Zoé Groucott

'BE SOFT, BE SWEET, BE DISCREET'

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Date: 8th June 2017

Exhibition Space, the top two pictures I was moving them around to make sure that the way they are placed in a correct way. So it looked good enough to be in an exhibition. 

Deciding between the two wasn't that difficult i preferred the Story Board pieces to go down instead of being in a square.

The bottom picture is the final layout of where I wanted the layout to be. I liked the green Discreet typography on the top compared to the bottom because I felt like it fitted better than the purple one being above. 

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Date: 7th June 2017

Typography

After the first attempt at typography I wanted to do some more with the same word. Experimenting about a little I finally came up with this as the finishing piece. 

I wanted to try some different colours than the ones I had chosen for the first piece. I feel like the white background fits well with the different shades of purple. 

I got rid my regret from the other piece about having just one letter a different shade and did different letters this time. Now you can clearly tell which letters are their own letter and not merging and trying to figure out if its a ‘c’ or a ‘g’. 

Moving the letters around I went for a more slanted idea than a blocky feature to give it more of a flow between the letters. This made it look better in my eyes

The font I used for this second piece was also MS Reference Sans Serif.

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Date: 7th June 2017

Typography

I wanted to try some typography with the word Discreet, as it clearly links in with my project considering the word is Discreet. Trying some ideas out I finally come up with this.

The colours that I have chosen for this fit well, these are the colours that I would associate with the word. My only regret is that I didn't make other letters like the ‘e’ less able to see because with the ‘c’ and the ‘r’ joined together it looks like a ‘g’. Also the ‘t’ doesn't look to well where it is placed as well. 

The font I used was MS Reference Sans Serif. 

What I thought went well was the flow of the letters and how they fit into one another and it creates a wiggly line from the ‘d’ to the ‘c’. 

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Date: 6th June 2017

Behind Closed Doors: Story 4

Here I made 3 scenes with the 3 words. With each one being about the word I tried to make it about it. Going from the top to the bottom in 3 steps.

Behind: With the jail idea I put some bars in the door and some hands clinging on to them to let them out of the door. They’re behind the door for a reason, whatever that reason, you can keep on guessing. From looking at the hands you can see that whatever is behind that door is huge, maybe a monster but wth human hands. 

Closed: From Story 3 I said it looked to simple and wanted to so something more with it so I experimented more with this closed door. Going on the jail idea I added a lock and key because in jail the saying is ‘Lock them in and throw away the key’ but I decided just to keep the key on the side of the door instead. 

Doors: Plenty of jail doors for all them bad people in the world. I decided to have them faded off and going off in a direction because it simply looked better than having them all going from the left to the right and full block colour, it just didn't look very good so I tried a different way and I liked how to turned out. 

Here I gave it a jail kind of story. 

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Date: 6th June 2017

Behind Closed Doors: Story 3

Here I made 3 scenes with the 3 words. With each one being about the word I tried to make it about it. Going from the top to the bottom in 3 steps.

Behind: I decided to out some mist/fog on this one because you can't see anything that is behind it, things become very hard to see which is what gave me this idea. What makes the fog/mist look real here, I think, is the fact that it isn't just all one colour it has some darker spots in it too. 

Closed: I was thinking about becoming even more simple with this one so I just quite literally did a closed door with no sign like from the first one. Looking back on it now I’m glad I made it simple but with that I could’ve done a little more with it. 

Doors: The multi hands coming out of the door. I’m quite glad about what I did on this one because of the spooky hands coming out to grab you but they also have a shadow effect, so can they actually grab you? 

Here I went for another scary feeling in this story. After doing my first scary one I felt more inspired to do another one and had another few ideas that I wanted to try out. 

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Date: 6th June 2017

Behind Closed Doors: Story 2

Here I made 3 scenes with the 3 words. With each one being about the word I tried to make it about it. Going from the top to the bottom in 3 steps.

Behind: Trying to think of something scary for this one took a time as well. I have realised that I struggle to think about something for the behind step. I gave it a creepy face to tell as if there was something telling the person to look around and strike at them. Which is why the next door is...

Closed: Covered in blood. Here I put blood on the inside of the door. After the first one with the behind you I thought it would fit well because in horror movies someone always dies so I might as well add a little gore into it. 

