Digital - Evaluation

For this project we were asked to create a digital story to do with ‘the beginning of the end’ then the chosen subject we could decide, I chose the beginning of the end of hope. I started by researching into things that I thought of when I thought of hope, such as doves and researching different graphic designers and illustrators to give me ideas, which I could create into the six designs. This gave me the idea of actually using the dove, as it is the main thing that appears in my mind when I think of hope so I thought by using the dove in a disturbing way.

I mainly used scanned images in my design such as the background and the drawn doves. Then within Photoshop I experimented with different effects such as hue saturation and vibrancy.

My main inspirations for my designs were Patrick Boyer and Tayla Baldwin as there designs focused on soft backgrounds, which allowed the drawings and photos to be vibrant and stand out. The backgrounds tended to be a mixture of watercolour and texture and I liked the effect so I wanted my designs to have a similar effect.

I like my final designs I think they display the message I wanted them to portray, I think the mix of media works well with the message as I wanted it to be quite rough and unpolished with my subject of hope, so I didn’t want it to look perfect I wanted it to display how the ‘seems were coming undone’.

However I think the sound, which accompanies the movie isn’t clear enough as it from my own digital camera in hindsight I would ensure that the sound was of top quality as I think it doesn’t seem as if it has had time and effort put into it.

I think my time keeping from the last project has improved and I have been more involved in other activities such as drawing and painting more than I had previously, this project really inspired me terms of creativity.

For the next project I want to eliminate the need to procrastinate which will allow me to focus all my attention on my work.