OUGD102

Issues raised:

Illustrations to varied, limit it down.

Reference for facts.

Action to be taken:

Limit down to facts not opinions

Give each fact a song that relates to it. Make a CD with these songs on.

Print in PDF presentation.

Time management

Monday

4.00p.m Walk home from college

4.15p.m Went on laptop

5p.m Gym and shower

6.30p.m Cooked dinner

7.30 Drawings for 100 things brief

8p.m Watched T.V

11p.m Bed

Tuesday

7.30 Woke up and shower

8.30 Breakfast

9 Walked to college

9.30-12 Visual language

12-1 Lunch

1p.m Walked home

2.30 gym and shower

4p.m cooked dinner

5 t.v

7-11p.m 100 brief and research

11p.m bed

Wednesday

12p.m woke up

12.15 breakfast

1p.m gym and shower

3p.m lunch

4-5 T.V

6-10 100 brief and research

10.30 phone to boyfriend

11.30 bed

Thursday

7.30 a.m woke up and shower

9 walk to uni

9.30-12 final cut

12-1 lunch

1-4 bookmaking

4-4.30 looked round craft shop

5-6.15 t.v

6.30-7.30 wetherspoons

8-11 drawings for 100 brief

11p.m bed

Friday

11.30a.m woke up-unwell

12 lunch

12.30 shower

1-5 sleep

5-6 t.v

6-6.30 dinner

7.30-8.30 t.v

8.30-10 100 brief

11.30 bed

Saturday

11.30 woke up

12 breakfast

1p.m went round sarahs to do work to do work

6.30 went home

7-8.30 gym and shower

9 Ate

9.30-11.30 t.v

11.30 bed

Sunday

11.30 woke up and shower

12-2 vintage fair at union

2-4 food shopping and town

4.15 ate

4.30 washed clothes

5.30 - 8 work on 100 brief

8-9.30 gym and shower

9.45-10.30 work on 100 brief

10.30-11.30 phone to boyfriend

11.30 bed

Product and packaging

I have made the decision to go with packaging as I'm thinking of doing a album sleeve booklet and the packaging i.e some sort of box for it to come in like a box set.

Who is the audience and how do you intend to engage with them?

My audience is intended for older people who used to buy vinyl and also the younger generation interested in vinyl and CD album art.

What is the function of the product- is it supposed to inform/educate/document/entertain/instruct? What has informed this decision?

My product is supposed to inform, entertain and educate people about different albums and when they were made.

How will the audience interact with the product:

Collection 100. Presentation

Subject matter: Album artwork, vinyl and CD's.

Themes of research within subject matter: Opinions, facts, CD album artwork, vinyl album artwork, stamps with famous albums on, different audio players i.e. Ipod, minidisc, record players.

Themes to be developed: Opinions from music artists, bands, singers, other audio players, ones that died out i.e. the minidisc.

General feedback on presentation: Good amount of research, Why I like them, colour, categorise from CD's and vinyl's, what I like and what I dislike.

Methods for categories/organising research:

1. Genres i.e. metal, punk, rock

2. Image and text

3. Era's

4. Personal opinion, what I like/dislike

5. Relation to art movement, pop art

Additional research required:

Primary: Own opinions, develope research on artists for record labels, limited addition sleeves, collectors editions.

Secondary: Alan Aldridge- Beatles, art movements, books on album covers

Issue's raised: Narrow down to genres, artists for different genres.

OUGD102

Collection 100. Research proposal

My subject matter is:

CD's and record's (album artwork)

Possible categories will include:

Different music genres i.e rock, pop, punk, metal, hip hop.

Research processes will include:

Photographs, photocopies, scanned images.
Primary and secondary research into different music genres.
Collection of opinions on different artwork for different genres.

How will you research?

Primary methods: Photos, ask people, friends, family.

Secondary methods: Internet, books

Who/where/will you research?

Primary sources:

Charity shops, CD stores, home, other peoples houses.

Secondary sources:

Internet, books.

Research processes will include:

Primary material:

Collection of 100 album artwork, CDs, records.
100 opinions of the artwork.
100 facts- about the artwork, about the artist, about the band or solo artist the artwork is for.

Secondary material: Internet, books.

OUGD102

What if... self evaluation

The problem I identified was that not enough people knew the dangers and unknown side affects of the new legal high drug MCAT. I found evidence of this by doing some primary research and asking 20 people in a questionnaire about the most common drugs they see people doing on a night out. The most common was MCAT. I went on to do secondary research and tried to find some more information on the drug. I found out allot about what the drug was and how to buy it but I couldn't find much info about the affects of the drug.

Other primary research used was asking friends of friends who often take the drug MCAT, this helped with my research alot as if gave me a clear idea of the affects of the drug and how cheap and easy it is to get hold of.

In response to this me and my group decided we were going to try and inform people about the unknown dangers of the drug and instead of trying to stop them doing it, which I found whilst doing my research that this doesn't work, but trying to show them how to do it safely.

The problems I came across were that it was quite hard trying to get people to listen to you or take a leaflet off you if you were to pass it out on the street. To resolve this our group came up with the idea to have our logo and message on a small card sized ticket as your entering a club, therefore the ticket would be kept and more likely to be looked at. We also came up with the idea to make a stamp with the logo on which would be stamped on your hand as you entered the club. The logo would be subtly put up on posters etc around the city centre.

I think if we had more research into the actual dangers of the drug the project would have worked better even though we found it hard to find this research.

5 things I have learnt about the design process over the last two weeks are:

1. The more research you gather helps with the final outcome.

2. You can't do the research after the final outcome.

3. To come up with a problem from a wide variety of subjects.

4. To try and solve this problem.

5. To use quantitive and qualitative research as well as primary and secondary.

5 things I would do differently next time are:

1. Decide what each member of the group was going to do individually at the start rather than all going off and doing our own thing without discussing it.

2. All sit down as a group and come with a design together for the final piece.

3. Get the final handouts printed and completed quicker.

4. Tested the stamps more and used better ink.

5. Targeted the actual problem more effectively and the chosen target audience.

End of module self evaluation

I've developed the skills to work by hand and then develop and manipulate my work on the compute using software such as photoshop and illustrator.

I've learnt how to resolve my work, when i've done it wrong, in a short space of time. For example I used too many colours on my posters for the 'No news is good news' brief. This helped in my development process.

I think I'm quite good with photoshop and developing hand done work on the software so I hope to carry on and improve my skills with this.

I found it hard working with illustrator as i have never used it before, but I found that if i kept practicing with it I could develop my skills.

Five things i would do differently next time

1- Organize my time more efficiently. I will therefore have equal amount of time to work on each part of the brief.

2- Spend more tim on my blog. This will help me to know what i done and what is needed to be done.

3- Work more with work sheets to show development and brainstorms.

4- Annotate my work and worksheets to show and explain my work how I developed it through each stage.

5- Get more feedback from others, outside of crits.