Monitoring

According to my schedule, this week, commencing the 14th Febuary, this week I was meant to sort through my images at the start of the week then begin creating the leaflet half way through the week. This was the start of my product creation, so I am ahead because not only have I completed the leaflet that I was meant to start this week, the poster is also completed. I will however most likely be coming back to these to make some improvements too, most importantly the leaflet as thats the one I feel could do with some more work. Last week I created the poster, which didn't turn out exactly as planned. When I started making the poster I realised it was really simple, and quite plain. I felt it didn't really show any decent technical skills, therefore had a chat with others and decided to change the look of my poster slightly. After playing around with the poster a bit, I decided that instead of having two people stood there , to have the student closer up with a 'fan t shirt' of the school nurse, and I also changed the title from 'the school nurse' to 'locking away your problems' as I felt this would be more catching and interesting. I also added in a nurse badge and a stethoscope to my nurse. So my actions didn't really go according to plan as I've had to change my poster, but by the end of the week I was happy with what I had created so nothing is lost and its all sorted now. I haven't had to use any extra time in doing this as I realised last week I am a week ahead anyways, and I didn't loose any time by changing my idea.

I think I developed a few more skills from doing this, its made me realise that sometimes idea's don't always work for the best and that there are other options. I am really happy I changed my idea round and seeing it on photoshop made me realise what else I could do with the poster that I didn't think of when using paper. I learned how to play around with the smudge tool this week, for my model's hair. I found this really useful mixed together with the eraser tool to make my model's hair blend into the background more. I also experimented with adding a stethoscope and a nurses badge to my model.

I think the client would be happy with the new poster idea, as I feel its more creative and interesting that the previous poster would have been, so I hope he agrees it would be for the best. I am happy with my choice to change it, and I also am happy with the progress so far. This week I intend to start making my magazine front cover, and then start the inside of the magazine next week if not the later end of this week.