Over the course of this module I've developed lots of my skills and become interested in some processes that I had previously written off, I feel like the quality of my work depends heavily on the brief it was produced for this module. I think my Visual Journal and Printed pictures briefs are particularly strong though I feel like my Moving Pictures work slightly lets the rest of my work down. Overall though I definitely think my Printed Pictures work is the strongest in this module because as a process I feel it really enhances the work I produce as it goes hand in hand with working digitally and can often take digital work to the next level, I also feel that it brings back a hand crafted side to digital images that you just can't get with digital print it is a process that I definitely want to carry on with and in the future I can see it even being something I build my practice around. One thing I will definitely consider next time I work with screen print will definitely be scale as I think i was a bit naive when I initially decided to work at A1 and though i'm really happy with how my prints turned out in the end I think if I scaled them down to A2 they would have been much easier and quicker to produce, though I do think the scale in a sense is what makes the prints really stand out and contextually most film posters are A1 anyway. My Final pieces for this brief are some of the best work i've ever produced though there are still some errors that could have been re done if I had more time in the print room or worked at a smaller scale, I think they work well for what I intended them to and thats one thing thats tied all my work together for this module by telling myself it was for a TV series very early on it helped tie all my work together visually.
The Moving Pictures brief just was not for me I felt like I was forcing myself to do it for the sake of it where as with the Printed Pictures brief was the polar opposite and I really enjoyed working that way. I think the most successful part of my Moving Pictures brief was the text at the end of my animations as I felt this worked really well and produced the atmosphere that I really wanted for these pieces, It also created a synergy with my Printed Pictures posters that really tied my work for this module together and I think was one of the strong points of my work. I think on the end the animations weren't as strong as my initial drawn animation I did as I think due to rather than the portraits being face on they were from different angles the lighting became much harder to work out, if I was to do this module again I'd change the faces so they were facing forwards like the original.
I think the way I've used my Visual Journal for this module is different to the way it was probably intended to be used, but rather than try to shoehorn in work that didn't need to be there I found a way to make it work with my practice, such as a lot of the images I created for my visual journal went on to become printed pictures work or moving pictures work, Usually when I've decided what work I intend to produce for a brief the only drawing I do related to the brief is the thumbnails and the final images, I don't really see the point in creating work that won't be used or relevant so I decided to explore printing more and use this as my visual journal, in doing this I got to explore a lot of the areas I wanted to such as printing on t-shirts, printing white on white and doing gradient prints. I think the gradient prints are some of the strongest work I've produced in my time on this course and again is something I want to continue experimenting with, It's just such a shame that in the end they would have looked odd in the set as all the other posters had been produced white ink onto black paper they wouldn't have fit the set though I think thematically they work much better for the book than the white on black Images. I'm also really happy with my time management on this module which has made my work much stronger due to me pretty much finishing my Printed Pictures work the last week before christmas and having the rest of the time to focus on my animations which I think helped my final work. I did have some problems at the start of the module with time management due to being ill and I think my early visual language work might have suffered from this but I feel like I made up for it with my later work.
overall I think this module has been a success for me and I'm looking forward to seeing where I can take screen printing in the next module though I don't think animation is something I will be returning to in a hurry if I can help it. I'm also looking forward to seeing where I can take my work with a visual journal in the next module I think having a slip in folder and working on loose paper has really worked well for a visual journal and I can't see myself going back to sketchbooks at this point.
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