'Not One With The Crowd'

Surrealism of Social Anxiety

 For my CyberArts tech class, we were supposed to make a surrealist picture based on an issue in the world. I choose how people felt outcasted or social anxiety for my project. Social anxiety is something that effects a lot of people, but isn't really talked about. Originally I had wanted to put my model so she was blended into the wall and instead of a dance - social outing type thing - I had originally wanted to have a classroom but felt that only really effected students - even though that was mainly the point. Also I had wanted to put words over the image making it look like it was blended into the wall, but I felt the picture represented itself well enough without the words.

 I find this idea surreal because the image is blended into the wall, it was supposed to represent that she was at the place but she felt as if she was in that lone brick area.

 For my design process first I took a picture of my model, taking her picture against a white background, lighting only on one side. For the background I went and found an area at the back of the school that was kind of secluded and used natural light to take that picture, the picture of the party was found off of the internet.

 Getting started on putting the picture together, I started with the picture of the brick area as my base, then removing the background from the picture of my model I copy and pasted her onto the layer, removing the halo around with an option I found in the select menu. From there, I resized her to fit the size of the corner before taking the picture of the actual party and masking it into the image, using a soft eraser on the image to make it kinda blend, then I fixed the opacity and used the dissolve mode to help with the feeling of blending.

 I really enjoy how the picture had come out, I feel satisfied with how it looked though, I wish I had picked a better image for the 'social outing' type thing and that I had had time to put in the words as spray paint on the walls.