Introduction to Portfolio Building

Today we were introduced to our final module - scary! - portfolio production. The point and aim of this module is so that we have a professional standard portfolio to take to industry or level 6. 

We have been given 12 briefs to choose from. We don't have to do them all, but as many as possible. 

This week I am going to do the 2nd Keltie Cochrane brief of the year and created a poster for the Americans.

Work Based Learning Progression

This week has been focused on work based learning. We were given two briefs from a company called Keltie Cochrane. 

Brief 1 is about STI awareness, and raising the issue that Gonorrhoea and Syphilis is on the rise in Newcastle, particularly among women. 

Brief 2 is about raising awareness of the C-Card and how 13-24 year old men and women can get free condoms, and therefore they have no reason not have safe sex. 

We have to do a weeks worth of a project, and final outcomes for both. 

Work Based Learning Update

Today the work based learning brief has changed. We no longer have to do an evaluation at the end of it, and the file part is now worth 30% while we have been given a project, which we will start this week to fill the other 70% with. 

Created CV

Today I have completed my creative CV. I also went to see Claire and Joe about work placements. They told me to do some research into companies that I would like to do this at. 

My final CV looks like this:

 I tried to keep it simple. So there wasn't to much to look at. I also used a quirky typography as it gives you more to look at.

Weekly Progression/ Evaluation Of Brief/ Finals

This week we have finalized everything and finished our finals. We ended up with 2 finals as we wanted to use the hashtag boarder. 

Here are our finals for this project:

I like these finals, because I got to draw for the module.


















Here's my evaluation for the module:

Skills Analysis/ Action Plan for Alternative Techniques

Weekly Progression

This week I have finished my initial ideas and started developing them on the computer. We scanned them all in and started playing around with the layout for our finals. 

Examples of initial ideas.

Here are some examples of the layout we first tried on the computer.

After this layout we decided that our drawing of faces isn't very good so we would find a way to make their faces real instead of drawn.

This is what we did to do that.














After all of this I decided that I wanted to think about the background, so I started using different mixed media.

I used brusho and spray paint to create these. After playing around we decided not to use them.