This design is based around when I used to pick backberries in the late summer time around my village. It was fun to put them into boxes and baskets and then to bring them back and show my mum. I have created this poster on photoshop and it was simple to design because I used the paint-brush tool to create a smooth drawing of the basket and used a bigger, zoomed in brush for the bushes. For the writing I used the text tool.
This design was inspired by the love for my mum and the feeling of home comforts such as a cup of tea. I felt that the pink background was appropriate to connote the flowery sort of feel to the production, I achieved this background by using the paint bucket.The design is meant to look like a window and draws the audience into feeling as though they are looking through the window at some cakes. I drew the cakes, again using the paint-brush tool to give it a smooth, but realistic feel.
An emotive design is one I drew with two sisters walking arm in arm towards a rainbow. I have based the drawings of those two girls on my sister and I because she is a big part of my life and the quote “A sister is a little bit of childhood which will never be forgot” is appropriate to the memories and love cherished by my sister and I. I will always remember dressing up in fairy-tale costumes with her and feeding ducks in the summer. The love and desire which pervades upon my sister and me when we are together is depicted by the rainbow in the picture because the different colours represent sad, happy, fun and hard times. The colours used for my sisters dress and my dress are the colours we used to wear as little children so therefore I felt it was successful in conveying the realistic element of the design.I managed to create the misty look of the rainbow by using a format on the paint-brush tool which allowed me to get the brush bigger and create different textures. This is also how I created the leaves surrounding my sister and I. This is my favourite design because it represents something close to me. The rest of the images you will have to wait and see... :)
Evaluation
I feel that my final production was successful in envisaging and engaging the concept of my own ‘Sense of Place’ because the works of practitioners used and the quotes, lyrics, media and pictures I found and researched came useful in demonstrating how home is a lovely place to be and how the comfort of memories can be found in that place. My production was to be presented in an appropriate format of ICT and I feel as though it succeeded in this because I used Photoshop Elements 8 to edit pictures, writing and drawings to create an outcome which proved appropriate in understanding what my sense of place was about. I reached the intentions and idea’s which I wanted to portray to a target audience in a different range of media/ICT forms such as Photoshop, Tagxedo and Word-Image. These created smooth, simple posters to allow the presentation to be understood. ICT, in my opinion, is a successful tool in representing and presenting visual communication because there are so many different creative options to explore and try. I feel some things could have been improved such as the technical skills which went into producing the posters because they were simple and if I had the time to expand on it I would try to create more complex posters to show different technical skills in different ways.
Finding out about people’s childhood memories and retracing my own has given me a great deal of pleasure and I have enjoyed creating and exploring both ICT formats and descriptive pieces of writing to help me with illustrating childhood memories via ICT formats. I also felt a great deal of happiness in exploring and researching the joy that a lot of homes bring and from the positive feedback and findings from my research questionnaire, it is safe to say that there’s no place like it.
References:
Karen Harwell -‘Exploring a Sense of Place’-http://www.exploringsenseofplace.org/guidebook/authors/
References:
Karen Harwell -‘Exploring a Sense of Place’-http://www.exploringsenseofplace.org/guidebook/authors/
An article by Daily Mail reporter (name not stated) ‘There’s No Place like Home’- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090143/Theres-place-like-home--100-years-Centenarian-lives-house-born-days-running-water-electricity.html#ixzz1r59oIa00
Is the feeling of ‘being home’ a construct?’ http://lynni.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/is-the-feeling-of-being-home-a-construct/
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