Week 8-Happy New Year

Yes I know. I am a day late. But I went to see Annie the musical yesterday, and man, was it awesome! Mark my words, I will be doing that someday.

ITM. Is sort of up to a part where I have to explore ideas. So it usually seems as if I haven't done much. I have put a few web designs into illustrator, I already don't like one of them so I chucked it. My favourite so far is the pictured one. I have still got to work out backgrounds, if I want any. I liked the look of this one because It is just simple. I believe at first glance it looks like a stationery company. I have obviously gone with monochromatic blues. With my 'highlight' colour, or opposing colour, as orange/red. I also found a free font that looked similar to my logo font. This will just be for headings, I think i'll just use the usual myriad pro for the body. I'll play around with it.

DRAMA is the same. Just practising my monologue over and over.

ART is again the same. I finished one part of my project, the questions about the conceptual framework. I think to do the rest I will need to know what I am doing for my prac. I have to keep exploring.

I can do this.

Rhett and Link

For future reference for my itm major. These guys are so smart!
Heres the link

ITM industry case study

I met up with Jo from Jr Interactive yesterday! She was so different to what I imagined, but she was awesome. I didnt meet up to interview her though, it was just a meet and greet. She did say she is about half way through the questions and she will have them to me very soon. She even said she felt honoured to have been chosen! haha! She does some pretty neat stuff. If you look on their website here, they do some pretty big projects. She even said that if I am good at what I do I may have a job there. WOW, got my foot in the door already! I may actually be doing a little job for her and my dad this holidays.

Week 7-Merry Christmas

What an interesting week this has been.

ITM is fairly good. This week I have decided on five possible website layouts and I have started to put them into Illustrator. I think my favourite ones are the ones that include alot of negative space and are different to the usual on the web these days. I have researched the pristine size for what I am doing, which is about 960px wide and possibly 600px height. I may change this later if I end up finding out this is a silly size. It will be a fixed width and a centre aligned overall design. This is because I have found that it works better for more computers, and I 'asked the experts' and this is what they recommended.
I also finished my designs. I was getting so sick of being stuck on the last one so I modified one of my earlier sketches. This is what they would look like as notebooks. How cool!

DRAMA is pretty awesome atm. I have been practising my monologue heaps and I know about half of it. My parents think im a weirdo now, I always walk around reciting random bits. Haha.

ART is going slightly slow. I am up to a part where I need to explore ideas. I usually come up with good ideas when I am half asleep or in an 'arty' mood. I have been trying though. My latest idea was to create a shadow art where I am commenting on the misleading image people can cast of themselves. So i could have a whole stack of makeup products casting a shadow of a person. Im not sure if its good, but its an idea.

Thank you Beyonce and Bruno Mars for keeping me somewhat sane.

Week 6-The holiday season

Merry Christmas!

ITM has not been my focus at the moment. Although, I have been playing around with a few ideas and working on my folio. My industry case study, JR Interactive, have got the interview questions and I may be meeting up with them soon.

DRAMA is usual. Just going through lines randomly throughout the day. Most people start wondering what I am doing!! haha!

ART has a big project due first day back, so obviously this will be my focus!! I have had some progress; I recreated the artwork of Kumi Yamashita. I found out that for it work really well you need a direct light. Or more direct than a torch. It also works better with cardboard. So bunnings here I come.
The process I used for this included drawing what I want the shadow to turn out like then photocopying it and shrinking it one way and stretching it the other. Then you can just work out what looks best with the light.
I think for my major I would have to mount it onto a bit of wood or something and have the light mounted as well, so all they would have to do is to switch on the light. Great, For this im going to need to get an electrician. oh well. Here is my try. Ill first have to get a good light and then fiddle with it.

What a cool guy!

I know it doesn't have much to do with my ITM major, but I thought this dude's short films were all pretty impressive. They may be useful for the others in my itm class. Here's the link. 

Week 5- THE END OF THE WORLD

yes, i know. I MISSED FRIDAY!
I had dancing, a dinner party and i had to get ready for one of my dancing concerts. EXCUSES EXCUSES.
Anyway, its better late than never eh?

ITM has had little progress. Its been a fairly big week. I did come up with another design though.

DRAMA is starting to get hard to memorise. I know about 2 minutes of my major. I also recently did an assessment and got 81 for it! I felt very happy with that :D

ART: I am freaking out a bit about this one. We have a project due the first day back, and we were meant to be doing throughout this term BUT we were not told that. The whole class now has to do a whole project during this 7 week holiday. oh well. It actually is a project that keeps us on track with our major.

Less than three.

Week 4

After a very productive week comes a slow one. I had a few assignments that I needed to focus on. so yeah.

ITM has not had much progress. I have, however, tested out after effects. I did this a little while ago. It was pretty good and  I eventually got the hang of it. Unfortunately, I have not uploaded it. :P

DRAMA has not had any progress either. All of my focus has been on the group work due tuesday.

ART is good. I am now going to study the artist, Kumi Yamashita. Her artworks are incredible and are definitely along the lines of what I want to do for my major. She is so inspirational.
Heres one of her artworks:

WOW, what a small post. Now, of to dancing and a party!