Estate Design (T-shirt)

Here is my trademark design label which I have named 'Estate' and this will be one of the many designs I will do for this brand. This is just one of my designs, but as it is my trademark design I thought I would put this one up to promote it a bit more.

Estate Design (cutout)

Here is a cutout of my trademark design 'Estate' this is the design I am hoping to become popular and what i'm going to have on my t-shirts. The next stage is to have the design screen printed on to a t-shirt.

T-shirt Heaven (what we do)

At T-shirt Heaven we design and produce our own 'up to date' styled tee's. We like to be known as screen printers because we can do anything screen printable and not just t-shirts. At T-shirt Heaven we can also do hats, posters, coats, jeans and more! We allow customers to make their own designs which they can then send in to us. They can either be sketched designs which we can then scan and tweak them up in illustrator, or they can be designs which you have already designed in a software like illustrator, photoshop or paint. My personal email for any queries is: Jahmal_Crowe@yahoo.com You can also send your designs via mail, to the above email address. We will soon have a website once it has been built which you will be able to find under this URL address: http://www.t-shirt-heaven.com We have also been working on a clothing label which we hope to become successful, so this will also hopefully boost our company's business. This label design will be produced in many different ways, because we will screen print it on to t-shirts, heat transfer it onto t-shirts and also get the label design stitched on to hats and as a label on other clothing.

Business Plan

Screen-Printing Business Plan

The Concept

T-shirt Heaven’s mission is to provide customers with custom designed t-shirts and other items of clothing. The items will be produced using a screen printer. A screen printer is something which can print ink onto a t-shirt using a screen layer over the top. As the business moves into a better position, we will move into stitching, for a picture logo on t-shirts, or for hats and jeans. Although were called t-shirt heaven we won’t just be producing t-shirts. We can do your designs on hats, posters, sofas, trainers or any other screen printable things.

T-shirt Heaven will start out on a market stall, selling many different t-shirt designs, and it will then move in to a bigger space in a shop. The shop will be located in either, Cambridge or London or maybe even both if it becomes a popular place to shop for clothing.

T-shirt Heaven is aiming to reach a big profit in the first year and will continue to succeed in the years to come.

Start off point

In the first two months of T-shirt Heaven starting everything will be sold on a market or even at a household. The only employers of this business will be family members. Obviously sales will seem to begin slowly, but as things go on the business will pick up, selling to universities and other local places/businesses.

The Company

The company will be owned and operated by Jahmal Crowe. Jahmal Crowe has always been interested in owning his own business/company, and becoming a successful person in life. He thinks that there is much more money and success to be made by working for yourself rather than working for someone else. He has skills in art/media/photography and is overall a creative person which helps a lot when it comes to designing and producing screen prints. He studied creative and media at Long Road College and Media Studies is his next step at Cambridge Art School. He is hoping to sell some of his t-shirt designs at his university to bring in more money to the company to make it bigger and better. This is going to be a family business and as his family is very creative with his editor father and graphic designer cousins, this should be a great help for his company.

The Market

T-shirt Heaven targets towards an audience of any age, but more towards an urban genre, unless you are going in there with your own design, then it can be any genre you want it to be, but the set clothing at T-shirt Heaven is aimed towards an urban genre audience.

T-shirt Heavens Competition:

. Other t-shirt stalls around the market

. Design Companies

. Clothing Retailers

. T-shirt Company shops

T-shirt Heaven will get around their competition and be bigger and better than their competition by making top of the range up to date t-shirt designs, using nice fitted and good quality stock. In the shop they will make it welcome and lively, and they will also have little competitions, where people come in with their designs and which ever one is chosen to be the best, it will go up on stock as a t-shirt where if sold the designer gets a cut off the profit.

Success

The company plans to 'at the start' grow and build up slowly, just to see how much sales and profit there is to be made from the business in their particular market and to see how the cash flows in. Once the money has been rolling in well, they will then move on to buying top of the range quality and will build a website where you can buy from. They will also set up more shops, and will have their own trademark design which is set to become very big worldwide. This is expected to be done in around year three to five.

Prices of clothing will be set on how popular the design is, so an average price of £10-15 will be marked out for most designs and for the trademark design prices will be around £25 and maybe even more if it becomes a top clothing line. T-shirt Heaven is forecasted to reach profitability by the first year which will lead them to take the business a step higher. Their aim is to make this family business a multi-million pound ownership in years to come.

Copyright

Copyright protects many things, from music to any designs which you have made. Copyright is an automatic thing as soon as you make it. This means that once something has been copyrighted, any person other than you is not aloud to use it unless they have your permission, but there has to be proof that they can use it.

However, copyright does not protect ideas for work, so if you have an idea which you think is good but you haven;t done it yet, then it is not copyrighted, so you have to of actually done the idea to show proof that it is yours. If you haven’t got it copyrighted, then it is always good to post it to yourself so that you have the date, otherwise someone could see your work, copy it, then say that you have ripped them off.

Once something has got the ‘c’ in a circle symbol it means that it has been copyrighted, so you can’t use take it, or do anything with it, otherwise it is against the law.

Patent

Patents protect the features and processes that make things work. This lets you profit from anything you have invented. It protects new inventions and covers how things work, what they do, how they do it, what they are made of and how they are made. It gives you the owner the right to prevent others from making, using, importing or selling the creation/invention without permission.

