Business identity crit

Business identity tutorial

I didn’t have much to show Neil in today’s tutorial but I presented my ideas and I got good responses. Through my research I’ve found that Iris really wasn’t a girly girl, for a lack of better terms. She cheated on her husband yet he still stayed faithful to her and she knew what she wanted in life, as shown by the fact that she never let her editors edit any of her text in her novels. She was a strong, powerful woman yet in so many ways she was like a man. That’s why I’ve chosen to keep to a simple colour scheme for the business cards, no bright colours or fancy borders, just simple and straight to the point.

Another thing is that she explored the idea of existentialism and I had a mini brainwave to make the business cards clear plastic to reflect that idea. The letterhead and compliment slip would be clear as well, not necessarily made out of plastic though, maybe acetate.

Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch? Why couldn’t I get Marie Antoinette instead! Don’t get me wrong blog she’s interesting and all but I can’t hide the fact that I’m jealous of the people who got Ghandi or Buddy Holly.

So far my research of her has shown that she’s an English author and philosopher who was strongly influenced by Plato, Freud, Simone Weil and Sartre.

She suffered from Alzheimer’s in her later years and eventually died in 1999, which wasn’t that long ago actually. I’ve ordered her book – The Sea, the sea, which won a booker prize and have bought the film – Iris, which is based on her husband’s memories of her.

Long critique

The group critique went rather well if I’m honest. Yes it was extremely long and in my opinion would have worked better in small groups but it was a rare chance to see everybody’s work and see how different everybody’s ideas were. I found it really educating as well, for instance I found out the guy who invented the Internet was actually born in Wimborne!

I didn't really get as much feedback as I had hope for but I took it as a sign that I was along the right track and my idea was nearly finished. Neil did suggest that I maybe put memorable quotes on the back of each ticket instead of a train watermark because it seems to celebrate cinema more if I were to reference great films that everybody remembers.

1st tutorial

Small tutorial with Sally and a few others today, gained some helpful ideas from Sally to push my project along. It was suggested that maybe instead of thanking the brothers directly I could thank the people who go to the cinema because without audiences, moving images would have never taken off. The idea of creating a ticket stub with thank you on it was suggested and I think it’s a brilliant idea. I want to eventually create a modern ticket stub and also a vintage style one with maybe an art deco border with the fonts used during the early 19th century.

Lumiere Brothers

Have decided to thank the Lumiere brothers for moving images/cinema basically. They’re credited with the very first public screening on December 28th 1895 showing just 10 short films spanning only 20 minutes in total. They realised the mass potential of moving images on audiences and how this could actually turn into a mass empire, which for me, this equated in the birth of cinema.

Looks like I was wrong

Thank You! project couldn’t be any harder for me right now; my mind has gone totally blank. It’s unused to thinking up of ideas and putting pen to paper. There are so many people I could thank that it’s making me even more indecisive! Above all though I need to remember:
• Language
• Tone
• Context
• Process and method of production.

First day back

First day back at university today and gosh was it good to be back. I love the sense of regime and something to work for, you can tell that summer was a long and boring time for me.

The Thank You project seems really easy, well that's probably because I haven't looked into it enough but how hard can it be to say thank you to someone?

Right?