HA3 - Evaluation

HA3 Tasks Evaluation.

HA3 was all about Hip Hop Shakespeare. Putting a modern twist on Romeo and Juliet. A big part of this unit was making research and interpreting things ourselves. Our task was to create six images, each for a certain scene in Romeo and Juliet, we had to modernise the scenes however. We had to create these images on Illustrator.

 We had to be creative and come up with all of our own ideas. We had to base all of our ideas around what happens in our city, Manchester.

Our first task on this particular unit was to devise a plan of how we were going to use our time to make sure all of the tasks get completed on time. We then had to blog this.

The first part of the second task was to make research into what we think Romeo and Juliet would be like if it was to happen now. For example I chose gang violence and music where people DJ against each other to win things etc to put a mordern twist on things. From this I produced two moodboards and put them onto Blogger.

The other part of the second task was to collect images off the internet that we want to use and merge with other pictures on Photoshop to then use in Illustrator. For me, I chose 2 or 3 images to make into one image. I had to create six of these images and then uploaded them to blogger as evidence.

For the final task, I had to trace over the images in Illustrator. This took a long time as I still wasn't very used to using Illustrator so was still quite uncomfortable with the tasks I was being given. I went over the deadline for this assignment so chose to come in on my days off to complete the work. Once finished tracing over the images I then had to add colour. I completed this task by using the pen tool and the fill tool. I then uploaded these images to the blog when complete.

In the end I ending up going back over my six traces and re-doing them as I felt I was more comfortable in Illustrator now and could improve them quite a bit. This took me about a day today, When I re-opened them to improve them I could clearly see that there was a lot of white parts where I had missed out filling so I filled them and then deleted some of the bodies I had traced as they didn’t look very neat.

Over all I’m happy with the new outcome of the six images as I feel they have improved a lot since first trying to do them. I also feel more comfortable and happy working in Illustrator now so I’m glad I made the time to go back over my work to try get the best results possible.

At the start of this assignment I felt really uncomfortable and felt I would be unable to complete the tasks to a good standard but now I feel I have done quite well and have done the work to the best of my ability. If I were to do these tasks again I would panic less and plan my time out more efficiently. I think a big part of me not completing this work on time was not planning the time properly, I didn't really think it through that well.

Now I feel a lot more confident when using Illustrator and now what all of the basic tools are for and most of the more complicated tools. I feel if I was to re-do this task over it would take me half the actual time it took me first time round as I was too nervous on Illustrator as I was new to the software.