Brand Reflection

Today I bought a piece of flexible neon light up wire and made a lightbulb to replace the glowstick star. As it was one long piece, it forced me to do a continuous line drawing style piece, which was very effective. I am very happy with the outcome of my final installation and think it looks better than the original one. 

Today I had my last textworks of the term. We had a lecture on the branding of Christmas, which was really interesting and fun. There was no seminar in the afternoon so I did some more work on changing the fonts of the video. 

Today I started work on making Matt's changes. I decided instead of having one poster with lots of text, I would make a different poster for each phrase, with a picture for each. I showed my friend who was in yesterday's meeting my idea and he liked it a lot. I also started making the other changes to the video and other elements. 

Today I spent the morning doing some more work on my second video. Then in the afternoon, I had a virtual learning team with Matt. There were 2 other students this time. I really enjoyed seeing what they had been up to and commenting on their work. I have missed that.  Matt wasn't that impressed with what I had made. He liked my ideas but didn't approve of my type choice, my use of type on the poster, and thought I had overused the glow effect. He also disliked my star instillation.  I was quite upset about that. Particularly the star, as it had taken ages and I had run out of glow sticks. I didn't today any more work in the evening. 

Today I started by watching the morning meeting. They announced a live brief but I don't think I will do it because it is very illustrative and that is not really my style.  I spent today finishing my Instagram advert. I was really happy with the outcome. And it didn't take as long as I thought it would either. I then started work on a second one that focuses more on why people should come to the art gallery.  I am not sure what I will do when I have finished that. But I have a meeting with Matt tomorrow so maybe he will be able to give me some ideas. 

Today I started creating a short video Instagram advert using Adobe After Effects. I have had a couple of Abby sessions with this program, but I have no other experience of using it. I managed to work with it without too much trouble, but then I was doing fairly simple stuff and it did take me quite a long time. I am sure I will get quicker in time though and I enjoyed the challenge of something new.