Doors: I put the police tape around this door. This is because after the first two it fit even better with the blood and the horror scene, I like how it did the police tape going in different directions and not just giving it a one way or just one bit of tape. 

The story here is quite a horror one instead. I wanted to give this story a more scary feel after the last one. The reason for this is because I was thinking about genres of movies and stories, the different ones you can get. Horror is quite popular with people these days. 

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Date: 6th June 2017

Behind Closed Doors: Story 1

Here I made 3 scenes with the 3 words. With each one being about the word I tried to make it about it. Going from the top to the bottom in 3 steps.

Behind: This one took me a little while to think of but I decided to include some typography and make the words behind each other. Therefore representing the work behind. I only wish that I had used different colours to what I used above. 

Closed: Thinking about this one didn't take me long because I thought about shops being closed or open and having the signs on the door telling people that they were closed or open. I like how this one turned out because of the simplicity of it.

Doors: I made two doors because there is more than one in the word, emphasis on the the ‘s’. I added another door but it had too much going on in the picture so I decided to take it away. I prefer it this way. 

You can make up your own story to this one. 

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Date 11th May 2017

UV Paint Project Idea

Here is another idea I have for a project. Only being able to see the UV paint with a UV light. So it goes along with the idea of being discreet. Not being able to see something until it is revealed a certain way. So I would like to put some UV paint on a model, have people draw whatever they want one the model and even put some words on.

I would also like to try doing some of the examples of my own like some of the above pictures, maybe I could do them on objects or models, maybe even both would be a good mixture.

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Tutorial Discussions

Date:4th May 2017

After my tutorial with my tutor, we have discussed that I need to experiment more in general. With logos, ways of hiding messages and meanings in the text through design. Negative for positive space for instance or using material s to hide things, experimenting with stencils. 

Lemon Juice, UV paint. Hiding text in images and only if you a certain something will you be able to read it. 

World War 2 posters, about how they had spies working for them and finding out information about the other country in the Cold War. 

i also need to decide on what i am aiming for. A poster, book design? I need to decide and start planning for it. 

I need to update my proposal and make section 1 more positive and section 2 I need to bring more up to date with my ideas that I've recently had. 

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‘Behind Closed Doors’

Date: 4th April 2017

I am currently researching into the phrase. I have found out that their are songs, a book, a movie and an animation all to have the same title. Thought some ideas that I already want to try out. 

Book: Finding a book by B A Paris. 

I want to design and create a new book cover for the book I found and include some pages with doors that can open, an interaction book, and have different things behind the doors. I want to go around my home town and take pictures of some creepy old buildings. I already have some in mind that would be perfect. If I want some older ones then Google Maps will provide them for me as the street views were taken back in 2011 and some buildings have upgraded since then. 

Songs: Two songs that I discovered are Peter Andre and Charlie Rich.

Make a new cover for their singles that they have sung. One for each but completely different of course. It will be interesting to see what I come up with if I end up doing this option. Charlie Rich’s song is a fair old song that was released in 1973 and Peter Andre’s was released in 2009. So I could make Charlie’s more modern or I could keep it set in 1973. For Peter’s I was thinking about making it into a very colourful, bright album compared to Charlie’s so they will have many differences hopefully. 

Movies: A movie that was made in August 2013 and was made by Jarrell Crump, writer is called Alyze Elyse. 

Creating a movie poster for the film I found. I want to do the 2013 film and not the 2003 film I uncovered. Watching the trailer for the 2013 movie I found that it has a lot of drama and includes what happens around the lives with gangs. I want the movie poster to be sketchy looking to involve a feel of gangs. Not completely positive in having this idea quite yet. 

Animations: A mini Youtube video that i found while searching to see if I could find some animations on the internet. 

I would like to try and create my own animation. I’m not sure who I will create yet. Thinking maybe having a little child or maybe an adult and having them separated or coming together. Also having the child go through a series of doors to find their parent. I want them to walk through a series of doors until they reach the end one that is for sure what will happen. What I’m set on it what will be behind some of these doors. I’m going to go for a creepy feeling. 

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Date: 31st March 2017

Before (Top) and After (Bottom). A little editing. This is a minor project I wanted to try out. I think it worked out pretty well to where I wanted to to go, which direction I wanted it to. I even mixed up the eyes a bit but more of them are the same. 

