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//Final Piece.

In order to bring the project to a close, we needed to compete our website (final piece) to its highest standard ready for assessment. I think I was quite good at keeping on top of the rest of my group and reminding them to upload all of their work so that I could publish the website for everyone to see.

I have now completed this, click here to view our final piece.

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29.10.15//Digital Printing.

// Today Tony Davis came to talk to us about important things to remember when printing digital work. The most successful format for our work to print is a PhotoShop file or PDF. We learnt what settings to have our work set to on PhotoShop in order to produce the desired results for A4 printing.

International Paper - A4 Image Size - 24.9MB 

We were also told where we could complete this printing and where we could have specific workshops on the basics of the Adobe programmes.

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23.10.15//An Introduction to Illustration.

// “Illustration is one of the most versatile art forms in today’s visual culture.”

Today was the penultimate of the ‘An Introduction to...’ talks and this time (again as you can tell by the title) was the turn of illustration.  Similarly to the structure of the previous talks we began the day by listing and looking into the different areas and styles of illustration that we could focus on and potentially work in. These included;

editorial

reportage

fashion

cartoon

animation

performance

3D 

graffiti 

publishing

packagine

advertising

theatre set design

The sections I had the most interest in were fashion illustration and illustration combined with photography. These were areas that I have worked in previously during college projects.

There was a video that was recommended to us, which was; “Why some people don’t have one true calling” - Emilie Wapnick. After the days activities I watched this video and I related to it a lot. Similarly, I have many different interests and hobbies of which I was unsure which to choose as a ‘career path’. This is one of the main reasons that helped me to decide on BCU and this course in particular, because of the wide variety of areas we can explore throughout the three years.

During the afternoon, we were given an activity to complete in groups of three. Like the game we played as children, we were given a large sheet of paper which was folded up into three sections; one for the head, one for the body and one for the feet and legs. We then swapped our sheet of paper with two other groups until we had completed three sections on three different pieces of paper. At the end of the day we then had a ‘grand reveal’ of the final pieces.

(A series of the final images will be in the following blog post).

I really enjoyed the illustration talk and in particular the activity attached to it, however I still feel photography is the subject area which is most suited to me and I am extremely excited for that specific subject talk next week.

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22.10.15//Target Audience.

// This afternoon Colette spoke to us about progressing with our projects and the specific criteria that we will need to include in order to pass. One of the areas of the criteria was to specify your audience. Who are you making your work for and who do you want to view it?

After we were asked this question I decided to get my team together and decided on a specific target audience for our work. We all decided that our pieces are more suitable for a gallery-based setting instead of the commercial option, despite the fact we are still unsure of how we intend to present our final pieces. As non of our work includes and explicit language or adult content, our work will be appropriate to be viewed by all ages, which allows our work to be viewed by a larger audience.

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22.10.15//Printmaking Talk.

// Today Justin came and gave our class a talk regarding printmaking and the many possible outcomes of working in the print industry. He spoke about different techniques such as photo-etching and he showed us the work of well-known artists and printmakers as well as his own work. To accompany his work, he told us his story in terms of his career and how his personal life has direct links with the work he was producing at the time. I found this section of the talk particularly interesting as I had never thought too much about linking my personal life and experiences with the work I was producing. Specifically, he talked to us about a piece of his work which is titled ‘still looking’. I really liked this as a piece title and he proceeded to tell us about how at the time he was still looking into the area of design work he wanted to focus on. 

Currently in terms of the project I feel a bit lost as I’m not sure on the direction I want to take my work for my final piece, so I am now considering making links (maybe using text) to how I feel and the images I have captured so far in this project.

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12.10.15//Disappointing Second Visit.

// Today myself and @bcumiapowell revisited our area in hope to capture images and sketches of the fans waiting for the One Direction concert. We thought this would be a perfect opportunity to capture the atmosphere and use our findings as part of our focus on our word ‘flabbergasted’. My aim for the day was to photograph the masses of fans with their excited faces and banners in hope the atmosphere would portray in my images, however the reality was slightly different...

When we arrived at the venue, they main doors were already open, meaning there were less fans queuing than I had hoped, this also meant that the atmosphere wasn’t as buzzing as I expected it to be. Instead of seeing endless flabbergasted fans, we were presented with standard, almost melancholy queues of people.  Despite this, I still attempted to emphasise the excited atmosphere in hope the images would convey this well.

I think after this we will need to revisit our initial ideas for ‘flabbergasted’ or think of a way that we can incorporate it in with our melancholy work.

Images to follow.