Reflecting:
With the film Project my group had decided to show a message of deforestation and effects that humans have on wildlife and the environment. Through this we used drawings and stop motion to illustrate a film that showed a bird who lost its home knocking down the home of a human. this made it much more comical and showed seriousness yet comedy at the same time.
With this task my team got on quite well, apart from issues at the beginning where we couldn't agree on how to show our story. Considering the poster I got on well with this considering it was hand drawn, as I am still not 100 percent confident with the use of Adobe Photoshop. the We eventually came to the decision of using stop motion as creating the bird with a chainsaw was a difficult task especially considering the one week deadline that we had. At the end I feel that we achieved quite well considering the limitations we had and our indecisiveness at the start. The feedback I received from my peers about my poster were quite positive, and I received many compliments on how I managed to develop the tree branches into a new typeface that followed the theme of our movie. From the overall task I learnt how to function stop motion equipment on a very basic level, however in the future I do not know how I will be able to apply this skill to my own graphic work unless doing stop motion work.
Analysing:
I think the most successful part of our movie was how we made the sriousness of our issue (deforestation) very subtle yet obvious at the same time, seen by the anger of our main bird character. This is because if we made it very serious it would invoke too much of a negative tone in the audience and although an important issue we felt that comical elements added would make it much more interesting to watch whilst still spreading an important message. If there was anything I was not happy with it was how our film was extremely short, which made the audiences want to see more. I found it challenging developing a type font for my film poster as I did not want something too common. Eventually after playing around I came up with the idea of using trees and their branches in order to morph into the letters of our movie which we decided to call habitat. One more thing I was not happy with was how the water colored pencil blue that I used was quite difficult to work with and how my marker blue did not have much effect when going over it. In the future I think it would be much more suitable to use blue paper perhaps and cut around any foreground images. This way it would look like one solid colour and all the pencil and marker pen marks would not be visible, which I feel reduced the quality of my work. Overall I found the A3 poster the easiest part of this film challenge as I am still learning on how I could improve my own drawing techniques, and furthermore have the use of Photoshop to enhance this.
Time management:
When looking at my time management for this project I had the trouble of taking a design forward in my sketchbook, as I couldn't decided on a text to use. Furthermore when I did get the idea on how I would place my text, I had trouble finding the time to do so due to a busy schedule of other projects that I had outside of college. In the future however I think that I could improve my time planning skills by finishing the task the day I receive it for college, which will also give me more time to look back over and perhaps develop several variations and see any improvements that could be made to the artwork.
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