UT Dallas Emerging Media and Communication (EMAC) Program - The University of Texas at Dallas

Mar

2010

Project Highlight: Twitter Collaboration

My name is Joe Denton, and I am a student of Emerging Media and Communication (EMAC) here at the University of Texas at Dallas. My hobbies include photography, web design, and internet/mobile technologies, to be vague.

Project Details

I finished a project last week in my Computer Imaging class (ATEC 2382) that was one of the most unique assignments I’ve encountered in my short collegiate career. It was a combination of photography and image retouching that proved both educational and entertaining. The premise was simple:

Choose a partner collaborator.
Take 10 photographs that are visual representations of tweets from your personal Twitter stream (be sure to record the tweet and who posted it).
Exchange photographs and the corresponding tweets with your collaborator.
Retouch the image, and apply any color/tonal adjustments you feel make the photograph better represent the tweet which it originated from.
Put together a presentation for the class in which you describe the processes used in both composing and editing the photographs (this will be presented at the in-call critique session).

Finished Results

The instructions were straight forward, but still allowed room for creativity. It was interesting to see the thoughts behind the photographs, and even more so the edits. The results can speak for themselves:

http://atec2382-sp10.ning.com/photo/albums/project-1-class-sample-work