Assignment 3 - Murder Most Foul

In this assignment, we are supposed to create 8 photos to describe a story which the receiver must understand using as little words as possible.

Below are the original 8 photos which i put up in tutorial. I engaged some of my hall mates to play the part of the murderer and the victim. Shots were taken on Sheares Hall roof and manipulated using Illustrator and Photoshop. Props which were used were tomato sauce stolen from the kitchen, knives from my personal collection and a lot of supper bribery to pay the extras.

Note : On photo 6, i used glow on both persons to try to show the sense of brotherhood derived from a sincere HTHT (heart-to-heart-talk).

Photo 7 and 8, background is tinted red to show the tension building up, highlighting the twist in the plot. Photo 8 is tinted in a bolder red than 7 to build up the tension from the impending danger on the victim.

Comments that were derived from the class was that the photos are trying to show too much in 8 pictures. Especially in photo 3 where there are many photos squeezed into one, making it hard for the viewer to understand that the victim's friend has been murderd by an unknown man. The pace of reading was also disrupted in photo 3. Still, i'm going to make it a challenge to continue with this storyline. I will improve on this.