Evaluation

The assignment brief was to produce a piece of digital art that identifies a social and ethical issue in the world, for this project i chose depression because i felt like i knew more about the effects than any other issue that was given to us. The first thing we did was brain storm ideas and questions then gather research based on the questions given so i went onto various sites grabbing information on the effect, what causes it and ways to help and prevent it form harming others. We then went onto find artists work that inspired us and i looked into many works to fine peoples art that i like and alot of it wasnt anything recreational so i found myself wondering what i could think of which is a physical representation of depression or what its like.

The Primary and Secondary research i did was very lacking as i didnt put to much effort into my primary research as all i did was a basic questionaire which help emphasize the spike image in my final project but i more focused on finding out information from sites and looking at information i could add to my project which took majority of the time as i was relooking at the same information over and over and not really finding out much information. For my project i decided to create and information style poster that gives quick easy information to help people realize how tragic depression can be not for adults but for teenagers too. The idea behind it is the spike represents depression and the weights are the emotions weighing you down making the spike pierce you more and more increasing the pain caused, i feel like this is a good way to present depression as it eye catching and shows you the real tragedy it brings. I chose rather dull colours to really grasp the dull emotions caused by depression and give the audience alittle slice of what it feels like. i created the image by first drawing the picture by hand which took a rather long time to do.

The tools i used were basic, but first i scanned my picture then uploaded onto Photoshop. Using the pen tool and low opacity i outlined over my drawing  and fulled the back ground in grey, i wanted a purple type colour but i couldnt find a good purple to go in the back so i stuck with a grey for more dullness instead, i added my text using the text tool and then added a small texture to my spike, nothing speacial went into the work as im not very good with using Photoshop therefore i didnt learn any new skills. My time management was near to non exsistant as i didnt stick to my schedule as i found it to inaccurate to my work rate and i just didnt bother with it. I dont like how the poster came out i found it rather bland and boring and it wasnt very well done due to my lack of skill and my lack of enjoyment for the project. If i could change anything i would change the topic of discussion to somthing with more information to looks at. There wasnt any major problems to my work it was more work efficiency that i lacked in but this was overcome during the last few days.

I believe my poster addressed my target audience which was the common public ,to a certain degree as the peer feed back told me that what i was portraying was getting to the audience and they were understanding the information. I believe my presentation went well i gave my honest opinion and i told what i did and i gave a good description for it.