The End in Sight 16th October
As today was the last day in Visual Communication, I had a
lot to do before I could complete this section of diagnostic rota. It started
with a brief run down of what we had to finish and what we had to remember to
hand in before Christmas. We also had a quick talk about what we were planning
to get done today and how much we thought we could complete. There was a lot to
do, but we did have all day.
As it was the last day, I had to make sure I had most, if not
all of the work done by the end of the day. I started with drawing out some of
the modern style poster ideas for the 'votes for women' designs. This was one of
the many ideas I wanted to have done by now, but time hadn't allowed it.
I started to draw some of the poster designs, changing them
slightly so they would fit with the modern day, altering the clothes, hair and
even the flag into a banner to give it a more up to date feel. This took longer
than I thought, and before I knew it, an hour had passed. This wasn't good. I
had to speed up if I was to finish the list of things I wanted to do.
After I finished my poster, I got to work on setting up my
two A1 design sheets. This wasn't too hard as I'd already done a couple of
styles that could fill both sheets. I printed two of my finished pieces and
made one of them into a poster. This would fill one page. For the other, I thought
a page of Pop Art, as it was one of the main styles I did and found interesting.
After much printing and arranging, I had one and a half
sheets done, but if I was to do an A1 sheet on Pop Art, I needed more finished
work. This was one more thing to think about and time was slipping away.
Before I could do anything more, I had to think about and
fill in my self evaluation form. This was another thing I had to do by the end
of the day. It was important I had a clear list of the things I needed to do in
my mind .
Having done that, I started on my design sheets. I'd only
had a quick go using the InDesign program. I needed to be shown how to load the
image from Photoshop. This meant I had to go back and re-save them to different
files so all the layers didn't cause a problem. After that I then had to load
in my images, arrange and resize them so they fitted nicely into the sheet.
After sorting and finishing things up, I could move onto
making the last bits of Pop Art. With a lot of the day spent using Photoshop, I
could get the page, images and layers up and ready to work with in no time. I'd
only half finished my work before it was time to leave. I wanted to finish at
least this today, but I did get a lot done and with some luck I could finish
what I started at home.
While I was driving home, I thought about how far I'd come
in this project. When I started researching Welsh history, I never though it
would end up being about women's rights. The path I chose, the different styles
I tried, and the decisions I made along the way, have brought me to where I
ended up today. If I had more time, I would of liked to have done a bit more
of the posters and maybe design some flyers and buttons, just like they had in
the real campaign. I would of also liked to have done more of the Pop Art and perhaps
a more modern Pop Art side of the votes for women.
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