Carnival collage

Using bits of cut out tissue paper with the background of falling confetti worked well. We made an audience out of the paper. Also the word cut out of different textures worked well. We used techniques like duplicating layers and changing the effects. We also used shading and shadow effects on most of the images. We also ripped lots of paper to add to the confetti effect. I think the word carnival worked well I like the colours and textures it was made out of and it looks good for a carnival.

We used lasso tool to make some of the images. We also did a bit of a gradient affect. I think if we had more time we might have added more colours to the audience and improved the clown image too. Also we might have added some more of the carnival images maybe for overlays. 

Research

The techniques include gradients, overlaying and there are a lot of faded textures overlapping each other. They have put lots of images together and blended them all together. Also all the pictures are a similar shade of colour.

This one is very different to the first one. There aren't any images fading over each other. The picture has some different images put together to make it look like one scene. It looks like the work of Photoshop. At the end of the arch way you can see a field it looks like a photograph of a real field. They have blended it a bit with the background which looks like it was painted digitally. The archway walls and path could be made by cutting a texture images and placing it together. The dog looks like it could have been digitally painted too.

This is collage has used different techniques again. It looks like lots of cut outs. They haven't used any fading to blend the pictures together. They have done it so you can see it has been made by sticking magazine/ drawings together. This would most likely have been done on paper and just using glue to stick it together to make a collage.

This collage looks like either the whole thing has been painted or there are some cuts outs stuck on to it is hard to tell. Some of the instruments look like they were cut outs. It does have this affect that could have been added on the computer if it was scanned. It makes it look old and fuzzy. An other technique is that they haven't used much colour and the background is made of very plain colours. But the heart really stands out because its bright red and this makes it stand out.

This collage is very strange. If you look at it close it almost looks like skull. But it's just lots of images edited together. There is a grainy effect over the whole image. All the images have similar colours and some may have had a gradient used to fade them into the other images.

I really like this one. I has been made by putting lots of drawings together. There is a lot of gradient tool being used in this to blend all the pictures into a collage. They could have spent ages drawing these amazing pictures and then spent time scanning them in and then collaging it. Also all of the drawings are black and white which I think gives it more effect. 

Work on Tutorials

Collage HW

Why I like it: It looks really mysterious and out of place. I think it looks surreal and almost like something out of a fairy tale. The door is isolated and it makes you think that anything or any one could walk out of it. It also makes you wounded about what's inside it and why it’s there. I like how one side of the image is bright and shiny and the other is dark and gloomy. I also like this collage because usually I’m not keen on collarging as I think a lot of the time it becomes messy looking but this image doesn't and it works together.

Meaning: It could mean an escape or an easy escape. One side of the image is dark and in the shadows and the other side is in the light. This could signify that the dark side is the hard side and light side is easy side as the door shows there is always a way out. Also the door is in water so it could mean that on this planet that there is more sea then land and humans are restricted to were they go. We only take up parts of the earth and most of it is governed by the sea and the sky takes up most of the image this shows it is even vaster then the sea.

The visual techniques: There is a gradient effect. On the background there is a layer with a scratchy texture shown over the whole image. It makes everything look cracked. Also the have used smudges and dark faded colour over parts of the image. They have used different images and made a collage of one image.