What I'm doing: I personally chose to do Graphics with elements of Photography. I did this because I needed to bring up my skills in drawing because i'm wanting to go onto the L3 TV and Film this is because if im required to draw a sketch of the set/floor plan then it will be easily interpreted by other member of the group on where I want the props to be. The reason on why I also decided using some photography is because, unlike a picture that would remain still a live snake would move around while I would be drawing it, however that is not the only reason since it takes a trained professional to handle the dangerous snake I wanted I would have to do the sketches on site with the animal, also it isn't possible to have a snake in the class room
class since there would be dangers to the snake and to the other people within the class room
How will I do it: I will crate this piece of work through use of media programs used to edit and to create. These both are in the Adobe sphere of media tools, they Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 and Adobe Illustrator CC 2015. However before this I had to do some research first and then created some ideas through an hour of brainstorming.
Schedule:
This schedule shows the planning of the entire project from week 1 all the way to week 6. Currently there is a key above the schedule showing what I will be doing in class in black, outside of the class room in blue and any changes in red. With schedule this it helped me to keep to a form of time management.
How good was the research/Brains Storms: The first thing I did was brain storm some ideas for the final major product, it was probably the most difficult portion of the entire project because I had to make 8 ideas and describe them with a basic explanation. These rejected ideas were for back ups encase the original idea became to complicated to continue then I would have to fall back on one of the other ideas. For the research I have used both primary and secondary research so that I could make an informed choice on how to proceed with my choice, since I chose to do Graphic Design and blended it together with a small amount of Photography so I went to the library that is located on the floor below the normal class room. The reason behind this was to get some secondary research out the way and try and get some inspiration for my final design. I was looking along the different shelves to find anything on art styles of different cultures. I found the art style I was looking for, it was in a book called Art of Ancient Greece made by author J.J Pollit. This book has details of the different aspects of art made in the Archaic period so its to do with large building like the Greek Pantheon, paintings and stories.
What tools/programs did I use:
I started of with using physical tools to begin with before working with the digital ones, the explanation behind this was that with a pencil and ruler I could produce some good lightly drawn sketches. Then I would go over the sketches with a harder hand and applied more pressure on the drawing. After this I scanned the drawing into the computer as a JPEG file and imported it onto Photoshop. Then I used the paint brush tool and I had the size set to 10 just to go over the drawing in black paint to make the outline stand out as much as possible when I go and start adding the base colours to the drawing. After this I use the quick select tool to add in and shading or highlight, this is because when painting in a shape made by any of the select tools the paint will never pass it, Also when adding the highlight and shadowing I used ether a size 6 brush or a size 30 brush with each having the hardness set to 100%. For the center snake I did the same process but instead of using physical tools I went straight to the use digital tools and used the Adobe Illustrator to create the body and head. Finally I had to use Illustrator to create the smoke effect I wanted so I created 3 intertwining lines with the ends close together but not touching, after this I made the thickness for all 3 lines around about 0.5 this left the lines in a super thin state, then I doubled the original number of lines to 6 and dragged and dropped all of the lines into the brush selector and did 4 strokes and changed the colour from black into a white/grey combination. After this I imported the newly created smoke vectors into the final design that was almost done in Photoshop and placed the smoke vectors at the bottom of the image. Then once the smoke vectors are placed I blurred the layer that I placed the smoke vectors on and smudged it so it appeared transparent and has the same texture as smoke.
What can be Improved and what went wrong:
The things that went wrong in this project was that the middle snake looked to 2D so thanks to some peer feedback I was able to make it look more 3D. This happened through a process of shading and altering the original sketch. One of the things that went wrong with this final design would the time management since there wasn't enough time to do the third and final design in any detail so to get around this I used the puppet tool to change the trajectory to make the third snake to look different.
What changes will I do next time:
The changes I will make would be the background and instead of a basic black background, I will change it into a hill side background or a mountain face.
How did it feel to finish the F.M.P and have it displayed:
After the entire project was done and the final design was printed off and placed on the gallery wall I felt a an extreme sense of pride in being done and it made me realise that I had a blasted creating im creating what is supposed to be the best out of all the work that I had already done.
