Final day :/

WELL! today has been very stressful. As soon as we got in we were stressing! we couldnt find the lap top that we were working on last week with our final design on it. Bout 20 minutes later the genius had found it and our lives were basically saved. There wasnt much to chnage as we had basicallyy finished it last week. So instead me and tia worked on the presentation which would be shown to chris.

we explained our ideas and how we got to them, and why we chose them. when that came to an end, i had work to do on my folder. i needed to organize the whole thing create title pages. I cant stand having a boring foler so i needed to put colour and making it STAND for shakin'moo's. but i am going to work more on that at home as it is easier.

Then, we then had to get ready to pitch our idea to chris. We knew we were pitching our idea today, we just had no idea what time. I wish we were more organized, as we still needed to write our speech and it was nearing lunch! This is when i started to get nervous, im sure everyone else was aswell but i hadnt felt it until now :/ So we started on our speech right away, but THEN we couldnt get hold of our presentation on the laptops we were on because of the format. so we then had to ask sir to change the format and eventuallyy we did get it. it just made the job twice as harder as it needed to be which wasnt to useful. me and tia were working as fast as we could as we were running out of time, now looking back i wish we had done it previous and worked on our presentation in that short time we had.because of the lack of time left, we didnt have time to write a proper script. a short time after chris had arrived and it was our turn. when it came down to our turn, my laptop decided to freeze, so we had no script to follow! we had to imporivse our whole presentation which made everything ten times worse! We didnt have enough time to print our final project so we had nothing to show for our work except a presentation. The final peice was on the same memory stick but it wasnt shown to chris at the time of our presentation. The presentation went better than i thought, but still not as good as we al knew it couldve been! i was so disappointed how everything turned out today. WE roughly had in our head what we were going to say but it just made it harder not having a script.The time came to get feedback, and understandbally it wasnt good. He said without a product there was no point in being there. Which as much i dont like to admit it, it is true. We had worked so hard and our product to not even get seen was a disappointment! When the feedback had finsihed we asked mark if we could show him our product, although it was printed, it was still finsihed on the computer. We got the front back and middle up on the screen and showed him. i think he was disappointed in our presentation earlier and our lack of organization, so he said okay that good thankyou. i didnt realise just how organized you have to be! I have enjoyed this unit but looking back there could obviously be improvements. i would make sure, that EVERYTHING is organized. i thought we were being fairly organuized but the presentation made me realise that you have to be on top of everything. This has also taught me that if everything goes wrong, you still have to et on with it, you still have to try and whatever the outcome try your best. This unit has now finished as this was our last week, but now i am going to take my folder home and make the rest of title pagesa and make sure everythingin annotated and explained well.

Looking forward to the next unit.... :)

22.4.10

This unit, i have been fnding it hard to keep up to date with my blog. i dont know why but i need to sort it out. My foloder and everything is up to date just my blog isnt.
Well the week before this, i was away, which putour group behind. But fortuntatly we worked hard this week and we caught up! This week we had to catch up with everybody else.
Everyone had edited most of their images, we had toyed with some of ours, and in the end it didnt turn out that bad. It was my job to edit the pictures but i asked tia for her opinions aswell to get the graphic the best we could :)

Kara and Tia's job was to create the actual product on photoshop and be ready for it to be printed as tho it was he real thing. They had some difficultty and none of us were fully knew what we were doing on photoshop! although we had used it before it was still a challenge to get exactly what yo wanted doing DONE! the amount of pressure to get the final product finished didnt help ither, the fact that we were behind and needed to catch up.
Chipping in with Tia and kara from time to time, my mai job was to create TWO presentations. one explaining our idea to chris, why we chose cetaint things to make our idea clear to him :) i needed to create the presentation as we are presenting our presentation to chris NEXTWEEK! and the other presentation to be played inside the shop on the big tele. it was my idea to use it as a wall of fame, just llike they have a wall in there to have it on the screen swell. it would be easier to upload te differentet pictues to it aswell :)

i am quite nervous about pitching our final idea to him. This unit had gone so quick'! im not sure if im prepared for this oresentation, but weve talke about what we are going to say and how we are goin to present it i just need to get it over and done with :)
I have enjoyed working with tia, we are reallyy good friends and we get the work done :) Althought kara hasnt been here an awful lot which has made things alot more difficult, the same with her :) i am proud of what we have created and hope chris likes it! Just the presentation and the finishing touches to our folders and im done :)x

Hi Jess

Some good comments but please keep up to date and include sopme images!

