Beautifully Unhinged Project - Screens

standing pressed against the screen, you can see the detail of his face

standing slightly away from the screen, not as good effect

standing far away from the screen to create a shadow effect

standing closer but not far enough to create a bigger shadow effect

For this, we used screens and plastic gels and got the subject to stand behind it. I preferred using the screens because the pics of the gels didn't come out very well. The shadow appeared bigger depending on how far the subject stood. I could improve by using a screen and a gel, I'd have the good pic of the face being pressed with colour, something like red would suit it. The shower scene from 'Psycho' was the inspiration for this.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Experimental

Camera shake, to make the picture blurred.

This is an abstract image with the shutter speed set to 1/4 where I zoomed and rotated the camera to create this effect.  

For this pan technique, I followed the subject and used a slow shutter speed (1/4) before of the lower light.

For this pan technique, I used a shutter speed around 1/30 because it was outdoors where there was light

                                    

For this deliberate movement blur, I had to have a slow shutter speed during exposure.

To get this 'ghost' picture, I had to choose a long exposure of 4 seconds. Basically the subject moved right before exposure.

For this freezing motion picture, a fast shutter speed is needed (1/250)

This was taken in the dark room where someone pointed a torch at the camera and did 'light writing', 10 seconds is needed for exposure.

For this lesson we had to do different experiments. My favourite was the light painting but the freezing motion was a close second. The reason why I liked the light painting is because it's very creative and could be used for a lot of things, especially for the 'Beautifully Unhinged' cover. I also liked the freezing motion pic because it's just brilliant and I could get ALL the detail just like that, by using a faster shutter speed I can have the picture looking crisp.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Book Cover Inspired By Shape and Pattern

For this idea, I did a pattern of spiders as it fits well with the themes in 'Beautifully Unhinged'.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Illusion

This is our illusion experiment. I had the outline of half a face then I had to put my photos underneath to give the illusion that they are looking the other way, and make sure that the facial features lined up with the outline.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Typography Experiment

For this experiment, I took photos of plants and then in Photoshop I typed 'Beautifully Unhinged' in Arial font, after this I edited the photo of the plants into my font. After doing this I felt that the plants gave my font a splatter or shatter effect.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Moodboard

Moodboard of Penguin book covers to get inspiration for the 'Beautifully Unhinged' cover.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - 5 Penguin Book Cover Designs

For this design, I reversed the colours of the headers and included my first picture with the drawing effect and used the same colour as one of the headers to keep with the colour scheme.

This cover was inspired by the Penguin book 'Scooter', as I had layered the same photo on top of each other with two of them being completely coloured.

This cover was inspired by the book 'Take A Girl Like You' which had the usual orange header(s) but with patterns, so I got the idea to do spiders to fill the page, which a couple layered on top coloured differently to stand out.

Very simple design, a typical Penguin book cover.

For this, I kept the layout the same pretty much and with a picture added. I used an effect that made it look like a drawing.