Screen printing

Today was the optional screen printing workshop. I had been waiting ages for this in much anticipation as I had never done it before, but had heard good things about it. 

The initial concept within screen printing was quite confusing as I had never done it before. After a strong brief from Jo we got on with oiling our images and using a UV light box to fix them to a thin nylon canvas. After washing off the chemicals with water, we then heated the canvas in a warm oven to preserve our images. My images were of an old school camera and old school VW Beatle.

Overall the day was really productive and it is a strong technique which I will be able to use in the future.

Visual Thinking result & Flash Animation (workshops)

Just got back my Visual thinking result, am pleased with the mark and am happy with the constructive feedback. There are clearly areas I can improve on and still work to be done.

My flash animation is going smoothly, have done my background illustrations and have almost finished my character design. Although saying that, flash really isn't what I thought it would be; it's more complicated than I thought, the software is so deep and can drive you crazy. I need to be more patient with it and see the tutors if I'm struggling. Overall I'm quite enjoying the unit though.

Another Part of the unit is the ABC qualification in Flash. My workshop is wednesday nights 5-8, which is a bit of a mission actually. The first week was a bit tedious as it was really very simple, but it definitely did get much more difficult. This wednesday will be my fourth session.

Last week we were given a small project to have completed for this wednesday. We have to create an advertising banner for a website using measurements of 468x60 pixels.

Creating CV & Covering letter

Getting on really well with my final CV, is starting to look really smart. There's a massive difference between my original and current final CV; it's starting to look really professional and smart. Have also had a creative idea to send my CV in a small french fold style book, which firstly shows my current work from this first year; then when opened contains my final CV.

Still having a play round with the idea at the moment but should come out looking good.

Screen based communication- new unit

The start of another fresh unit today, really am excited for this! Flash (Adobe) is a totally new piece of software for me; but after the introduction to photoshop and illustrator there's nothing I really don't want to do!

The aim of this unit is to create a 30-90 second flash movie, based upon your chosen statistic. After much research into a variety of different statistics, I have chosen to base my short movie clip on newspaper recycling! Ok it doesn't sound overly interesting at first but when Looked in depth at the problems of waste paper, some of the statistics are pretty shocking.

In this first week of the new unit I also started the Flash workshop which was set up for an evening class (5-8), which at first I thought would be a bit of a mission but was brilliant. I really got into the introduction and am excited to see what my final result will be!