Web Identity 2

Through looking at other peoples blogs I have found that the best way to promote your self and to push your work is to post something daily, for example the founder of a company called design seeds posts a piece of graphic design work daily to capture peoples imagination, thousands of people look at her work daily, then when they are looking for a graphic designer Design Seeds is the first choice without question. This is how Design Seeds is making money and finding clients.

http://www.designseeds.com/

A similar example of this is: http://www.dailyportrait.co.uk/

The artist behind the blog posts a portrait of someone daily to his blog, when you click on one of the images it redirects you to his etsy store, (shopping cart facility) and this is how he finds clients.

However through just having a blog it is difficult to generate site traffic therefore they use another social media platform such as Facebook.

The founder of design seeds has linked there facebook and blogger account so that when you click on an image on facebook you are automatically redirected to the blog.

Final Show

The Final show is a showcase of all of the work completed by CDC students over the course of their foundation degree.
This year I will be taking part.
In todays session as a year group we sat and decided how we would like to present our work and what work needs to be done to be ready on time.
As a group we have decided to showcase our studies with three computers, the computers will all share the same computer system and will allow visitors to the show to browse through all of our works.
We will also be requiring a large board each to showcase print based work, these boards will stand behind the computers and will hopefully attract attention therefore we will all be using our brightest, boldest works.
Due to the computers been on a desk this creates the opportunity to have an area to leave business cards and postcards which will hopefully be picked up by guests to the show.

Proposed programs for the computer system:
* Power Point
* Presi.com
* Adobe Flash
* Adobe presenter 7

through looking at all of these systems we decided that presi and powerpoint where to basic and that we should use Adobe Presenter 7 due to it almost combing Adobe Flash.


Due to the computer system needing a selection of all our works we have split ourselves into groups to create a smoother and easier process.
Rich will be creating the computer system,
Chris and I will be creating promotional material such as posters, postcards and business cards.
I will also be in charge of print based works, this means that I will have to organize works to be printed and mounted onto the display boards.

All members of the group will be choosing a minimum of 4 selected works for the presentation system (computers) and will be sending them to Rich with captions and possible text.

All members will be emailing me their works which they want upon the display boards, so that I can sort them for printing.


My Chosen works for screen based presentation:
* Photo story - digital ghosts
* Title Sequence
* My Video Diary 3d - including 3d webcam attatchment
* Website Designs?
* Linear project - Stop animation Ballerina.
* Online Portfolio

* A Level Art show - video outcome (poss when finished)



My Chosen works for print based presentation: (presentation boards)
*Photography - butterflies
* Packaging (sweetshop)
* Logo Designs (sweetshop, video diary,)
* Illustrator work
* 2d bar coding -link to online portfolio
* I phone app designs?
* webcam game designs - in dvd cases? - attach to board.

We have also decided to have a second table which will display our A3 portfolios.
-we may also be creating miniatures of these as brochures which people can take away.



Due to some of our work been threaded live from Photosynth - a microsoft only program we will have to use PC's as computers instead of Imac's which would have looked better from an aesthetic point of view.


So that we can all stay in contact out of college we will be creating a Facebook group which only people relevant to the project can join and view content so that we have a communication device which shows our design process.

Equiptment needed:
3 Pc's (1f088??)
3 presentation boards (one each)
2 Tables - one for A3 folders the other for computers

Printing

3d webcam

My tasks:
* Correcting spellings in my A3 folder and re printing them,
* Desiging a poster to attract visitors to the event
* Creating a presentation system for the computers
* Designing a business card/postcard for people to take away.
* Designing a brouchure for people to take away

I have decided to create my brouchure in PDF which will allow me to create direct links to some of my websites and to my online portfolio as alot of my works are screen based, this means that they will most likely be given away on disks.
Because I will have DVD's for people to take away I will present the disk cover itself (not box cover) as a business card displaying a piece of my design work and my name and contact details.
Because I am giving away a disk I will also be creating a small disclaimer in a seperate PDF document which will protect me from law suits if someone comes across an infected link.

