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.

 

Final Result:

Today we were supposed to write down the risks within our work ( photoshoot ) the risks that are around us and how to avoid / fix them. The only problem with mine is that im drawing mine digitally, this’ll be hard to do as there aren’t many risks to working digitally. I’ve managed to name some down, such as  The severity and Likelihood are both ranked between 1-5. 1 Being not risky at all and 5 being extremely risky. we would name an activity as shown followed by a Hazard, people at risk, current controls and the two i mentioned a second ago. with how you think the situation is on a scale of 1-5, you would get the Severity x Likelihood and the risk rating will be your result. I’m yet to still do another risk assessment task but I’m .ot sure what it is. I need to finish my drawing of trump then i’ll do may. ill need to actually make my magazine then do my Evaluation, I am close to being done but I’m still far from the finishing line.

Just now I’ve had a 1 to 1 with Chloe about my work and how I’m enjoying it. my plan for this section is pretty planned out and I’m glad that I’m all up to date and have a good structure with my work!

With what Im doing ( politics ) i cant really get pictures of may and trump, so i’ll have to illustrate it.

I’ll be using a picture of trump by Lucas Jackson

And a picture of may by  Eddie Mulholland

This’ll go at the bottom of the page where it’ll be seen under all of the text.

This will be the first thing i’ll be doing. After i need to plan how im going to lay it out and get the correct orders, that’ll be done in word.

The mood board we need to do i’ve already done, so what im planning on doing is doing a story hill to plan out my order on working on everything. I have a check list in my word documents somewhere that i can add to and check off.  As there isn’t an awful lot I can do when it comes down to photographing politics without getting someone else image, the second closest thing i can get to that is drawing them digitally and editing them. I can do these when everyone is out taking photos and in our individual lessons, However, i do want these to be as detailed and accurate to Trump and May as possible because politics is a very controversial topic to many people, and i also feel that illustrating them with the same amount of effort and detail would be fair towards both of what people support.

The good thing about what I am doing is that i wont need permission slips or models, i can take the time to plan out more rather than rush about finding models and booking the studio for the shoot, I can just take my time and draw them both in anyway i can portray them as.