1.2 InDesign process

In this class we were told to try and get as close to the example poster as possible, for the most part it wasn’t that hard it was just time consuming trying to find the right font for each set of letters and rearranging them to the perfect place apart from each other.

After we did that we were showed how to add vectors into the text itself which can be used for stuff like full stops which could make a document more interesting to look at.

At the end we set up a few different clones of the first double page spread so we could edit the pictures on each of them to see which looked better.

Overview (week 5)

Today was just a recap day were we went over all they things that we have done (brielfy) and they things we need to be doing such as this blog and skecth book.
It was kind of a brief class but I am glad that I get reminded of things that I need to do; I normally make a to-do-list to keep myself orginised but I have't flet like making one reculty and I make them craetive so they normally ttake a few hours to make.

Example of a to do list I did

week 4 trip (23rd oct friday)

Today we went on a class trip to the ysp centre. when we first got off the bus I looked around and all I saw was a building and a field, when we were told to walk around at first I was puzzled cause I saw next to nothing to walk to other than they one building, after I when in and looked around I found myself near a small staircase leading to a few pieces of art work out side. the more I walk the more I found that there was about a mile or two of ground that had art work randomly placed everywhere I could see. I did not feel that much of the sculptures were very interesting to me personally,

My whole thought about art sculptures is that it does not matter what it is; if someone says that it means something then its good, if someone did the same thing but just did it because they were messing around or what not; it does not even get a second glance. In other wards art sculptures are what you say they are; not what it looks like or feels like or are any good looking to people that don't know why it's there!

I did see a lot of very nice textures that I got lots of pictures of and I found so interesting quotes there too.
"In this century it was not the sculptors who revitalised sculpture - it was the painters. They were outsiders who understood the subject; nevertheless they were not trapped within its imagined regulations."
Anthony caro, 1991 

"To see the world in a grain of sand "

"you cannot simply put something new into a place. you have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see."
Tadao ando

I saw a tree on the ground when I was walking in the forest that had lots of coins in it that were all bended sidewards, I did not understand why and I could not find any writing anywhere near it, maybe it was an art work or maybe it was something else; all I know is that it was different than anything that I have ever seen before.

Overall I did enjoy the trip, I got a few good pictures and I do enjoy a good walk to relax.

1.2 Interior Space Drawing Exercise

In the second task we had to draw interior designs from inside the university and I used this time to draw two pictures, one from the second last floor which I have lost the picture (but it did not come out very well as I’m not very good at drawing distances and heights so the objects that were close up looked the same size as the ones at the other end of the floor) the other drawing I did was of a huge window in room Caa2/01 ( I think that’s the number of john’s room) and it was very difficult to draw because of how big it was, I thought it came out all right but I’m still not any good at drawing big pictures.

Overall it was a good exercise and I do need to do more of this kind of stuff in the close future if I want to be able to draw backgrounds for my animations.                

Convergence (week 4)

we learned about Convergences today and it was quite interisting.
we first talked about how a convergence is just two different things crossing or joining each other.
than we talked about cubitt banding which is poeple playing with toys and making music with them.
after that we did some experamentating using a method called the cut up method, It's where you get  few peices of paper that have text on it and cut them up and try to make new words and sentencses.

It was a very interesring method and I think it's a great idea if you get stuck on a name of a book or charictor name which I do a lot, so I will use this again. 

The third studiio (16th oct friday)

I had a good few ideas for today and I talked to one of the lectures and they said that I had very good ideas but with the ones I had I should not try and do them fully; I should just plan them and show how I could of done them if I had more resources and time which I fully understood.
At the group meeting I got told to do more experimentation so after that class I wake up early they next morning and took pictures of out side they train station for an hour to experiment with movement of people, time of day and cars/buses that went by.
    

1.2 Edited Promo

We were given a brief three weeks before this class and we needed to get resources before the class started for the project, I however got bored and almost finished the project before I went in to class to I just did I few finishing touches and I was done.

The task was to make an animation for an event that was coming up, this was to be a teaser trailer for the event to let people know when it was coming. I have had a lot of effect affects practice in the past as it is my favourite program to use so this project was not going to be hard or long for me unless I made hard; which I did, I wanted to try I method that I hadn’t used before, to draw all the images mutable times and to keep switching between them to make them look in motion all the time and to create a rough drawing style.

Here is how it came out

I also recorded they whole process via a screen casting app on the computer but I am unsure what to do with them as they are a total of 8 hours long.              

second studio (friday 9th oct)

I have a few ideas ready from the last week of studding grids,frames and macro and micro that I planed to talk about in the the group meeting we have at the end of each class, I got to talk about the grid idea but there was not enough time to talk about all of them.
I did some research in the class about people, movement and navigation , I got useful information about navigation and the ways it can be used so it won't be hard to think of an idea for it.

1.1 CC Process

For our first class in InDesign we were just learning the basics of the program and what it can do. I used InDesign before and other than documents or books I would never use it for anything else. We were told at the start of the class that if some of us already knew how to use it then we could start they end task; so I did. I only did one of them as and I did not see much use in using this program for posters and I would much rather use Photoshop for this kind of stuff in the future.

Approaches to Research (week 2)

In this class we had to write out 10 questions to guess a object that someone else was thinking and than ask them. most of use got the wrong anwser because did not ask the right questions so we did not even get close most of the time.
This was to show usdifferent ways of going about a research task by think outside 10 questions and by going belond.
It was quite a fun class and it has made me think differently.

Future Genealogies (week one)

In this class we got in to groups and did a example of a future Genealogie, we choice to do "no electricity" as there is a lot to talk about.
we manely talk about how the price of paper would increase and the need for hand made crafts would drive up the job rate.
This task was good as we leared how to use future Genealogies which I feel will be very important in the short future and I know I will use it.

First studio class (friday 2 nd oct)

This was the first studio so it was just about the brief. I did not think that the would chance it much from last year but it is a lot easier to understand and they chanced the name from "city in flux" to "sense of place".
I like the way that it also gets you to focus on different topics each week; that was a good addition.    for most of the class I was just doing some research to see if I could find all the work I did last year and to arrange it. luckly I fould most of it but sadly I did not understand the brilef as well as I do this one; so I did not have too much done for it.
 

1.1 location drawing exercise

In the first part of john’s three part drawing task we were outside drawing different buildings, signs trees and whatever else we pretty much choice to draw. We were spilt into three groups and sent to three different place around town, after an hour we switched so that we could have a variety of things to draw.

I mainly focused on drawing grids of buildings and signs as I like drawing typography and grids are something that I am not used to and I needed they practice.

Overall they first task was nice as we got to go outside and draw what we wanted.              

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