Gathered Materials

I have gathered together some information about cinemas and theatres including Majestic Bridgnorth and Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre. This was to gain an insight into whats happening in this industry during this time of year, what types of film are released etc. 

Cover featured inside Majestic Bridgnorth magazine

Thatcher the Cow!

Below is my final design for my silk screen print that I will be undertaking next week. The image featured above "Thatcher the Milk Snatcher" is a combination of two images, a cow and Thatchers head. After finishing this I turned it into greyscale then a halftone bitmap image ready to be printed onto acetate.

9th December 2011 Update

Today was the final day of printing and I found that precision definitely wasn't on my side and that I have learnt from this experience to always make sure from the first print to line up the paper correctly. The only two things on my image that printed correctly were the Sell by Date and the image of Thatchers face attached to the cow.

Type Fundamental Brief #2 ~ Thumbnail Designs

The second part to the Type Fundamental brief is to design another DPS using a 7 column gird and 3mm gutters as well as a front cover titled Horizon. Images can be used on each of the designs. I am currently thinking of using the 1930's projection photograph on the front cover. Still yet to decide on the type face I am going to use. I will use the website called http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ to help generate some type title ideas. Below are some of the starting thumbnails designs I have generated for the new brief.




Featured in these thumbnails all have a quotation due to the text that has been
given with this brief having a quote from Jeff Leak. Subheadings have been outlined
by the bolder lines.

This scan of the second page of thumbnails shows that the bottom two

have been created by using the gird. The one design to the bottom right

of the scren shows how differently text can look on a page depending on the

size of the page.

Thatcher the Milk Snatcher!

Featured below is the original Thatcher the Milk Snatcher image with the proposed 2nd colour, the light blue background. I missed this out when creating it the first time but found it was an easy task to correct and edit. I am in the process of adding more images to the carton to make it more interesting to look at rather than it being all typography.

Cinematic Theatre Update!!

During this weeks tutorial sessions I have managed to insert an image of Conor who was the employee from the Majestic Cinema in Bridgnorth.

Conor Mitchell, Majestic Cinema Bridgnorth

The photograph of Conor above was edited slightly in PhotoShop to enable the reader to see his face more due  the background being more darker. I edited the levels of the photograph then inversed in order to darker the background after making Conor lighter. I then was able to change the colour to Black & White and then save the image as a TIFF file which allows the quality to be better when printing. Unfortunately, blogger had an error when trying to upload the photo. This photograph is featured to the right of the Cinematic Theatre title and underneath the introduction.

My next step was to buy some popcorn and take a photo of it which could then be edited to create another image effect for the zine. With a saving of 42p! Butterkist Cinema Sweet Popcorn was lovely to tuck in to after taking the photo. I took the photograph of the spread out popcorn on a clean white page so that when I come to quick select the popcorn pieces due to it being taken on a white background it will be easier and less time consuming when placing each piece onto my second page of the DPS.

Butterkist Cinema Sweet Popcorn! Placed specifically for second page
of Cinematic Theatre.