Evaluation | Lastest TV

To begin with I had a phone conversation with Val. During this call we discussed lengths for The Vote intro and some ideas we both had. We decided that 20 seconds sounded about right for the intro. We spoke about different ideas mainly involving political buildings around the UK. Val highlighted my Eastpak project as a possibly benchmark for me to work from with this one. She wanted the same style but with a political subject.

In a later email I suggested that there are going to be issues and that i am going to be using a graphical representation in place of the photographs (24th Feb). I didn't receive another email back until 12th March which squashed the time I had to complete the work considerably. I now had 14 days until deadline and panicked a lot. All my time now had to be focused on completing the art work and getting an edit together in time. I feel this has effected the development of my ideas massively as I pretty much had to do it whilst creating the artwork. No doubt my blog and sketchbook have suffered gravely over the last few weeks.

Once i'd heard back from Val (12th March) we discussed some ideas and I said I'd have to continue from there without doing any further changes until after I've handed the project in for uni. I did however volunteer myself to work with her after i'd handed in for this deadline. I saw her today and she complimented me on completing the work without any structured brief and limited time. I am very happy that she could see the potential in my work already and am looking forward to working with her at a later date.

Overall i've found this project a lot more stressful than others. I think this was mainly down to the lack of communication happening. This caused me to self direct a lot of the project with some very rough guidelines along the way from Val. I did doubt my work last week and I didn't believe i'd get it finished to a standard that everyone would be complimentary of. I think i've grown in self confidence because of this and I believe that I've made something that is worthwhile looking at. I look forward to sealing the deal with Latest. It would be fantastic to see some of my work on their Tv channel in the near future.

| Semi perfected

Semi perfected piece to hand in. I'm so glad its done on time. My client was happy to see it, although changes were duly noted. We conferred that it wasn't perfect, but as I needed to submit something to Uni it was enough for now. I may be taking on more work with them after I finish this project but I'm not entirely sure yet. We'll see how things go. 

Stings | Finished

| Vote type

In the end I went with the first choice; up top. Its Times and Impact together. Val commented that she really liked these. Amazing considering they're two basic fonts. I think they look a bit tacky together but it works. The border around the edge and the Impact font work well together. They are meant to look like a ballot stamp. 

Labour | On to the next one

Here is another scene that i've finished. This is the one to show Labour party. They were behind the building of the new Brighton hospital wing. 

Rough mk2

I'm not sure whether to have the camera zoom in or not. I almost feel like the scale of the objects compared to each other make it seem like i'm trying to make it look realistic. I am going to try it out with the scale of the silhouette a lot larger than the wind turbines. 

29 intro | Timing

6x4 scene.

1 - Green
1 - Liberal
1 - Labour
1 - Torie

5 seconds for "The Vote" stamp on screen and fade out.

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I've started messing around with the depth of field function on the camera in After Effects. If i get this right it'll look awesome, but at the moment I'm not so convinced. Maybe its a case of less is more!

Here's a crappy silhouette I drew earlier too. 

Rough | A wee update

A talk with Andrew

We spoke about the other scenes I'm going to include in my ident for The Vote. Here are the parties and the links to Brighton I'm going to make with them.

Liberals - Making connections. Roads and transport. 

Tories - Money and business. Churchill square, The Lanes. American express building

Labour - Brighton Hospital. Man thinking - new part of hospital pops up from behind him.

Thanks for your help Andrew. We also discussed the Green party scene I've been developing since this morning. It currently looks like this - 

Next, I plan to put a wind mill in each side. One as a replica of the Jack and Jill wind mill. The other a mimic of the one found in Rottingdean. These will make a strong visual tie into Sussex.