Digital Photography & Imaging - Week 10

24.11.2025 - 28.11.2025 (Week 10)
Cheyenne Liew Khye Yean / 0378330

Digital Photography & Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) Creative Media
Project 4

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LECTURE

Briefing on final assignment.

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PRACTICAL

As a continuation of the video from week 9, we were taught how to have moving textures in our video, and also how to use puppet pins. Mr. Fitri provided a video of water and an image of leaves (in .psd format).

Figure 1.1 Provided Elements, Week 10 (26/11/2025)

Figure 1.2 Water Texture Process, Week 10 (26/11/2025)

In the tutorial, we were taught to lower the saturation of the video all the way and adjust the levels for contrast. I also later added on a darken blending mode and lowered the opacity enough that the texture would still show through. 

Figure 1.3 Texture Before and After, Week 10 (26/11/2025)

I thought the texture being above all the other elements was a little distracting, so I moved it to below the typewriter layer. I also ended up opting out of using the leaf element because I didn't think it would fit anywhere in my collage. Additionally, I've already used puppet pins the previous week, so I left my video as is.

Figure 1.4 Looping Process, Week 10 (26/11/2025)

I changed the ending of my original video by doing what was taught in the tutorial. I copied the keyframes from the beginning of the video to the end and reversed their positions so it would end the same way it started.

Figure 1.5 Final Video Outcome, Week 10 (26/11/2025)

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REFLECTION

This week was pretty simple but interesting. I got to learn about the effects and presets panel in After Effects, which I've never had the chance to explore before. I struggled to find the blending modes at first, since it's not openly shown like in Photoshop, but a quick Google search helped fix that. All in all, I got to learn a lot more about the features in After Effects through this process, and I'm sure it'll be useful when I start working on the final project.