Identity Project

For the background, I used an image of a pool because I really like how light reflects off of water. In the center there is a color guard flag and rifle because I'm in color guard and my favorite piece of equipment is rifle. The tip of the rifle is in front of the silk and the pole in front of the rifle neck. I cut everything out using either the magnetic lasso tool or the polygonal lasso tool. Below the equipment is the Sherlock logo because it's one of my favorite tv shows. I lowered the opacity on that to make it look nicer. In the bottom right corner is Adele because she is my favorite singer, and in the other corner is Rhiannon McGavin because she is my favorite poet. In the original picture her hair was cropped so I covered it with a leaf crown. In the upper right corner is a watercolor tube because I love painting. Opposite that is the Glossier logo and a bird of paradise flower because I like glossier products and the hotel we stay at when my family goes to California has a whole garden of bird of paradise flowers. I overlaid the lyrics to Glory and Gore by Lorde, because it was the song I used for my color guard solo.

Typography

Typography Using 'M'

I feel that the strongest aspect of my typography project is how I used the warp tool to make the two blue Ms look squished. For the curves, I made a long line of text and compressed it horizontally until it no longer looked like it was composed of Ms, and applied the curve fx and flipped the second one to create an upside down M. The outline of the hearts is created by a lot of Ms at a very small font. I lowered the opacity on some of the layers to create a more interesting look. The green background is created of overlapping flipped Ms as well.

Polaroids

          For my polaroid project, I used 13 polaroid frames to crop a picture of me.  I didn't place any of them similarly so as to make them look scattered onto the background.  I put parts of the background image into the foreground over the photos (the crochet needle, arm, and coffee cup) with the magnetic lasso tool to show depth.  The part I pulled forward was my hair (by removing part of the polaroid frames), so I removed parts of the polaroid frames so it looked like it was over them.  I chose a background that doesn't have a lot of loud colors so that it wouldn't take away from the polaroids.

DVD Cover

          I made this DVD cover of Holes by starting off by creating the half inch margin for the spine.  I wanted to make this more sarcastic so instead of Walt Disney, this is made by "Wait Gisney", and is entitled "Holes - aka that one movie about that one guy with that really weird name."  I created the review/summary on the back to be satirical as well "Stanley Yelnats has a history of bad luck in his family.  He gets sent to a juvenile delinquent camp in the middle of nowhere to dig holes.  There he meets Hector Zeroni and they run away, eat some onions, and find Stanleys long lost treasure.  In the end, his family makes shoes stink less."  I faded the scene of Stanley and Zero so that it looked less rigid and created a background for the front cover.

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Michael Flomen PowerPoint

Contact Sheet

Bottom (bottom): test strips Bottom (top): film sheet Middle (bottom): test strip Middle (right): small sheets Middle/Top: final contact sheet

          To make a contact sheet I first photographed a classmate (Molly) and developed the film. Then I went into the dark room to use the enlargers and actually made a contact sheet. I focused the enlarger to fit a 5' by 7' area then got out a small strip of paper and placed the film on top, and moved the cardboard on top of that to make a test strip. I made a few before deciding on how many seconds looked the best.
           After making a small strip of the desired time, I proceeded to make small strip test strips of my preferred negative. I focused the enlarger again and brought the negative carrier out into the light and inserted my negative. I made the contact sheet and put it through the chemicals and repeated this a few times until I had the desired values. Once my contact sheet had the right values, I made a full sheet, which had a rough border so we made another.
          If I were to do this project again, I wouldn't do anything differently. I like how the finals came out and how little adjustments I had to make. I demonstrated how this project was supposed to be done by making test strips of the film strip and the specific negative, then testing out the most varying color value and then finishing with a full sheet.