Project 10-Utopia/Dystopia short video

My Utopia and Dystopia short film.

We had to make a shot film that was Utopia and Dystopia. I worked on this project with my friend Jasper.

Project 10-Prework

Dystopia: An imagined pace where everything is unpleasant or bad.

By Mike Duran

Utopia: A place where everything is perfect and pretty.

Project 9-Magazine

Project 8-Two Portraits

Fine Art Portrait

I tried to make her look soft and peaceful. The main editing I did was made all the colors faded except for the flower. I also so tried to make the details in her hair more noticeable. 

I wanted her to look empower and strong. I put the photo in black and white because I feel like it makes her facial expression standout and like you can feel her starring at you. I love how her hands are fist it just makes her stance so much more prominent. 

Commercial Magazine Portrait

For both of the photos I wanted to make them lighthearted and bright. I did minimal editing on them because they were almost at the point that I wanted them to be. 

Project 8-PreWork

ELLE POLAND

I like how they made her features very soft and how you instantly look at her face even though she has a very pronounced crown. Putting the Black and White gives the photo a calm but stern feeling. 

Fotoflair

I like this photo because it has a similar feel as the top photo. The two photos have many different qualities to them; they do have some things in common they both have the model wearing something on their heads, they have a soft look to them and even though the top picture doesn't have any color the bottom ones colors aren't very prominent so they both have a dull look to them but that also makes them standout. 

iD Magazine Eddie Campbell

Photographer: Matt Jones

I like this magazine cover because it is very happy and bright. They tie the dice and the shirt together with the red color but they are a darker red so they make you notice them because the rest of the photo is very bright.

Photographer: Bill Gekas

This picture seems very innocent to me because it is a little girl with a look on her face like she's about to do something she shouldn't. Both the photos have red in them, they also have a light hearted feeling to them. The top picture has a light colored background and her clothes are dark but in the bottom photo the background is dark and the clothes are light.

Project 7-Surrealism

Door in the Sky

For this project we had to make surrealism photos. For my photo I used about 11 layers create this photo. I used three different backgrounds; the first two layers were to give the picture a foggy look and the third was the sunrise. I put three different doors within each other and then a warped them so make it more whimsical.  

Project 7-PreWork

Surrealism is a cultural movement that started in the early 1920s that is most commonly know for its visual artworks and writings. The goal was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality." The art that was created were odd creatures made for everyday objects.  Andre Brenton wrote the Surrealist Manifesto to convey how he wanted to combine the conscious and subconscious into a new "absolute reality." It was a way to unfasten power of the imagination.   

Salvador Dalí

René Magritte

Boredpal

Jerry Uelsmann

Tiago Hoisel