Hope you are well, it's quiet here without you.
Please post a picture of your little guy after he is born (and watch out for Sarah... who knows what she will do.)
good luck!
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Should we try to reschedule with Hyunjin?
BIOGRAPHY
Hyunjin Jo
Writer/Director/Producer
Hyunjin Jo was born in Seoul, South Korea and was raised all over the United States (as varied as Hawaii and Kansas), but primarily grew up in the western suburbs of Philadelphia. She received a BFA in photography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she was honored as a Lew Wasserman Scholar and received the New York Governor’s Award of Distinction for Community Involvement from Governor George Pataki.
After a successful career as a fine art and documentary still photographer shooting in North America and throughout Europe, Ms. Jo turned to the motion picture field in 1996. By being a background player, Ms. Jo gained accessed to her first motion picture film set where she met the late, famed cinematographer, John Alonzo (“Chinatown,” “Scarface”). Through Mr. Alonzo’s guidance, Ms. Jo soon became a union member of The International Photographers Guild and gained valuable production experience working as a camera assistant and film loader on movies, music videos and commercials (including many Super Bowl spots).
Using this practical production experience, in 1997, Ms. Jo wrote, directed and produced, “Basic Items”—a 35mm short film ($2500 film budget and a shooting ratio of 3:1) that soon received distribution. She then began working as a script & production consultant for many first time filmmakers as well as for such companies like Miramax. As an independent producer/line producer/UPM, she has teamed up with such Academy Award winning and nominated documentary filmmakers such as Jessica Yu, as well as regularly collaborating with industry respected actors such as Jane Lynch and Jeremy Sisto.
As a published photographer and poet who continues to thrive to bring unique film projects to the viewing public, today Ms. Jo mentors as well as provides consultations to actors, screenwriters and filmmakers and serves on many filmmaking discussion panels.
Currently, in addition to bringing her award winning feature script “More Things Change” to the screen, Ms. Jo is also attached to direct an international feature production of a political thriller while also writing her first novel.
Hyunjin Jo
Writer/Director/Producer
Hyunjin Jo was born in Seoul, South Korea and was raised all over the United States (as varied as Hawaii and Kansas), but primarily grew up in the western suburbs of Philadelphia. She received a BFA in photography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she was honored as a Lew Wasserman Scholar and received the New York Governor’s Award of Distinction for Community Involvement from Governor George Pataki.
After a successful career as a fine art and documentary still photographer shooting in North America and throughout Europe, Ms. Jo turned to the motion picture field in 1996. By being a background player, Ms. Jo gained accessed to her first motion picture film set where she met the late, famed cinematographer, John Alonzo (“Chinatown,” “Scarface”). Through Mr. Alonzo’s guidance, Ms. Jo soon became a union member of The International Photographers Guild and gained valuable production experience working as a camera assistant and film loader on movies, music videos and commercials (including many Super Bowl spots).
Using this practical production experience, in 1997, Ms. Jo wrote, directed and produced, “Basic Items”—a 35mm short film ($2500 film budget and a shooting ratio of 3:1) that soon received distribution. She then began working as a script & production consultant for many first time filmmakers as well as for such companies like Miramax. As an independent producer/line producer/UPM, she has teamed up with such Academy Award winning and nominated documentary filmmakers such as Jessica Yu, as well as regularly collaborating with industry respected actors such as Jane Lynch and Jeremy Sisto.
As a published photographer and poet who continues to thrive to bring unique film projects to the viewing public, today Ms. Jo mentors as well as provides consultations to actors, screenwriters and filmmakers and serves on many filmmaking discussion panels.
Currently, in addition to bringing her award winning feature script “More Things Change” to the screen, Ms. Jo is also attached to direct an international feature production of a political thriller while also writing her first novel.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Hyunjin Jo visit
Hi folks, I'm not sure if Hyunjin will make it in because her flight got cancelled, we'll see if she manages to get on another tonight.
In any case,
here are some links she sent for us to look at. (I'm not including her
personal company website because it isn't working right now.)
Filmography
AllExperts
click on: View Past Answers
In any case,
here are some links she sent for us to look at. (I'm not including her
personal company website because it isn't working right now.)
Filmography
AllExperts
click on: View Past Answers
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Michelle's Notes
hi everyone!
well I've officially been grounded, my doctor does not feel that it is safe for me to travel to philly for school, sad :( i know, i miss you all!
