evaluation

My assignment brief was called Personal project. We had to choose a topic on a social ethical issue.

I think this topic was a good unit because we had to choose a topic within a social ethical issue so we had a lot of free will over this subject because there is so many social ethical issues like Deforestation ,Self-harm, Animal Rights, Eating Disorders, Bullying, Child Abuse and Cyber Bullying these are only a few samples what we could have chosen from.
 I also chose this theme because it is personal to me because people in my family that self-harm so I thought it would be an eye opener to family and friends.  Before I studied self-harm I did not understand why they did it and I used to despise them because why would you do something that effects your health just to cry out for help from other family members. Now I understand it is not what I thought, I know that now it is a mental state that caused this to happen.

The topic I have chosen was self-harm. I chosen this theme because I do not think a lot of people of all ages know what self-harm is truly is about. I want to create a poster that says all that I would like to say and make an informative poster. I also think people take the micky out of something that is such a serious subject and need to know what the subject is about before they speak and I also think adults do not know about this subject as much as they think.

I have researched manga and anime.  The anime that I have researched was called Kuroshitsuji which means Black Butler. The reason I chose to research this because I love the anime and the Victorian era theme and I have also researched monochrome manga and anime for inspiration. I have also research into self-harm and watched a video about it. I found this research was an eye opener because I did not quite understand this subject. I researched into Victorian style patterns and researched into different types of font using dafont. I have also looked at different people's monochrome inspired anime pieces whtch gave me my idea.

I researched the artist Yana Toboso the creator of Black Butler she has done illustration and story for Kuroshitsuji. While I was researching her I found out that she has done some monochrome pieces and I have found researching this artist was very useful. What I love about this artist is that she loves Victorian style clothes and I love her manga stories about demons in the Victorian era.

The research that was very helpful was looking into monochrome because that inspired my design to be in black white and a little colour.  I also found researching Victorian patterns was very useful because it inspired me to make my own patterns.

My primary research was doing a survey for people to help me decide on things and find out what their views are and what they know and feel about self-harm. This was very useful and helpful, it helped me decide on which apps to use to create my final piece on.

I have made a graphical informative poster about self-harm because self-harm does not get discussed that often. I made this on Photoshop because that is what my survey results said because it Photoshop had the  most votes.

The reason I have chosen the colour scheme because it resembles what I am trying to portray.I chose to have the only colours blue, red and black. I chose black because my theme is really bleak. I chose the blue because it shows the tears and the red because it shows the self-harm marks and makes them more eye catching.  

I  have used only one image from a free background site because it was too time consuming. I got this image by searching in Google free Vintage paper background because if I did not do this I could be sued for copy righting. So that is why you have to put free in front of what you search up on the internet.

I have created my images using Photoshop tools. I have chosen to use a smudge tool because it blends the colours together and makes the colours seem 3D. I have also used the a hard brush tool to create the outline and to block colour my image and then smudge it to blend the two colours together. I have used a custom shape tool to create my patterns, I did this by having my desired custom shape  and used the  pologynal lasso tool to break the shape up and then I rearranged the shape to my liking and doing this created my pattern.

My target audience is 10 years and over. this is  because anyone can self-harm, but the reason I say 10 years and over is because there is more of a risk of self-harm to happen to that age range of people. 

I have developed new skills by learning how to make patterns with the custom shape tool and I have learned how to get free pictures without copy righting I have found that I can use these tools in my future projects.

I have found my time management was not so good with my research task. I kept to the schedule but then I kept on going back and forward with my other research that I had not finished.  Apart from that, my time management has been good. I wish that I have thoroughly planned my schedule properly in my new projects I will do a thorough detailed schedule to go by on.

I am extremely happy with my final piece because it is as my idea and fits my proposal but I have changed a lot of it. In my proposal project I had planned my idea but I have added a lot of new stuff to it to make it better. I have  added patterns and a background intseastd of leaving it white.

If I was to do this project again I would have done a more detaied picture by having a full body picture of both of my characters. I would  also added some rain to the background to bring more meaning to the picture and this would say that the world cries when someone self-harms. I would also hand draw my own patterns instead of breaking up shapes to make a pattern.

 I had a few problems with my piece because the skin colour was too pink so I had to set the layer to grayscale to avoid this happening again. I also had some difficulty with making my own patterns I had overcome this by asking Charlie one of the teachers in our class to help me  with the pattern. She helped me by giving me a 1 to 1 tutorial on how to make easy patterns.  

My presentation went well, I liked the outcome of my presentation because it was simple and clean and well organized. I had created eight slides to show to the teacher and I  added animation to it to make it good and eye catching. The teachers feedback was good ,she said that I do not need to change anything and that I was speaking clearly and I had my power point well presented.