You have to make sure that your invention is a new creation and not something which has been made before, otherwise they can do all of the things I listed above because it hasn't got a patent to protect it. If you want to then you can let others use your patent by granting them a licence. You may want to involve others to help display, develop or market your patent. By having a patant it basically just gives you the oppurtunity to build something up and get something displayed without other people being able to take it or do anything to it at all.

Trademark

Trade marks are like symbols like logos and brand names which distinguish goods and services in the market place. You can also register your trade mark which will show that it is not allowed to be re-used or modified. To tell if a trade mark has been registered it will have an 'R' symbol next to it. The symbol is small and is in a circle, this will warn people about its registration. However, if you take the symbol and use it, without it actually being properly registered is an offence.

A registered trade mark should put people off using your trade mark without your permission and if they do use it, then it allows you to take legal action against anyone who uses it without your permission. As its your property it means you can sell it or let other people have a licence that allows them to use it.

To protect an unregistered trade mark you have to have evidence of it being yours. You can do this by posting the trade mark to yourself, so that you have the date of it being posted/created. This way you can prove that it is yours.

My final idea - Screen Printing

Out of my three ideas I have now decided on one idea to take forward. This idea is screen printing on t-shirts.

I want to continue with this idea because I am planning to start up a business with screen printing so I thought I will get some experience in screen printing by finding out about it doing research, so when it comes to starting up the business I know the whole background to my idea.

What business are you really in?

The business which I am located in would be screen printing. I am going to be known as a screen printer who does t-shirt printing, rather than a t-shirt printer who does screen printing, this way it shows that people don't only have to come for t-shirts, they could also come for posters, sofa prints etc.

I think that through my business I will get a lot of business around Cambridge, especially with all the students around. I could make a variety of t-shirts representing Cambridge, along with the t-shirts which other people contact me to do.

My aim is to one day have a shop in London selling my screen printing designs. I would love to become successful in this field and this is my ambition. I would also want to move out to Jamaica for 3 months selling screen printing designs of t-shirts, because I know that in Jamaica they would be desperate to design their own designs and share it with everyone around the nation. I know that I will one day do this.

My business presentation (Task 7)

Here is my business presentation which I pitched yesterday to Nas, Amar and Sam. I think that my presentation was done well, but when I was doing the presentation out to the people I think that I stuttered quite a lot and didn't get out what I wanted to say properly.

My Business Presentation Jahmal Crowe

Here is the feedback which I got from all three of them:

Nas:

. Nice design

. Used the keynote for what it is.

Amar:

. Good idea for people to submit their own designs.

. Stock them? Market towards being fun.

. Too similar to talking tee's. Make it different.

Sam:

. Lack of confidence which made presentation weak.

. Target audience should be 14-20, not as broad as you said.

. Target holiday groups and analyse 19-20 year olds going to ibiza.

Another idea - T-shirt Printing

I have now thought of a third idea for the extended project and it is t-shirt printing. the reason for me choosing this idea is because I have now got a 4 colour screened carousel which is at-shirt printing device, and I am aiming to create my own designs and to start a business up. If I were to succeed with this idea then I would let people make their own designs for me to make.

Vistaprint (pros and cons)

Pros:
Have their own website
Can do your t-shirt online
deliver to you
50% off

Cons:
Boring comapny name
Only online (no shop)
Can't properly make your own design

Talking T's (pros and cons)

Pros:
The only custom t-shirts shop in Cambridge
Got their own website

Cons:
Too expensive
Not recognised enough
Name doesn't make you want to go in there

Vistaprint

www.vistaprint.co.uk

This place is another t-shirt printing company where you get to make your own designs for your own t-shirt and you can do it online. I think that this is a really good idea, but I don't think that this t-shirt printing company is very well known.

To make my company well known and recognized I am going to have to come up with a snappy name, logo and slogan to attract a wider audience, and if I was to one day open a shop, then I am going to have to present it well.

Talking T's

www.t-shirts.co.uk

This is a t-shirt printing company similar to what I am wanting to do for my idea. They sell their own designed t-shirts and they have a shop set up in Cambridge. The website has different sections where you can choose what size and what sort of t-shirt you are wanting to buy.

I think that my idea and this idea obviously have the same meaning, to sell custom designed t-shirts, but we our ideas differently.

Task 1 (Noel Clarke Interview)

Here is an interview with Noel Clarke which I found on youtube, it was an interview when he was invited onto GMTV. He talks about how kidulthood was basically based on his life growing up in london, so this pulls in a greater audience I think.

Stuff to go in folder (Richard Branson)

http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/richard_branson.htm

The link above is where I got some of my information from for my Richard Branson research. It has some quotes from him which I will use in my document and it also has the personal background part to this task.

He is a very rich and famous British Entrepreneur who was founder of virgin records and many more virgin businesses. He has bought to islands with his own money and is still managing to make money, and not losing out in any way.

