Evaluations:

Magazine:

First, I did a mind map to decide on what to do for this part of the brief. There were many ideas, such as landscape, nature, urban, portraiture, etc... And after writing all of the ideas down, I decided to go for a fantasy landscape idea. I found it easy to do because of all the glens on the Isle of Man and that there is plenty of landscape and nature.
I wrote a list of places of where to go and take pictures and the majority of them were glens. Mainly the ones which were close to me and my world.
For example: Tholt-y-Will Glen is near Sulby, which is where I live and the Mountain is close by there too. Also, there is Ballaglass Glen, which I find is very fantasy like and lets my imagination run wild.
So, I went out during a weekend to take pictures. I got what I thought were the best ones that showed fantasy in them. Such as the small hut made out of sticks and twigs and the wooden statue of a storyteller. And the "Beast of Ballaglass Glen" as well.
After that, I went on InDesign and started my magazine. I wanted my audience targeted as photographers, mainly landscape ones. It could be ranged at any age, really... probably those who like fantasy.
Anyway, I made a layout and chose the correct pictures which I thought would work in the magazine. And since I want a fantasy-like magazine theme, I needed a title and I went for "A Mind Full of Fantasy". I used a font (can't remember the name...sorry) that looked almost Manx/fantasy like. I liked it, because it showed up well on the photo that I chose on the first spread. I chose the photo of the Storyteller of Ballaglass Glen for the first spread because it looked as if he was waiting for someone to come.
Now, what went right about this part of the project...? Well, the photos worked the best in this project, because they were very successful and fitted the whole topic/theme that I chose.
And what went wrong? The magazine isn't finished...!! But I do have research and idea generations to support it~!
And if I ever need to improve this... I would actually finish the magazine.



Myself in a Movie:

I had to decide what was gonna happen with this part of the project. I've already based the magazine on me... so why not base the movie on my alter ego, Seth? So, I did some research on abstract animations and sounds and found a few that I liked. I saw two animations that I liked and I really want to try and make my animation like them.
Firstly, I did some mind maps on Seth to find some sort of idea for the animation/movie (you can find this in my sketchbook). There are many things about him, such as his different moods: intelligent, angered easily, murderous, etc... and his main occupation: Being a cyber ghost of some sort.
Then, I started to make the sound for the movie, calm at first, but then is gets all digitilised and noisy, suggesting that Seth's battling his evil side. I chose to do the sound on GarageBand and used different instruments that I've never used/heard of before, such as Big Saw Bass, SoCal Kit drum, SoCal Kit Cymbol, Delicate Bells, Massive Saws (bass) and Hoover Bass (the basses are very loud...!!).
After completing the sound, I moved onto the storyboard. I did it all on Photoshop and it may look confusing, but it was only a rough, as I never got to finish the actual movie... mainly because of computar problems and Adobe Audition playing up on me (shutting down and rebooting, freezing up...) and so was Adobe After Effects, so I never got the work finished.
However, if I were to finish this, the movie would have been like the research examples that I have put in the ideas part of my movie blog. Moving pictures, static, glitches and maybe some speech, too.
To improve with this, I would have finished he movie and actually complete the storyboard in full detail. Also, the audience for this project would have been for music/animation lovers.



Package Myself:

Now, all of this project has been about me (and Seth). The last two projects were us two seperated, but I'd decided for this part of the project to do both me and Seth. I did some research on different packaging designs and mixed media productions (since we had to use some sort of mixed media stuff in this project) and I found some that I liked (you'll find them on my blog) and wrote about what I liked about them and analysed them.
Then, after all of my ideas and mindmaps, I came up with two ideas:

-Either make a box for a pack of cards...
-Or make a package for a chess game...

After doing five designs for each idea, I decided to do the chessgame package.
(Please see my sketchbook for this)
Then, I went into making the chess game: Queen vs King, where you only get the queen on one side and the king on the other side. So, I chose which design I liked and worked on that design. Then, I made it on Photoshop (search on the blog for the step-by-step post).
I made up the How-to-play instrucions and placed them onto the package design.

However, I didn't get to MAKE the actual package, so for improvement, I would finish the product and print out the package.
But, I really liked this part of the project, as I NEARLY completed it...

If only I had printed out the package dsign, made it and made some sort of a chess board (which I had decided to design as a treasure map/ old-fashioned map, which you'ld have to roll up and put it in the package, which would have been a cylinder like shape).