After reading a couple of chapters from Ready Player One it was not hard to fall into the world of the book. An online world of 80s pop culture and video games, sign me up. Being born in the 90s and having a mom that was all about the 80s I was excited for this project. For this project I wanted to include a bit of a 80s feel and include a bit of 80s pop culture images. I wanted to go with the Dystopian feel right of the back and first thing that came to mind was 80s Horror and weird imagery. For some reason the imagery of the prom from the book I wanted to put into my project and so I found an image with a few couples and just placed them around the collage and made a few alterations. I wanted to include a small tribute to my mom in this by including references of her favorite scary movies “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Friday the 13th”
After working on the tutorials I was playing around with a few things on Photoshop and one thing I enjoyed doing was making a person look like they were dissolving. While it was fun and the actual work could be used on itself I just wanted to include it in the collage with other works. Gas mask, crumbling buildings came to mind for dystopia so I tried to include it in my collage. For the feel of the collage I wanted to make it feel like an old black and white movie that you would see late at night, kind of like a twilight zone feel.
I used the quick select tool a lot in this project selecting and grabbing pieces from the images I used and putting them in my collage. I used a bit of Gradient maps to change my layers to a black and white feel like I wanted. My dissolving man I used the dispersion effect that I picked up I downloaded a brush online and used it for the dissolving effect.