Stuff to go in folder (Michael Jackson)

Stuff to go in folder (Noel Clarke)

Task 1

Noel Clarke:
Noel Anthony Clarke (born 6 December 1975) is an English actor, director and screenwriter from London. Noel is an actor/writer/director and he has quite recently became a successful person. He has acted in and directed such films as kidulthood, Adulthood, 4.3.2.1 and more. He was first introduced to our screens in 1999 where he played a role in Native as a character named Victor. He is best known for playing Mickey Smith in Doctor Who, but has now become even bigger through directing, writing and acting in his own films such as the ones I listed before which were Kidulthood, Adulthood and 4,3,2,1. He studied media at the university of North London. This makes me think that I can become as successful as him when I do film and television at university.

3x Successful People

The three people which I have chosen to write and find out about are Noel Clarke, Michael Jackson and Richard Branson.

Noel Clarke:

I have created a twitter account and I have contacted Noel Clarke and I have asked him a question in two tweets and I have explained what we are doing. I am still waiting for an answer from him, but I am not to sure if I will get one back from him. I am just hoping. The reason for me wanting to have Noel Clarke as one of the people I am going to research about is because he is my favourite director and he has inspired me to continue with my path of becoming a director.

Michael Jackson:

I chose Michael Jackson as one of the people I am going to research about because he is one of the most talented and successful people ever. When he was younger him and his family had nothing and up to his death he was a very successful and rich man. I have got a biography book of him which will help me to find out the attitudes and beliefs of him.

Richard Branson:

I think that Richard Branson is a very inspirational person and I am most definitely inspired by him. He is someone that everytime I see an interview from him, it makes me want to achieve the things which he has achieved and makes me want to work harder in what I do. I will look up on the internet for interviews and see if there is anyway I can contact him.

Evaluation

1. How has your idea developed?

My idea has developed from many different ideas and I finally came down to just one idea which I was happy with. It has developed from me just thinking up the idea and making each of the designs, to it actually being printed off and ready to go up in the shop window.

2. How have your ideas developed?

My ideas have developed because I have now extended onto my research for each idea in my sketchbook and on my blog.

3. What feedback have you received?

4. How do you feel about the final piece?

Health, Safety and Copyright

There wasn't many of any health and safety issues in this project which I couldn't get round. One health and safety issue which came across was sitting in front of a computer screen for ages, but I took breaks in between so this wasn't an issue for me. Another health and safety issue could be that people may get offended by the final piece, but this isn't an issue for me because I haven't got anything in my design which people can take any offence to. Another issue would be posture. As I am sitting on a computer my posture may not be straight, but I make sure that I straighten up and stretch every now and then.

I haven't got any copyright in my work because I made sure that the images I used which were not mine were labelled for reuse, so this made it possible for me to use the images which I did in my final product.

My designs for the final piece

I have now done the designs for my final piece and I think that they look pretty good. The next thing which I am going to do is mount them on to a board and probably put them to an a1 or a2 size.

Here are my designs:

Personal Bio

After this course I plan to go to university to study film and television or media studies. I believe this will help me to achieve in what I desire to do in the future which is a film maker/director. I think that this course has helped me to get much better at media and editing to create films/music videos. I think that after this course and after university I will become successful if I follow the correct path.

Challenge 6 - Artist Statement

Jahmal Crowe
Jahmalsjamaicain@hotmail.co.uk
http://jahmalscreativemediablog.blogspot.com/

Title: Identity
Medium Used: Digital Illustration
Size:

My project issue is about my identity and what makes me, me. I have explored this by creating some silhouette images of me by using photoshop, and I have layered it with the things which I enjoy and like. These are the sorts of things which show a persons identity and this is why I have chosen to do this idea within the issue.

My new issue - Identity (who am I?)

I have started on a new issue idea which is about identity and what actually makes me me. I think this will be the best one for me to do. I have taken a full picture of myself so that the whole of me is in the photo. The next thing which I did was uploaded it to iphoto and then put it on to photoshop and I got rid of the background and used the paint bucket to make me look like a silhouette.

I am then going to cover all of my body parts with lots of different objects. So I will have things that I enjoy. I will either have it as a still image with some text in it, or I will have it as a short clip where different things slide over to me every 10 seconds, but I will see how much time I have to do it first.

Global Warming - Practice Art Piece

I have done a practice of my art piece on photoshop and since I came up with this idea today I think that it is a really good start. I obviously need to get some research done on this idea but at the moment the practice piece looks quite good.

Here is my art piece:

The slogan for this would be 'Global Warming. The Earth is in Our Hands'

Statement Of Intent

Title: Identity

Medium:

The medium which I have chosen to use for this project idea is the issue for digital illustration. I will do this in photoshop.

Format:

The format which I am using for this project issue is photoshop because I want to print out four designs and make them a4 or a5 and then put them on to an a1 or a2 sized board.

Subject Matter:

My subject matter is about identity and I am going to have a few designs of an outline of me and I will fill them up with all of the things which I like and enjoy.

What processes and techniques will you employ?

I am going to create the designs in photoshop and I will either take the pictures of the objects myself or I will find some pictures which are labelled for reuse and use them. I want to mount my piece onto a1 or a2 and will try to make it look as good as possible. I am going to put a background colour for each design as well.

For my mentor

I want to start a new issue which is about planets. I cant come up with any idea surrounding this issue, so it would be very helpful if you could help me to make a decision on an idea.

Thankyou,

Jahmal

Another issue idea on planets

I have thought of another issue idea which is quite personal to me as I enjoy learning about planets, so my new idea which I have thought of is to do with planets, but I need to come up with some ideas within this issue.

