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The final assignment I did for this week was worth 2 stars. The goal of this assignment was to edit a picture of something creepy in your window. I used preview on my mac to complete this assignment. Here is the link to the original assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/what-wanders-outside-your-window/
I picked a clown because I think they are very scary and if I saw one in my window I would FREAK out. This assignment was fairly easy… but I might have to sleep with the lights on tonight.
For this visual assignment I had to show what would be scary to see outside a window. I decided to use my friend’s host character, the Death Whisperer, because she is extremely scary.
I took the picture of the Death Whisperer from my friend’s blog and cut out the background from the picture. I then found a cool looking window and put the Death Whisperer in the window. This required a lot of changing of the size of the Death Whisperer because she was rather small to begin with. I enjoyed this assignment because I got to stray from Bloody Face for awhile, since I have been using him a lot.
This would truly scare me if I ever saw it outside of my window. Here is the link to my post: http://lifebysavanna.com/visual-assignments/scary-stuff/
Something that would scare me if I looked out the window.
When I saw the assignment “What Wanders Outside Your Window?” it was right after I watched Episode 13 of season 1. I immediately thought of D’Angelo telling the detectives about how Deirdre Kresson was killed. I thought it was only appropriate to put Wee-Bey in the window like he was when he shot Deirdre Kresson. I would not want to hear the Tap Tap Tap of Wee-Bey’s gun on my window. If I heard that i would probably run. Especially after watching episode 13. Although this assignment was only one star I once again took way longer then what I should have but I like to make sure my work look good. Also, when I do something knew I like to learn a lot of things about it. This time it was how to take two pictures in Photoshop and make them one.
First, I got a picture of Wee-Bey off the internet as well as a picture of a window at night. Then I opened them both into Adobe Photoshop 9. Using the PhotoMerge faces option I was able to put them together. Before I merged them I had to use the magnetic lasso to cut out Wee-Bey’s face. This was a lot harder then I thought. Plus I do not have steady hands so that seemed to be a problem as well. After many redo’s I got a good enough image for my taste. Not perfect but I was getting ticked off at redoing it so many times. Next, I merged the pictures together. It works similar to the layering in Gimp. I used the eraser tool to fix some of the edges. I would click on either layer i wanted to erase and would start erasing areas to make it look better. Mainly I erased areas around Wee-Bey’s body to bring out more of the background. It took me a lot of time to do all this and I tried many things but on the bright side I learned more about Photoshop.
A creepy clown would be my greatest fear of what can wander outside my window at night. I researched the post I could relate to , and stumbled on page two of visual post and saw this post. I am very afraid of clowns, never had them at birthday parties, so I knew exactly what picture I would post. I looked on google pictures and found the scariest picture of a clown I could find and posted it in my blog right here.
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For this assignment you were supposed to create a visual of your biggest fear outside your window. I am not actually really that afraid of an atomic winter, but typically rather than look at actual (internal) fears, people like to find some external to attach their fear to i.e. terrorism, communism, Muslims, Armageddon. This picture is more in the spirit of what Jung calls the Collective Shadow. If it were an actual fear of mine it would be hard to capture as an image outside a window since most of my fears are intangible: failure/success, being alone/being committed etc.
Visualize what would be your greatest fear outside your window at night.
