In this project I am going to be making one of these posters myself, two friends and I are making a poster each, and we will compare them and see which is the best to show the content. They also will be looked at and analysed under what they show, and how they show it.
Idea
Mind map - We made a mind map consisting of the words "Tony Stark (Marvel Character), Military personnel, Vehicles, Title: World War" This title was a working title that changed during development for the best.
Brainstorm - We brainstormed for a good few minutes as to how we would do this and what theme we would go for, but we settled on the same idea pretty quick which gave us an edge when it came to making it, we had a lot of time.
Keep referring to others - I have done throughout most of the development stage, and also mentioned them when setting up our project and defining what we're doing.
Team work (no duplicating images) - I can assure no images are duplicated through our blogs and they're all unique, especially the posters we planned to make ourselves.
Producing work - We produced the work with relatively a good amount of success, I feel it came out great and the work my team made was really, really great in the end.
Feedback from team people and tutor - The feedback we received from the team was generally positive, helping each other out when we could. From our tutor the feedback was also really helpful, and there weren't many issues to tackle.
Finished product - Digital poster, our digital posters were pulled off really well and there were little problems when developing them, the finished product is below. We also put the posters on padlet and got great feedback and it looked really high quality.
Review of how well carrying out leadership - I feel I carried out my role of leadership was really put to the test as I had to develop my own poster to a theme of war (supporting war to be exact). This wasn't easy, but I feel it was pulled off pretty well, considering I didn't come across many obstacles and if I did my team helped sort them out and tackle them with ease. I feel that I did my work to my actual best and I couldn't ask for anything more out of my work, I would definitely do this again but with a more difficult approach and challenge.
What do the others need to do for their leadership to meet their part of the project? - Apart from me, others have work to do too, this includes Angus, Aaron and Sadiq. Angus needs to make an Anti-War poster which will be the opposite of mine, Aaron needs to make a Pro-war poster, supporting it like mine, finally Sadiq needs to do the same as Angus and make an Anti-war poster.
Since we'll have two posters for and against war, we have a fair balance between the two sides, we must make them individually and help out each other when need be,
What is required for this area of leadership? - The poster will have the title of 'World War', and will feature the fictional marvel character of 'Tony Stark'. It will also contain military tech, military people, and the results of what warfare causes, this includes: gun-fights, anger, explosions, exploitation, betrayal and espionage.
I'm going to have to be flexible to situations, I will have to work under pressure and get a satisfying payoff as a result it means I can then take on more difficult tasks with confidence, I also and also will have to be able to manage my time accordingly. If I do not plan ahead then things will pile up and I will struggle to achieve what I set out to do. I need to work with my team and coordinate with them too, my teams consists of me, Aaron Stringer, Angus Mackintosh and Sadiq Arshad.
My skills to develop will consist of time management, independent work and working with others and sharing feedback and exchanging opinions to better our work. My leadership itself is making a poster and sharing it to a community including friends and family to gather a response.
Hopefully this will improve my artistic judgement and also my editing skills and techniques, also will let me understand sharing work and learning from mistakes that may or may not have been made.
Examples of in media or the arts of similar areas of leadership are below
By AdrakStudios
By www.Warthunder.com
By www.Borninthejungle.squarespace.com
Planning
Action Planning
How to make it happen - To make it happen I need to produce a poster that shows the topic of war, including the figures that lead factions and claim they are helping. I will also be letting family and friends look at it and I will share it on social sites such as Facebook.
Where will it be shared? - The work that I am producing (the poster) will be shared to my friends interested in arts, and my family as they support what I make and do. I will take in their opinions and then work upon them and see if there is anything to improve it on.
Key dates - Starting on 21st April, ending on the 22nd May.
Software and Hardware - For software I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS6, the software used to make images and posters flawlessly and effectively. I will be using this program only for this poster, nothing else when it comes to software.
For hardware I will simply need a pc that can runs Photoshop CS6, which if anything these ones can, and mine at home can (I also own the software at home, CS6 also).
Assets and File Management - We are going to make a gmail account, simply by having details of the address and password known between us all. From there we can send all files and work we do to that address so we can all access them if anyone ends up absent.
Angus' Planning - http://angusjoesphmackintosh.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/in-my-silver-arts-award-im-going-to-do.html
Aaron's Planning - http://stringeraaron67.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/supervised-arts-leadership.html
Sadiq's Planning -
Production
I started production of my poster to promote war, using the key factors to include in the picture, i have asked for feedback from my peers and I will note what they have to say about them.