I am going to email my mentor about this and I will hopefully have a mind map with a few ideas on it after he has replied to me. I think that if I have an idea around this issue then it will be a really good final piece which I will produce by the end of it.

Week Plan

Monday: Do rest of challenges, Research

Tuesday: More research, Practice design, Finish challenges

Wednesday: More practice on design

Thursday: Start on real design

Friday: Finish real design, extra research

Mentor Feedback

I showed my mentor my idea and he has gave me some advise on what I should do next which I think has helped me a lot other wise I might have been taking my issue idea in the wrong direction.

He said to me that at the moment my idea is stable, but is a little bit boring at the moment. He then said that I should do some more research about evolution of data storage, and instead of doing something literal like my idea is at the moment I could do something like compare the difference between something like a raison and a football, and this will basically show the difference between the storage of CDs and the Ipod, because you can store a lot more things on an ipod than you can on a CD, so this is showing the same thing as my first idea but in a more original way which makes it better.

I am going to take his advise on board and the next thing which I am going to do is find some research on data storage to see how much more storage an ipod can actually hold than that of a CD or lots of CD's.

Mentor

I am going to assign Nick Potamitis as my mentor because I feel that he is the person that can give me the best advice on what I need to do and improve on. I also know that he has a profession in this field as well so it should be easier enough for him to relate with what I am going to do in my idea.

Breakdown

I want to create my first idea on a canvas, where the image I will create in photoshop will be on it. I want to have it in colour but in photoshop I will make the image look like it has been water coloured. I think that this idea is good and is definitely do-able for me to do.

I also have another idea where I would get lots of CD's and put them together to make one big CD. I would probably put them together by string or something like that. The in the middle I would put one normal sized ipod. This would be fairly big, but not overly.

Synopsis

I am going to create a photoshop design of an ipod in the middle of tons of CD's and in the screen of the ipod it will say 'thousands of CD's make just one ipod' or I am going to do a real life art piece where I will create one big CD out of lots of CD's with one normal sized ipod in the middle, saying a similar thing to the first idea I explained.

Challenge 5 - Something for the weekend

Part One: ?

Part Two: ?

Part Three:

I have a piece which I created on photoshop which is similar to what I want to do for my final thing so that is what I will be bringing in on Monday.

My 3 ideas - evolution in data storage

Project Proposal 1 - CDs vs Ipod (photoshop)

My idea is to do with CDs and Ipods and how an Ipod is now more popular than a CD, so is there much point of CDs anymore. I have a little quote from me which I will put in the design which says "Tons of CDs make just one ipod" which basically means if you can put thousands of songs on your ipod is there much point of having CDs anymore. I will create this on A3 and the image will be an ipod surrounded by tons of CDs and the text will be on the ipod screen. My reasons for doing this idea is because I think that there are many issues between CDs and Ipods, and I want people to read and look at my work and have there own decision about the issue. I can see a few problems with my choice of idea, as people may not understand what the idea is all about and we don't have that long left so I need to get started on to make sure that the idea is clear. My idea fits the issue because I am using these elements to create a whole new object. I was influenced when I recently put some CDs onto my ipod and was just thinking about how thousands of songs from lots of CDs can be transferred onto this tiny little thing we call an ipod and theres still more space on it to do more. This is what made me want to do this as an issue and an idea.

Project Proposal 2 - New Age Disk

My idea is to get lots of CDs and spread them around to create one massive CD, then I will put a normal sized ipod in the middle, and there will be something on the screen of the ipod saying something like, "you can get all of this, in something this small". I think this will be easy enough to do all I need to do is get some blank CDs to spread around. For this idea I am wanting the audience to have there own views on this and make their own minds up on it. I was influenced on doing this idea when I thought of the first one. I was just thinking that it would be quite cool to have lots of CDs made to look like one big CD and then to have a normal sized ipod in the middle of it.

Project Proposal - Ipod Breakthrough (drawing/painting)

For this idea I am thinking of drawing two halves of a CD and breaking through these two halves will be an ipod, which shows that ipods have broken through a lot over the past few years and are more popular than CDs are, because they can do more than what a CD can do.

My Issue Rationale

The issue which I have chosen to do is about music technology and how it has changed a lot over many years. I think this issue suites me because I enjoy listening to music and I just want to know about the issues surrounding music technology. i have got three ideas within this one issue which I am going to write up on another blog post.

Basically the issue is what is now needed and not needed in music technology anymore, and I am just wondering whether we need such things as CDs anymore as we have more upgraded things like the ipod to listen to our music on.

Issue 3 -

Issue 2 - Identity Stereotypes

My first idea within this issue is to take pictures of people stereotyped as Chavs, Gangsters, Emo's and Geeks and then mount the pictures up onto an A3 piece of paper and title each photograph with the name of the stereotype.

My second idea within this issue is to draw the stereotypes instead of taking pictures or to get some from creative commons, and with these I will get a background from creative commons if I were to draw them.

Taking apart my controller

I have started to take my xbox 360 controller apart as I now have the right tool needed to do this. This is the beginning to customizing my own controller.

The next thing which I need to do is clean the parts of the controller and then I can move on to customizing it, but I need to come up with some ideas of what I am going to do when I spray paint it.

I still need to get all the colours which I need to do this and I am going to have to buy this spray paints to make this happen.

