Evaluation

The assignment brief was to use the knowledge and skills we had gained through the course to make the best piece of work we could our final major project.I chose to do a graphical piece based on a poster for a made up film about mystery and codes, I made the poster a double sided poster. I did primary and secondary, Primary research is where you gather information yourself through questions and surveys, and secondary research is when you gather information that already exists from websites and books. I did some primary research on survey monkey A site where you can make surveys, and it gives you a website link that you can post to social media sites for people to complete. I put mine on a group page on Facebook for people from the age 12+.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/N8Z2DZL 

The subjects I looked at for my research was the TV show gravity falls which was heavily based on mystery codes and secrets with codes at the end of each episodes for people to decipher. I also looked into real life codes that have helped the world develop like the Rosetta stone which helped us solve the hieroglyphs, and the enigma Machine which helped us solve the codes the Nazi where sending between each other in the second world war.

 I also looked at a book full of Gig posters that people had designed, I liked the artists Brad Klausen,Jamie Ward, and Tim Gough, I chose the first two artists because the design was unique and the fact they had an eye in them which was something I was planing on having somewhere in my work, Jamie Wards work had the big eye in the center just like Brad Klausen but there was also smaller eyes(shaped like the all seeing eye) hidden within the work. The reason I chose Tim Gough picture was because how they made the skull pop out of the cabinet like pixel art.
Brad Klausen
Jamie Ward

Tim Gough 

I also did research on different ciphers like the ceaser cipher, The A1Z26 cipher, and Atbash cipher

ceaser cipher

Atbash cipher

My final project was a double sided film poster. The first side had the title in a code with the subtitle Decipher the code (next to the title there is also a faded word which says ceaser telling you the code to use to decipher the title. There was a devil on the left and a angel on the right,in the mid bottom I put the all seeing eye (one of the worlds greatest mystery's.) Under the Devil I put the catch phrase of the antagonist from the show Gravity falls Bill cipher which I put into the A1Z26 cipher. Under the angel I put the first law of alchemy but I put it in the Atbash code.I put the code that I used near the cipher it went with but faded it so it wasn't obvious. ( shown below) 

The second side of the poster is exactly the same except the codes are deciphered so you can read what it says (shown below)


I chose the colours because they suited the design red for the devil white and grey for an angel, Yellow for a pyramid and green for its eye because it looks mysterious almost like the eye is glowing. And the background colours are white, blue and grey, I chose these colours because the grey looks like its trying to  cover up the blue and white like a clouds in the sky or fog on the streets. For the title and subtitle I used a font from dafont called black arrow.

I designed the poster using the scanner and scanning pictures from my sketchpad. I put the scanned images on to Photoshop and used my drawing pad to add detail to the drawings and add the rest that I couldn't scan. The tools I used on Photoshop where the paintbrush tool which I would adjust the the hardness so the opacity was lighter so I could make parts look shaded and so bits would stand out and not just disappear under the layer. I also used the pencil tool to draw the rest. I used the text box to add the codes In. The title and subtitle I used a font from dafont called black arrow.

I have been able to develop my drawing skills by hand and on Photoshop, I think this is because the poster was heavily base on drawing and for it to look good I would have to be able to draw well.

I am extremely happy with my poster It's the best I could do with my skill and I am impressed at the beginning of this course I wouldn't of dared drawn a poster yet alone draw because I couldn't. So I'm really proud of this. I was also able to put things I enjoy doing into it like codes because I love solving puzzles.

I think I did well with my time management I struggled a bit at the beginning of the work because of the research we had to do and I found that a bit boring, but once I got it done I was able to stick to  the schedule and finish on time.

I think if I had to redo this I think I would develop my drawing skills more so I would be able to put more detail into the work, but besides from that I'm okay with it as it is.

I had a few problems with the making of my poster like my work deleting itself, which would make me panic, but I would remember I saved it each time I added a major part to the poster I also backed it up on my hard drive for safety as well. My graphics tablet also wouldn't connect to one of the computers so I had to move to a computer that it worked on.

My target audience is for 12 years and plus, and for people who like puzzles and mystery's I chose this age boundary because most people that age go on adventures and find things that are intriguing and mysterious


Peer Feedback
1)The overall design and idea of the poster is very good and well thought out , I like the themes incorporated into it and the idea of decoding the title.
2) Could add more background aspects such as flames or sun rays etc

1)i like the creative designs on the the characters but i also like the fact that there are codes which you can try and solve which makes you spend more time looking at the poster
2) the Illuminati triangle looks rushed and missing bricks