Bibliography

http://leonabeth.co.uk

http://www.chrisdickason.co.uk

http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/authors/virginia-woolf/20144/

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eleventh_hour

Evaluation

The Olio module was something that I was looking forward to however the time given for this module did worry me a little. 

The one day workshops are definitely something that I found extremely helpful when it came to producing my final piece of work. The workshops allowed you to experiment a little more with my work. It also pushed you to work towards a deadline and making sure that you met that deadline. The feedback from the class was also helpful as everyone has a different opinion and it maybe that someone can suggest a way of improving your work that initially you never thought of yourself. 

Also, because we had to produce two completely different roughs, you had to think more about the title, think outside the box so that the end result was two different outcomes. 

Because of this, I think it has helped when it comes to the earlier stages of different modules, getting all ideas down. 

Final Idea

I decided to go with the idea that there is still hope. I didn't want my piece of work to have a definite answer. From the feedback I received I decided to add the person hand on the keyboard at the bottom of the page. This allowed anyone who viewed my work to understand that it was on a monitor and that also “we” are the ones that can make things right, stop it before its too late. 

Within the coding bit in my work, I decided to add some facts and figures about global warming and what we are doing to the planet. I did this to tie my work in a little more to the fact that my work is concerning global warming. 

I am quite happy with the final outcome, however there are definitely some things that need ‘tidying up’ that would make my work look a little more professional.

Rough Ideas

The brief specified that the two ideas must be completely different. With my first idea I wanted to convey the idea of being in deaths waiting room, those last minutes of your life. I didn't want the image to be distressing but peaceful. I wanted it show that for this person, it was the right time. 

The skeleton hand represents death and the other represents the living person. They are both reaching out to each other but its not strained. 

For this illustration, I would use pen and ink in black and white, not colour as I think that will be another representation of the life being drained.

My second idea, I wanted to touch upon global warming but show that there is still hope with it, its not the end quite yet. 

I wanted the set up to look like its a programme on a computer, that we are downloading the end of the world. I’ve shown the programme to be just 1% away from completion but the cursor is hovering over the cancel button to show that we can stop what we are doing to the earth. 

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Initial Research into ‘The Eleventh Hour”

The eleventh hour is used as a way of saying last minute, leaving things until it is almost too late. Because of this, I stared thinking about producing work that reflected global warming or deforestation. I also started thinking more about situations that make you think ‘what if?’ The sort of situations that make you think ‘if I did this last minute decision, maybe this would have happened’. 

Also from research I found the term ‘elevenses’ which means to have a drink or snack at around 11am. Different countries have different traditions for example in the United Kingdom, tea and biscuits would be typically eaten at this time whereas in the United States elevenses consisted of drinking whisky. 

Second Workshop

We were asked to produce a book cover for one of the following titles:

• Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
• On The Road - Jack Kerouac 
• Charlie and The Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
• To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf 
• Perfume – Patrick Suskind
• The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson
• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
• The Color Purple – Alice Walker
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
• Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

Even though I have not read To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, I already had some ideas for what I wanted to create for the book cover. 

I quickly researched the book to get an idea of the main themes of the story so that I could use this and inspire me with what I wanted the book cover to give away about the story. Whilst researching I came across Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf’s sister, who illustrated the first cover. I cant say that i was overly inspired by her work, It was extremely simplistic and abstract.

The book cover I produced was something I was quite happy with. It was quite atmospheric which is definitely something that I wanted to get across with my piece of work. I worked entirely in black and white which added to the atmosphere of the piece. 

However, they’re definitely some problems and things I would change. Something I have learnt is that inks dry rather quickly. This caused problems when blending or fading the colour out, it left harsh lines that would then have to be layered upon with more ink and caused problems then to the paper. Also, one of the comments made on my work was that I could have created more depth and used darker shades. I agree with this, the tones to my work don’t really range to much, they're pretty muted. Another comment made was that my work needed another visual element rather than just the lighthouse itself.