Week 7

It has been really hard to find inspiration or ideas at all for this poster and one source I usually go to for inspiration is Pinterest. I have been researching all sorts of designs that are cinema related (not just posters). I have been looking at tickets, old posters from the German style, from the … More Week 7

Week 6

When I first started sketching my first poster I had no ideas at all. All the sketches I had made were cliche and had nothing special. The first sketches especially were very banal ideas: a clapper board and a old movie camera. I have tried really hard to think of something more interesting but I … More Week 6

Week 5

Coming to the end of the project I still had some issues to solve. While exporting my video, the size was way too big but if i changed the DPI of the images on illustrator the video, once exported, was very low quality. At the last minute I found a solution to compress the video … More Week 5

Week 4

With my project finally coming to an end I needed to add details to finish it such as the title and end credits. I chose to call my short story “It’s not 3eib” which in arabic means “inappropriate”. I chose this title because many muslim girls feel pressured when it comes to “boys” games, and … More Week 4

Week 3

This project turned out to be more complex that what I imagined. I never worked on photoshop before and for every action I wanted to make I had to watch tutorials in order to understand how the software worked. It was also challenging to plan ahead which layers I had to isolate in order to … More Week 3

Week 2

After sketching out 3 story boards and after a discussion with the class I decided to create a story based on a girl who goes to the park to play with her doll, or at least that’s what it seems. I came up with a twist that not only will hopefully surprise the audience but … More Week 2

Week 1

This week the new project was introduced to us. The project is “parallax”, a term used to describe an optical illusion. When I understood what the project was about I was really excited to start working as I have seen these kinds of photo editing before, especially using old photos and in adverts and I’ve … More Week 1