What I want to achieve

For my first idea I am planning to create what I have on the last post which is an ipod surrounded by CD's to get across the issue of how CD's are no longer in need as we now have ipods, itunes and youtube where people now prefer to listen to there music, instead of on a disk.

This is the idea I am going to concerntrate on most, but obviously I will be looking into other ideas. I am needing to get a lot more research for this idea, so that when it comes to the practical work I know what I am doing.

I definitely know that I want to make a big poster of the ipod with CD's around it but I am still wondering whether I should draw/paint it, or create it in photoshop or illustrator, this is what I am going to look into next, but for now I am just going to get some research down in my sketchbook and on my blog and also I am going to look into my other ideas.

Main issue (CDs vs Ipod)

My first idea is all about the issues in music technology and how people used to listen to music by using a CD, and you had to buy a CD from the shop. But now all you have to do is buy an ipod and download your songs from itunes.

The piece that I would end up making for this idea is having lots and lots of CD's bundled together in the background and in the middle of all of this there will be just one ipod. I think that this is a good idea as it is a major issue in music technology and shows how an ipod stands out when comparing it with CD's. It can also shows that nowadays if people had the choice out of CD's and an ipod, most people would go for an ipod

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Practitioner 2 - Giggs (Grime music artist)

Above is the music video for the song 'Talking the hardest' by Giggs. He is a grime music artist and I chose this video because the way it is presented is the same way in which the film kidulthood is presented. Its supposed to make younger people look 'scary' towards others.

I think that this video shows how younger people are around London and I chose this as one of my practitioners because I think it relates to kidulthood the most as a music video. This idea shows the issues around teenagers and how they are stereotyped.

Practitioner 1 - Adulthood (Teen Film)

Above is the trailer for the film 'Kidulthood'. This film stereotypes teenagers as wearing hoods and going out starting trouble. I chose this film as a practitioner research because I am going to compare it with a music artist like Giggs or Dizzee Rascal and how they present their music videos. I particularly like this film and feel that it relates to a lot of teens.

By researching this film I can tell that Noel Clarke feels this is the way teenagers are represented, especially in the area of London. I might do an idea similar to this but in photographs instead of an actual film. I might have the issues of teenage stereotyping.

New Project - Issues (A Personal Response)

The new project topic is called 'Issues - A Personal Response' or 'The Sweet Project'. The aim of this project is to come up with an individual final piece of work, which can be a collage, art, photography, t-shirt, advert, music, game and so on and then as a class we have to organise a group show to put up as an exhibition in two different shops next door to each other on Hobson and Sussex street, and our work will be in the windows. We get four weeks in total to do this project in. two of those weeks will be in the christmas holidays where we just need to do research on our chosen ideas, and practitioner research, and the other two remaining weeks will be in college time, where we have to prepare and produce our final piece.

Things we are not aloud to have in our final piece:

NO............

. Graphic Nudity

. Extreme Violence

. Weaponry

. Drug References

. Political Nature

I think that this project will be fun because it is very different from any other project that we have done, because in this one we actually get to display our final pieces in our very own group exhibition. The next thing I am planning is to find my two practitioners which I am going to look at and then I am going to start on my ideas.

How my final product fits the brief

I have now finished my final product which is a PDF template of my design. It shows the netting of my design and it also has an empty template for people to create their very own design.

I think that my idea fits the brief as opportunities for global audiences because anyone can have a go at making a flatpack design by using my PDF. So it is an opportunity for global audiences to make a flatpack design and its an opportunity for people to share their designs with other people. This is how my idea fits to the brief.

I am happy with my final product, because it not only shows my own design, but it has an empty template which I made so that people can sketch out their own design. It is also something that can be sold on, and I could make many more designs with the template if I wanted to start selling them. Which makes it an opportunity for me as well as others.

Creating my Flatpack

I have now finished making my flatpack design of Bill Gates from scratch. I had to make my own template and I drew out bill Gates by hand and edited it on photoshop and illustrator to make it look more cartoon like.

Here are the images from start to finish of the making of Bill Gates:

Template:

Template with my sketch:

Cutting out image:

Putting netting together:

Near Finish:

Final design:

Practise Flatpack

I have practised designing a flatpack design by using the netting off cubeecraft and building the image that was on it which is 'Barack Obama' and by building it up it then becomes 3D.

Idea change

In this weeks lesson on monday, I was still unhappy about the idea I had, but I have now come up with a new idea, which is to create a 'Flatpack toy'.

A flatpack toy is a built up 3D image which you design on card and use the netting to create it into a 3D image. I have already had a go at this, and for my first try I attempted to do it on paper and it didn't work out as everything didn't stay together, so I just stuck it into my sketchbook instead. My next step is to create the same image, but I will do it on card instead, as it will hold together that way. The person who I am building up as a flatpack is 'Barack Obama', but for my final design I am going to create my own design.

Here is a flatpack design which I found on the cubeecraft website:

This is the netting of the image:

Final Product:

Todays lesson 24/11/10

In todays lesson I worked on a google application called 'Sketch Up'. It is a 3D sketching software, and I was just playing around with it attempting to make a 3D action man instead of a 2D one which I think will be a bit more of a challenge and will look better once iv'e done it.

