Project Hidden Evaluation

To my surprise a interesting result, I was worried that this project would suffer because I was so focused on the digital media unit but in the end I think the end result was well executed. My starting point was to generate a theme through a mind map, this is how I always start a project, it has become apart of my creative process. Then I began to research into the area (The Cold War) to get a feel for the culture and the events that happened in that era, until ideas of my own began to emerge. From there I began to experiment with materials until a image developed within my minds eye.

I have gained quite a lot of experience from this project in skills and time management, I showed that I can deliver a fairly good quality piece of work in a short space of time, and not play it safe by doing the bare minimum. I have enjoyed going back to a more traditional approach to my art using traditional mediums and have discovered really effective ways of producing imagery, I now understand why you should never let go of the traditional skills. Using spray paint was the highlight for me, for once I had no control over the outcome which isn't usually the way I approach things, maybe the lack of time forced myself to produce something quickly which luckily was a success. I feel proud of my idea, the game shows some real thought has gone into it, I hope someone finds the time to play it and find me the missing hidden word. I keep on learning how important research is into other artists, If I hadn't I would probably not have taken a mixed media approach. Luke Lucas was my favourite artist that I found, he surprised me, there was one piece that he created for a pop corn recipe book that I was sure was digitally created, but I was wrong It was made totally out of physical mediums.

I need to realise from now on that one project isn't more important than the other, they are all equally as important to becoming a good designer and getting that all important end grade, so I will have to manage my time better in the future. I also feel that I should have done more experiments using more different mediums as possible because there could have been so many different ways of producing this games box art. I also feel that I needed to do further research into game ideas, there could have been better ways of making a game, but I found a idea that worked and went with it because of the issue of time.

There is one thing that I am happy with and its the fact that I created this idea independently, I wasn't steered in any way and took my own path and went with it, I took the gamble to produce something different and surely that has to count for something. I will certainly be taking a mixed media approach in the future because of how effective and quickly good imagery can be created. Now who ever is marking this project crack the hidden message write it down in your feed back.