I'm going to do my best to continue to keep up with the blog, but my final project will most likely have to be put on hold until the fall. I'm going to get a new computer since my laptop is pretty much worthless so i can work on building my tree... it's a massive file but i'm really excited to see how it's going to turn out. My mom has some kind of mini-dome tent in the basement that she said i should take a look at and see if i want to use the frame.... it might save me some money and frustration when the time comes to assemble the installation, so I'll probably make someone set it up for me here and i'll decide if i'll use it or not.
i'm bummed that i'm going to miss the rest of the demos, the photos sarah posted turned out really cool... and kind of creepy!! haha
well I've officially been grounded, my doctor does not feel that it is safe for me to travel to philly for school, sad :( i know, i miss you all!
I'm going to do my best to continue to keep up with the blog, but my final project will most likely have to be put on hold until the fall. I'm going to get a new computer since my laptop is pretty much worthless so i can work on building my tree... it's a massive file but i'm really excited to see how it's going to turn out. My mom has some kind of mini-dome tent in the basement that she said i should take a look at and see if i want to use the frame.... it might save me some money and frustration when the time comes to assemble the installation, so I'll probably make someone set it up for me here and i'll decide if i'll use it or not.
i'm bummed that i'm going to miss the rest of the demos, the photos sarah posted turned out really cool... and kind of creepy!! haha
Thursday, April 10, 2008
What I did this week and today.
After and Before
I learned to retouch up pictures today from Sara's Demo. That before picture is terrible.
In the past week, I've been brainstorming for my final. I'm still having trouble figuring how what I'm passionate about doing for my Final.
I was either going to do something surreal or something to do with my random collects that I have at home.
I've been doing some research. I've looked at Cindy Sherman's work. Where she dresses up as different people. This is from her gleams and reflections series. I really like how she uses her lighting in her pictures.
I've also looked at Steven Shore's Work. He takes pictures of like towns and found objects. It's more of a snap shot. I really like his work. I was thinking of the possibility of bringing in something from the outside. Creating a scene.
Then I looked at some fashion pictures. They usually have crazy scenes in their fashion ads. SO... i thought maybe I do some crazy things and photograph it.
I guess I'll just make a elaborate scene and photograph it.
Heres the text from the photoshop handout
Reducing facial redness:
-Choose “hue/saturation”
-In the dropdown menu choose “red”
-Desaturate the red until it looks better
-You may also want to increase the hue by 3 or 4 points, adding a bit of yellow.
Make lips pop out:
-Using the burn tool set to shadows, opacity set at 10%, burn the lips until satisfied
-Using the dodge tool, set to highlights, opacity set at 8%, sweep over highlights on lips.
Color correction in curves:
-In RGB mode, double click the right eyedropper. Set the brightness to 95, hit ok.
-In the image, click on a bright white section that still has a bit of detail in it.
-Back in curves, double click on the left eyedropper, set the brightness to 5, hit ok
-Click on something dark in the image that still has a bit of detail.
Advanced blending in curves:
-If the darks are to dark, or the lights are to light, double click on a previously existing curves layer.
-At the bottom of “layer style” make sure “blend if grey” is selected from the dropdown menu.
-Under “this layer” drag the slider until it looks better.
-Option click on the slider to break it in 2 parts; adjust to make the transition smoother.
“High Fashion” muted tone:
-Totally desaturate the image.
-Duplicate the background layer and make it the first layer by dragging it to the top of the layers pallet, set the blending mode to soft light.
-Going down to the desaturated layer, adjust the curves for more detail in the highlights.
-On the top soft light layer adjust the color balance to make it more yellow and set THAT blending mode to soft light.
-Adjust the opacity and curves of each layer until you achieve a look you like.
Changing hair color:
-Make a good selection on the hair
-Create a new layer
-Fill the selection with a solid color of your choice.
-Set the blending mode to soft light
-Reduce the opacity to make the hair look more natural.
Making skin “glow”:
-In a new layer, select “color range”
-The highlights should be automatically be selected, but if you want you can choose “highlights” or sample your own color. Hit ok.
-Using the paint bucket, fill in the selected areas with white.
-Change the opacity for a more natural look.
-Add Gaussian blur to the layer to make it blend in more. Use curves to adjust further.
Using Liquify to reduce stomach, hips, and arms:
-Duplicate the background layer
-Under filters, select liquify
-Using a large brush, select the “forward warp” tool, which looks like a little hand with a pointed finger.
