week 8

Finished my section of the comic!!
Very happy with my outcome,I used the photographs we taken in the last weeks then edited them on Adobe Photoshop Adobe illustrator and Comic Life where we had our layouts and speech and thought bubbles. The black and white fresh hold and a splash of colour works very well together,I feel a few photos are stronger than others,but I am over all very happy with my outcome.We all had a meeting to show our final sections of the comic, as another main job I was in charge of how the finaol comic looks, I feel that our 3 styles combined, it flows and it doesn't jump, it reads very well,and overall eye pleasing. Having trouble with printing though,to many people using the one printer.
We all created our own front covers for the comic, my comic is called Agent Steele I feel it's simple but its effective.
I also wrote my artist statement, evaluation on Microsoft word office,and more work in my sketch book,its been a busy but pleasing week.

week 7

Monday and Tuesday we were all still in character,we acted out more scenes inside Bridgend college,we asked our graphic tutor Lee Thomas to be the guard in our comic, we made a security style office, looked very good, with the budget we have.also used Huw Conway as our commissioner, very strong photos,we all sat down and decided on what seccions of the comic we were all going to create,I decided on the middle section because I felt my style would suit it better. Then with the layouts tom given us we started on our comic using Comic Life Adobe illustrator Adobe Photoshop.We also wrote out our speech/ thought bubble script. As we all never done this before we found it difficult at first, but we are happy with the final outcome.

week 6

Not long till the end , we spent the week in character dressed up in Bridgend, Roose, Smilog forestry, Bryndu, Pen y Bryn forestry and Margam.We were given plenty of looks dressed up as our characters.we acted out more scenes to use for final comic. I decided against using tin foil as my steal arms, I have decided to Adobe Photoshop the arms in whilst i am created my section of the comic. I feal it will look better. We also asked a member of our class to play the part of our victim,kristie parry spent the afternoon with us in smilog we took many great photos,just can't wait to edit them for the comic now.

week 5

I am AGENT STEELE!!
This week we went to Roose boys village, it's a unused holiday site. Perfect to act out our scenes for our final comic, I have decided to wear a long ridding coat skin tight gray jeans, white vest, and a pair of boots, I feel this outfit is best suited to my tough ex cop character.. We also created stencils of our character logos and blood splatters refering to Banksy, we spent two days dressed up and creating our spray work, I am very happy with the outcomes. We also made short videos of fight scenes,they are not strong but it goes well with our research.
we made our own speech and thought bubbles in college, we went to cardiff and walked behind unexpecting members of the public, whilst Tom took the photos, I feel this shows that we are breaking away from a traditional paper comic.

week 4

More work in my sketch book looking at more comics Burke's law annual printed in England by Jarrold and sons ltd , really like the page layouts the colors used. Had a group meeting with Max and Tom we all decided on character names

Stuart - Agent Steele, spelt in this way because i did not want it to be to literal,and because i wanted my character to have steal arms. Very pleased with my character name. Have a idea from the Die hard movies in the style of clothing my character will wear,a white vest , grey jeans big boots could use my snow boots, maybe wear a long coat, this could be seen as a cape.We decided that by next week we will all come to college with our outfits,go to roose to a abandoned boys village act out and to get into character.Also in our daily meeting i brought up the issue of the original ending of our comic, I said that i wasn't happy with every character being killed, we decided that the side kick will be killed off.

week 3

london.. been site seeing mostly a lot of photos,Went on the london eye great urban landscape photos of the city ,will help me with me research. Also went to the National History Museum wanted to find cave paintings but wasn't any there, there was a small mythology exhibition taken photos of Medusa , Cyclops, Atlas. Been thinking about what my character should look like and what he/she should wear. I decided my hero should be myself a average height not very muscly.I chose this to try not to follow comics of today. I love moviessuch as the Bourne collection and the Die Hard quadrilogy, a normal looking hero, a New York cop he was always in the right place at the right time. The simple chose of outfit captured my imagination the simplicity of a white vest and jeans,unshaved, smokes , drinks. Doesn't make you think Hero, but the way the character John Mclane puts everybody first before his own safety and how he will never stop till the villain is stopped.I'm our script editor,and this week I was given the original script,i edited scenes,titles and dialog i also made alternative endings,I was not happy with the orginal ending with all the characters being killed so next week I will bring this up in our daily meetings.

week 2

still a lot of research,looking at illustrators from dc comics marvel. also at artists such as Piotr Dumala,really like the scratchy marks looks like pastel. Also my tutor brought in a wide range of years starting from late 70's to 00's, looked at comics such as Robo Hunter, Judge Dread and Jonny cash. Been thinking about heros and what his powers will be,maybe lazer eyes , elastic,very powerful!! got a few ideas of names for my character, Captain Fantastic, Glory , The Greatness.

Booked a two day break to london for half term to london,Booked tickets for the london eye this will help with my urban landscape refer to Frank miller, also going to the National history museum and if i have time the Tate. Had daily meetings lasting half hour with Max and Tom we all had to draw our own story boards to a short script about a young girl who's been kidnapped by max character, Tom and my self go rescue the girl. Had life drawing for 2 hours friday completed two charcoal and chalk drawings.