25.3.10 :)

Today was all about sorting our folders out. I had so much to print of, from last week all the pictures and all the different documents and write ups. Today we had to carry on working on our folders and improve anything we already had in them. I already knew i had to improve my blog, as i hadn't been paying as much attention to it as i should. I knew that today, i would have to be organised. Sir wrote a list of everything that had to be done by now, and i had done most of it i just needed to complete and improve it all.
First thing i did was put my folder in chronological order. This was so it showed the journey that me and the group went through to get to the stage we have. I started going through my folder and see what else i had to do. I decided it would be a good idea to write up our team meeting, because it didn't really explain it. it was all just notes. It was weird reading back even thought it wasn't that long ago, it was just weird seeing where our ideas started out and where we are now :P
I was looking through my folder and thought that it didn't really have a lot of explaining in it :/ it didn't really show a journey. So then i decided to write up the surveys that we did, and hopefully that would help. The surveys had basically said that their favourite was number three ( the milkshake shaped one, which was my idea :D) but that they thought that that was the most complicated as well.
This week we ended up choosing our final idea. We chose number 3, as it was our favourite and the public favourite. They also said that they liked the colours all together as it was the most shakinMooy. We were confused between number 1 and number 3. Number one we knew would be so much easier to make and to give out, but then we come up with a reason why not to use it. If you open number 3 it is basicalyy number 1. All the same information and basically the same layout, but people liked number 3 better. And i am so happy that they liked the same as did. It feels like we did a good job, we designed them well :)
This week it was my responsibility to get all our folders sorted, like i had to write the survery write ups, the neam meeting and then i had to organise how to get the photographs printed. but i didnt mind, i was ahead of tia and i liked doing it anyway. She helped me when i needed it and now everything is explained.
It annoyed me when the computers werent working properly. As we rely on them to do most of our work it was fraustrating when they ran slow or just wouldnt work! It was also annoying when you had completed your work that you had to wait for everyone to be done with you USB. People would just take it and you wouldnt know hwere it had gone.

Hi Jess

Nice pictures, well done! Try to include more about your own thoughts , how would you alter the images, how will you use them? Plans for next week and development?

18.3.10 :)

This week we had to mkae a shotlist. We had planned to go to ShakinMoo's in the afternoon and we had to know what we wanted to shot as this is what we would be using for aour final product.
We wanted a picture of the camouflage pattern as we wanted a good idea of it to use it our final product. It was my idea to take a photo of one of the splodges dotted arounnd the shop, this is because one of our ideas was in the shape of a splodge. We wanted a picture of Mr Moo as it represented the shop itself! we needed a picture of the logo as we knew we would definatly be using it. The list carried on and we had to think of ways we wanted to shot them. i thought of using reflections and close ups to give a range of different shops.
we then walked to the shop after break and started taking pictures, you were allowed to buy a shake if you wanted but you had to concentrate. i was working in my group, tia kara and me. we didnt reallyy follow our shotlist to be honest, but it turned out fine anyway. We didnt really follow it as we saw different shots everywhere. we did refer to the list at times to see if we had forgotten anything but it turned out good :)


Mr moo...... and then i edited it as i thought the background distracted from the main point of the picture. i also cropped the picture as there was too much empty space. i know we will use this in our final project as it a good image and we have planned to use Mr Moo on it anyway.



and again...




and edited again ...i had to rotate the picture and again crop it. if i had more time to edit the photos, i would of again deleted the background. Again as it is Mr Moo this image could also be used, it depends where we chose to use Mr Moo in out design.
Tia took this shot, i think it works very well. it is different and is a good example of lines and foreground. its very different compared to what everyone else took, but it shows the relaxed chilled mood chris is trying to create in the shop


i thought it would be best to edit this aswell as i wanted to experiment. Plus i didnt want to leg spoiling the shot. I used a pattern on top of the picture and it looks like the camouflage of ShakinMoo's as well as the picture.

i knew we had to get a picture of the menus in our collection somewhere. so i to took a picture myself.

I wanted the picture to look effective, so i took the picture at an angle. > this one on the right >>> is my favourite. this is because of the foreground in the picture, it looks endless. like ShakinMoo choices are endless. if i had time to edit it i would of perfected it got rid of everything other than the others. Then i think it will look good, and we could possibly use it on the board under the work top or as a background for a flyer!

Next week we need to chose our final design, at the moment i have no idea because we have all worked so hard on designing them. I designed the milkshake shape one, which tends to be peoples favourite, but we all contributed to the others. Me and tia worked hard on creating them :)

Hi Jess

Nicely written and you are starting to be much more reflective. You ned to do some catching up on this.