Graphic Narrative Production - Task 1

Chosen Graphic Novel: The Great Gatsby


I chose The Great Gatsby as my graphic novel because it's one of my favourite films and I love the story line. 
The book itself has a very unique design. 


Talk about Vintage Filter, Postage Stamp design, The character design, The use of illustration, 

Killer Coke

Photoshop Animations

Moon Eclipse

We have recently been developing skills of GIF animation using Photoshop. I created this Moon Eclipse animation by creating 2 circular shapes and moving them across the page, and pausing and saving them at each frame so I am then able to play them all together. 

Name Moving GIF

We then had a go at creating a GIF of our name moving or doing some sort of animation. 

Photoshop Animations

Moon Eclipse

We have recently been developing skills of GIF animation using Photoshop. I created this Moon Eclipse animation by creating 2 circular shapes and moving them across the page, and pausing and saving them at each frame so I am then able to play them all together. 

Guess Who - Rosie Kinsella

This is the ongoing working progress of my guess who card and where i've gotten so far.
We are using Adobe Illustrator to create our own Guess Who game card based on a portrait photograph of ourselves. So far I have:

• Cropped and Scaled my image to make it suitable to fit a game card
• Focused on my eyes first: Traced around them and coloured them to make them appear more cartoon like
• Traced and coloured other features such as my eyelashes to add more personal touches to my game card
• I then re-created the style of my eyebrows and traced them using the pen tool and then fill to fill them with colour
• Outlined and filled in my hair outline from my photo
• Outlined and coloured in my lips
• Began tracing my face which I then intend to also fill with colour

The eyes were probably one of the most difficult parts about doing this guess who assignment. It was really difficult for me to come to terms with being used to the type of tools that I need to use to create them. The pen tool was used to create this, it's not perfect but I finally got somewhere than just random squiggles. 

Arms Around a Child

Designer Research - Friday's Lesson

Barbara Kruger

- Is a Conceptual Artist. (Conceptual Artist is art in which the idea or concept presented by the artist is considered more important than the finished product)

Born: January 26th, 1945 in New mark New Jersey, US

Education: Syracuse University, Parsons School of Design, New York

Nationality: American

After graduating from Parsons School of Design, Kruger obtained a job a Conde Nast Publications followed by then getting a job at "Mademoiselle", a women's fashion magazine that ended in 2001.

As her early years as an artist, Kruger crotched, sewed and painted bright-hued and erotically suggestive objectives. She then went on to publish her own artist's book consisting of her own photographs and work.

Much of Kruger's work pairs found photographs with pithy and assertive text that challenges the viewer. She develops her ideas on a computer, later transferring the results to (often billboard-sized) image. Kruger has said that "I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t."

Kruger was awarded the MOCA Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts in 2001. In 2005, she was included in The Experience of Art at the Venice Biennale and was the recipient of the Leone d'Oro for lifetime achievement. At the 10th anniversary Gala in the Garden at the Hammer Museum in 2012, Kruger was honored by TV presenter Rachel Maddow. In 2012, Kruger joined John Baldessari and Catherine Opie in leaving the Museum of Contemporary Art's board in protest, but later returned in support of the museum's new director, Philippe Vergne, in 2014.

Above shows one of Kruger's most famous and well known pieces of work. "Your body is a battleground" (1989). 

As the stark line divides the figure’s face in half, the viewer’s attention is immediately drawn to the impeccable symmetry of the face; her eyebrows are exactly the same shape, almost as if one is a mirror reflection. The viewers come to read this image as a construct of society, a stereotypical image of how women should appear: she is an object of beauty. In the book “Love for Sale” which survey Kruger’s work and its implications, Kruger is quoted as saying that she bases her work on stereotyping, a “domain as that of ‘figures without bodies.” In this image—a stereotypical depiction of women by society—the woman is no longer an individual. Rather, the depiction of the woman is a product of the society. By adding text, Kruger critiques the circumstances under which this image was originally produced.

Throughout Kruger's creations, it is noticed that she always uses the colour red, which has connotations of danger, warning, alert, attention, passion, love, lust and "stop". The font is always italic and bold which shows she is trying to make serious statements throughout her art work. The images she uses does reflect most of the themes she uses well. An example of this is her Abortion image. In the background it shows a grey contrast of a group of men in a suit with cropped heads, and a fact on the front saying: "77% of Anti-Abortion leaders are men. 100% of them will never be pregnant". This is basically saying that men are the most popular sex to be anti abortion choosers yet they are the ones that will never experience getting or being pregnant, so they shouldn't really have a say as it's not up to them whether a woman keeps her own baby as it has to survive and grow in her own body which is her property only, no one else's. 

There is definitely a computer and certain programmes used to create these images regarding tools. To make something like this in my experiences I would use either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. 

To make them more successful I personally would hand sketch the images myself to add a more artistic and personal touch to them, instead of use pictures maybe off the internet or hand taken images. 

Here is a video showing one of Barbara's exhibitions in Amsterdam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIHkpUKiFaI

Unit 19: Digital Graphics for Interactive Media

Arms Around The Child

What is "Arms Around The Child"? What do they do?

Arms Around The Child are a Charity that aim to educate the public on the causes and effects of distress, hardship and life as an orphan effected by HIV or Aids. They also cater for children who have lost parents, and offer education for those who are vulnerable  They are focused mainly in Africa and India. 

They host an event called "The Other Ball" which consist's of lots of live music performances from celebrities and appearance's in aim to raise money for the children effected. 

It was founded by Leigh Blake in 2003.

A Charity with a similar aim is CAFOD which is a international catholic aid charity that helps children in poverty. 

Alice in Wonderland

This is what I have created so far. I wanted to make a piece that included all of the characters and make only the text move. 

Barry - Production Management

What is production management?

1. production management, also called operations management, planning and control of industrial processes to ensure that they move smoothly at the required level. Techniques of production managementare employed in service as well as in manufacturing industries.

Killer Coke Campaign - Ideas

 Killer Coke Ideas

On the right shows a sketch I have drawn. It shows 2 business men, a citizen from a village in columbia and a factory behind them. This image shows two business men. The first business man is shaking the hands of the man from the village in columbia as coco cola made a promise that they would follow the villagers rules if they were to use their resources. They lied, as they polluted and use half of a towns water and killed their fish. The man behind the first business man is a representation of coca cola as all they wanted out of this was the money, and they used and destroyed this villages resources to do that. 
Underneath the photo I took the liberty of putting a quote from Coca Cola's "Work Rights" Policy from their website, because it's ironic and sarcastic as coca cola have not done that at all.