HA3 - Task 4 Evaluation

In this project I had to research to Romeo and Juliet and this dance school company called Hip Hop Shakespeare Company and then use this research turn them into ideas for making images based on scenes from the film. I did this to give me ideas and inspiration for my art work on Illustrator.
I first had to make a schedule of when I was going to do certain parts of the project so that I could manage my time correctly and get the work done to the best of my ability. I then researched into HHSC which is The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company which is a dance company and I explained this using a mood board and finding out some information out about them. I found this easy because I enjoyed finding out what this company was about and what they did and who for. If I was to go back and do it again I would add more detail in how this will help me create my ideas and help create them.

I then made a mood board on Romeo and Juliet, we watched the film first so I knew what the story was about I just had to find out what it meant. I gathered lots of images of different actors playing the characters to show how popular this Shakespeare play is. I talk about the final scene of the play and what the story is about and what happens, this is the message of the play. I found doing both the mood boards easy because I liked looking for pictures that represented what I was talking about and what I was researching into.

For Task 3 of the assignment I actually had to create my final pieces first gathering my images I wanted, then doing a mock up of them and putting into Illustrator. I collected all the images I wanted and layerd them ontop of each other the way I wanted them to look when I was going to paint over them using the pen tool so that it looked like one image. All the images I used represented what scene I was trying to recreate.  I had to do six final images I created and then show the stages and final idea finished on the blog. I found this task harder because there was a lot of work to do and evidence. I first print screened on PhotoShop my mock up of images or made a mood board of of the idea I had come up with, with images. Then print screened me working on it in Illustrator then showed my final piece and wrote about each of the process stages. This task challenged me and my photo Shop and Illustrator skills but helped me develop them and I got quicker at creating them towards the end. I think I could of done better by making a mood board for each one so that some of my ideas were more clear and that I could show the idea more clearly through my final image and people would understand what they represented better. When I got peoples opinions on some of my artwork they said they could see which image was for each scenario but I could of made the idea better using different images when I mocked them up in photoshop. I think my piece has acheived the aim of the project but could be improved but I have done everything that needs to be done to the standards I could when creating them.