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Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Reflections!

In the first term, we made a project about creating a sports gear, our guiding question being: “How can I use graphics and desktop publishing software to design and advertise a product in a competitive world.” My partner and I formed a plan to make a shirt have cooling properties by having some sort of cooler underneath the sport shirt, targeted for countries with hot summers, such as UAE. I think our idea was good but not realistic in a way. For improvement, we can make a more achievable idea.

In the second term, we had to make a project for Tech Fair, making anything that is related to technology, such as a CD art or to develop a game or software. My group has formed an idea to create 2 robots, a baby and mother. We created the robot to play music and to fly. Quite a difficult achievement but we had succeeded quite well to make both of the robots. We created the robots out of cardboard with other equipment such as engines or speakers to play music. I think our idea was quite difficult to proceed with but it was achievable. For improvement, we should manage our time wisely as we were a bit delayed with the written work.

In the third term, we had to create a collage by learning how to use Adobe Photoshop, which was quite a hard process as I have found the software quite confusing, In the end, I have made a collage related to environment. I have made a collage to make people aware of how our earth is harmed by greenhouse gases because of humans’ actions, such as driving or manufacturing infrastructures. I made a message to go green and to take care of our earth, since it is the only home we have. I think my project had a good message however, for improvement; I should manage my time more wisely.

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Design!


My Project

My final piece! I have used a forest to show the beauty of earth and to show people what beauty we are destroying with our pollution. I said to "Embrace our Earth" meaning to love and take care of our earth because our earth is precious and it is our home. We should "Go Green" to conserve our beautiful earth and its stunning features such as the mountains and forests. My theme is related to the Environment criteria and the message I am trying to bring out is to Go green to help save our earth for the future. 

Wednesday, 1 May 2013


10 Features I have learnt on Adobe Photoshop

1.     How to readjust the contrast
2.     How to crop the picture
3.     How to recolor the picture
4.     How to use Magnetic Lasso Tool
5.     Selecting the History
6.     How to put two pictures together
7.     How to zoom in and out
8.     How to sharpen images using “sharpen tool”
9.     How to erase the background using the “background eraser tool”
10.  How to write text on to the picture.

 Using the Magnetic Lasso Tool

Cropping the Picture









Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Investigation


Investigation
l  What is a collage?
A collage is a technique of visual arts made up of different elements like pictures or ribbons to create one whole picture.
l  What are they used for?
Collage could be used for bringing out a message to people by using certain pictures related to the topic used and could also be used in creating art with creatively and to show it in a bigger aspect with more detail.
l  What do they look like?
They look like a big picture made up of different pictures combined, to make a greater meaning rather than just by themselves.
l  How can you effectively portray the underlying theme to an audience?
By choosing pictures related to the issue and putting creating it into a shape, significant to the topic and by editing text explaining the issue.
l  How is a collage useful?
Collages are useful because it could convey a complicated and deeper message by having 2 elements involve. It could also be used by artists by using cuts out of different colored paper to make a larger and more complicated colors rather than only using markers or paint.

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16/04/2013