Here are some pictures of my work so far:

This is a screengrab of the software with my work on it. From this you can see all of the tools at the top, such as grab, move, rotate, draw, scale and more.

This is my first attempt of making a head and hair in 3D. I think that this is a good first attempt of making a head, but it is probably scaled up too large.

This is a 3D image which i downloaded from the software and it is a whole person which I am aiming to achieve. I downloaded this so that I could understand how to create a 3D person a bit more.

Making my own 'action man'

I have started to create my own action man and I will be able to use this same figure for the rest that I will make. Here are the stages that I have gone through and what I have produced.

Stage One:

Stage Two:

Stage Three:

Stage three is where I am at, at the moment. I still need to create the legs and face, and other detailed body parts.

Project Plan 15th - 19th November

Monday - Pitch feedback, Practise on illustrator, Finalise my idea, Sketchbook (research)

Tuesday - Secondary research and Sketchbook (research)

Wednesday - Illustrator, Web research, Photoshop

Thursday - Blog and Sketchbook

Friday - More illustrator practise and Research

Presentation feedback

On friday 12th November I did my keynote presentation on my two main ideas for the globalisation project. I think that I presented it well but I found it quite hard to get everything out as I am not to confident in speaking infront of people. But, I think I did enough for the client to understand what my ideas were all about.

The clients feedback on my ideas was to maybe merge both my ideas together. Idea 1 was to make an action figurine, and idea 2 was to make an advert on different ethnic backgrounds playing football together. The client thought that I should merge these ideas together by designing a small animation, and to use illustrator. He also thought that I could get some of my old action figures and 'customize' them instead of making my own. Then from this I could make my own video using 'istock motion' or something else.

The idea which I want to progress with is idea two because it is the idea which I have thought about the most and I think that I will do better with this idea. I will also consider the clients feedback throughout the course of this project and I will hopefully be successful.

Here is the feedback which he wrote down whilst I was giving the presentation:

1)make own action man style figure.

highways across continents - what would your own action man look like.........SWOT analysis is fine

2)Football idea - how would you get different nationalities together and how would you show they are different nationalities.

Option - scale down idea 1 to something 2D, think photoshop.

continue 2 ideas?

The presentation was a bit nervy but ok....slides were ok.

Globalisation Keynote

This is my keynote showing my two main ideas which I am going to pitch to the 'client' in tomorrows lesson, where I will be filmed giving out my presentation.

Keynote (globalisation)

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Equipment Lists

Here is my equipment list showing everything that I need at the moment to continue with the project. I have also added the costs of each piece of equipment which I have ordered.

1st Equipment List

A4 Sketchbook - 65p

2nd Equipment List

A4 Sketchbook - 65p

Fine Line Pen - 25p

Sketching Pencils - £1.50

Mindmap of my initial ideas

Here is my mindmap of my initial ideas. I am still looking for other ideas but at the moment these are the ones which I am going to research on. At the moment the ideas which I will take forwards the most are 'Globalisation in different cultures' and Globalisation in online gaming'.

Fridays lesson 5th November

In fridays lesson we worked on the extended project, sharing out our ideas and talking about what we hope to have completed in the short term and long term.

My idea originally was to stretch pictures onto canvas, and I may still continue with this. But I have now got another idea which is to custom paint some xbox controllers.

My short term goal is to have all of the equipment ready for the customizing and also to draw out some sketches for possible ideas which I might use for the final piece. I think with this sorted out I could be well on my way to making a great piece of customizing art work.

My long term goal is to have completed two fully custom painted controllers with stencil/art pen writing on them, and to have made a video of me customizing them and speeding the video up. I think a sped up video of me doing this will look really cool. I also want to take a picture of the before and afters and stretch them onto canvas. This can also be recorded.

Customising

For my extended project as I have already explained I am going to stretch canvas, but I have now had another idea to customise faceplates and controllers. As Liam has also thought of the idea to customize faceplates, we have decided that we are going to help each other out in the process, and sort of work together on the extended project.


In the picture below is a screengrab from amazon showing where we can order xbox 360 faceplates from. I think this is going to be the main target to order from.



This is the process in which it can go through. It starts off like the white faceplate and when you have custom painted it, hopefully we will end up with similar things shown below.



Here is an ordianry xbox 360 controller which hasn't been customized.



This is the sort of thing I am aiming to achieve when the controller has been fully customized. I think I will make around two custom painted controllers and Liam will probably do the faceplates.


This can then link with my canvas stretching idea, as I can then take pictures of our outcomes and then stretch them onto canvas.

Project Report

Here is my illustrated project report on my own individual tasks which I did in each of the following: Research, Planning, Production, Feedback, Evaluation.

Project Report

Research/Planning:
In this project I have found out my own research about the history of hooliganism, I found some fonts which we could have used for our final webisode. I also created the treatment for our websiode which leads up to the pitch and talked about what the idea was and what it was based around. This is all visible to see in my sketchbook or on my blog. I did the pitch document as well, and on this included the 'Synopsis', 'Rationale' and the 'Contingency plan'. I inked over the storyboard and made some images in more detail, I found out about hooligan clothing.

Production:
Within the production of our final webisode I like to see myself as being the person who came up with the editing ideas and although I didn't handle the editing as much I put as much imput into everything as the person I worked with. This was a major joint effort, but we separately came up with ideas, and agreed or disagreed on what we thought looked best in the footage until we came up with the best solution as a joint decision. There was much more to the production such as camerawork which I took control of and I also took a little acting role. I made some of the sound effects and found the music for the webisode.

