Essay Tips

• don't use first person; i, we, me, my, our
• numbers up to 10 you write out, after that use the figure
• be consistent
• no abbreviations
• be precise

academic writing:

• impersonal
• concise
• clear
• precise
• cautious
• politically correct
• formal
• transparent

AfterEffects: The Hand

In today's workshop we were looking at how to animate a hand drawn image. To do this we had to bring with us to the workshop 3 identical line drawings traced on top of each other, so we had three versions of the same image scanned in to work with.
We were shown an example piece in the workshop:

Forest: Just One Day from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

For my piece, i decided to draw a tree, i traced my drawing so i had three versions of the same image, this is so when you animate it it flows nicely. During the workshop i found my tree was really difficult to animate in a hand drawn way as it is really detailed and not drawn from one single line however i tried my best to achieve the same look. I used a tool to make the trunk appear like it was being drawn and then i used a slightly different effect to make the branches look like they were growing off the tree. To improve this i decided to redraw my tree in a simpler way and start again, doing the same thing but making it look better, also adding text.

The Hand - tree from Jennie Chinn on Vimeo.


Simple Tree from Jennie Chinn on Vimeo.

CV

name and contact details

• address, phone (mobile), email (uni and personal), webpage (portfolio)
• age, dob, status (if single put this on, if not then don't)

education

(most recent first)

• university of huddersfield: course, from to (date of expected graduation) 
• sixth form etc
• skills, computer literacy (competent in Indesign etc)
• full uk driving license
• grades irrelevant (11 gcse's including maths and english)

work experience

(most recent first)

• date, organisation, job
• competitions?

hobbies and interests

• keep it brief!
• don't say you like socialising
• its just to show you have a life

referees

• name
• company
• position
• address
• telephone
• email
• work reference, academic reference, maximum of 3

focus your cv, must appear as if your covering letter/cv have been written specifically for that company 

can be two pages but don't make it double sided

Keywords and Literature

'Banksy; His influences and impact on contemporary graphic design'

Keywords:

• Banksy
• Graphic Design
• Street art
• Contemporary
• Influence

Important References:

• Exit Through the Gift Shop (film)
• https://www.ribar.com/UserFiles/2m-2015.pdf
• http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.libaccess.hud.ac.uk/doi/10.1002/ad.1301/epdf

'But discussing street art along with mainstream art, architecture and urban planning will inevitably lead to the departure of the professionals and the middle class. It remains very much beyond the pale,

like a tattoo, a sign of being unspeakable. Infringing on the body of the city it contains an implicit critique of location. Graffiti is still about marking territory and rejecting the power implications of the built environment. Because of this we have no serious interpretation of this radicalising art form. It is like the argument between calling someone a freedom fighter or a terrorist; there is symmetry but no common ground or willingness to talk. Graffiti manifests the emergence of another taste culture, one well below the five that the urban sociologist Herbert Gans distinguishes'

• Branscome, E. (2011). The true counterfeits of banksy. Architectural Design, 81(5), 114-121.
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• Preece, C. (2012). Media review: A banksy film. exit through the gift shop. Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications. doi:10.1177/0276146712449741

• Banet-Weiser, S. (2011). CONVERGENCE ON THE STREET: Rethinking the authentic/commercial binary. Cultural Studies, 25(4-5), 641. doi:10.1080/09502386.2011.600553

mainstream art, architecture and urban

planning will inevitably lead to the departure

of the professionals and the middle class.

It remains very much beyond the pale,

like a tattoo, a sign of being unspeakable.

Infringing on the body of the city it

contains an implicit critique of location.

Graffiti is still about marking territory and

rejecting the power implications of the built

environment. Because of this we have no

serious interpretation of this radicalising art

form. It is like the argument between calling

someone a freedom fighter or a terrorist;

there is symmetry but no common ground

or willingness to talk. Graffiti manifests the

emergence of another taste culture, one well

below the five that the urban sociologist

Herbert Gans distinguishes

mainstream art, architecture and urban

planning will inevitably lead to the departure

of the professionals and the middle class.

It remains very much beyond the pale,

like a tattoo, a sign of being unspeakable.

Infringing on the body of the city it

contains an implicit critique of location.

Graffiti is still about marking territory and

rejecting the power implications of the built

environment. Because of this we have no

serious interpretation of this radicalising art

form. It is like the argument between calling

someone a freedom fighter or a terrorist;

there is symmetry but no common ground

or willingness to talk. Graffiti manifests the

emergence of another taste culture, one well

below the five that the urban sociologist

Herbert Gans distinguishesBut discussing street art along with

mainstream art, architecture and urban

planning will inevitably lead to the departure

of the professionals and the middle class.

It remains very much beyond the pale,

like a tattoo, a sign of being unspeakable.

Infringing on the body of the city it

contains an implicit critique of location.

Graffiti is still about marking territory and

rejecting the power implications of the built

environment. Because of this we have no

serious interpretation of this radicalising art

form. It is like the argument between calling

someone a freedom fighter or a terrorist;

there is symmetry but no common ground

or willingness to talk. Graffiti manifests the

emergence of another taste culture, one well

below the five that the urban sociologist

Herbert Gans distinguishes

Self-Publishing; The Posterzine

In this workshop we had to create a Zine based around our self portrait. For the first one we used a photo of us and had to cut it up, then on the back of that we had to draw a self portrait. Opening this up then revealed the scan we did of our face. This was my favourite part as i thought it looked quite unique and it was interesting to see how the scan turned out. 

Contextual Portfolio Feedback

Points of improvement:

• The presentation time was only 3', which means that you can add more focused relevant examples and background information that will lead you more
  effectively to your research question.
  
• As discussed, the topic and the title are at the moment too broad and therefore need to be narrowed down. For example, instead of investigating who/what
  influenced Banksy, you could search if and how he influenced contemporary graphic design.
  
• The same applies to the research question.
  
• The reference list and the bibliography should be listed separately. Also, the references should be properly written according to the APA style.

Based on this feedback i have edited my presentation. I have changed my title and research question to be more fitting.

Title: 

'Banksy; his influences and impact on contemporary graphic design' 

Research Question:

 'Has Banksy influenced contemporary graphic design and how might his work have had an impact?'

I have also re done my referencing and found more references using summon and google scholar. 

Typesetting and Presentation 3

In this workshop our task was to create 2 templates which we can use to present any project of work on. For this particular one we were asked to use our previous InDesign process and production workshop tasks; the type exercises and the posters we have designed, as the content for the presentation. We made one for a digital output using HD widescreen settings (1920px by 1080px) and RGB colour settings and then another for a print output using A3 landscape, CYMK colour settings. I found this task really useful as it gave us some time to think about how to present our work for our summative assessments but also in industry professionally.

We were shown a couple of examples which were useful to look at as they have actually been used in industry. They were showing a complete re-brand presentation which included their reasoning behind each design element and also professional mock ups.