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Methodology Mission

Image Visualisation

Why I chose this?

At first I had no idea what image visualisation even meant but I knew it sounded interesting. After reading through the mission briefs on the CDM website this one stood out the most to me. It stood out the most for a number of reasons, the first being that I could really do what I want when it came to this mission . For example I could chose the types of images I would work with aswell as the different tools I would use.

Another thing was that it was up to me how I wanted to display my images and what point I wanted to get across.

It was interesting to me that images can mean so many different things just by the way they are shown. I wanted to understand this more and think about things from a different perspective. I wanted to show people that we can think outside the box sometimes and tell or show things in different ways.

I knew the outcome of this mission had to the a video and believed that this would work well as a video. Before even starting to think about what I would do I had idea of how my video would look.

The mission made me think about stuff like what photos could mean and even how to show a film differently.

It got me thinking and that is why I was excited to start working on it.

When looking at the useful tools for this mission I realised I had never used any of these before. This made me more interested in the topic as I find it very useful to learn how to use many online tools./ I soon learned what these tools did and understood they could now help me with the rest of my studies.

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