W6S2: Class

During class we got technical help from Phoebe on a small issue we were having with the white fade on our posters. Using a feathered brush worked for screen, but when we printed our posters the printer couldn't print the fade. Phoebe showed us the tool to use on Photoshop (Filter-Pixelate-Colour Halftone) to create a fade that the printer could print. We worked on bringing our posters, flyer, and costume page to a standard where they were ready to be printed for the final time as we planned to take them to a professional printing bureau after class. At the end of the session today we all had to present our work on the table. We then had the opportunity to walk around all of the four VCD streams and look at what everyone else had created this term for this project.

Today was quite rushed as we were focused on getting our touchpoints to a print-ready standard, but then we were told (with no prior warning) that we would have to present our work in 15 minutes. This meant that we had to hurry to print something to have anything ready to present at all. We only managed to get our three posters ready to present, but walking around the other classes they had their whole suite of touchpoints presented which we think looked a lot better as you could see how their concept was working across multiple platforms. We wish we would have had warning the day before that half of the time in class would be spent presenting. We then could have worked on what we planned to do in class for homework on Monday night so that we could've then had time to get all of our trans-media platforms ready to present.