TOP 10 THINGS - Concept crit and feedback

Strengths:-

- Strong visual research

- Relevant type

Areas for improvement:-

- define target audience

- define channel/time/etc

- typefaces

- look at documentaries

Considerations:-

- consider 10 things to know about bears, for a definitive 10

- Pizzly bear

- frozen planet - bears in Chernobyl

- bear in the wild

- koala subspecies in Australia

- wild life photography awards

- documentary type

- channel, time, day

- print

- sin city

- Kung Fu panda

Action plan

- really define your target audiences - what kind of person are you aiming at or would be interested or would be watching the channel or programme

- advert time of idents

- story boards for the next crit

- preliminary animations

- more assets to use

- screen grabs

- animation tests

- research more for content

- use Moodle tech forum

- define top 10 - e.g. top 10 species of bear alive today

SOFTWARE SKILLS - AE

http://ae.tutsplus.com/articles/news/some-backgrounds-in-after-effects/

http://churchmediadesign.tv/pattern-backgrounds-inside-after-effects/

Pattern Background Loop Inside After Effects from Brad Zimmerman on Vimeo.

CMD 63: After Effects Kaleidoscope from Brad Zimmerman on Vimeo.

After Effects: Vintage Film Title from Brad Zimmerman on Vimeo.

CMD 79: Looping Backgrounds: Offset Effect from Brad Zimmerman on Vimeo.

CMD 80: Looping Backgrounds: Fractal Noise Effec from Brad Zimmerman on Vimeo.

CMD 81: Looping Backgrounds: Particle Effect from Brad Zimmerman on Vimeo.

CMD 82: Looping Backgrounds: Wiggle Effect from Brad Zimmerman on Vimeo.

SOFTWARE SKILLS - Tutorials, blogs and helpful sites

As part of my PPD I've decided to start blogging all the tutorials, blogs and websites that I come across or find helpful with developing new skills and creating designs. This way I can keep track on different methods and have an easy personal resource to look back on when I forget how do to something or need to find a website that will be helpful.

The aim by the end of the year is to have an extensive list of websites along side a broad range of tutorials and guides to using different software.

Enterprise & Innovation - Group Meeting 1

Date of Meeting 1st Decemeber 2011

Summary of meeting:

Although we don't have any tasks or requirements for the groups driven part of the enterprise module we thought it would be a good idea to sit down and discuss a few things about ourselves and what we can expect from each other as a team.

We went over what we feel our strengths and weaknesses are and discussed what sort of design we're interested in and the skills required.

Group members:-

- Charlie Crosby
Strengths - committed, great at planning, strong design skills on illustrator and confident presentation skills
Weaknesses - Indecisive, visual thinker, researching
Extra - had work placements

- Lisa Whitaker
Strengths - Excellent background in this area, tenacity, excellent time management, strong at research
Weaknesses - Lives out side Leeds, shy at presentations

- Claudia Winkleman
Strengths - good with words, intelligent, strong illustrator, makes a good cup of tea, organised, easy to get along with,
Weaknesses - No career direction, easily not motivated, research

- Marty Edwards
Strengths - Confident, layouts and visual thinker, good presentation, cool
Weaknesses - Bad organisation, bad punctuality,

I'm quite happy with my group as I haven't worked with Lisa, Claudia or Marty before so it will be refreshing and hopefully we will learn from each other. From memory of past groups projects that I've seen from the rest of the group members I've noticed that they all contribute and work hard, with little if not no struggle with collaboration.

Plan of Action..
Individually think about where we want to go and what we want to achieve and be located.
Gather a business plan and bring to the next meeting.
Bring research of other business of that we think what we want to be involved in so we can then model ourselves on parts of each business.

Enterprise & Innovation - Quiz, Lecture 2

http://portal.leeds-art.ac.uk/moodle/mod/quiz/review.php?attempt=1595

Enterprise & Innovation - Quiz, Lecture 1

http://portal.leeds-art.ac.uk/moodle/mod/quiz/review.php?attempt=1594

Enterprise & Innovation - Task 1 - Who am I - Who are they?

Possible Client Groups. Music Industry - CD covers and content / Event promotion / Band merchandise and packaging Publishing - editorial magazines / look books / commercial music magazines / short run, bespoke booklets for short term events such as theatre performances, art exhibitions and business events for companies. Retail - branding for a clothing line, perfume or other commodities. Package design, label design. Creative design for delivery such as carrier bags, shop displays. What skills / interests you have and how they relate to the needs of your client group? I'm good with idea generation and planning and I think very creatively and visually more than actually producing visual work. My motivation to learn as much as possible and have a solid concept is what drives my research and overall defines the outcome of my designs. I prefer to work with illustrative designs which have a bit of character to them but I get excited about all types of design like editorial and publishing, package and promotion and branding and identity. I don't have much of an interest in infographics but I do appreciate the complexity and creativity that has to go into designs that have to communicate so much effectively. I'm very interested in printed media and print production, I believe print will never die, we will always need it What skills are needed and what skills you want to develop? I like to think of myself as a well rounded designer and I'm open to learning new skills and techniques as well as improving my current skills. We live in a very digital society and technology often determines a lot of designs and presents creative opportunities so I would like to improve and develop my software skills and think more creatively in terms of how to apply my work to new technologies and alternative media as this will be required from me once I enter the Industry fully. What are your professional/creative aims and how do they relate to the needs of the client group? My professional aims are to produce designs that really give the clients what they want and exceed what they have asked for in both quality and quantity. I would really prefer to be taking on jobs and briefs that are beneficial in some way towards communities, the environment and even more so for the future of other people. Creatively, I want to communicate in an engaging, charismatic and defined way using a wide range of techniques and media. I would like to develop my own personal style but at the same time allow myself to work in a broad way to give clients their own distinguished design aesthetic and identity.