Digital Photography and Imaging - Project 1: Collage Design

3/4/2023 - 1/5/2023 ( Week 1 - Week 5 )
Ng Jia Ern (0344462)
Digital Photography and Imaging
Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media
Group 1
Project 1 / Exercises

PROJECT 1A: PHYSICAL COLLAGE
PROJECT 1B: DIGITAL COLLAGE

INSTRUCTIONS

Physical Collage

Choose and identify your collage's design elements to be cut out and compose it into your own concept & story.
Pre-compositing your collage's design elements into a composition.

Digital Collage

Download all of the images here to your computer:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cGcbENrjSksAaMQK9np2jb6ZaM7Y-81l?usp=sharing
Follow this tutorial demo as reference to create your digital collage:
https://youtu.be/BlW7F-fTsbE
Create 3 different composition digital collages from the images that you’ve downloaded.
Create A4 canvas size (vertical) on Photoshop and start to do the compositions.
Take 3 photo of your digital collage compositions and insert it on the section below
Submit (Turn In) this file on Google Classroom

PROCESS

1. Physical Collage

First, I find some second-hand magazines that I can use for my physical collage. I ended up choosing 4 kinds of books which are a national geographic magazine, a backyard design magazine, a fashion magazine and an outer space encyclopedia.

Then I start to compost simple combinations that I found interesting like flying car and colourful planet, gradually pieced together into a whole picture, forming my first composition.

I realised this first composition is too full and messy, so I reduced some elements and keep the girl with the galaxy face and the wing to try forming second composition.

This last composition I came up with would be my final choice. For this composition, I completely scrapped the previous ideas and tried out an entirely different format. This time I arrange the guy and explosion background on the top left and the colourful planet on the bottom right. Between them, I put eye and face to embellish the image and provide guidance for the viewer to focus on the words on top. I think the flow of this image is good which creates an S shape view line.