-Really gently, a little bit at a time, simply use the brush to push in the fat parts. Hit ok.
-The pucker tool may also be used.
-Doing this may cause the area to look fuzzy, so select the area and add a noise filter.
To make boobs bigger:
-Duplicate the background layer
-Select liquify.
-Using a fairy large brush, select the “bloat” tool from the tool pallet on the left. It looks like a little oval with arrows pointing out.
-Put the brush over boob and click. Continue to click until boobs have reached desired size. Hit ok.
Other Liquify tips:
-The “pucker” tool can be used to reduce the size of eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.
-The “forward warp” tool can be used to change the shape of facial features.
-The best was to learn is to just play around until you get the effect you want.
How to Reduce Under eye bags, and double chin:
-Select the clone stamp tool. Set the blend mod to lighten and the opacity to about 6%
-Slowly paint over undesireable areas. When it’s become light enough, you may use the healing brush to completely get rid of them.
Websites for further information:
Lynda.com
username jim@artnerd.org
password moorepda
Flickr photoshop support group:
http://flickr.com/groups/photoshopsupport/discuss/
Photoshop tutorials can also be found on YouTube
-Choose “hue/saturation”
-In the dropdown menu choose “red”
-Desaturate the red until it looks better
-You may also want to increase the hue by 3 or 4 points, adding a bit of yellow.
Make lips pop out:
-Using the burn tool set to shadows, opacity set at 10%, burn the lips until satisfied
-Using the dodge tool, set to highlights, opacity set at 8%, sweep over highlights on lips.
Color correction in curves:
-In RGB mode, double click the right eyedropper. Set the brightness to 95, hit ok.
-In the image, click on a bright white section that still has a bit of detail in it.
-Back in curves, double click on the left eyedropper, set the brightness to 5, hit ok
-Click on something dark in the image that still has a bit of detail.
Advanced blending in curves:
-If the darks are to dark, or the lights are to light, double click on a previously existing curves layer.
-At the bottom of “layer style” make sure “blend if grey” is selected from the dropdown menu.
-Under “this layer” drag the slider until it looks better.
-Option click on the slider to break it in 2 parts; adjust to make the transition smoother.
“High Fashion” muted tone:
-Totally desaturate the image.
-Duplicate the background layer and make it the first layer by dragging it to the top of the layers pallet, set the blending mode to soft light.
-Going down to the desaturated layer, adjust the curves for more detail in the highlights.
-On the top soft light layer adjust the color balance to make it more yellow and set THAT blending mode to soft light.
-Adjust the opacity and curves of each layer until you achieve a look you like.
Changing hair color:
-Make a good selection on the hair
-Create a new layer
-Fill the selection with a solid color of your choice.
-Set the blending mode to soft light
-Reduce the opacity to make the hair look more natural.
Making skin “glow”:
-In a new layer, select “color range”
-The highlights should be automatically be selected, but if you want you can choose “highlights” or sample your own color. Hit ok.
-Using the paint bucket, fill in the selected areas with white.
-Change the opacity for a more natural look.
-Add Gaussian blur to the layer to make it blend in more. Use curves to adjust further.
Using Liquify to reduce stomach, hips, and arms:
-Duplicate the background layer
-Under filters, select liquify
-Using a large brush, select the “forward warp” tool, which looks like a little hand with a pointed finger.
-Really gently, a little bit at a time, simply use the brush to push in the fat parts. Hit ok.
-The pucker tool may also be used.
-Doing this may cause the area to look fuzzy, so select the area and add a noise filter.
To make boobs bigger:
-Duplicate the background layer
-Select liquify.
-Using a fairy large brush, select the “bloat” tool from the tool pallet on the left. It looks like a little oval with arrows pointing out.
-Put the brush over boob and click. Continue to click until boobs have reached desired size. Hit ok.
Other Liquify tips:
-The “pucker” tool can be used to reduce the size of eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.
-The “forward warp” tool can be used to change the shape of facial features.
-The best was to learn is to just play around until you get the effect you want.
How to Reduce Under eye bags, and double chin:
-Select the clone stamp tool. Set the blend mod to lighten and the opacity to about 6%
-Slowly paint over undesireable areas. When it’s become light enough, you may use the healing brush to completely get rid of them.
Websites for further information:
Lynda.com
username jim@artnerd.org
password moorepda
Flickr photoshop support group:
http://flickr.com/groups/photoshopsupport/discuss/
Photoshop tutorials can also be found on YouTube
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