Monday, 16 May 2016

THE EXHIBITION



When I arrived at the unit x exhibition at around 7:30pm it was way busier than I expected it to be. I had a good look around the different areas of work but I was only really there to see the graphic design/ illustration work. I really liked a lot of the pieces I saw there. It was also really nice seeing them all up on the wall for the public to see. The work was also getting a great reception from everyone who attended.

PITCH RESPONSE

During the pitch you could tell the group were on edge and a bit nervous. However with a few stumbles of words I think the pitch flowed quite well. By the time we were a few slides in everyone seemed confident enough to speak. I feel our ideas were put across really well. The panel liked the way our visuals were coming along, however there wasn’t much graphic design influence to the work. I really agreed with this but the group didn’t really openly agree to the ideas, which I put forward.


The tutors noticed that the group vibed well with each other. I think this could be what saves the work and makes the final outcome really good. However we need to stop being so laid back as there is often at least one person missing in class or in group meet ups.

PITCH


Here are the slides from our final pitch to a panel of 3 tutors. Our group presented the ideas for our hoardings through a PowerPoint presentation, which explained everything we needed to.

The first slide introduced the group.
The second slide showed all of the properties that Circle Square represent, and what we were going to represent in our work.
The third slide showed our word pairings, Nightlife//Wildlife. With this slide we will talk about the meaning behind this pairing and how we are going to portray this.
Fourth slide is talking about our influences and showing how our work relates.
Slides five through eight show general illustrations we have and explaining what these characters represent. I think this will work really well and give the panel a good idea of what we are trying to portray with these ideas and illustrations.
Our final slide is just a summary of all the other slides and allowing time for questions to be asked.


Unfortunately some of the imagery we wanted to use in the pitch wasn’t sending, so we emailed them to the tutors and showed them separate to the slides. These images were the compositions Katie had put together shown in previous slides.

DEVELOPMENT


With the illustrations given by my other group members, Katie scanned them in and created some compositions. I like how they have a level of depth to them. However some of the scans are very faded and I think if they were digitised then they would be a lot better and bolder. Therefor working better together and working more harmoniously.

PITCH PREP


For the second pitch the group had to piece together an A3 mock of our final idea. We also had to figure out how we were going to present this to the panel of tutors. The group actually had a pretty good idea of what we were going to create, and we soon got to mark making and putting together a collage of the work we were going to present.

We realised that we needed to create a composition with a sort of depth to it in terms of foreground, mid ground and background. We also need to make it clear that the characters are the main focus to the piece. To do this we took Gabe’s characters and scanned them in, then enlarged them and started cutting them out, then placing them about in a nice composition. Our idea became clear to us as we were going and we started adding in items like lampposts and bust stops etc.


This meeting was really successful in my eyes; we got a lot of work done in a short period of time. I am feeling confident about the pitch now as we are all on the same level.

Sunday, 15 May 2016

DEVELOPING VISUAL IDEAS


Over Easter, Gabe from our group created some nice illustrations. I quite like the textures and patterns in these drawings, they work really well as black and white pieces, however im not too sure how well colour will work with these and maybe black and white will work best.