Budgeting
Because I will be creating DVD brouchures and disk covers I will need to look into budgeting for this. Not everyone will want to take away a business card or a disk therefore I will not be making one for every visitor as it will become expensive.
Because of this I will also create a small business card with my name and website address to my online portfolio, the card will also feature a piece of design work. This means my DVD's will be avaliable on a first come serve basis.
DVD Price - Tesco 70p for 5 single disks without jewel cases.
Sticker Price - pound land - £1 for 30 disk covers.
Printing costs - 10p per sheet (two disk covers per sheet =10p for two disks)

These are the best value products and are ideal as they will only be holding a pdf brouchure.

Platform 2010 Gaming Show

We attended the first gaming showcase by Platform in Hull. The event is held at the Hull Truck Theatre, and consists of seminars and stalls ran by gaming and new media company's.

The first seminar we attended was on copyright law and protecting your intellectual property, from this I've learnt to send confidentiality agreements to publishers or any who externally involved with my work who may exploit my designs, ideas or finished pieces of work.
I think this was valuable as I may be able to make use of it in the future when distributing or publishing my work.

Another seminar I found interesting was on character creation and building, where we were told not to base characters on real people as reality isn't always as interesting and dramatic enough. We where also told to look at star signs and horoscopes to find personality traits and to look at all elements about a character before even writing their script such as Character X moved from France when his parents divorced, and this sparked X behavior and X trait.

Some other seminars I found un helpful/ rather irrelevant were by Kingston Communications and Hull University this is because they were presenting in effect a 20 minute advert about their service or their courses which when you look at the 2010 platform website the whole event promotes development for gamers.

A Level

As a group we will be coming up with advertising and promotional material for the college A Level show, the event runs between 22 June - 29 June annually.
The show is to represent the completion of studies by Art, Design and Craft students at York College. It is a celebration of work from the range of Art and Design courses which will reflect what work they have completed to a variety of visitors to hopefully help them to progress to the next step in their careers.
As a group we decided to draw out all of our ideas for the show such as logo designs, poster designs and more.
We were all in agreement that we should have a website where guests can view parts of the exhibition and book tickets.
Other ideas amongst the group were:

• Ticket design - to gain entry to the event


• Poster design - for advertising


• CD - with promotional material


• TV Screens near art works - these screens could describe the artists journey and concept for their finished piece


• Interactive 3d boards - guests could find their chosen artist through the touch screen board.


• Brochures - with images and a map of the event


• Social networking - networking and branching out to potential guests


• Short interviews with students about their work

We then broke down who should do which tasks and created small sub groups to create the website, these were

-HTML/Coding

-Design

-Content/uploading

I am in the sub group for content uploading and will be creating videos for the show.

These videos will allow students to explain their inspirations and concepts which drove them to their finished piece. This will either be web based so that guests can view artworks/a taster of the show through our website or the videos will be screen based, viewable on monitors next to their art work.

I will be continuing this work in a separate blog: The A Level Show Blog

Linear work progress:

I have now photographed the dancer dancing in front of the blue screen, edited it and created these two video demos to show progress, realise which speed I want the video to play at and to find any flaws such as facial expression and left over bits of blue screen:

Slow motion video - 0.64 of a second:
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and again but sped up a bit 0.24 of a second.

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I then went on to look at different filters for the video such as an aged effect:

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I like the thought of the clip been aged as it fits well with the stop animation because it is quite jumpy.

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I removed the aging filters to see which other filters added to the video aesthetically.
I decided to put a “brightness decrease” on every other photograph, this created almost a tea stained look and added to the aged look with out been pixelated.

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Creative Crafting Magazine

Creative Crafting Magazine is an online magazine created by

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Little People - Slinkachu with Hornby playsets

Slinkachu is a photographer from London who uses the Hornby characters (often purchased for usage with model railways) to create humorous scenarios he takes a photograph of the characters and before taking another zoomed out. He often leaves them at the locations, they are so small you would probably walk past them and not notice them.
Some examples of his work are below:

As you can see from the first image (above) the second image has been taken in a puddle by the side of the harbor.
Check out some more of his works here: Little people blog where you will find endless humorous photographs.
He has created so many that he has recently released a book containing these works (see image below)

In class we had ago at creating our own versions of this photographic technique,

Pictured is a Hornby character falling down a plug hole (first photo) and in the second picture a Hornby character who has just built the mother of all snow people!