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Exhibition

The exhibition was great despite the high temperature inside, I really enjoyed seeing how it had all come together and to view the work from the other courses in the School of Art. Was great to see the outcomes of my peers and how people had taken on the brief! I was sad to not see any of my groups work up but I think this was down to a printing error which is understandable.

Outcome

Above are the final outcomes of my development. I feel I have gone off topic a tiny bit and not stuck to the brief but felt it was a great way to visually show my designs and visuals. In hindsight I should have considered the brief more and kept in mind the two words of our group- lost and found.

I’ve been looking at some handwritten type to include in my development idea (above) using the mottos I also looked at earlier. There are a couple I may use!

#ghjg

After the pitch feedback, i’ve decided to focus of the aspect that they liked, working with the shapes of circle and square and the playfulness of how two images, past and present can move into one another and change between the two. I’m thinking of putting these into a little book as a 2D aspect. But may also look at making a 3D versions too if i have time.

Pitch

Lauren was in charge of the presentation on Tuesday and putting a visual slide show together for it with Sabah delegating and writing up points for each of us to speak about but with room to expand on them in the pitch. The pitch didn't go amazingly well, however I didn't expect it to go that well after after having to catch up with what hadn't been done the night before. However it was very helpful and the tutors gave us feedback that personally I will take on board. They said that they thought we’d lost the concept a bit and that what wed produced in our presentation didn't convey what we were trying to show. Despite this, they did enjoy and find the turn table type things that me and Meg had constructed before the pitch fun and interactive and found that they held the concept better. Me and Meg may go on to develop these and create large scale versions for the exhibitions, maybe looking at other ways the circles and squares can transform from one image to another to create more interactivity and a variety of visuals.

I found the last few days very stressful due to lack of commitment and motivation from my team mates, they all did their part but I feel a lot was left to me and they didn't share my passion in this project. I wish we had had time to add some text to help convey our concept more and make it clearer for people to understand. Maybe some of the Slogans below would have worked well.

Lead up to final pitch

After delegating the jobs that needed doing, I went away and did some more drawings to scan in for Megan and Liam to work with. However on Monday (day before our pitch) when we arrived at University, one member of our group (Liam) who was supposed to have done the visuals for the presentation, didn't show up. With meg working on editing the photos and no one else feeling confident enough on Photoshop I took it upon myself to take over what Liam should have been doing, and started to put the edited illustrations into context and into our chosen composition for the presentation. I also exported the visuals from the presentation for our exhibition into 10 A3 sized print outs.

Development and final pitch panic

I’ve been working on some drawings and slogans we could incorporate in our hoarding designs (few examples above) and I think ill now try and make these digital next time my group meets, getting the other members of our group to keep on creating more material to work with.

I feel like i’ve taken quite a lead in this project and today I brought the group together to allocate them sections to work on to help motivate them and to give them an input on our project. Liam- edit and make circles and squares out of the illustrations and images. Put together the 10 A3 print outs that we will need for the exhibition. Meg- create the compositions and the digital presentation for our presentation pitch. Lauren, Sabah and myself- Create another 10 illustrations and scan them in. Also think about what we will say in our presentation.

After pitch feedback

Our pitch went better than I thought it would go. We received feedback from our fellow students as well as the tutors we presented in front of; - we need to work on our compositional arrangements and try different outcomes, one tutor said that we shouldn't be afraid to go off the page and mix up what circles and squares. Arrange the different sized circles and squares in a more unified way. -We need to distinguish a communal style for our drawings. Everyone really liked the abstractness of Sabah’s drawings so I think me and Lauren need to try and adapt that style. - Most of the feedback also showed we should maybe take crops of our illustrations to create more mystery as to what they are. We aim to create 40-50 drawings between three of us to work with. - Some fellow students said we should mix maps, images, drawings and floor plans as well as something else, possibly some type? slogans?

Practice pitch day

After our meeting on Tuesday, people hadn’t done much more, apart from a couple of drawings so it was hard to motivate the team. Me Sabah and Meg had our images from our library trips which helped start us off but at the beginning of the day i still felt like we didn’t have a clear image of what we were doing. However workign at full pace all day before our pitch really helped get everyone on the same page. We did a lot in the time we had that morning and some great ideas developed. After Sabah and myself coming up with the idea to have the old images underneath the new drawings of what buildings look like now, Meg developed this idea and came up with a cool way for the two images to turn into each other (shown in video above). This will work really well because our original idea of them opening like doors wouldn’t have fitted in with the pavements next to the hoardings, they would open up in the way of the public.

Library trip

Me, Meg and Sabah went to the library today to have a look at some of the architecture in Manchester and to see how it has developed through the years, from pre war and the post war movement. I feel like this helped me to see past our idea of ‘underground manchester’ because i think we were getting caught up on that a bit too much and we needed to focus on the brief more. Looking back at past plans and buildings makes me think we should focus more on how this ‘circle square’ development will change the city in the same way past buildings that were built will.

#library #architecture #buildings #manchester #heritage #war

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