Linda Nanthavong
Lyrical Triptych Reflection
Digital Media
For our second assignment, we needed to come up with a lyrical triptych that included three separate panels that merged lyrics to a song visually. Each panel needed to be a combination of three images. We needed to use adjustments at least once and also a filter at least once. To start off, we needed to find a song that we could picture visually using the lyrics. Each panel was put together based on how the lines were translated into pictures. All three panels needed to flow and make sense.
For my triptych, I decided to use the song Savin Me by Nickelback. Overall, my triptych looks like it has a flow. The colors used consisted of black, white, blues, and reds. I used the magnetic lasso a lot to cut and paste different parts of pictures to one panel. I also blurred and sharpened. In all three of my panels, I changed different opacities of different parts of the picture. For my filter, I used pixeling and I adjusted pictures to be black and white.
To create imagines that reflected the lyrics of my selected song, I used key words and translated what they could look like on a picture. For example, “calling me” = telephone. I wasn’t too specific with pictures but overall, you can tell how I translated images onto my panels. The mood of my piece is down and sad. In the pictures, there are girls in the dark, or girls turned away being alone. Not too much happiness is shown because of how the lyrics were written.