Shot 1
This is the first shot I have, it contains the fictional marvel character Tony Stark, I used an effect in the filer galley which gives it a black and white chalk-sketch look. Angus and Aaron think it looks fine and effective for the message I am putting across.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - My skills are yet to develop, however I made the filter and gradient work so it's a sign of progress somewhat, no issues as of now.
Shot 2
This is the second shot I have, I added silhouettes of some marines by the side hanging around, the pose is interesting and relatable, I also put a gradient over it making it fade into the background of white, and I also noticed that it makes it look very dramatic.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - My skills as a whole I feel are slightly improving, by having those soldier fade out it makes the sense of drama and impact to the scene I am trying to convey.
Shot 3
This is the third shot I have, I added some more silhouettes of some jets, this adds some more drama to the picture and gives you a sense of power and authority. This also makes it look more heroic if you support this idea of pro-war.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - At this point I am starting to get a feel for it, I'm starting to consider what to add and make it more out there and effective for the purpose I set it out to make. I feel my skills are definitely getting better, more solid, more of an impact on the picture.
Shot 4
This is the fourth shot I have, I added some text, saying "Help him save you...", I find it's inspirational and it works with the spirit of 'morale'. It's one of the ways to show confidence in war and makes it work with it's surrounding images.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - My skills didn't exactly improve in a sense because text isn't too hard to add and manipulate, but I feel my skills will develop further soon.
Shot 5
This is the fifth shot I have, I added some copies of the text I added in the previous shot, it gives it a more dramatic feel and makes it more impactful.
At this point I think that adding some text made the picture more dramatic, to gain that 'supportive' feel to it as well. A sense of morale is there in the picture.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - I feel my skills in making an atmospheric picture are present, and solid at that, I feel I can capture an emotion in a picture effectively.
Shot 6
This is the sixth shot I have, I added shadows of many types of guns in the background of the poster. In addition to looking downright amazing in contrast, it just follows the theme of war so much more effectively and really gives you the sense of impending warfare and preparation.
The addition of guns in the background was something I added at that point when it was ongoing, to give it the classical and obvious sense to the picture. It just reflects well with the silhouettes in my opinion.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - At this point I feel it's all coming together, I think my skills as a whole are spiking, towering and piling up when it comes to making this picture. I feel there are little issues whatsoever.
Shot 7
This is the seventh shot I have, the final touch I added to my picture was adding some bullet holes to the foreground. This is to demonstrate that guns are going to fire, bullets are going to impact, and the fight is going to start soon...
I've opened up more to variety, know what would work with certain tones and what wouldn't, so I feel my skills have escalated in quality so far.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - I feel my skills have developed drastically when doing this, I've gained a sense of perspective for the picture, and I have used some new filters, and techniques thanks to Angus and Aaron and also the internet online Photoshop community.
Evidence of Communication
http://padlet.com/angusjoesphmack/365m1da51ffy
^ The link to the padlet document
This is the padlet document with all of our posters and comments responding to what people think of our work. There's many positive comments so I feel we did a great job in the work and we should consider doing this again. What's more is we worked as a solid group and got all of our work done and published at around the same time.
The feedback from the padlet document has allowed me to review all of our work and conclude we did a very good job. We all carried a very similar style to our work, and I think it was pulled off really, really well.
We also showed what we thought of when we though of what a war poster looked like, we could express ourselves, and the feedback was very positive so we must have done a great job on it!
By working with others, I have learned that we could give each other ideas and opinions on what would make each and every one of our works better or worse in comparison. I also learnt that with others to work with, we shared similar results and we could help each other better ourselves with our work and make a better piece of work.
The overall achievements made would consist of making the posters, we all got ours done and put onto the padlet document to show others, we had to also show them to others and get feedback, so in the end we got some good feedback and I cannot complain with that result, which I would also count as a success.
The only challenge I had was some communication and when thinking of what to add to the project, it became difficult, even with friendly suggestions by others, what to actually put into the picture/poster.
What would you do differently next time? - What I would do differently is probably make us have different categories of posters, so we can vary them up more and get more varied feedback and responses. I would also have a different group of people so we could compare and see which combination of people worked best out of the two groups I would take part in.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - My skills are yet to develop, however I made the filter and gradient work so it's a sign of progress somewhat, no issues as of now.
Shot 2
This is the second shot I have, I added silhouettes of some marines by the side hanging around, the pose is interesting and relatable, I also put a gradient over it making it fade into the background of white, and I also noticed that it makes it look very dramatic.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - My skills as a whole I feel are slightly improving, by having those soldier fade out it makes the sense of drama and impact to the scene I am trying to convey.
Shot 3
This is the third shot I have, I added some more silhouettes of some jets, this adds some more drama to the picture and gives you a sense of power and authority. This also makes it look more heroic if you support this idea of pro-war.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - At this point I am starting to get a feel for it, I'm starting to consider what to add and make it more out there and effective for the purpose I set it out to make. I feel my skills are definitely getting better, more solid, more of an impact on the picture.
Shot 4
This is the fourth shot I have, I added some text, saying "Help him save you...", I find it's inspirational and it works with the spirit of 'morale'. It's one of the ways to show confidence in war and makes it work with it's surrounding images.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - My skills didn't exactly improve in a sense because text isn't too hard to add and manipulate, but I feel my skills will develop further soon.
Shot 5
This is the fifth shot I have, I added some copies of the text I added in the previous shot, it gives it a more dramatic feel and makes it more impactful.
At this point I think that adding some text made the picture more dramatic, to gain that 'supportive' feel to it as well. A sense of morale is there in the picture.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - I feel my skills in making an atmospheric picture are present, and solid at that, I feel I can capture an emotion in a picture effectively.
Shot 6
This is the sixth shot I have, I added shadows of many types of guns in the background of the poster. In addition to looking downright amazing in contrast, it just follows the theme of war so much more effectively and really gives you the sense of impending warfare and preparation.
The addition of guns in the background was something I added at that point when it was ongoing, to give it the classical and obvious sense to the picture. It just reflects well with the silhouettes in my opinion.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - At this point I feel it's all coming together, I think my skills as a whole are spiking, towering and piling up when it comes to making this picture. I feel there are little issues whatsoever.
Shot 7
This is the seventh shot I have, the final touch I added to my picture was adding some bullet holes to the foreground. This is to demonstrate that guns are going to fire, bullets are going to impact, and the fight is going to start soon...
I've opened up more to variety, know what would work with certain tones and what wouldn't, so I feel my skills have escalated in quality so far.
How my leadership skills are developing with this project - I feel my skills have developed drastically when doing this, I've gained a sense of perspective for the picture, and I have used some new filters, and techniques thanks to Angus and Aaron and also the internet online Photoshop community.
Evidence of Communication
This is proof that I have communicated with Aaron and have sent him links to my blog posts.
This is proof that I have communicated with Angus and have received a link to our padlet post.
http://padlet.com/angusjoesphmack/365m1da51ffy
^ The link to the padlet document
Review
This is the padlet document with all of our posters and comments responding to what people think of our work. There's many positive comments so I feel we did a great job in the work and we should consider doing this again. What's more is we worked as a solid group and got all of our work done and published at around the same time.
The feedback from the padlet document has allowed me to review all of our work and conclude we did a very good job. We all carried a very similar style to our work, and I think it was pulled off really, really well.
We also showed what we thought of when we though of what a war poster looked like, we could express ourselves, and the feedback was very positive so we must have done a great job on it!
By working with others, I have learned that we could give each other ideas and opinions on what would make each and every one of our works better or worse in comparison. I also learnt that with others to work with, we shared similar results and we could help each other better ourselves with our work and make a better piece of work.
Personally I feel
that my project came along very well actually, there was slight
development issues, I made a prototype of my first poster then I
scrapped it too late.
A result of this was
that I ended up at a set-back, however, I worked hard and
consistently, and now I have a poster that I (in my opinion) is
really good, and it gets across the image that I was trying to get
across.
My plan all pieced
together and I can't say that anything went wrong other than that,
everything came together in one and I made a really effective,
detailed and interesting poster.
My skills developed
gradually, of course things took their time to get moving, but soon
enough I was beginning to understand what I could do with and without
thanks to my group's feedback.
I began to realise
that some things are easier than others, like using certain tools on
Photoshop can cut tremendous time off of your work and give the same
result. I also think that due to my work being critiqued, I began to
critique
more effectively.
The overall achievements made would consist of making the posters, we all got ours done and put onto the padlet document to show others, we had to also show them to others and get feedback, so in the end we got some good feedback and I cannot complain with that result, which I would also count as a success.
The only challenge I had was some communication and when thinking of what to add to the project, it became difficult, even with friendly suggestions by others, what to actually put into the picture/poster.
What would you do differently next time? - What I would do differently is probably make us have different categories of posters, so we can vary them up more and get more varied feedback and responses. I would also have a different group of people so we could compare and see which combination of people worked best out of the two groups I would take part in.
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