Watercolor Transfer Printing Process and Experience

This project was based on a printing process we learned earlier in graphic design class where you transfer an image to a different piece of material. This process is called a Transfer Print.

     1. For this, we used watercolor paper, used watercolors on the paper similar to the colors in the image we chose and let it dry.

     2. Then, we used Mod Podge on the image we chose and put it on the watercolor paper with the paint already dry.

     3. Next was using a Squeegee, which is a tool used to get rid of air bubbles in the image when glued onto the watercolor paper.

     4. After gluing, we let the image dry to the watercolor paper.

     5. After everything was dry, we used water to get rid of the excess paper on the image to reveal the ink from the image. The image was still present, but it looked as though it was printed onto the watercolor paper.

The project was easy and fun. Although, there were some days where I would forget to stop working on my Adobe Illustrator project and work on the Printing Process project. I think I did a good job, this being my first time. I did do two of them because my teacher said if we decided to do two, the best one would be graded. I also did two because the two images I chose I thought were the best-photoshopped projects I've done.

One thing I will do better next time is making sure I don't rub too hard on the image because, as it is obvious, some of the ink was rubbed away during the water process (step 5). I think Alien Man was better compared to my fox/forest one because less ink is missing and is cleaner. I would also recolor the watercolor part due to how faded the background looks.

I would use the sane images if I did this project again just because I think they're my best work and I really like them compared to my other projects.

Feature Story

This project was to do a feature story like on news channels. My group decided to interview a student at my school due to the clubs and activities he did.

My group and I came up with twenty-one questions to ask. These questions built on each other, which means the questions weren't "yes/no" questions. I came up with some questions as well as my group members. We originally were going to film in the library, and we did, but we forgot to turn on the microphone that was in the camera, which is a Panasonic AC90 camera, so we had no audio. So many groups made the same mistake my group did, so we were all given an extra filming day. By the time we filmed again, with the microphone turned on, we couldn't use the library anymore, and found another space. After filming was done, it was time to edit. We all used Adobe Premier Pro. I asked the student we interviewed if he had any footage of the clubs/activities he was in. He gave us the clips and used them as B-roll.

For editing, I divided the film we had from the interview based on the club mentioned in the question. I had to delete majority of the footage from the interview because the video had to be one minute thirty seconds maximum. Throughout the process, I learned how to "color code" clips so I knew which clip was which. I changed the colors frequently so I wasn't bored with the colors I originally chose. This kept me organized throughout the process. I did edit the audio levels so everything was clear and even. I also added transitions to enhance the project and to hide very little mistakes. I also added lower thirds text at the beginning so the audience knew what or who was on screen.



If I could redo this project, I wouldn't mostly because I'm not interested in convergence journalism, or news stories based video, I did have fun with this project, but it wasn't my cup of tea. I would add more voiceover, but I'm not good at writing scripts for this kind of video work. I would also fix the way we filmed the interview. The camera angle wasn't straight at all throughout filming, so I had to fix that too.

I would still interview the same person, film in the same space, and use the same editing software and clips if I had to to this project again.


 

For my next project, I will make sure that the camera angle is straight, and that the built-in microphone is on so audio is captured. I will also make sure to add more voice over and write a better voice-over script.

Overall, this project was interesting. It was fun, but not my cup of tea. Editing was bit more difficult than any other project I've worked on for Video. This project was a learning process, and well worth the time.