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For this project, I wanted to insert myself into the Five Nights At Freddy movie somehow. I decided to make it look like I was in the animatronic suit used by William Afton, or Springtrap. I found a good image that I could insert my face into online. I took a few pictures where I splashed some water on my face and tried to look deranged. Removing my face from my own picture was easy enough. I struggled with removing the face of the actor but eventually managed to by using dark painting. Because the shadows didn't look quite right, I used more dark painting at various levels of opacity to recreate shadows.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKFZjRV7L_Q  The guy in the video made a point to explain the history tab, which I haven't seen or used before. I want to try it, because I figure it will give me more control then just constantly using command+z. I am worried that it is going to be annoying and hard to use though. I think it was interesting that he made a point of saying that there you can monetize your ability to photoshop. Our Digital Media teacher also made a mention of this, I wasn't aware it was actually lucrative business. 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz_dGT0YRxA In this video she explained generative fill, and showed an example of how to turn a baby stroller into a dog. I think I will try to avoid using this tool whenever I can because of it's basis in unethical A.I., but I might have to do more research. I appreciated her pointing out how to pin the bar into position, the way the bar always moved around is a bit annoying. 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B

     Without knowing the context, my first thought is that the girl in this photo looks vulnerable. This does not look like someone strong, and it doesn't even look like someone without fear. That's what makes it interesting, because there IS strength in this girl. I think it comes from how she stares, dead on, looking right at you. This is a person that looks like they might be scared and uneasy, someone without any real power, but the strength of this picture comes from how she puts this vulnerability on display any refuses to move. It feels like someone who will not move no matter what you do.    With context, we learn this this is a girl named Anastasia who is an activist for LGBT rights in Russia. This makes what we glean from just the photo even more powerful. This person obviously can't put up an image that will make her look as strong as the prejudice that exists in Russia, and especially the prejudice that exists all across the world. What makes her powerful then i

1.  https://www.instagram.com/p/BBfl1R3CiSr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== This guy is very funny, but I'm very impressed with how he edited himself in this photo. With all the glitter, I can't imagine how many edits it must have taken, along with the bruise effect he put on himself.  He may have just extended the photo slightly longer to the side and then added more glitter, which I imagine would be easier. 2. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZyr9r7BNTm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== I like the vibe of this photo, the colors and people in the background is something I would probably want to replicate for my Somewhere project. I might take out the goofiness part of it though, and try to make it look like I was seriously in there. 3. There was really no photoshop in this, but I just like how he said "I like his face." I like his face too. 4.  As an amateur filmmaker and amateur actor, I really enjoyed and respected pretty

In this assignment, I was tasked with making a calligrame, which is sort of a drawing made from strings of texts. The idea was to first write a 300-500 word letter to your future self in 20 years and then turn that into the calligrame. This was the letter I wrote: Dear David Zulian of September 19, 2043, Holy shit, you are going to be 39 years old. Almost 40. I’m sure you don’t need me to remind you of that. Even now I’m constantly thinking about my age, I can’t imagine you're any better. I wonder if you would look back and still consider me you. I hope so. I hope you're someone I can be proud of, but I also hope that I am, right now, someone that you won’t feel ashamed of. Are you ashamed of my constant procrastination? I’m writing this letter last minute for my class assignment after all. Do you think it's funny that I am still considering film as a job? Have I had any success or did I give up as soon as it gets hard? That’s funny, in a letter to myself I manage to make i

In this assignment, I was tasked with taking a picture of myself and editing it with shades of color. I used this picture because I liked the aesthetic of it, I noticed I had slight eye bags and I wanted to see if they would come across in the colorized version. I then used a filter to turn the colors in the picture to black and white, so I could more easily add color myself. These are the colored versions. I used the color wheel on Adobe Color to find interesting palettes that would work together. In each project I turned my skin a different color, as I think that's the most unique change you can make in a project like this.  I also thought it would be interesting for me to be fully in bright colors, but keep the background in black and white.