Evaluation and Reflection

Week 1 (19/02) - making new blog, proximity and hierarchy, proportion and balance

For proximity and hierarchy, I used Illustrator. And for proportion and balance, I used Adobe Photoshop. And I think these experiments went really well, I had no problems in doing the experiments, but one thing that could have gone better in proportion and balance is the quality of the photo.

Week 2 (26/02) - Going to V&A Museum, Documentary conventions

Week 3 (04/03) - Proposal, Timetable, Mind map, Documentary review, Documentary makers research

For the mind map, I used PowerPoint so I could do it as a presentation that is related to reflections and different meanings that could relate to it.

Week 4 (11/03) - Leaflet analysis

I have chosen one leaflet about art activities and analysed it.

(12/03) - Leaflet

I used InDesign for my leaflet and did it with a theme of reflections. I enjoyed doing my leaflet as a practice and I will use these skills for my final major project.

(15/03) - Surrealism - Layer Masking, Making PechaKucha

Experimenting with layer masking, using mirror picture, and putting over another picture in the theme of reflections. I enjoyed practicing with layer masking because it is beneficial to know.

Week 5 (18/03) - Making PechaKucha, Complete Proposal/Timetable

I'm doing my PechaKucha presentation on PowerPoint, using pictures of reflections from the internet and my own pictures that I took in the V&A Museum.

Complete Proposal and Timetable on Google Drive.

Week 6 (25/03) - Presenting PechaKucha and getting feedback

(26/03) - Finishing my PechaKucha presentation

(28/03) - Presenting my PechaKucha presentation on the camera and in front of the class and getting feedback.

Feedbacks on my PechaKucha presentation:

Evidence on how I'm going to create my project.

Good information. Looked in the camera. Could be more confident.

I like how she explains it - very clear. Maybe a bit louder and confident.

It was ok. Talk more about the topic.

Using your own photos. Shows your talent. Talk a bit louder.

Wonderful presentation.

01/04 & 08/04 - Easter holiday!

Week 7 - (15/04) - Taking my own pictures of reflections in a gallery, Putting my leaflet analysis on my Research page and my experimental leaflet on my Practical Skills page explaining how I did it, and commenting on my Colour of Emphasis. Sketching my ideas for what I want to do for my FMP. I'm doing my experimental leaflet using InDesign, I used pictures from the Internet and that experiment went really well and I know how to do leaflets. Putting my own pictures of reflections that I took in a gallery and editing 4-5 images.

To edit these pictures I used Photoshop. I'm really satisfied with the experiments and the way I edited pictures I can see that the reflections stand out more. I think to use these pictures to do my leaflet for Halcyon Gallery.

Week 8 - (22/04) - Doing experiment with photos and doing a leaflet for Halcyon Gallery, asking people what they can see in the picture for my vox pop, making a video of gallery pictures

The pictures that I used for the leaflet are reflections and I think it's a good idea to show an example of reflection images. For my vox pop, I asked a few people what they could see in the picture so I could get their opinion on that.

Week 9 - (29/04) - Researching my topic, doing a website for the gallery, doing photographer research

The research helped me to pursue my interests, and to learn something new like I did about reflections and it helped me to gain knowledge and understanding about this topic.

Week 10 - (06/05) - Editing my Vox Pop and writing how I did it, Choosing 2-3 magazine layouts and analysing them, making my own magazine.

Week 11 - (13/05) - Make last refinements, evaluation.

Week 12 - (20/05) - Final assesment.

Evaluation

-My final piece is the leaflet for the Halcyon Gallery. To do this as my final product, influenced me that a leaflet is to provide information about something in an easy-to-read and visually appealing format.

- Yes, I changed the idea about putting some more information about the Andy Warhol artist because you get more information while you read this.

-The pictures that I put in many small squares went well because I think it is very interesting to look at each square and you can still see the whole picture.

-The text in the middle of the pictures is very close to them and this is not really what I wanted.

-If I were to repeat the process again and had more time for this I would change the size of the text in the middle as it is very close to the pictures, which looks like there's no space there.

-In this project, I achieved how to do leaflet, magazine, website, vox pop, poster, invitation, and how to edit different pictures so they look more interesting.

-The software that I used is InDesign to do my leaflet and Adobe Photoshop for editing the pictures.

-The editing tools that I used are, a text box to put some text, rectangle tool to place the picture in that shape, colour to change the colour of the background, gradient as well to make the background look more interesting.

-I used different typefaces such as bold, italic, Semibold Italic, Regular to make the text look more interesting and makes the reader to continue reading it.

I also did a research on layouts and posters so I get to know more idea and to try to make in a similar way.

If you used video - how successfully did you mix sound and vision?

-For the video of Halcyon Gallery pictures I used CapCut and the first thing that I did is I put all the pictures of reflections, so I could present my experiment with reflection pictures, and the sound that I out was music.