Evaluation

At the beginning of the project, I was hesitant about what I wanted to do as well as my skills towards the subject I picked. We all were all told to pick a subject that we are all passionate about. The popular pick as fashion but I chose politics as I felt and still do feel that not enough young people know what’s going on with it. If you hear the word politics you think instantly long speeches, votes and unnecessary changes. I wanted to make it completely different, make it interesting; Almost like a teen magazine that is interesting, so I decided to name my magazine ‘Political Tea’ and have the tag line as ‘that’s the tea sis’ to keep up to date with the regular sayings. As I’m doing politics it’ll be hard to get a picture of Theresa May and Donald Trump so I decided I would illustrate them, before I did that I needed to get some inspiration so I headed on down to Pinterest to find some politic art. There was plenty of art to get inspired of, but I brainstormed an idea of a V.S kind of idea between May and Trump, but I don’t want it to seem like they’re going to fight as they’re so close, so I just left it blank with them still face to face.

About a week later we all had to get everything together and plan out our mood board and practice expressions and different camera angles along with Photoshop practice. We updated our blog regularly to update and keep note on what we’ve done during the day and what we can improve on. At this point we had a 1 to 1 where we talked about how we’ve improved since our last project and what we are doing well on etc. We were given the materials to try and make projection and movement photography to recreate and put on our blog, this led onto the proper prep for our magazine cover, I helped take one photo for my friend’s magazine. As I was doing art there wasn’t a lot of health and safety risks, however there were still risks to it but not as many risks as an actual shoot. For me there was only the risk of overheating my laptop and some tripping hazards with the amount of wiring going on, so the health and safety part was fairly easy on my half.

Recently I had to go through my check list to make sure I’ve done everything before finishing / starting my magazine cover everything was done the mood board was done, blogs etc were done and all good. Today as I’m sat here writing this, I’ve just finished my magazine cover. I have tried my hardest to make May and Trump look similar in detail and I think I’ve done well personally. Looking back onto what I’ve done I feel like I could have put more effort into them but what is done is done and I can’t change that now. I am very happy with my work although I would love to know Photoshop better so I can put my images and ideas into place instead of having to half ass it when I know it could have looked greater than it is already. This has been by far the best subject for me as I am quite passionate about politics and I hope my message of that has spread and will spread to show that there is some drama and stupid things going on in politics that’ll make you laugh.

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