Evaluation

During this module I have learnt alot of new skills that have become quite useful to me. I have looked at Design in a new light that I had never looked at before I have now become more interested in idents and adverts that I see on television and always think to myself howon earth did someone do that? But what I have realised is that if you put your mind to it you can do anything. Overall I think I have done rather well considering I have never touched animation or web design before and always said to myself I wouldnt.

From the research I collected over Christmas I found it quite difficult at first to think how was I going to make this into an animation but in the end I found that my animation and designs fitted quite well with my subject and what I was trying to communicate. I have developed more skills in After Effects since creating the Silent Movie which I think sometime in the future I may what to develop my skills on After effects.

I think I preferred the Silent Movie animation as I found it easier to work with as there were more boundaries and it wasent to open but I suppose its all about development and experimentation which I have learnt alot in this brief its not always going to be right the first time.

IWEB I found very easy to learn and enjoyied creating my site alot this was my favourite part of the brief as it was something personal to me, even though it does have its faults and I was always worrying about it not working or losing work, my site turnd out to be quite successful in the end. I will definetly be using IWEB again alot to document my work, and also sending to other designers for work placements as I think its very professional way of working and easy to use.

If I was to improve anything it would have to be my Hair Animation because I think I could have experimented a little more with different images and type but the problem I had with this was that my first idea on paper didnt look right then once I had come up with my other idea I stuck to it, which I have been trying hard not to but I think why I did it was because I wasent to familiar with the software so I wanted to keep it quite simple. Which in a way is a good thing for me because it suited me.

I did try and push myself with it and try things I hadnt done before like the growing of the hair that was what nearly made me go mad it took me weeks to figure out how to do it but in the end it was all worth it, but I can say that I probably wont use after effects that much maybe from time to time because I would like to try out stop motion because that is something that looks more for me, but I will definetly be using IWEB again and I am looking forward to developing my skills on Dreamweaver, my options are open at the momement as I have become very interested in web design as well as typography but we will see what happens in the future.

The Best of Hair Styles....

For the Christmas Research brief, I kind of knew what I wanted to work on already but wasent sure if there was enough to go on. I have chosen to look at the best hair styles on Women looking from the 60s to today, because the style has changed rapidly and the styles in the 60s where very traditional and today which is quite abstract. I have chosen Women because they seem to do alot more with there style of there hair which gives me alot to work on.

I will be looking at the products you use to create a good hair style and the enviroment of where to get you hair done, I will start of with internet research then progress into primary research where I will be taken photographs. This will then lead onto hand drawings of hairstyles from the 60s and today so I will have a different range to look at. I will look at the simple outline of hair and working with this on the computer so I will have the different medias to look at and compare with each other.
I will also look at the different hair colours which also create a good style to the hair by using colour swatches.

Hair Styles today

Women today often look at celebrity inspiration or other women such as friends or family. I found out that a large percentage of women take a photograph of a celebrities hair style and request the hair style in the hair salon. I do think this is a good idea but I think this sometimes puts pressure on the stylist to get it look exactly right when half the time it looks similar but not perfect.

I looked at this website on L'oreal Inspiration Gallery:

Where you can get inspiration from models this is where you can search for different styles using a menu selecting whether you want blonde, brown, red etc from what hair salon and what hair stylist. This is quick and easy way to choose what hairstyle you are looking for.



I also looked at this website called Virtual Hairstyle Gallery:

This website is quite funny but I think people actually use it seriously to see if they wanted to go for a different hair style or colour they can look at how it looks like on their face shape.



This website hair style zone:

This where you can upload a photo of yourself to see how different hair styles and colours would look right for you which I think is a good to try out before you have it done even though I'm not sure it would like perfectly right but fairly similar I would expect.

Hair Cuts for 2009

The Bob



Long Hair



Long Hair is in for 2009 cropped and layered

The Cropped Bob



The Pixie Cut



Pixie started off as trend in 2008 but will be expected to see it more in 2009 spring/summer.

Hair Colour for 2009

Peroxide Platinum Blonde

Hair Styles for 2009

Milkmaid Braids


Mermaid Wave


Straight Sleek



Flowing Long



Haveing heavily volumed hair is a look for 2009.

Primary Research - Nero Hair Salon

For Primary research I went and took some photos in my Mums salon of the enviroment and products that create a good hair style.