The objective of this image was to take a dream of mine and imprint it on a landscape, which would have the effect of making the image surreal. The dream I chose was one of my roommate and I running away from Pennywise, the clown from the movie It. In the dream, we eventually escaped to my house at which time we looked out my window to see a swarm of cop cars. A horse then fell through my window, and I woke up. In creating the image, I used the magnetic lasso tool to remove the backgrounds from various images. I also desaturated the background in order to emphasize the images of my roommate escaping, the horse, and Pennywise. Then, I simply moved images to where I saw fit. I finished the image off by overlaying red and blue circles to represent the sirens from the cop cars.
Several Elements of Art and Principles of design were used in this image. As mentioned, I used color by desaturating the background to emphasize certain objects. I used movement by having several pictures of my roommate’s face along the road, which is supposed to show how he was running down the street away from Pennywise. This draws the viewer’s eye down the street, as well. Finally, I used proportions by making Pennywise much larger than he actually would be in order to portray the sense that he is looming over the entirety of the landscape.
In my critique, I was told to transform the regular cars that were on the street into cop cars, which I did. Also, originally all of the pictures of my roommate’s face were the same, so I was told to make the images different in order to show a progression of time, which I did.