Feedback:
I created a facebook group where people could leave any feedback on our webisode. This group was all about our webisode and I updated it any time we did something new, so that the target audience that were interested could see what we had done, and how far we had made it. So I took control on this. We also had a website where I posted a few things onto as well.In my sketchbook I have put down all of the feedback which people have given us.

Evaluation:
There were four seperate parts to the evaluation so we shared it out so we both did two parts of it each. I did the 'Resourses' part where I had to list and get pictures of everything we had used throughout the project and also I named the price for each resourse, which was difficult to find out, but I got everything that I needed to get down, into it.The scond part which I did was the 'Cast and Crew' section where I had to create a model release form for each of the actors and they all had to sign it, or if they were under the age of 18 they had to get their parents to sign it for them.

Conclusion:
I feel that I have had my fair part in this project and as a whole have come a long way from just having an idea, to actually creating it, adding all the little things that make it much better, like the sound effects and visual effects. I think that I have done a very good job in this project as an individual, and 'we' have done a very good job as a team.

Resources

Here is my resource list which I created in photoshop. I put down a list of the things we used and the prices of which they come to. I also have pictures of what was used as well just incase people don't know what things are.

As you can see there are some things which doesn't have a budget like, facebook, but other things like the make-up and the tripod costs.

Todays Action Plan (19/10/10)

The first thing which we are planning to do is to continue with the white sheet. On the white sheet are a load of tasks which we need to get completed individually and some by working together. We need to work together to do the focus group and also look at audience feedback to put into our group production bible folder. Once we have the focus group organised and completed we will then upload the footage and edit it, we will then write up the transcript of the interviews.

If we finish the sheet and have enough time, we will then start on the yellow sheet which is to be done in groups. The tasks state that we need to get scouting reports for our locations, and we have pictures. Another task is to get model release forms for the cast and crew to sign. Then there is resources which shows what equipment we used and alternative uses. Finally we have the legalities to do which is the health and safety part, where we need to complete a risk assessment for each shoot.

If we do not get this part done by today then we will definitely do it by tomorrow.

Comparing roughcut to finished video

Here is the roughcut version of 'The North Stand'

Here is the final version of 'The North Stand'

As you can see both of the copies are very different to each other and there is a significant change between them both. I am going to go through all the changes in this post.

Sound:

When watching the roughcut version you can hear all the natural sounds, so when the shots change the background noise changes and it doesn't flow very well, also this makes the fighting look less realistic because there is no noise when the punching and kicking happens because there is no sound effects. Whereas in the final version everything flows because we found some natural sound so when he is walking you can hear the same sound which runs through to the next shot. Also we dubbed over the speech where the two friends meet at college because the sound wasn't flowing well at all, but now it does. The fight scene also now looks very realistic because we went out and created our own punching/kicking noises. There is also now a voiceover.

Music:

The music in the roughcut is no longer in the final version because we though that it was too soft and calm music, so we found some quite heavy house music, similar to the music in football factory. This music continues to play through the opening sequence and drowns out towards the fight scene. Once the fight scene is over, we introduce some new music, which is a rock type song. I chose this because I thought that it fits in the fight scene and also when the credits come up this is the type of music that makes it look even better. In the roughcut there is no music at the end because we didn't have time to.

Visual Effects:

There have been many changes in visual effects from our roughcut to our final version of the webisode. In the final version we have added special effects like posterize for the beginning of the sequence and we have also used a staged live action to a staggered rotor scoping effect, which takes you from one place to another by transforming a still image. This effect works because in the roughcut version he is in one place and then in the next shot he is at college, but now we have that effect in place it makes it more believable and not so rushed. We have also made some really nice sharp cuts in certain places which makes evrything look fast pace and also as if it is an actual real fight going on. There is none of this happening in the roughcut version. We still have the cuts where he gets kicked in the face when he's on the floor and it goes in and out of black when he gets hit which was also seen in the roughcut version. On the roughcut draft we had gaps that needed to be filled and we found a way to fill them in which we made by using title sequences. The main title sequence which display the name of the webisode appears in the part where it fades into him telling the whole story. The roughcut only showed the fade and people got confused by what was happening, but now with the title it is more understood that this is the part where he is explaining what happend.

Conclusion:

I personally think that me and Louis have come a long way from our roughcut and have turned it into a really watchable football hooligan webisode.

Action plan for editing webisode

We have now finished all of the footage needed for our webisode and me and Louis have got some good ideas to make our football hooligan type webisode look really cool. Now we have our rough cut version sorted and uploaded we now need to take the feedback we got from the class and make our webisode top quality.

Our ideas for tomorrows lesson is to continue with the editing and hopefully finish it by the end of the day. Some of the feedback suggested that we needed to dub some speach over some talking because all you can hear is the natural sounds like the wind and buses.

We will have to play around with the soundtrack as well because the tempo and volume doesn't fit very well with the webisode at the moment. We have put in all the shots we want, we now just need to make some good effects and add them on to it. Such as slow motion, fades, blackouts. Another thing we need to do is make a dramatic fade so that when people are watching it they can tell that the fight scene is a story that he is telling and not just him suddenly wearing a different outfit. In the lesson tomorrow we will also be adding narrative to go over the top of some parts and also titles. We have both decided and agreed where we want to put the titles, and have got the greatest spot to put the main title 'The North Stand' in.

