DPI-W1: LECTURE - Learning & Assignment objectives

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING GCD 61204

 27/09/2024

24.09.2024 – 20.10.2024 / Week 1 – Week 4

ZHOU YUTONG/ 0378676

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING GCD 61204/ Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media

GROUP:5

INSTRUCTIONS

LECTURES

Week1: SUBJECT OUTLINE & EXPECTATIONS

Summary of my lecture here :

This module teaches students how to use digital tools to express themselves visually. Students will learn digital imaging skills through lectures, demonstrations, and practical work using Photoshop to create digital images. The course also helps students show they can solve communication problems using the right software and hardware.

• This module teaches digital visualisation and image manipulation as tools for creativity.
• Students will learn to manipulate digital images.
• Lectures, demonstrations, and practical exercises will help students understand digital imaging.
• Students must complete a project and submit a final portfolio. 
• Composition is an important part of design
• Collage techniques are a good way to learn composition.
• Students also learn composition and design through poster design and motion graphics.

 Poster Design

“Enter Life” digital collage artwork:

Exercise

Week 1 :  List down your 3 favourite graphic design composition work from Pinterest. Explain it on your E-portfolio blog, why do you like the designs?

I chose my best Chinese elements to analyze, these three pictures share the common characteristic of having a unique Chinese artistic approach, when I chose these three pictures, I focused on looking at the mood it expresses

REFLECTION:

Experience:Starting by choosing our three favourite pictures, we gradually began to delve deeper into the subject, and in the second week we began to create our own illustrations, choosing our own material from the books, and over the next few weeks we created illustrations for both the physics and electronics editions, until finally we used PS software to create the pictures

Observations：Everyone's ideas were fantastic, and the process of getting your hands dirty to realise your own ideas was wonderful. Although the process encountered many difficulties, our teachers tried to help us every time!

Findings ：Pictures are rich and interesting, even if we have the same material, everyone expresses it in a different way, people's imagination is infinite, and it's fun to immerse yourself in the world of pictures!

FEEDBACK: 

My teacher said my subject matter was good, but the visual impact was not as strong and the technique was a bit one-dimensional.

Additional activities

The Show Graduate Showcase.

REFLECTION：Eight of us participated in this activity, the fourth group, our design concept is to highlight the cultural diversity of Malaysia, we designed a variety of races, different foods, different buildings, try to highlight their harmony, the focus of our design is on the face in the center of the picture, we will be Malaysia's common headscarf design into the representative of the Malay, as well as Chinese, Indian, etc., we think this can be We think this is a good way to show the diversity and harmony of the ethnic groups.

FEEDBACK: We spent a lot of time on the design, as well as the difficulty of coloring with colored pencils, resulting in a lot of our content was not completed, which led to the content we wanted to reflect is not fully reflected, as well as the picture of the color color is very light color, can not achieve the effect we want!