Evaluation

For this project we were asked to create a digital story based on monologues from a film, poem or nursery rhyme. I created a digital story based on the rhyme from Nightmare On Elm Street.

I wanted to display the disturbing and creepy feeling that is felt from the film so I wanted to convey the images as dark and shadowy with the animation of the typography fading and blurring out so it was unclear.

I used photocopying continuously to degrade the quality of the typography and the scanned in the more distorted text. I found this gave a good effect as the text is more scattered with the pixels and is less readable.

For this project I have used final cut pro to edit my audio as well as having to use Garageband, which I found difficult to use at first because I had not used it before but feel I have improved using the software.

I think my time management could have been put to better use, I found myself having to rush with parts of my work as I had not exported some of my work and thus had to redo crucial elements of my work which reduced the time spent on other areas. Which I needed to do so I could produce more professional work, which I could be happier with the end results.

But I do like the final product I think the simplicity and the creepiness matched the audio with the typography slowly fading in and out adds to the eeriness of the digital story.

If I were to change anything I would make sure I was fully aware of my time which I could have handled a lot better, however I think my time keeping has improved from the last project and have become more aware of my schedule because of university interviews and although I found this project to be one of the most stressful due to different circumstances I did enjoy creating and editing the digital story.

Screenshots Process

I first started by changing the vibrance to some of the images I had taken so the sheen on the wood wasn't as bright, because I wanted the image to look dimmer and appear more depressing/eerie however before I edited the images they were taken in the sunlight so the reflection was brighter giving a more uplifting feeling which I didn't want for my design.

Then I changed the threshold on all the images so they became more like an old photo which is more grainy and distorts the image more adding to the eerie tone as its harder to work out what the image actually is. 

Then after repeatedly photocopying the typography which I originally created in illustrator so it looked as if it had been written freely by hand then scanned back in with the distorted text was then selected using the magic wand tool. I then created an animation by duplicating the layer several times and then on the animation creating a new frame for each layer. I blurred the text gradually on each frame so it appeared as if the text was slowly fading away into the background.

I used the same technique on all of the images to create a consistent eerie feeling through out the digital story.