In the second year of Film Studies, we were asked to create a screenplay for a piece of our coursework. As I have shown the images here, this was what my screenplay idea was. I had inspiration from many things, but I wanted to make a short about a man who had been troubled and the trains were also symbolic to the passing of time, also where I created the title.

In the beginning of our Subsidiary BTEC, we made some short films which were focusing mainly on the continuity. I made this in a group with two others which we created to be about an average guy who wanted to be a wizard but everything seemed to fail until he had left. This was the second film we had made using Premiere Pro and I think that this has worked out well for a start. Not only that but we also used the green screen to edit the glasses in, though this was a small section I have experimented with a few techniques.

Experiments

When I did the mini brief, I played around with different ideas I could create things, and one of my ideas was to cut up the image that I had drawn and piece it together, but shattered and off scale, this was to also represent that a bottle can break and that it would be shattered.

After creating that shattered version, I went onto the fine liners and I drew the bottle completely using the name of the bottle and the colours that the areas were. I found this to work really well and this was also inspired by the work of Sarah King and Oscar Wilson. I then went on to do more drawings in this style for my A2 project.

Ideas

For our A2 we had to do a mini brief, and this was where I went on to create some ideas for what I was going to do. I really wanted to work with fine liners as I had progressively found them more interesting and I enjoyed working with them, that I made up a page of ideas. All of them were done in fine liner, but I later experimented using other techniques like mono printing and water colours.

Exam Piece

So after creating all of my experiments towards my exam piece, I then made a children's book, this was made into a concertina which was then folded up in the shape to make a folding book. Below I have broken up the concertina into the front and back cover and four parts in the middle, this was easier as I couldn't put the whole thing on here as it was too long.

Exam Developments

Moving onto my Exam, I designed a children's book that was about travelling in a rocket and on the way you encounter various planets and characters. Below are some of the characters that I created when I was in the developments of what I wanted to do.

I then went on to make people for my children's book (which I never ended up using as I preferred the other characters) but these were developments that I did by using materials that I found to make there clothing or even some textures that I made to make up areas such as their helmet.

These were just ideas that I made because I wanted to see if making a simplistic character would work, but I found that the little fruit characters that i made would work a lot better and children should enjoy them more.

Digital Typography

After the cut paper, we then moved onto Digital and these were some more techniques were I had heavily involved typography. Below is an example where I repeated the word 'FOOD' to create an apple as I wanted to have the words make the object.

Above was another experiment where I involved textures where I used the stamp tool to make different textures appear in individual letters, I then used a cracked texture in the background to blend it in with the whole of the type. I found this to create a really interesting piece.

Cut Paper

Continuing in the expressive techniques, for AS we then had to create ideas using cut paper, this was new to me and I did find this very difficult. We also tried to use minimal colours when doing our cut papers and these are some of the experiments I did.

As you can see in the bottom image, there is also typography used, I made it so that the name of the calculator was across the top of the calculator instead of having it fit inside and I wanted to play with scale and I made it large so that it stood out and really emphasised the fact that it was coming out of the calculator.

Expressive Techniques

In our AS Graphics, we firstly experimented with various techniques on how to expressively draw, and I created some experiments in a contour line style. These were of objects that I had around my house and I based them all on the topic of food just to try and expressively create the objects.

As they were the starting topic to the AS course, I found them to break me out of my comfort zone, but I found that these were a really good technique and a more interesting way to create images.