I feel like the black background gives it more f a creepy feeling and cartoony. The way the eyes are all different and that the pupils aren't all in the same direction gives a good variety of the eyes, also with being different sizes. 

What I want to do for next time and improve my work is to make the eyes brighter to bring them out more from the background. Also I would like to try adding more eyes, coloured eyes. 

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Date: 31st March 2017

Mind map I created to help come up with ideas for my FMP. 

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Minor Project

Date: 28th March 2017

I have decided to go forward with an idea I’ve recently came up with. I want to do a little photoshoot with my little sister and other objects with googly eyes. This idea I got was from my mind map (which I will upload tomorrow) with the idea of the government, the have eyes everywhere. This also came from the post I did not so long ago about my feelings towards the word ‘Discreet’. 

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Date: 21st March 2017

Looking through a keyhole to see the work Discreet. A very minor project I wanted to try out. It’s a little animation I made using Adobe Flash. I might put more time into something else using this idea, I enjoy the idea of doing this again. 

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Date: 21st March 2017

Wanting to find out more about different hidden messages and what else they can be in I took to the Internet again and searched.

I came across Disney Movies!

In the Disney movie ‘Frozen’ you can clearly see in a scene that Rapunzel and Flynn Ryder AKA Eugene from ‘Tangled’, another Disney movie, are in the movie. It’s not the first time that Disney has done something like this. There are tons of hidden messages throughout some favourite Disney movies like ‘Toy Story’, ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Finding Nemo’ and many more. Most of them aren’t notable so it takes a few watches to be able to point them out.

There’s one fish in a scene from ‘Brother Bear’ that doesn’t quite fit with the others. That’s not the only film Nemo appeared in. He’ in a scene in ‘Monsters Inc.’ You know what’s even more interesting? ‘Monsters Inc.’ came out two yeas before ‘Finding Nemo’ did!  

You know that awesome scene in ‘Tarzan’ where the gorillas make a lot of music (and a really big mess) at the human’s campsite? Mrs. Potts and Chip from ‘Beauty and the Beast’ make a special appearance during the musical number!

What does Nani from ‘Lilo and Stitch’ have a poster of in her room? ‘Mulan’ one word, advertising.

The dog shadow in a scene from Ratatouille look familiar to you? It’s been mentioned that its Dug from ‘Up’. Ratatouille came out two years before ‘Up’ did.

Mrs. Potato Head, from ‘Toy Story’, is reading a very familiar storybook. ‘A Bug's Life’!

The Pizza Planet truck also was part of Wall-E's collection of junk!

In fact, the Pizza Planet truck has been featured in a ton of Disney movies. From left to right, ‘Toy Story’, ‘Monsters Inc.’, ‘Toy Story 2’, ‘Finding Nemo’, ‘Cars’, and ‘Ratatouille’!

This one is nearly impossible to notice unless you pause your DVD! Goofy and Donald Duck attend King Triton's concert in the beginning of ‘The Little Mermaid’!

In this scene from ‘Up’, a little girl has two very familiar toys: the Pixar ball and a Lotso Hugging Bear from ‘Toy Story 3’ 

Speaking of familiar toys, the dentist's office from ‘Finding Nemo’ has a treasure chest of toys for its younger guests. One of the toys at the office is Buzz Lightyear from ‘Toy Story’!

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Tuesday 21st March 2017

I feel unsure about the word ‘Discreet’. I feel uneasy about it like it shouldn't be discussed. A creepy kind of feeling, that someone is watching me and their being discreet about it. The work discreet can take a dark turn if you think about it. The Government watching you in secret, knowing all of your truths. There are camera’s pretty much everywhere you go except home, where you feel safe, unless you set them up yourself. I think The Government plays a big part in security and knowing secrets about everyone.  You see celebrities trying to keep to themselves but they have camera’s flashing them wherever they go for our entertainment. Some want to be left alone so they leave their business that they are currently occupying to have a quiet and discreet lifestyle instead. 

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Date: 21st March 2017

Here is my Pecha Kucha presentation photos. I think these photos reflect the word ‘Discreet’. Kind of hiding who you are and being quiet and keeping to yourself. Trying to avoid being embarrassed and caring about your actions and speech.