I decided to copy the tutorial but very loosely and I just added my own style to it.
Thursday 26 May 2011
Advert: Sex'd up Product
I decided to copy the tutorial but very loosely and I just added my own style to it.
Tuesday 24 May 2011
Assignment 6: Storyboard
The topic I chose for my project was 'The Little Match Girl', a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
I do love animated title openings, my favorite one would have to be the title opening to James Bond: Casino Royal.. So I used this as some of my inspiration and design ideas.
So here is my very rough storyboard, was done in photoshop and was used as a guide to help me understand what exactly I wanted.
Because I love animated title openings, I wanted my opening to have that vector graphic style, so I used flash to produce my final product, I used flash because of my experience with it, but to achieve that vector style. With my opening I wanted it to be simple, so I had very little on screen, just text and a match.
[1]
Here is the start, text on the left and the match on the right side of the screen
[2]
Pans up, while text is changing
[3]
Pans up, while text is changing
[4]
The head of the match is reviled, and panning stops
[5]
The match is lit, to show brightness for the lighting up effect, I made the screen white then fade away, and a silhouette of a person can be seen, this relates to the story
[6]
Here the bright whiteness is fading still
[7]
Here is the end of the opening, ending with the flame still on and with the title of the fair tale
[8]
Then it begins to fade into black
I do love animated title openings, my favorite one would have to be the title opening to James Bond: Casino Royal.. So I used this as some of my inspiration and design ideas.
So here is my very rough storyboard, was done in photoshop and was used as a guide to help me understand what exactly I wanted.
Because I love animated title openings, I wanted my opening to have that vector graphic style, so I used flash to produce my final product, I used flash because of my experience with it, but to achieve that vector style. With my opening I wanted it to be simple, so I had very little on screen, just text and a match.
[1]
Here is the start, text on the left and the match on the right side of the screen
[2]
Pans up, while text is changing
[3]
Pans up, while text is changing
[4]
The head of the match is reviled, and panning stops
[5]
The match is lit, to show brightness for the lighting up effect, I made the screen white then fade away, and a silhouette of a person can be seen, this relates to the story
[6]
Here the bright whiteness is fading still
[7]
Here is the end of the opening, ending with the flame still on and with the title of the fair tale
[8]
Then it begins to fade into black
Assignment 5: Brief Writing
Design Brief
Pictographic Narrative
Tell a story with a sequence of images using simplified pictorial signs and symbols
The idea is a series of images which depicts very little on an individual level, but when combined produces a product which conveys not only a story but contains a message. The message being conveyed is “money makes the world go round”, this was chosen because it can be easily depicted symbolically and has a strong meaning and impact.
Design of each symbol will be very simplistic and the purpose of this is to ensure viewers don’t have to figure out what is going on, it will be straight to the point. The entire project will be done in black and white to give it a basic sense, it will not be bias to any colours, gives it that symbolic feel and it will be easy on the viewers eyes. This will symbolic piece, so no text will be used in any of the images, it will rely solely on the symbols to convey the message. There will be two versions of the product; first product will be white background with black symbols and the second will be black background and white symbols. Each symbol will be divided into 6x6 inch squares on a 18x12 inch canvas.
With the ever growing speed of technology, more and more people have mobile phones, especially smart phones, this is why the final product will be produced for mobile phone devices, it will be designed as an animated wallpaper. The product should be able to run smoothly on most mobile phones, so to ensure this the product file size should be as small as possible.
The wallpaper will be animated so that each symbol will appear one after each other, but in a smooth fading transition, the animation should be at a medium pace, so that it’s not too quick for viewers to miss out on the symbol but it also shouldn’t take long.
The target audience will be probably directed more towards adults mainly because it seems relevant and they can relate to the message being conveyed. An adult has to be responsible, make a living and get a job, when all this happened they get to see the real world and realise how to world functions which will allow them to understand the meaning of “money makes the world go round”.
Pictographic Narrative
Tell a story with a sequence of images using simplified pictorial signs and symbols
The idea is a series of images which depicts very little on an individual level, but when combined produces a product which conveys not only a story but contains a message. The message being conveyed is “money makes the world go round”, this was chosen because it can be easily depicted symbolically and has a strong meaning and impact.
Design of each symbol will be very simplistic and the purpose of this is to ensure viewers don’t have to figure out what is going on, it will be straight to the point. The entire project will be done in black and white to give it a basic sense, it will not be bias to any colours, gives it that symbolic feel and it will be easy on the viewers eyes. This will symbolic piece, so no text will be used in any of the images, it will rely solely on the symbols to convey the message. There will be two versions of the product; first product will be white background with black symbols and the second will be black background and white symbols. Each symbol will be divided into 6x6 inch squares on a 18x12 inch canvas.
With the ever growing speed of technology, more and more people have mobile phones, especially smart phones, this is why the final product will be produced for mobile phone devices, it will be designed as an animated wallpaper. The product should be able to run smoothly on most mobile phones, so to ensure this the product file size should be as small as possible.
The wallpaper will be animated so that each symbol will appear one after each other, but in a smooth fading transition, the animation should be at a medium pace, so that it’s not too quick for viewers to miss out on the symbol but it also shouldn’t take long.
The target audience will be probably directed more towards adults mainly because it seems relevant and they can relate to the message being conveyed. An adult has to be responsible, make a living and get a job, when all this happened they get to see the real world and realise how to world functions which will allow them to understand the meaning of “money makes the world go round”.
Friday 6 May 2011
Assignment 4: Illustration with a social conscience
I chose to do my assignment on the Homeless.
I did some research by searching up some poster ideas and I saw that most of them are very simple here are 2 examples
As you can see they are very simple and straight forward, so I decided to use the same design concept.
I wanted my poster to be effective without being too graphic. Because of the topic it can be a bit disturbing for people so my idea was to depict the environment of the homeless, with small messages.
Here are my two designs:
I did some research by searching up some poster ideas and I saw that most of them are very simple here are 2 examples
As you can see they are very simple and straight forward, so I decided to use the same design concept.
I wanted my poster to be effective without being too graphic. Because of the topic it can be a bit disturbing for people so my idea was to depict the environment of the homeless, with small messages.
Here are my two designs:
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