Session 6 - Introducing Photography And Illustration - 23/11/11

Today's session started a recap from last week's session and a catch up on the project timetable. The outcome of the session is to brief the illustrator and the photographer.

We were introduced to Aaron who will be working with us a our poster illustrator. He told us a bit about himself and passed around some products he had worked on and his portfolio. His work is amazing.

- His inspirations are Japan

- Draws images in then scans them

- Uses fine liners to do all of his pieces
- He has worked on stuff for the Playstation game 'Lonely Planet', murals, t-shirts, etc.

We were introduced to the photographer, Niall who will be working with us to create the photography for the poster. He is a really well known photographer who worked on the poster for tv show, Top Boy. We were all really impressed by Niall.

We all discussed the vision for this project:
- Niall - the poster's background - blocks, rough, estates, negative
- Aaron - illustrate the people in the evolution line

The evolution poster will be giving the worst case scenario. Leading to death and jail.

We all discussed with Niall and Aaron:
- Sizing is important for the poster
- Black and white - more powerful
- Shoot in colour and mute colour

We looked at the evolution stages and after much formating we came up with:
1. Toddler (3)
2. Primary school age (10)
3. Secondary school age (12)
4. Secondary school age (16)
5. Unemployed (17)
6. Prison/death (18)

Group activity:
The group split up into teams of two, Niall worked with one group and Aaron worked with the other group. The task was to look at and plan all of the stages of the evolution poster.

- It needs to be consistant as it is building a character and this will link them together better.

The group discussed that the guy on the evolution poster will be side on.

1. Toddler
- Start off good as there's more to loose
- Playing with toys - perhaps toy blocks spelling out 'Stop'
- Dressed in spiderman or superman t-shirt
- Happy

2. Primary school
- Messy uniform - to big - hand-me-downs
- With hoody - negative
- Holding football under his arm - positive

3. Secondary school - 12
- Stealing fags out of his older self's pocket - links it together (image 4)
- Uniform untucked
- Trainers

4. Secondary school - 16
- Messy school uniform
- Fag behind his ear
- Bad looking - knife in his belt - on the same side as younger self (image 3) steals fags from
- On his phone
- Bunking school
- Dealing drugs

5. Unemployed - 17
- Tattoo - mum, dead or alive
- He's robbed someone and stabbed them
- Blood on his hands
- Scruffy
- Canabis
- He's a big guy in his community

6. Dead/in prison - 18
- In prison staring death in the face
- Behind bars

We all discussed ideas of where we may like to shoot some of the photography.
- Haygate
- Wood Green

Real objects in the poster - blocks, knife, fags, the background.

We were all asked to look at locations to shoot our photography at:
- Somewhere with a lot of open space
- Take some test shots for the photographer

Residential plans were completed and everybody filled in feedback forms.

Updates:
Tuesday 29/11/11 the group will meet with a friend of Niall's (the photographer) and scout out some locations and take some test shots.