For this experiment I used the same method as last time except I tried to use two words in this GIF, and I also tried putting the GIF in black and white. I chose to create the words "Sign Language" in this experiment to test myself and see if I would be able to make a clear pause between words, while also keeping the flow of the signs constant.
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Tim Booth is an English photographer who focuses mainly on hands in black and white. In this work he shows hands in different and distinct positions and situations, such as lighting a match or pulling on a rope. His photos utilise the black and white colour scheme to create an emphasis on shadows and the finer details on the hands, such as dirt on nails or cracks on the dry skin.
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I believe this image is one of Tim Booth's most successful photos. This photo is from his book "A Show of Hands", and features a pair of hands flat out with the palms facing upwards. This hand shape is similar to the sign for "Where" in BSL, or "What" in ASL. This creates a sense of uncertainty or confusion, as if the photo itself is asking a question.
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For these GIFs I wanted to create the movement for the letters J and Z in ASL because these signs wouldn't actually make sense to people who know ASL without the movement, and I also wanted to find a solution to the problem I had with the signs for J and H in BSL. I used a 0.1 second delay between each frame on both GIFs to mimic the fast movement of the actual sign, and I believe the result does achieve that fast pace that I wanted.
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I believe this photo is Angèle's most powerful photo. This photo shows a woman's hand with French written on her fingers. The words translate to "Silence is an eternal discourse. Silence is an eternal discourse. The silence". This image also includes the lower half of the woman's face, mainly her mouth, in frame, which makes the message written on her hand more powerful, as if the image is asking for people to speak out and not remain quiet.
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For this experiment I wanted to try testing out how I can animate the letters moving into position in a GIF. I decided to try simple animation of each letter falling into position. I used a 0 second delay between each frame to create fluent movement for each letter, and ended it with a 0.3 second delay to allow the person seeing it to read the GIF properly.
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In this experiment I decided to use BSL to fingerspell the name of my school, Thomas Tallis School. I wanted to use my BSL photos for this since BSL is an option for a language you can take for GCSE, and it is one of the few schools that offer this subject. I did this to experiment with putting words on different lines to make them easier to read, since with all of them on one line, the words would almost merge together and be harder to seperate.
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For this experiment I decided to take a break from making GIFs and try something else in photoshop. I chose to start overlapping my images with low opacity to create a similar blurry effect to black and white film. I had every image at 35% opacity except the first letter in the background "O", which was at 100% opacity.
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With this experiment I tested using my name in ASL but every image overlaps, because in my last one it ended up extremely convoluted, which I assumed was because of the amount of images I used, since "overlapping" is a big word. I used my name since it's 6 letters long, so I would't have the problem of too many images overlapping.
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In this experiment I wanted to use ideas from my mind map, being writing on hands and drawing from photos of hands, so to start I decided to make a GIF of me adding the letters of my name onto each sign. I wanted to make these signs easier for people to read, since sometimes when signing, it can be hard to tell certain signs apart because they look similar, so by writing each letter onto the sign it can be easier for people to tell each sign apart.
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In this experiment I wanted to attempt tracing out the outline of my name to create a drawn piece of work. I wanted to try playing with different methods of presenting hands using photoshop, and the idea of actually drawing out each sign seemed like a more creative and unique experiment that I can potentially develop further into a GIF or animation.
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