Some of the effects that we are planning to use in our opening part of the sequence is the notebook effect and also put a gausin effect over the top of it to make it look black and white with a rough effect on it. There has been an extension on the beginning of our webisode in the title sequence. On this part we will use the notebook/gausin effect and we also have some freeze frames for it as well. There are shots of a police man walking away which I think works well and also will hopefully help people understand it more.

Todays Plan (5th Oct)

My plans for today changed as the original plan was to finish the animatic and update my sketchbook, but as we had the opportunity to use the camera we decided that we should film instead. So we made our way down to the grafton to find a suitable location, which were flats. When we got all of our shots we came back to college and uploaded everything to final cut. We have now started to edit the shots which we took today.

Hooligan Clothing (Brands)

I have found some clothing which I think fits the genre of football hooliganism and this is what we want the actors in our webisode to be wearing. There are such brands as Fred Perry, Lacoste, Ralph lauren etc that we are hoping to use for the characters.

Fonts for my webisode

Here are some fonts which I have looked at and think will be suitable for my webisode based on football hooliganism. I am aiming to use one of these fonts for my final webisode piece.

My Weeks plan and todays plan 27th - 1st October

This is the week plan for my groups targets.

Week targets and Todays targets Jahmal

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My Pitch document

This is my pitch document for my genre project. I have described the story in an understandable way, the rationale shows research that I have picked up from the market audience, and the contingency plan shows some of the issues we may face. I think that the pitch document has enough information to know what we will be getting up to when finding locations and so on.

Football hooligan pitch jahmal

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Keynote

Here is mine and Louis keynote which I think gets across the main points we wanted people to know about. I think that our keynote is small but we didn't get to finish it in as much detail as we wanted to as we were trying to concentrate on many other things.

Keynote (jahmal and louis)

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Book Reference for Football Hooligans

This book is called 'Football Hooligans' and in this section of the book I found a quote about teen hooligans, which is helpful as I am doing a webisode about teen hooligans.

Footbal Hooligans - The firm

This is the opening sequence to the 1988 film 'The Firm' this is the sort thing me and Louis are hoping to achieve, but obviously not with the car. We will use fake props i.e blood, baseball bats and bricks to accomplish what we need.

SWOT analysis - main idea (Football Hooligans)

Here is my SWOT analysis for mine and Louis idea of football hooligans. SWOT meaning Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.

Genre project 1st review

I so far think that the genre project has gone quite well for me in my sketchbook as i have six genre ideas which I have researched on and I have now Come down to two genres which I am happy with.

The two genres which I have narrowed it down to, are comedy, where I have researched a lot about Laurel and Hardy and Kenen and Kel. I have also chosen to do Action genre where I am going to work with Louis on to do a football hooligan scenario.

So overall I am happy with the stage I am at and I think that the plan me and Louis have decided to do will work, to make a good football hooligan webisode.

Laurel and Hardy Comedy (old and newer films)

In this post I am going to have some videos on old and newer Laurel and Hardy comedy films.

I have found some of the greatest Laurel and Hardy footage without any sound apart from the music and effects they played over the top here is one of the videos: (1920's)

This is another of Laurel and Hardy footage which I have found, but in this footage it has evolved in the way that there is actual sound of the two characters talking. Instead of the music playing loudly as it did before, you can just hear it in the background slightly: (1930's)

This is the latest footage of Laurel and Hardy in colour, as you can see there was a lot of change in Laurel and Hardy comedy, from no sound, to sound, and then finally to colour and sound. This shows that Laurel and Hardy have evolved a lot over the years it was produced: (late 1930's)

Origins of comedy genre

I found a website which defined the origins of comedy. I think that this website has a lot of good information if your trying to find out what the background of comedy is, and where it all started. I found out that a greek poet called 'Susarion' was the first comic poet or the earliest that was recorded. On this site it also explains that the origins of the comedy genre started with the greeks (Greek comedy).

Origins of Dance movies (research)

I found a website which has information on the origins of dance movies from 1948-2008. The website is called DanceHelp.com and it hasn't got everything up to date but it still gives a list of dance movies which I didn't even know about.

I also looked on wikipedia to see if that could help me in my search to find out about the history and origins of dance movies and I found a part which is called Dance in film. On this site I came across quite a lot of things. There was one film which was produced in 1948 called the 'Red Shoes', which is a ballet film, and this links to a lot of older films which are mainly all ballet films, but a massive change has occurred nowadays in which most films are all about street dancing and dancing competitions and there is always romance in mainly all recent dance films. In newer films/2000's films like 'you got served' this is where the street dancing competitions start to become popular in a range of dance films. A fairly new dance film called 'Dance Flick' has taken a different approach in which they still keep the street dance side to it, but with a comedy twist.

Red Shoes trailer:(1948)

You got served trailer:(2004)

Dance Flick Trailer:(2009)

Interview with a vampire and Original Buffy

Here are the trailers from 'interview with a vampire' and the 'original Buffy' the vampire slayer film which I have embeded off youtube.

Interview with a vampire:


Original Buffy the vampire slayer: