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Lyrical Triptych Reflection

Lyrical Triptych Reflection

The assignment for this project was to create three lyrical triptychs (artwork consisting of three related panels) relating to a song of our choice. The purpose was to visually represent the ideas and feelings found in the song’s lyrics by creating a digital collage in Adobe Photoshop.

Before starting this assignment, as a class we looked at different student examples and critiqued them in order to create a list of important criteria for designing a successful project of our own. Then we were to select a song that had personal meaning to us, or that we just liked in general and find tons of different pictures that we could possibly use in order to create our triptychs. From the song we chose, we were to analyze the lyrics and create three separate portions, which we would eventually use to complete the project.

            All three panels for this project were 5”x7” inches. Each panel was to visually reflect a different portion of the song’s lyrics. The project was created using the tools in Adobe Photoshop. The tools to focus on were the lasso, cutting and pasting, opacity, layers, color adjustments, and filters. 

            The song I chose to use for my three lyrical triptychs was “Last Christmas”, by: WHAM! The main reason for why I chose this song was because I really enjoy Christmas time, and even though this is a bit of a sad song, it does kind of have a love twist to it. I also enjoy singing this song too whether it’s Christmas time or not. I have three panels for my project. The first panel is a shadow of two people with their heads together forming a heart shape. The background is snow falling down. On the bottom I have the words, “Last Christmas I gave you my heart…” The second panel is nice Christmas scenery, a faded close up of a girl crying, and a couple enjoying their presence together in a corner. Finally the third panel has the same background except this time there is a crowd full of teens, and a girl with a tear in the background looking at the scene.

            The Adobe Photoshop tools that I used were magnetic lasso, the stamp tool, filters, color adjustments, copy and paste, blending options, and the type tool. I used the filters and adjustments to mainly make the main girl in all three panels look almost ghost like. I really like using the different filters for the pictures because each filter can change the mood of just one picture.

            I created certain images to reflect the lyrics of the song by first finding a lot of different pictures that I think would go with the different lyrics of the song. The main pictures were a Christmas scene/room, falling snow, a crying girl, and a happy couple. Sounds simple, huh? Not really. By using the filters, I was mainly able to create the important character in the triptych to look invisible and ghost like throughout the whole three panels. By having that, I could create a very sad mood, and by having the happy Christmas background, a mood of softness with a tad of happiness involved. There was a lot of copying and pasting involved in order to create the images that I wanted.

            I really like using Adobe Photoshop. I think it’s pretty cool the different things I can do using it. I can make several different images using other images I couldn’t think would be possible to put together. I personally think I could have done better on my lyrical triptych. What was stopping me from doing better was that I thought of a new and better idea for the lyrical triptychs much later into the project. By that time it was too late to start over with another idea. What I thought I did well was the fact that I started using and learning more about a different variety of the tools Adobe Photoshop has to offer. If I were to do the assignment over, I would think more carefully thoroughly about what I really want to do for the project. I feel like I am much more familiar with all the tools I need to do the projects in my Digital Media class.  

            

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