I have been developing a bit of self promotional branding alongside my live briefs. I have redesigned my business card which relates to my website I am still in the process of coding. I need to make sure it looks the best it can, because if I am to offer web design services, I need to showcase what I can do through my own.

I have found a printers in Manchester who offer good printing services for a fair price. I am going to get them sent off once I can get the money together. As it stands, I am happy with the design of the website and business cards, but it something I will most certainly revisit when I have some free time in the summer. As my work continues to grow, so does my portfolio and so I need to regularly update this in order to stay ahead. As I do not intend on stopping, I do not think my identity as a graphic designer will either. This will hopefully give me a solid platform to acquire some good work opportunities in the summer.

Those two works were the ideas that i first come with the task a ‘new me’. I try to become a crusader or a superhero in comic style. I created those on Photoshop Cs5. I use images threshold adjustment to change the original photo in to stencil style, then select and paste my head on the other’s bodies and painted it with brush tool. The images came out very good i supposed. The images blended in each other and give a natural feelings. However, I need to look for other visual effects or methods beacuse those two didn’t give a clear identity about me. 

With the original photo taken I wanted to make myself fly in some way. upon further concepts I thought it would be a good idea to make myself into an angel with wings with a “Good Side and Bad Side”. I think that in every person including myself that there are some good and bad qualities.

This is my movie poster. I decided to do something a bit different and go for a documentary movie poster. Using my own images i created a poster of “Sleeping Kitten” the story about a kitten who ends up traveling and wandering around different places. Photos are taken of places where the kitten has slept and documented on film

Constructed world.

I decided to create this scene where everyone is watching. In the world today it’s hard to do anything without being seen - video cameras, phones, google, etc. it would seem that anything these days can’t be done without someone watching. So i cut out various objects which are used to watch people - video surveillance cameras, paparazzi cameras, and eyes to create the feeling that you are always being watched

Portfolio Task 1: The Constructed World

When I first heard that we would have to create a constructed world for our portfolio assignment, it reminded me of a dream I once had. In the dream I was walking at night in some part of Inner Melbourne, sort of like Richmond or Fitzroy, the sky was on fire and there were these trams with demonic faces speeding along the street in a blur, these tram were casing people down the street then swallowing up and would then disappear down a fiery tunnel as if they were going to hell. With this imagery in mind I decided that this would be the theme for my constructed world assignment.

The key elements I wanted to include in my image were:

·         Melbourne in Hell

·         Dark, night time

·         Evil Trams with an open mouth speeding along scooping people up and then going down a tunnel to hell.

The first element I worked on was the tram, after search for a demonic face to put on the front I decided to use the Lunar Park Face (after all it does say Melbourne), I then created a mask on the face. Next I masked out an image of a tram, I then placed the face at the front of the tram and used the skew tool to get it to sit right. I then changed the hue and saturation of the tram to make it red. I then added an image of fire in the mouth of the hell tram.

Then next element was the running people, again I masked then out from the original image and placed them in front of the tram.

For the street I use a photo of Brunswick St Fitzroy and then masked out the left side of the street.

For the sky I used an image of a fiery sunset.

For the background I used a photo of Melbourne taken at night from Southbank, I then masked out the sky so that the fiery sky would come through.

I added a close up image of the sun and then created a gradient mask on river to creates the illusion that river was made of fire.

For the final touch I created the shadows of the people running by duplication them then colouring them black, using the skew tool I reposition the shadows so that appeared to be coming off the runners, I then blended them in over the street.  

I then with played hue and saturation of the complete image to give it a red look.

Just a sample CV kreatif for MC and Singer x)