Somewhere Assignment

 

The assignment this week was to insert ourselves in a still from one of our favorite movies. I chose to insert myself into a scene from Requiem for a Dream. I chose this photo of myself because I am wearing similar clothes to the characters because we are in comfortable loungewear, but I also enjoyed that my facial expression would be very ironic to the contents on the scene. Before this scene, one of the main characters, Harry, encourages his girlfriend, Marion, to engage in prostitution with her psychiatrist in order to get money to feed the drug addiction they are both heavily deep into. This scene occurs directly after Marion has returned home with the money. Overall, the tone of the scene is very emotionally empty and defeated so I thought adding my smile and thumbs up would contrast well and add a layer of irony. To make this, I started by using the eraser tool on a photo of myself and then importing my outline into the scene photo. From there, I changed many of the settings including hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, exposure, offset, vibrance, etc. In addition to these, I also utilized the burn tool, dodge tool, blur tool, and sharpen tool. With all of these together, and after making different versions and comparing, I was able to match the scene the best I could. I enjoyed doing this project a lot. I have used simple cut and paste apps/softwares before to place myself in photos, but it was so interesting to see a more professional and accurate way to create these types of photos.