All the roads have come to an end...

I have compiled all the work, placed it onto a disc and into the pigeon hole . For the cover of the disc I found that if I cropped down the front of my publication, it actually made a great and very appropriate image to use. I even felt that the text that fitted into the cropped version was very fitting to my initial impression of the subject. It was all a little daunting in the very beginning and for some students such as myself, this really was a journey into the unknown. However, I am extremely pleased with all that I have achieved throughout this semester, the skills I have gained have already been a huge benefit to me as I have been able to use them in the school where I am currently on placement.
Thanks for all your help Stuart!

Almost there...

It has taken a while but my webpage is finally took shape this week and all that’s left to do now is cross the t’s and dot the i’s. Like most other programs I have worked with this year on the Mac, I found that once you spend a little time exploring and trailing different things everything begins to fall into place. Working out how to properly insert the photos was the biggest challenge and I must admit it was more than a little frustrating, however it was ultimately achieved and definitely worth the effort. I will now gather my resume and publication and place them all on a disc along with my website and I am almost done. I still have to design a cover for the case which I will make time to do during the week, I am thinking I will use an image that I originally intended to use for my publication but couldn’t because when cropped it was far too small.
I will let you know how it all goes.

Mission accomplished and ready to proceed to next assignment…

I have finally completed my digital publication and I am delighted with the result. In design is defiantly a program that could drive a perfectionist crazy. Not that I am obsessed with every minor detail but I did find myself believing I was finished until I spotted a detail, no matter how small, that could be improved or altered somehow. For the sake of good work this is a great problem to have, it seems that with the assistance of other programs such as Photoshop and Corel Painter the boundaries of what can be achieved on a Mac are almost limitless.

Over the past week I have also taken photos of my artwork that I will now include in my website. I am still somewhat confused about the size of images but hopefully that will begin to make more sense as I explore the program further by actively working the images into the website.

Over the next week I will begin to do that and also type up the information/text that will feature on the webpage.

Back On Track

The lesson before the mid semester break we were introduced to the program ‘Dreamweaver’. I must admit it was a little difficult to get my head around and most of what I was taught was lost during the two weeks away. Last week however we did a revision task which required us to create a cooking website with colour, links and pictures and this time round everything seemed to make much more sense. As a class we were provided with clear instructions as we progressed through each step, the class moved at a steady pace which gave me time to take useful notes and experiment with various tools in the program.
It has been a while since my last written entry to the blog and I have yet to complete my publication. Instead of making a Horror film poster I decided to wait until I obtained a few photographs from the short film I mentioned that I was making in an earlier entry to my blog and stick to my original idea. Now that I have the idea and photos I needed I will spent today’s class working on this task and perhaps fit in a little more practice using Dreamweaver. Time to get busy!

Web site

week 4

This week I have been looking at various posters paying particular attention to design and how the font is featured. What particularly interested me was a type of poster called Chirashi which is printed in Japan. The posters are typically a reduced image (255mm by 180mm) of the standard promotional film posters and feature promotional photos and a synopsis of the film on the reverse side. Creating my poster this way will not only allow me to design a poster as I originally intended but I will also be able to use font as an aesthetic feature more than if I was to produce a standard cinema poster. At the moment I have two images that I could potentially use on the front, however one is an image I made using Corel painter and it does not exactly fit with the idea of using the subject matter of the short film I am making. However I am quite satisfied with appearence the image and feel that it would make an excellent poster for a horror film and I may still choose to incorporate this into this project. I have several ideas of what the layout of the reverse side will look like however it also depends largely on the images I include, at the moment I will work on getting these done and then I will work on merging the images and text together using InDesign.

week 3

Now that I have completed a resume using In-design I feel quite confident operating the program and will continue to create such documents using A Mac in the future. I feel that I have a good basic knowledge that will allow me to commence work on the publication task so I will now begin to work on designing a layout on paper which will later be transferred to a digital format. As I mentioned in my last post I have chosen to design a film poster however I feel that this idea may be slightly modified throughout its development. I am currently enrolled in the class ‘Introduction to digital art’ and as part of an assessment task I have chosen to create a short film. I thought that it would be a great idea to tie the two projects together and make my poster/program based on the idea for my film. I am still in the planning stages for the film and the digital publication will be due earlier than its completion but I intend to use the title and the overall theme of the film as inspiration for this publication. I aim to have these details finalised soon and will inform you in my next blog.