28.09.09

Today I didn't have to come into communication so I came in at 10:30 (nice lye in). I finished all 3 of my mock ups today which are based on bringing our troops home. The 3 subjects my mock ups are based on are the economical problems of the war, The problems caused to foreign countries and the actual effects of war. I think my best mock up poster is the one i did based on the effects of war. This is because it has alot of powerful images that i feel work very well together. Here is my poster on the left and a few of my ideas of what the images are about. The children make you question how much of their innocence remains after living in such an unforgiving enviroment. The couple at the bottom show how life back at home is effected and the bombing showed the pure brutality even directed towards innocent civilianse.

I have learnt alot of new skills with photoshop and I think i'm getting a bit more confident with it.

I was given back my A3 sketch book today to add to and improve. I had already finished my research and was quiet happy with it. But it never hurts to improve it. So I added some extra pictures and and notations explaining what the pictures where and why I liked them. I also added my favourite photomontage which I am going to put on the right hand side. I liked it because I thought it was very creative and has a very good use of colour.

24/09/09

I handed in my mood boards today before starting a new project with photoshop. Half way through the day he did some photoshop work which was sorta like a recap and a little bit more practice. Then after lunch we did our mock up for our posters shown on the left. It does have some quiet brutal shocking images on it but then that's what war is. It's on the effects of war I tried to put alot of children in their because they tug at the heart strings more which is exactly the aim of my poster. This is the 3rd time I have used photoshop and i can feel myself getting a bit more confident with it now.

23.09.09

Yesterday we started learning how to use Photoshop it was my first time using it. But the task we had was quiet simple so it wasn't to bad apart from the fact that it was a bit fiddly but after about half an hour i got a bit more used to it. I did enjoy using it and I feel that it is a very useful tool so I am considering getting it at home. Which would give me more time to practise using it and I could also use to to sharpen or edit my drawing.

We also had our first one to one tutorial yesterday. I did them all last year and i never REALLY saw the point in them then and i still don't now.

21/9/09

Today we started our mood boards and some of us improved or finished off our research. We where meant to be learning how to use photo shop but i think we're doing that wednesday now. Maybe this is because not enough people had finished their mood boards + research.

I decided today I am definatly going to be doing my mood boards on bring our troops home. I was printing off images to start my mood boards when i get home but i ran out of print credit so I will have to print the rest out when I get home. hopefuly i will stay on deadline for thursday.

I had to do key skills again today but i spoke to the lady afterwards and she says because i got level 2 communications last year i don't have to repeat it this year. 10:30 Start on monday. :P

17.09.09

Thursday

It is our third day of college discluding the induction week and we're finishing off our 10 pages of research for task one after we finish it we watch a movie on the t.v. The film was about john heart field and how he used art as a political weapon aginst the nazi socialist party. he also tried to get the message out to the world about the suffering and oppression caused by the nazi's. we then had a long discustion about the art form followed by a discussion about word association. we then had to play a word association game to help us brain storm for our mood boards. Next thursday we will have to hand in our mood boards mine is on bringing the troops home which I have already started planning.