Evaluation

1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
I think my ability to work in a creative partnership has improved a lot. I'm less scared to make decisions because I was always sort of worried about offending the other person... luckily working with one of your friends makes this wierdly easier, as Gemma was a good person to work with. I also think my illustrator skills have improved a bit too... it's my favourite programme in the world and so I use it quite a lot anyway... but the amount of work we had to do on it might have improved my 1 skill a bit. Further to this I did a bit of logo design... they weren't the most complex designs in the world but I braved a bit of typography which is unlike me and I feel better for it.

2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?
I think this time I paid a lot more attention to my research which helped enormously. Me and Gemma made a questionnaire which to be honest wasn't all that helpful... the replies we got back were all quite vague as though the guys that filled them in were just adamant they weren't going to be buying tissues. I think also we weren't afraid to make mock-ups... usually I lose patience with doing mock up after mock-up, but this time I really HAD to because the nets were quite complicated (for me). Paying a lot of attention in crits really helped, and basing our ideas around what we learnt really helped our project along.

3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
I think my illustrator skills are a good strength. I'm not scared of illustrator, unlike most programmes and I'm quite confident in using it. So I think the illustration side of it worked quite well. Also, coming up with a suitable tagline took forever. We knew we wanted to use the twisting box idea relatively early on because it was the gimmicky type of product guys seem to go for and knew we could make it amusing... so we were quite proud when we eventually came up with "sick 'n twisted", so I think that was quite good, as well as calling them "chiefs"... so I suppose use of language was another strength. Again, I think really centering our ideas around research and crits was a main strength

4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?
I think possibly not wanting to let go of some of the characters we'd made hindered us slightly.When we changed the box shape from a cube to a cylinder, we could fit 6 figures on it rather than 4... we had 8 characters per cube box so we had a choice... we could either lose 4 characters for each, or make another four to make a second cylinder box... we chose the latter which caused problems with our time management. This had an effect on our time to produce poster and pocket pack designs... I'd liked to have developed them more thoroughly

5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
1. I will try not to be precious over losing elements of my work... like not using certain images I've produced etc
2. Try to use existing nets where possible as this took a long long time and I'm not sure it was justified...
3 Draw out my ideas more before starting to produce imagery etc for something... I'm not sure what happened with that this time.
4. Don't exhaust/stress myself trying to do something... it turns out badly when I do
5. Spend a bit less time on research and more time on developing


6. How would you grade yourself on the following areas:

Attendance - 3
Punctuality - 4
Motivation - 4
Commitment -4
Quantity Of Work Produced - 4
Quality Of Work Produced - 4
Contribution To The Group - 4

Final Boards to print

Impact board showing final outcome in context


Early development...


Character development...Needs Sick n Twisted logos to go on the bottom...



Final Characters... full set for all four boxes... 24 in total


Magazine adverts and pocket pack designs

Final Boxes

2/4 Full scale final boxes... W decided to make up 1 male and 1 female of each box... mainly because it already cost a small fortune to print these ones off... and partly because u get the point of it... it's the same thing, different characters

Nets...

Nets for Sick n Twisted boxes... These were made up at the box height of 21.3cm and scaled down temporarily to make up the mock up shown below. There are quite a few different bits to each box and it took about 4/5 attempts to get the net right :)






Small mock up...

A couple of ones that didn't make it

I did these the other day as a couple of possibilities for the Miss-Chiefs box... but they didn't work out too well.... They don't look like Heather Mills and Kerry Katona at all, and weren't very good quality anyway, so we moved on and did a couple more, namely Kelly Osbourne and Naomi Cambell

The Problem with George Micheal's Beard...

The problem is... he has stubble... which is designer... and stupidly hard to draw in illustrator. But I think we got it sussed in the end...

Also while reworking Gemma's David Hasselhoff face so that it looked more similar to the other faces, I was struggling to find the same picture of him again on t'internet... while looking however... I found this poseable hasselhoff cutout... I love it too much :D

http://www.random-good-stuff.com/2007/09/17/diy-posable-david-hasselhoff/

Jordan revised face

the lines of the hair need tidying up a bit but it's an improvement on the first 1... also, AGAIN the colours need looking at... not my strong point lol

Board-om B Mock Ups

Logo Ideas

Logo ideas for the "Chiefs" product. Me and Gemma decided we'd both have a go at logos despite type not exactly being my strong point... but errrr I tried :D The left hand side ones are for the male boxes... the ones to the right (Miss Chiefs) are for the female boxes...

Sick and Twisted Women- box mock up 2

Box mock ups... obviously will need to change the colours still as they are reeeally nasty... and very girly...

Sick and Twisted Miss-Chiefs Mock-Up Box 1

First small scale mock up (on paper rather than card... ink was running out so erm... apologies for that)

British/american sets?

The colours are horrendous for the backgrounds but that's hopefully something gemma can help with :D. The idea was to make the figures show up better and to use packaging for men colours... ie those that lynx etc use... but they look a bit erm... shite I think is the word...

Lily Allen