Portfolio Graphics Work

For my portfolio I created a series of pieces of work to show at my uni interviews.

I looked at how people grow up with age, but though the toys and objects of each stage. Then looking at how those toys and objects change for the male gender:

I picked out the colours from the robot and used them to add colour to my piece of work:

Here I found a piece of text I liked out of the bible, and decided to make a typography poster out of it, using a male figure as 'God':

This poster was an idea I had when looking through my younger sisters B-Line magazine she gets from school, which contains what to do after leaving school and other school infomation, so I decided to create a poster/ magazine advert or even front cover aimed at that spercific age. I did this by using colourful edits and making the poster look modern and almost 'cool' in their eyes:

Here I used a scanner, and scanned broken glass with my face behind it to create a horror themed DVD cover inspired by the cover to the film 'Human Centipede':

Here I wanted to mix the unfluence of pop music and culture with graphics, by creating a posters and two different album designs. I used bright colours as pop music seems to be heading a very strage direction with the influence of Lady GaGa and tried to me the singer look 'cool' and modern:

Poster:

Albums:

BBC Screens Motion Graphics

The BBC asked me and my class to all create a short piece of motion graphics on the theme of street, with our own ideas. I researched into dirrferent types of motion graphics including Stop Motion, Traditional Animation, and some previous adverts that use Motion Graphics. 

This was my final piece:

The idea was that it's my opinion on what the streets of modern day society are like, and they are coming out of the head that thought them up.

Photography

I took some images of buildings in my nearest town, and flipped/ reflected them over to create objects. These are my final pieces.

Ted VanCLeave

Ive recently researched into VanCleave's work as it fits in nicely with my photography project,  I like how he photographs ojects, (in this series buildings) with the sky/ plain background behind it filling most of the image. These are the research pages I have done on his work:

I then went out and took some images of my own in this kid of style:

I really like some of these images, so I took the one I liked the most on Photoshop Elements and editied them in the same as VanCleave, I also editied a few images in a different style:

Stop Motion Practise

For my graphics project 'Motion Graphics' I have to make a piece of graphics using After Effects for the BBC to be displayed on the big screen in Derby. I plan on using a mixture different types of motion graphics. This was a practise run of Stop Motion, I thought it worked well, and will be using this video in my final piece of work for this project.

Dennis Morris 'Live Talk'

I attended a Dennis Morris talk at Burton Libary, on the 13th of October 2010. I found the talk very interesting as he told the stories of his journeys becoming, and being a photographer. It inspired me as one day i'd like to have my own interesting, funny stories to tell people.

                                                                       Dennis Morris

I liked his photographs he took of Bob Marley, I thought they were original, and very interesting to look at as I wasn't aound when Bob Marley was alive so it gave me insight on what sort of a performer and person he was. I found he was very fun, random and energetic. 

Dennis Quotes:

"If you want to be a photographer, you have to go to the roots of photography and learn from the greats"

"The camera doesn't make the picture, its just a tool"

"Most people look but don't see"

As you can see here it shows him as a fun, and happy person to be around. 

My Final AS Pieces Of Graphic Work.

These are my final pieces of work I handed in for my AS year in Graphic Design.