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Right, at long last my first unit is completed and handed in to be marked, which I can say, isn’t the highlight of this project by any straight of the imagination, as I fear that who ever marks the project will think that my images won’t make any sense what so ever, but yet there is a side of me that thinks sod’em ! I agree with the fact that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but at the end of the day I am proud of my work that I have produce and the time I have put into creating this project and no one can take that from me. 

However I do believe that there was and still is room for improvement, in this project, which are the following:

 

• To do more in depth research into Nature and Technology and it’s workings.
• Try to create a noticeable links between the images, for instance showing a journey progressing through the images and placing a object in all the images, which instantly recognised to the view. 
• Learn more about Photoshop and it’s wide range of tools and effects that are available.  
• To most certainly brush up on my Dreamweaver skills, as I have fail to realise that the skills for web design are seriously need. Much as I despise using Dreamweaver, due to the fact that I can’t my bloody head around the stupidly complicated html coding aspect, I believe putting extra time into this software will benefit me hugely for the future.
• Try to improve my essay writing abilities ! This is an on-going battle since I can remember as I hate doing sodding essays, yet it is a fair price to pay for not doing written exams WHOOP !!!!
• Try and use more critical ideas for any essays in the future, meaning figuring out how to use the uni library ! I would just like to point out at this point, using the uni library is not as easy as you may think it is (hard to explain and dare think that I am stupid !).  
• Lastly, try to note down all the references of any materials I use, as I have found out that Harvard Referencing comes back to kick you in the head if you don’t note it down properly from where you got it from.

 

Overall though I am very happy about my work and what I have produce. I do have to say that in this unit I have surprised myself, by how may new skills I have learnt. Well I say skills, I really mean “skill’, which is Photoshop. Before I came to uni i hadn’t had foggiest idea how to use it and now I can use it like it is second nature to me. 

Yet there is one thing I can think of that I hate, in this unit, and that is having to speak in ‘Third Person’ for my essay. As it has resulted by me speaking like a posh git, for instance it’s hard not to say in conversation “one would do this, one would say this, one thinks ?” instead just using the word ‘i’.

So well done there by me !

Moving swiftly on or back, either way. In my production of my images, I did kinda went into over kill and forgot that I only had to create five images for this project and produce more than I should of. However it did give me the chance to choose from a selection images to use in my project. I have already posted up my five final images for my project yesturday on this blog. But the images that I didn’t use for my project, I am going to post up now, which are the following:

O and please leave your comments/feedback about these images as well as my five final images, that I posted up yesturday.

Thank you

Unpublished Image for Project

 

 

This image conveys how the idea of flying, empowered us, mankind to invent aviation. This is emphasised through the layer fading of a bird (a Hawk specifically) turning into a plane to advancement. I has occured to me that the back end of the plane should be the bird and the front end the plane to fully justify my idea of advancement, but if I was to do this, no one would recognise that the back end is a bird, hence why I have shown the bird at the front as it is iconic to us that it is a bird. 

This image was one of my original ideas and you can view my post about it further down this blog. The reason why I didn’t use it for my final five images because I felt that it was to simplistic and would properly fit in with the other images, for this reason I replaced it with the image of Natures Symphony, which was one of my images for my first one day project, which is called Revolution last month. I have posted up Revolution and Natures Symphony on this blog, so you can view the development that was undertaken. 

This next image was also going to be featured in my image project, which is the other image, that I created in my first one day project, called Encounter

 

Unpublished Image for Project

 

This image was developed further to justify and represent the true workings that could be undergone by nature and showing it’s true form. The original image of Encounter that I created only showed the Matrix reflecting in the frogs eye, this was achieved by cutting & layering the Matrix and the frogs eye and turning down the opacity of the Matrix to look like it was being reflecting in the eye (just like light would do on a sunny day as it reflects off glass and shinny surfaces). The original image of Encounter can be found at the bottom of this blog, so you can view the development of these images for you self.

 

So there we are, that is the images unit completed and in the bag. The next unit that I will be undertaking will be called the Narratives Unit, which evolves having to work within a group this time, which should be interesting and how I have an operation in the new year early January, which could affect how this unit will go for me and my group. To give a idea about what this next unit is going to be about, each group in the course have to produce an interactive story, whether it is a nursery rime or a fairy tail, which allows the user to interact with the story dictate how events unfolds.