Too Sweet.

With this project, I had to design and come up with my own type of sweet. I decided that I would take a mix of two things and combined them together. I chose two items which no one would really mix together, and it took a twist on both. I decided to do the mix with Chocolate and Sherbet. It's an odd mix, but i thought it would be fun! You'll have the sweet taste of chocolate which melts in your mouth but it also has a fizz of sourness because of the sherbet. It will come in different flavours of sherbet and chocolate.

I decided to go with a very simple packet design, with the colours of the ingredients. For example, the sherbet colour on top tells us what flavour it is and so does the typography below. On the sides on the wrapper I chose to put the flavour of the chocolate, but the information on the wrapper also tells you.

The fonts I used for this projects are 'Adorable' for the name of the chocolate bar at 63.75pt and the information of whats inside at 14pt, I got the font from Dafont.com. For the flavour of the sherbet I used the font Engravers MT at 18pt. This font was already installed on my macbook.

Above explains the sweet itself. I used the same font to go over the top of the chocolate pieces which is 'Adorable'. I used the sweet name as it's branding the item. I also explained how many pieces each size bar would get, and what it would look like inside with the sherbet.

McStack.

I went to McDonalds around 3am with two friends, we got really hungry just having a night up playing games, we attempted to go into McDonalds but it was only drive through!! It was raining and cold, but we still attempted to get out the car and run in!! It was the perfect opportunity to do the project too!!! I tried to come up with different ways of stacking up 10 cheeseburgers, as I didn't want it to be the same as everyone else's that I have already seen. I did attempt to stack up all 10 on to one after, but before I could even take a picture it just all fell apart! Below is the sketch drawing I did and I then went on to doing a version digitally.

 

I'm Game.

Above is the game 'Graphix'. It the same concept as Monopoly, but just a Graphic Design version.

It was a fun design to do, as I didn't want to it to be the usual square design. It took me a while to figure what to do, as I thought this was the hardest project we had to do. I did most of it on Photoshop and a few bits and bobs on Illustrator. It took me a about a day to complete this, but I am happy with the design, and it's colourful!

Goal Scorer.

Goal Scorer.

With this project, I had to map out the next 30 years of my life, I came up with the things I actually wanted to achieve in my life. I chose to put in not the map of China because thats my background and this is all about me. I used the font 'Apple Chancery'. There wasn't any particular reason for it. I also chose to colour the map in the flag colours. I then used white footprints to show the pathway of my journey to the final step. This is the map of my life i will hope to achieve within the next 30 or even 40 years. I used Photoshop, as I was struggling with illustrator once again.

Holiday Havoc.

For this project, I had to come up with something I have never done before. This then led to me making something. I chose a balloon car because it seemed fun! Being able to see if it works or if it was just a complete fail. It took me about 30 minutes to make, much longer than i thought but heres the result in the video.

Joke Shop.

Here are some of the screenshots of my animation. I designed it on illustrator as I want to get better at it. It took me a long time I must admit, so I did some of the shots on Photoshop as I am much more familiar with it. It is my first animation, and I used iMovie to put the still imaged together with a recording of myself reading the rhyme out loud.

Below is the lyrics and video.

Lyrics:

Rub a dub dub,

Three men in a pub,

10 pints of larger,

and onto a club.

The Haymakers.

This is the first night I stayed up, it was really challenging and its was bloody freezing!!! I haven't stayed up to see the sun rise in a long time, so it really hit me. I was struggling to stay up all night. Luckily I wasn't on my own. I made my friend camp out with me because I know I would fall asleep. 

This was a few days after the first night. It wasn't as hard as the first time, because the first night messed up my sleeping pattern for a while! So it was the perfect opportunity. This time I stayed up on my own, it wasn't as cold as the other night.

This was now my final night of staying up. It really wasn't as cold and I started to enjoy watching the sun rise each night. It's not something I see often because really and truly, I love my sleep! Like really really love my sleep! 

I took all these photo's with my SLR Camera on a Tripod where I hardly moved for the past week.

TV Sketchbook.

This is the final outcome of the 1000 pictures of what was on the TV. It was one of the longest projects I have ever done, as it took a lot of time and effort, but once I have completed it on a double page spread it was worth it! I'm surprised it looked the way it did and for the images to be so small. There is a range of colours so i thought the word 'Colourful' would work best with the caption at the bottom.

Midnight in Paris.

After watching the movie Midnight in Paris, we had to create a remake of our own of this movie within a Minute long video! We had just about 4 hours to do so. So as soon as we were able to set off in our groups, we went to have lunch and have a quick discussion with what we wanted to get in the minute clip. After lunch, we set of the trafalgar square to film our opening scene, we also tried to film ourselves in the National Portrait Gallery, but we got in trouble haha. Worth the try I guess! Because that failed, we set of the covent garden and filmed everything else there. We were lucky enough to get one of the peoples on the bike to ride us around the corner for free, as the first guy we asked said no. We then ran into 'Pret a Manger' in convent garden around 4pm to edit it on my Macbook Pro. This was done very quick which was a surprise! We also downloaded one of the tracks we found on youtube. It was very long day and I literally thought it was impossible to do so, but it was all done in the end.

As the first attempt of our video was over 1 minute long, I had to reedit the video and upload it onto youtube by 9pm the same night! It was the most rushed I have ever felt as I had work straight after lesson which I finished at 11pm and because I had it on my laptop and no one else had the files it just seemed like so much at the time! I asked my manager for a break as before 9pm because I had to meet this deadline and not let the team down! I had to cut the video short which then made it even more hard! I also wanted to find the font that was used for the movie poster and eventually I did. It was a rush, and because I haven't worked with film in a while, it was quite a challenge. It was a fun project and I liked the fact I was able to use my editing abilities all over again after giving up Media Studies!

As a group we won the Oscar for 'Best Editing'. I was really happy about that :)

Farm To Market.

This is the final reductive graphics designs I did for all the items i had to find in the Farm and Market. I chose to do some things really simple and some things with a little more detail. Especially with the items from the market. It took me a while to do as I had to try and make it look like the item as much as possible without putting a lot of detail.