Sunday, November 25, 2012

Failure Paper


I think I had a few failures this semester, mainly the last couple projects.  First is MP4.  I think I could have put a significant amount of more effort into the project.  I should not have used an old recording of my friends and I singing.  I think if I had put more time into the project I could have made a much more creative and interesting piece.  I was not as enthusiastic about iMovie and Garageband as I was about photoshop.  My second biggest failure was MP5.  I did not read the directions, therefore I created something irrelevant.  Another failure was the pictures we took at the beginning of the semester.  If I had put more time into it, I could have taken better pictures.
            For most of these failures, I learned that if I am more enthusiastic about the medium used or what the assignment is I put more effort and time into it.  I think I feel this way because this class is not a graduation requirement for me, and I took it solely for the photoshop practice.  Also, since it is not a graduation requirement I know I put the other projects on the backburner for various reasons (mainly lack of time between my other design classes, I work for a start up fashion line, senioritis—I’m graduating Dec. 16th, and the never ending semester by week 11 I was ready to be done with class).  As a fashion major, I think that having that skill is extremely important.  I use photoshop and Illustrator all the time at work now.
            I think my two biggest successes were the two photoshop projects.  I thoroughly enjoyed those two projects and the creative process that went with it.  I learned so many new tools for Photoshop. 
            If I could redo a project it would either be the Garageband project or the last project. 

Brainstorming

One option for a narrative is to film myself drawing a fashion illustration-- just my hand, the pencil/paint and the paper and then speed it up.  I'm not sure what the point would be, but I think it would be interesting for someone to watch the design process and see it from start to finish.  It is definitely a process; there is a lot of erasing and starting over involved, but by the end there's always an interesting finished product.

That's all I got so far..

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

MP5

For MP5, my words were "to differ" and "entropy."  I decided to create a photoshop image mainly because I really enjoy that application.  I remember learning about entropy in chemistry, and it deals with thermodynamics and temperature.  The idea of heat is why I used the beach scene.  My next thought was to include "to differ," and I felt the North Pole was the opposite of the beach.  This is why I placed Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, Rudolph, and elves at the beach having fun.