of mine, James Ebenstein, volunteer to get tied up and go down to Maplewood Lake in Jenison. I set the camera on a tripod and ran back over to him and pushed him over and smiled. Then i drove over to the local grocery store and grabbed a picture of a car that looked similar to the one in the ad. By the time i got home it was getting dark and i had a wonderful opportunity to take a picture of a sunset. All these pictures i combined in photoshop. That night i spent multiple hours cutting out selections, resizing, and distorting shapes. I then color corrected each item separately and then all together in the end with an adjustment layer to make everything look cohesive.

Me

Hi, Im Matthew Ballard. I am a student at GVSU in the Film and Video major/program. I have been interesting in film and its production from an early age. I have been shooting still photography since i was fourteen and using Adobe Photoshop since i was sixteen. Not until recently have i started shooting and editing video. The learning process is going quite quickly and i am using this blog for my experiments and how these experiments change me mentally and therefore... physically.