digital production for new media
final portfolio
Selected Assignments
Photo: Assignment 2
For this assignment, we were tasked with creating a composition from images of different textures, and utilizing different tools on Photoshop to cut out pieces from each image, change their opacity, hue, or size, to create a composite image.
Photo: Assignment 3
Similar to the previous assignment, this assignment was another challenge in using various Photoshop tools to create a composite image. However, for this one, we had to use images we either took ourselves or pulled from the internet. I used three images I took: one of the NYC skyline, a hand-drawn speech bubble, and an iPhone image of my dog, Friday.
Project 1: “On Feeling ‘Enough’”
For our first project, we were tasked with creating a project that demonstrated our learned skills in photo so far. I utilized both digital images and hand-done techniques to create this composite image.
In my piece, I am exploring the binaries of race and gender identity in American culture, and the effects they have on one’s perception of themselves as “too much” or “too little” of something. This contrast leaves one’s body in a constant cycle of too much and too little, and never just enough of something. I wanted to depict this very nuanced issue to those who may not understand this internal struggle for many marginalized individuals in the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities.
Project 2: “The Voyeur”
Our second project was one with video, where we demonstrated our new video skills in one minute. Confined to just the rooms in my childhood home, it challenged my creativity in conveying a complex message with little space to work with.
For this project, I wanted to explore Margaret Atwood’s ideas about voyeurism. In a famous quote, she poses the idea that each woman has “a man inside watching a woman” and that each woman is their own voyeur. With Paris Hilton’s “Stars Are Blind” as the foundation, I wanted to juxtapose the bubblegum pink exterior of performing femininity with the subsequent inner turmoil that comes with it and how women are conditioned to continue to feed the male gaze — even when they’re alone.
Final Project: “What Songs Sound Like”
For our last project, we were tasked with combining all our learned skills in photo, video, audio, and web design in a final project under a chosen topic.
For my project, I decided to examine the ways people visualized different songs they loved.
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