Unit 19 Desktop Project

Genre Collage: This collage was created using images from games magazines. here is a brief explanition of what each genre is.







War - War is made up of guns, tanks battlefields the games are usually set in there present or in world war 2. most war games are first person shooters.







Fantasy - Fantasy is made up of creatures that don't exist E.G dragons, goblins, elves, dwarfs and also has magic.







Sci-Fi - Sci-Fi is set in space or in the future there are usually lifeforms from other planets and advanced weaponry that fire lasers, and there are space ships that travel from planet to planet and there is also many battles in space using small fighter space craft.







Horror - horror is made up of monsters and evil creatures such as vampires, demons, werwolf's and zombies these creatures have certain ways to kill them E.G vampires - a stake through the heart, or werwolf's - silver bullets.







This is my draft desktop that i created in photoshop.
The feedback I got was quite positive but there are some thing's that I could improve on, for the student charter points there is a spelling mistake on one of them and I need to extend some to make two lines for each square and the desktop icons can be put into an order so its easier to locate the most commonly used programmes.

This is my completed desktop design.

EVALUATION

Does the end product match your original intentions? My design was a bit different because had all the squares colored in and I had media suite and the college logo at the top of the screen.

Is the end product appropriate for your intended audience – who was this – age groups, gender? Yes my intended audience were teenagers and adults of both genders, my design is not offensive or inappropriate.

Discuss the technical aspects of your work and highlight the strengths / areas to develop Demonstrate your knowledge of the program [P.Shop/Flash/S.Mx] you used & include 'subject terminology'. For the student charter points i went to http://www.1001fonts.com/ and used a sci-fi and pasted them in photoshop. To create the squares i used the rectangle tool and went over it with the paintbrush and held down shift to keep the lines straight, i also print screened the current desktop background and cropped the image in word to get the desktop icons and then pasted them in photoshop.

Discuss the content / style of your work. i searched work from someone called Invader who was born in 1969, he is a French street artist who pastes up characters from and inspired by the Space Invaders game, made up of small colored square tiles that form a mosaic.

This is an image of his work.

Did you encounter any problems when creating the product? when i created my desktop image and set it as the desktop background the desktop icons wouldn't fit into their squares.

If so how were they resolved? I also print screened the current desktop background and cropped the image in word to get the desktop icons and then pasted them into photoshop.

What have you learnt from this experience? I have learned how to draw straight lines with the pain brush.

What skills have been developed throughout this process? I have learned more about drawing on photoshop.

Did you meet the deadline? Yes i completed it on time.

Did you have any problems with time management? I did miss a week due to illness but i caught up to get back on schedule.

If you had the opportunity to make this product again would you do anything different? there is a small problem with the image where on of the boxes weren't big enough and there were everal white lines that filled the gap.

Are you happy with the overall product? yes i am happy with my product.