Final module evaluation

overall as a module i believe that i have made progress since last years cop module. however i personally believe that it is not one of my strongest. the fact that it is a highly written module is an immediate downfall as forming formal sentences is highly complicated for me and i feel like what i say doesnt make all that much sense at times. for example after i reread my initial essay draught it made absolutely no sense and i had to rewrite so much of it to understand it myself. however since last year i chose a subject that i know more about as well as having a massive interest in expanding my knowledge on the subject. as someone whos preffered future career may revolve around similar aspects of the theme i chose, i feel like it would benefit me greatly to keep learning about what the genre involves, and the audience it aims to please.

for next year i intend to try keep the theme similar in terms of the general theme. however i will have to find a more refined area of it to focus on, because that is one of my biggest flaws when it comes to research and essay work. i dont know what i should and shouldnt include and i believe that it is absolutely essential that i manage my research skills and figure out what is been asked into greater detail in the future. as i have found, i tend to look at the bits of a project that interest me more that splitting my research evenly. so in knowing this i can now learn to evenly work towards different parts of what i need to fully understand a subject. as well as this i intend to focus somewhat more on the illustrative side to my decided theme. as in this module i found it rather hard to find examples of work that i could closely relate to the themes i was researching.

as for the practical side of the module i believe that i have made something that i can put into a collection of work i am happy with. however at the same time it could be much more refined and the images could be better. the contents of a few of the pages i am very happy with as i am not usually wery good at making a point come accross in imagery. the quality of the final publication itself could be way better, if i had organised my time more effectively then i belueve that i would be able to make the book longer and to a higher standard. doing this would impact the eerieness and the impact of the images and i believe would be a much better piece. i would also touch on my visual journal. i found myself creating images and sketches that were more for my own preference and i wish i could have developed my final images more. however it was rather late in the project before i knew how i wanted to draw out the images for each page. on the other hand my designs have vastly changed from my origioanl ideas and mock up books. i feel like my intentions at the begining of the practical work were much more thought out as well as challenging. so i am rather dissapointed in myself that i couldnt make some of the book format ideas. so by achknowledging this i plan to force myself to make some products that i wouldnt naturally consider. if i challenge myself more at this stage in my studies i believe it would be highky beneficial to my knowledge and understanding of potential outcomes to future briefs and possible self assigned projects.

looking back at the final book i would say that the transition from the image on paper to a digital print of the image could have been cleaner. i now see that if i made the final images slightly more compact than the final drawn image size then the images would look cleaner with stronger line work. i will remember this for next time and attempt to make my images with traditional media more easily made into a professionally printed piece.

something that i feel has gone very well is the tone of voice and the type of work i am creating. this module had forwarded my understanding of the type of work i would like to take forward. as i mentioned that i struggle communicating opinion through images, i believe that i have found a way that i can incorporate it into the kind of images that i make. in doing this i feel it to be a large personal step as it seems like a crucial ability to have.

final essay

(please use the printed one if you can for the bibliography, i keep altering the file and changing things on the word document but when putting it onto issuu it just wont keep the images in the same place.)

cop 3 project proposal

final book and short evaluation

i have had mixed reactions to the book itself as a final outcome. you can tell the interests of the people that understand what i have tried to say, because they see the world in a similar way. the world been this place where things seem strait forward in the way we have to live to continue living, and how it actually can feel like a burden and creates a substantial lack of meaning. as well as a feeling of been used as a member of society for other peoples gains. 

people have responded to this publication better than i imagined they would. i wanted to make something that i would myself buy and enjoy the concept of. and in doing so i thing that i have managed to make something i am proud of. 

i am glad i didn't add more text in the end because the majority of people have been able to interpret what i was trying to show, and the others seemed to miss out some little details in the images that would make it clearer for them. but overall i would say that i am happy with the result.

however, if i was to do it again i believe that i would try do some more things to improve the book.

• i would possibly change the font of the text on the cover. as i went for the typewriter look to suit the aesthetics of the artwork included, but i feel like it could be better. at the same time i really struggle to distinguish what looks good when it comes to fonts, and i generally don't notice the differences when looking at other peoples work.
• i think that i would change the page size, either make it longer or thinner to maybe give a larger contrast with the images i put in, making the world inside seem never ending.adding a more hopeless feeling
• the paper i used. i think it good quality paper but i don't feel like the texture complimented it too great. in hindsight i wish i tested what it looked like on different paper and possibly different printers. as i used the print dungeon printer, some of my peers said that those printers can come out a little grainy. despite scanning my images at a high resolution.
• i would have like to make some more concepts for the monsters too, as some of them don't look amazing and the smaller one is a bit of a let down looking back at it. 
• i also believe that the page with the people holding the daggers could have been drawn better but i wanted the people to look anonymous and thats how i imagined it.

things to take away from this:

• better use of font and text
• look more into how to structure a book
• see how i can make something stand out more at first glance 
• composition of imagery in the book
• quality of art can always be improved  
• how to structure a book, like the use of spreads and space

indesign final

for my final publication i have kept it very simple in terms of text. there have been no specifications to base the quantity of text on, as well as it been a very weak field for me. i never seem to get the font, size and placement right so i believe that it is in my best interest to stay away as much as i can because i cant seem to get the grasp of it. another reason for me to accept that i shouldn't use that much written aspects is that we have been told in last years PPP that if there is something that you are not good at then its a good idea to keep away for the most part. its better to keep what your bad at to a minimum so it doesn't bring the good down. and i believe this is correct in this instance also.

if i have some nice imagery and then some less great writing i think it could ruin the whole book and defeat the purpose of making a book that works with imagination.

background

i made a texture to layer behind the image and fiddle with the adjustments of it. i like the way this looks on the screen and i plan on doing a quick pre print of it in the dungeon before i print my book again. just to be sure.

the texture itself i tried to make it look as surreal as i could do with the knowledge i have. and i quite like what it looks like. you cant make out what it is and i think thats perfect for what I'm trying to add it to. it means that you can interpret it however you like which suits the there somewhat. 

faulty final book

i printed the final book and the pages didn't come out as clean as the appeared on photoshop and indesign.i will have to get it reprinted in a drop in session however the images need to look way better. in saying this i really don't like the front cover now i have seen it printed. i didn't want to add colour because digitally adding colour looks tacky when i do it as well as when i try add colour pencil over the top of the images i have made. but in seeing the final result i feel like the book needs some form of colour and i believe the best place is the cover page. 

final draughts and mock

my mock up book loods decent in size and the images fit nicely to me.
however i have asked some of my peers for feedback and they have said a few things to concider before i make my final book

• my image ideas have a strong presence and understanding for what I'm doing
• good concept
• interenting themes 
• possibly keep text to a minimum if you struggle with it.
• look at different fonts
• the title is a good contrast with the idea for the front cover.
• the images are relatively self explanatory, especially after you know the title
• the text should be looked at more
• maybe make the pages thinner?

making final images

some roughs of what i intend to make as my final pages, i think that the book should be more landscape than anything else.
as i want my images to be seen from more of a distance than an up close kind of feeling, i believe that landscape would capture the images more strongly.

i have had some problems with a couple pages as when i was planning the setup of the book i accidentally made a counting error and didnt realise until i made a mock book that my images werent in a multiple of 4 to make double sided pages.

which means i had less time to plan out what i wanted to do for the extra page.

however i dealt with the problem and managed to make the extra double page spread.

final pages seperately

i like all the images, as they are, however i think that it would be usefull to see how they print out and look on the paper i will be using because i wish to keep the images black and white. so i will have to clean them up on photoshop aw well as make sure they actually look decent enough to print as final outcomes