Evaluation

For our latest college project for Tim; we have been looking at prints, how to create a movie poster and how to make a T-Shirt from an image. To get ideas for our thriller poster, the first thing we did with print was look at other thriller posters. We had to look and write about how they would inspire us for our own thriller poster. The three posters I looked at were; the crime thriller, Seven, the cops versus robbers film, Heat and a cop going undercover type thriller, The Departed. Each thriller is different in their own way.

The poster I created for print was an eye looking through a keyhole. I created the poster because I wanted it to look scary and try something new and creative.  On the right and side of the poster I have the title which is, 'Secrets Through The Keyhole.' I made the poster black and white. I did this because I wanted the poster to look creepy and quite scary because most thriller type posters have a spooky feel to them. I thought if I used bright colours it would look daft and more appropriate for a kids film.

The second thing we did was to storyboard. We got a few pieces of big paper and drew T-Shirt ideas. I am not very good at drawing, so most of my drawings were of stickman. It looked quite creepy because most of them had ropes around their neck, looking like they were about to be hanged. When I started to draw the faces of the stickmen I wanted them to have different facial expressions, ranging from happy to sad and to angry. I thought different emotions were important for my work for Tim.

After we had thought of all our ideas Tim took us down to the print room to go through the health and safety issues in the room. That is always the most boring part of any lesson, however it is important  in case anyone hurts themselves. Then Tim showed us how to print and coat a screen. I thought he explained it very well and was a great help to me when I tried to coat my own screen as I did struggle a few times. We kept the ones that went horribly wrong.

  One of the best things about print last year was the freedom you had compared to my first year of doing it. Tim let us use any methods to find research to help us be more creative. One of the key things that I found hard about print was Photoshop. I could never understand it but other people in my media class got the hang of it straight away. This annoyed me, so I went on to YouTube for guides on how to use Photoshop but I got more confused.