BRIEF TWO - SCREEN

REFLECTION

First off it was a challenge for myself as I have never touched on website design throughout my education, therefore I have a lack on knowledge in this field of design. Which is why I’m glad it was a brief in the first semester, as I believe I have learnt a lot from it as I am now more familiar with the technical terms and what they mean.

I believe it is such a crucial part in design these days. If you don’t have a website how do you sell yourself as a designer!? And because there are so many websites, how do you make yours different and more special than the others. BIG IDEA!

Problems:

Early on I found it hard visualizing my concepts - how to show movement through still drawing and imagery. This is where I realized that storyboarding is so important. Obviously I wanted a really interesting and visual website with movement that I wasn’t too sure how you would create digitally.

The photoshoot - the first test shoot I did of the concept was carried out in my house, with a sheet for the background and no additional lighting than the light on the ceiling, so there was a lot of shadow and made the imagery appear quite student like. So I wanted for the final shoot to be located in the photo studio where I could get a nice clean crisp white background. However it was all booked up in the time I had to complete it so I borrowed some lighting from uni and made the white sheet more secure on my wall, hoping the pictures would come out better. Which they did, however the background still contained some shadow, but actually didn’t look too bad! It almost complimented my slightly unclean and quirky personality.