2. Be able to use materials, techniques and processes

Astor Park Photo Shop Poster:

For this poster I took several images from Astor park and pasted them into photo shop, I used the liquify tool on the main image of the park and messed with the bus, the street lamps, the wall and the church. I also placed a random planet in there to give it a strange twisted look. Next I took parts of the graffiti on the wall and warped them too fit at the bottom of the image along with the Astor park sign, this gives the viewers a close up on the graffiti and the name of the park. 

 Photoshop tree pattern:

For this i took an image of a tree from Google and opened it up in Photoshop i changed the hue/saturation and made it purple, I then took the letter S and used the font Harrington. I enlarged the S to fit the whole image, put the opacity down and cropped the parts the S couldn't reach. i then flattened the layers and moved them into a new file. I then duplicated the layer and flipped the copy horizontally, i then flattened the layers again and duplicated it again but this time i flipped the image vertically.

Photoshop Texture rubbing:

For this I took a piece of paper and found a cabinet in college, I placed the paper on the cabinet and used a graphite pencil to get the texture i then took a photo of it and put it on my memory stick, i then opened it up in Photoshop and changed the hue/saturation to make it green, I then made a text layer with the letter A in the old English text font, i rotated it to the right and free transformed it to fit the image, cropping the image in places where the letter couldn't reach, I lowered the opacity on the text layer and flattened the background and text layer together. I then moved the image into a new file and duplicated the layer, flipped the image horizontally and flattened the layers, I then duplicated the layer again and flipped the image vertically.






Photoshop roses pattern:


 I took an image of roses from Google and pasted it into Photoshop,
i then changed the hue/saturation to make it a nice dark blue, next i made a text layer with the letter L and changed the font to Vivaldi, I then free transformed it to fit the image, cropping the image in places where the letter couldn't reach, I lowered the opacity on the text layer and flattened the background and text layer together. I then moved the image into a new file and duplicated the layer, flipped the image horizontally and flattened the layers, I then duplicated the layer again and flipped the image vertically







Mind Map research for final piece:

Graffiti Tags:


The tags on the right are just the rough sketches i drew up, my final design is the one on the left. As you can see the base design for my final piece is the tag on the lower right i just changed the A and added some colour.

Typography Experimentation:

 For this i took a picture of myself to use as a base, i then used the filter Chalk and Charcoal to make it black and white.

 I then used the pen tool to make an outline of my face, then i used the text tool to type L337 and copy and pasted it until it filled the area i had selected with the pen tool, i then used the pen tool again but made an outline of my hair, i changed the font and typed Hair then copy and pasted it until it fit the area.                         

 I then used the text tool to type EYEBROW, then using the free transform tool i moved and rotated it into position and used the warp tool to fit it to the shape of my eyebrow. I also used a comma that i rotated and warped to use as an eye.

I then used a semi-colon to use as nostrils, i moved it into position and warped it to fit, i also warped the letter L to look like lips.

This is the finished image with just the text on a red background.

Texture Rubbings:

Kaboom magazine storyboard:

Blue Tack Stop motion:

This is the stop motion animation we did as a group using blue tack, we all made a blue tack character and took pictures, but only one person in our group really did any editing to it in photoshop.

 Materials, Techniques and Processes - Evaluation.

For my final piece I used photoshop, I drew a stickman and made him run across the screen to light some dynamite that was attached to some C4, the C4 would then explode and the word Kaboom would appear along with some examples of other pieces of my work, The explosion would then disappear along with the word Kaboom and the examples of my work, then the words Innovation and Tradition in Art and Design appear and stay for a while until they dissipate.

Learning Outcome 1:

I think my final project could have been better if I had had more time to develop my idea and to create it, for example I wasn’t very pleased with the way the explosion turned out with more time I may have been able to find a way to blend it better, also I was going to have the words innovation and tradition and art and design be blown away as if they were made of ash but I lacked the time to even find out how to do something like that let alone actually do it.

Learning Outcome 2:

I decided to draw a stickman for my final piece because I think it shows tradition in art and design, though it may be simple the first kind of drawings made were on the same level as a stickman drawing and I thought it would bring an interesting contrast to the rest of my final piece animation which is solely photoshop, I also decided to use Clouds difference in photoshop to create an explosion rather than take an image from the internet to show that I have some knowledge of photoshop.

Learning Outcome 3:

As I pointed out before I feel that I didn’t have enough time to properly develop my idea, I also felt quite pressured to get at least one idea so when I thought of it I didn’t consider thinking up any other ideas I just wanted to get my work done and out of the way with the time I had left. The only problem that I encountered whilst I was creating my animation was that when I created the C4 with the dynamite sticking out of it, any changes I made to that layer, for example having the fuse on the dynamite get shorter as it burns, would change in the all of the other layers, so when the stickman first runs in the fuse would be on fire and getting shorter, I fixed this by duplicating the layer with the C4 on it and changing them individually.

Materials, Techniques and Processes – Evaluation (Will Roberts) http://unit2willroberts.blogspot.com/

Learning Outcome 1:

I think Will should have used photoshop for this rather than flash because I have seen him use photoshop and he’s very good at it, he would have been able to showcase a lot of his skills on photoshop, possibly affecting his grade. Although he did his animation on flash it’s still good, it’s only six seconds long and very simple, but I think it adequately depicts our criteria, he also added sound directly into flash which is in time with the animation. Other than what I said about him doing it in photoshop I don’t think he could have made it any better, unless he made it longer or did something with the text at the end.

Learning Outcome 2:

Will has used a motion tween for the bomb at the start of the animation, he then onion skins the explosion and the text Kaboom is just placed in the frame, and lastly he tweens the text Innovation and Tradition in Art and Design.

Learning Outcome 3:

I assume Will only had this idea, because he didn’t blog any others. I don’t think he developed the idea very much because his animation is short and simple, and because it’s so simple I don’t think he would have encountered any problems or issues that would take very long to fix.