Week 14
Three men and a trophy


Wednesday:

First thing, Steve called me into the office as I had been absent the previous week and he needed an update as to where I was with my assignments. He asked me to try and get the A2 assignment finished by the end of the day.
During the morning I finished my budget statement, site structure and screen design. I found this easy to get done and it took me around 2 hours to do it all.
In the afternoon, Diane came in and sat down to help me get my designs on PageMaker. I had only used PageMaker briefly twice before so I didn’t know a lot at all. Diane helped me with the basics and she showed me some more advanced things, for example, how to use the short cut keys to make building a page a little quick and easier. I picked it up easily and began using them. It took me a while to get used to PageMaker as a whole, but Diane guided me and helped me so much. If she hadn’t been there it would have taken me a least 2 days to get my design finished, but, instead I got both the homepage and form done in a matter of hours.

Diane also helped me get to grips with assignment template and taught me how to put in references and images.

I feel sometimes, when Diane comes in, that she helps me so much that other people don’t get to see her or ask her anything. I must admit though, that I really do need the help and I’m sure the rest of the group understand.
By the end of the day, the only task I had left to do was putting the rest of my work into the assignment template.

Thursday:

Thursday morning, Steve set us a task of drawing designs within a set time. Firstly was 2 minutes per design, the next also 2 minutes, the next 1minute 30 seconds, 1 minute and finally 30 seconds. This task was hard and I really enjoyed it. 30 seconds per design was no time at all but meant you had to be spontaneous and do anything. The things I came up with were messy and boring. I think I need to loosen up my mind a little when designing, and be less uniformed.

After this task, Steve called Chris and me in to show us the image restoration task we missed last week; the image was of three old men with a trophy. Looking at the rest of the group’s images, the task seemed like it was going to be a difficult one. As I have used Photoshop quite a lot before I started this course, it wasn’t hard, just time consuming. The detail that has to be adhered to is immense but makes for a much better finish to the image.

I completed the retouching of the image in the day but have yet to add colour to it. I expect this will be harder as the image has to look realistic and I need to dress the old men appropriately.