At the beginning of the brief I felt that for such a short amount of time, I would not be able to produce something I was entirely satisfied with. Although it is not the idea I had in mind, I have proved myself wrong, and am quite pleased with what I have produced. I feel what I have designed is appropriate to the brief; it communicates the personality of Vogue, in a slightly negative but somewhat truthful manner.
My research was fairly limited compared to how I would usually research for a project, and in turn proved to not be use to my final piece, as my original idea was to create an “anti-Vogue” magazine cover, because Vogue is always shown in a positive light, e.g. the magazine, so I wanted to create something a little more controversial.
Research that may have been useful to the project may have been more silhouettes and figures, as ideally I would have loved to have done an illustration, but this is an area which I am quite weak, and would need a lot of time spending on.
Other than a memory stick disaster, the only obstacle I struggled with was the time, which made me all the more determined to complete the brief. I think the timescale forced me to make decisions that normally I may have put off for a while. If the timescale had have been different I would like to have done a photo shoot with a model in a Tim Walker style, in the fact that the props would have been human sized to emphasise the small models, and how they are represented, basically as robots who are told what to do, how to look and how to eat. I think this would have been interesting, but I am pleased with my final poster.
I did learn a lot in this brief about myself, as it showed that when I put my mind to it, I can do something which I otherwise may not have believed I could. I think my thumbnail stage was incredibly weak, but as mentioned in my book, the idea came together by accident, and impulsively I went with it, and I am glad I did.
