Our Visual Communication project theme was space travel, we didn’t really look into artists as such it was mainly looking at the JPL posters by NASA as well as travel posters in the 1900s. These have influenced my design ideas very loosly, I did use the polygraph design in our space travel poster which I think added a retro feel to it. I also used both of the posters to help me pick an activity for my sketch as well as my poster. I decided to go for a man walking on the moon pulling his suitcase for my sketch and then went for glamping huts in my first travel poster as these weren’t something I’d seen in any of their posters. I enjoyed working on photoshop and using the different tools to create my poster. I mainly used the pen tool to outline the glamping huts as this wouldn’t be something easily made with the shape tool. This was successful however I came across problems where the pen tool wouldn’t line up properly but this was solved by enlarging the work page. Whilst working on this project I learnt a new process to make a poster which was by using the polygon tool, it involved creating triangular shapes on top of a chosen image and using the blur tool to average the colour within that space. I would like to develop this further within my first polygraph poster as I didn’t have chance to finish it completely due to me putting a lot of my extra time into the movie. Me and Callum used this polygraph technique in our advertisement poster as it made it look more unique and retro. We also incorporated a green screen into the movie of aliens, this was suggested by the teacher and we thought this would be a great way to bring out movie to life. I think I enjoyed making the poster the most as it gave us more time to experiment with the polygraph technique as well as experimenting with the 3D text tool on photoshop. I think the most successful part of the project is probably the film as the transitioning and how every works together is very good, me and Callum put a lot of effort to making this movie and it has really payed off, we are very proud of it. It worked out incredibly well even though we did encounter a lot of problems with the voiceover, the transitions due to a fault in the premier, and technical issue to the point where the software would crash. I didn’t really learn anything, it was more just trying daft things to work around the problem like swapping between transitions. This effected the process in general, it took us a lot longer than it should’ve.
Honestly, I would not be with the people that were in my group. Me and Callum did majority of the work due to the other members of the group not participating to the extent that they should have been. Yes, we still managed to do the poster and we still did the movie but there was a massive lack in teamwork on their part. One of the biggest problems we faced was this, trying to resolve issues by ourselves when it’s work for more than 2 people.
As this was a group project I am left very let down by the two people in my group however I am incredibly proud of the effort Callum and I put into this movie as this and the advertisements worked very well considering.
FUTURES PROJECT 