This visual assignment challenged me to create TENSION! By far the most fun. In order to create this tension, you needed to take one photo, chop it up, and arrange it in a way that would seem to create a situation of tension.

Here’s what I produced for you guys:

I really enjoyed this assignment. It encouraged both creative expression and FUN! Now, it’s time to feed this cat! But the details of the assignment can be found below:

I took on the One Shot assignment that is worth 3 stars. I decided to use this assignment along with my character. The idea of the one shot was to take one image and split it into a comic style to convey something. I decided to tweak that a little, when I was playing around with the photos I was not getting a quality that I liked so I actually took several images of the same subject to get a better quality on particular objects on the desk.

I spent awhile trying to decide how to set up the desk and how to create a desk that reflected the personality of my character Agent Fawn. I imaged her desk being very austere however I decided to clutter it up a bit more to point to items that gave more depth to who she is as a character. Among those items were a notepad with letter on it, a redacted set of files, and a broken key. Those were some of the elements I purposefully set up in the scene along with other office supplies each carefully chosen for the desk.

Here is what my first picture looked like when I originally set the desk up.

I then brought that picture and several other zoom in shots into Photoshop and worked played around with organizing the photos and creating a narrative around the images. Originally I started with a first shot of the desk and progressed through different zoom ins until I go to a final shot of the same desk. However as I worked with it I found the narrative really seemed to be lacking and not strongly coherent. So I scrapped that idea and instead tried to look at the images as a whole and how they could work together better. After I had gotten a organization I was happier with I messed around with color balance layers and the saturation of the overall image to try and give it a more muted effect than the bright original photograph had. I felt a more somber feeling better suited my agent’s personality.

Here is my final completed version.

This Photo was taking May 28 of last year(2012) . It was my best friend Tiara Birthday, we all decided to head to BBQ’s on Time Square 42nd . And in this photo shows split personality, of all of my classmates just in this one shot