...S02 assignment2: project charter...

Assignment 2 Title: Digital Wallpaper

Project Start Date: 8 December, 2008

Project Finish Date: 23 December, 2008.


Project Objective:

To be able to use various tools and techniques in Adobe Photoshop in creating digital wallpaper titled “MMU FOE Open Day”. For this assignment we are to promote our own faculty; in this case Faculty of Engineering to newcomers and outsiders. Besides that, its purpose is to provide them knowledge on our faculty and courses that we offer here.


Approach:

For this assignment, the digital wallpaper that I will be doing will be a mixture of pictures taken from websites and some vector arts that I have created using Illustrator. Then all of the images will be edited in Photoshop using A4 size canvas.

I love simplicity, creativity, abstract and I like to make people think. Hence, my basic theme on this digital wallpaper is futuristic, hence holographic board, robots comes to mind. The reason for this is since FOE has a course on nanotech and other advance courses (which I do not quite understand myself) so I have decided on not using human images and use an image of a humanoid; ASIMO.

In this assignment, I will be using both Illustrator and Photoshop to design and edit some images. Although I design by just using Photoshop, but I prefer using Illustrator since it is straight forward. In Illustrator, I am using it to design the holographic board based on a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) and an arrow icon. When it is done, I exported it to Photoshop for editing.

In Photoshop, I use mostly blending options to edit the images and to design the holographic board. As for the ASIMO, I use three layers with different filters and also using Levels to adjust the brightness of the image. Gradient is use for the background layer and for the fonts, I use paragraph palette to edit it.


Roles and Responsibilities:

1st Phase: Idea is sketched, and images are searched from the internet.

2nd Phase: Images are edited; vector arts are made in Illustrator.

3rd Phase: All images are transferred to Photoshop and edited.

4th Phase: 50%-80% work done. Consultation with Madam Lydia

5th Phase: Last editing. Submission of Assignment 2


Comment:

In this assignment the most challenging part is on how to promote my own faculty successfully and how to attract the people’s attention besides being creative. The problem that I faced during this period of completing the assignment is how to fit in the entire list of course offered by my faculty on to one canvas. Since this is a digital wallpaper and not a pamphlet, I have decide to just put in the main course and the dates. For my point of view, this will make the people curious on what our faculty offer here and to go for themselves. Even so, in completing this assignment is enjoying and I can use my own creativity in putting my ideas into the canvas.