Persons of note

My 3 people of note: Baz Lurman, Douglas Adams, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi


Baz Lurman

1. Says his life is 'a circus run like an army'.
2. The great Gatsby took 5 years to write, produce and direct.
3. He directed the big dance number Hugh Jackman did at the 81st Academy Awards.
4. He cameoed in the Great Gatsby as a waiter.
5. He split his head open on a camera crane while directing Australia.
6. New York is his favourite place to live.
7. He has huge calendars (movie poster size) with to do lists on them.
8. He has assistants record him speaking while he was in bed.
9. He has nude Friday.
10. "anything that comes out of my mouth in print, sounds just so pretentious.

Douglas Adams

1. in 1974 he made appearances in Monty python's flying circus as a surgeon.
2. Two days before he died, the international astronomical union named an asteroid 'arthurdent'
3. He once wrote that his favourite fact is that "young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees."
4. He described himself as a radical atheist.
5. Two weeks after he died his fans organised Towel Day. Celebrated every may 25.
6. He was cremated with his towel.
7. He played guitar left handed.
8. He was friends with David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) and came up with the album title 'the division bell'
9. In 1979 he was script editor for doctor who and wrote 3 episodes.
10. While studying in Cambridge he hitchhiked from Europe to Istanbul.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

1. At age 19 he left home to study law in London.
2. He wrote a letter to Hitler urging him to avoid a war.
3. He was shot by Nathuran Godse on 30/01/48.
4. He lead thousands on a march to the sea (241 miles) to symbolically make their own salt to protest the salt tax.
5. Mahatma is a term that means great soul.
6. In india he is called the father of the nation or Bapu (which means father).
7. The collected works of his have 50,000 pages.
8. He was nominated for the nobel peace prize 5 times.
9. He was the 1930 Times magazine man of the year.
10. India received independance from the british on the 15th of august 1947 after Gandhi launched a 'quit India' movement.

Postcards brief.

We were told to create a set of 4 postcards on illustrator of capital cities . This project is to help develop and understand the program illustrator and also to create things that work congruently as a set.

The 4 places i chose to do are: Kairo, Venice, Toronto, Rome

 With reference photos of my cities i started planning

Some tests on illustrator:

This was me experimenting with the tools and buttons.

After this i found that i liked to work with block shapes on illustrator, simplicity.

These are my final postcards

Evaluation

Weaknesses: 

1. I think i worked too much in simple shapes. Most other people were using live trace so when we put them up to display mine looked a lot simpler than the others.

2. Congruity of the venice one is off. I used a second shade of yellow for the waves when i should have stuck with my colour scheme and used white. It was mentioned to me in  feedback that the red works much better as water and the yellow is low impact.

3. I think i should have settled on portrait/landscape first instead of using both. need to set myself stricter guidelines to begin with.

Strengths:

1. Because they are simple there is an amount of negative space that makes them stand out ( apart from the rome one, that would work better with more detail on the colosseum and no plinths either side)

2. The circle i used, i incorporated into each piece i think this helped with the level of congruity.

3.  Each one is recognisable as what it is. 

Thats pants brief

We set out trying to think of things that we found pants as a group.

|Tghe thing we liked most was the idea that public toilets are gross and unsanitary.

We then figured out our aims:

At this point we decided to make a poo costume. This is a public brief so we wanted something eye catching and humorous. 

Being in a group lead to a large amount of discussing work and it took longer to start any action because the whole group must agree. We decided that just dressing up as a poo wasn't enough it had to have a meaning behind it. This is where the Pooliticians were born.

After us all getting excited about this new idea we had a crit. Post crit we felt like we'd over done it and made something that we had no chance of finishing well. So we went back to the drawing board.

Our next idea was to make a toilet paradise. We planned to have our gif as a toilet opening and then there being all these bright and beautiful things in the stall. 

I started making flowers for this idea but before i could finish them we had another rethink because we felt it didnt really answer the brief.. Being in a group has made settling on an idea much harder. Our weakness so far is finding cracks in our ideas and abandoning them completely.

We went out to photograph unclean public loos for research and thats when we discovered it was all a lie. A myth. The public loos now are clean and well looked after. If there is a mess someone will be out momentarily to clean it.

With this gaping hole in our idea we decided to go back to the poo costume but to come up with a reason for it. Our project became about needing to go number 2 in inappropriate places. Then our poo costume instead of being a reminder of dirt is instead just a reminder that 'you gotta go'.

Building the costume.

The pointed tip just wasn't poo-like enough for us. An ice cream like whip is much better.

We've added some arm straps to keep it up as by this point its got pretty heavy and awkward sized/shaped.

Then out into the open we went:

Our possible posters. I made this top one. I just wanted something simple using our slogan the bowel growl. We spent quite a while coming up with rhyming poop related phrases before we settled on this pone but we thought it fitted the project right

Personally i prefer the set out of the above one because its clean and simple , but i favour the text below because it makes me cringe at the texture. 

Our Gif

Evaluation

Weaknesses: 

1. Working in a group made it hard to settle on a decision, i think we need to be more decisive.

2. In a group I pull my weight better on the making side of things rather than the ideas side, i wasn't very confident with offering up my ideas. 

3. The costume design wasn't very portable and it made the day quite awkward, especially when catching the bus.

Strengths:

1. Didn't get embarrassed at walking around in public with the poo costume so we were able to get loads of ridiculous ones and weren't limited by where we dare go.

2. Meeting up went well, because we were bad at making decisions quickly we needed the group time.

3. The aesthetic of the costume went quite well, we smoother patches out with tissue paper and painted multiple times to get the colour we were happy with. Also the fact that we made it so it would fit all of us in the group, which meant that the pictures/gif would include everyone. It also made it so we wouldn't have to decide on one person, because as we'd already realised we weren't very decisive.