Client Brief Update

  In my search for clients for this project, I have seen four briefs from three different companies so far. The companies that I have seen briefs from were the Goji Café, the Northern Ride bike shop, and SASH (Safe and Sound Homes) a youth homelessness charity.

 The Goji café brief sounds as though it allows as though it allows a large amount of freedom with design, the Northern Ride bike shop brief provides a heavy amount of responsibility and freedom with relatively free reign in being in charge of social media and branding, and the two SASH briefs provide more options, with both a photography based brief and a more design based brief.

 However, I am not particularly interested in pursuing these briefs, as I believe other available options would be more suited to me being able to create better quality content both for the sake of my project and the client’s needs.

 I have sent off correspondence to the York based company, The Milkshack, with information about the nature of my project and the digital graphics services I would be able to provide, and how the project would work. I have not yet received a response from the company.

 While I have not yet seen a formal, official brief, I have been informed about the main goals and concepts that will eventually make up the brief for the Brass Castle Brewery company, and I am very interested in pursuing this brief for my project, as it would mainly focus on creating poster designs that are meant to capture a story, based upon the names of the beers, and I believe this allows me the freedom to create both a design and a narrative within my work, as well as working with a design style that I am interested in. I would be very eager to pursue this eventual brief.

Client Letter

Dear Sir/Madam,

 As a part of my final unit in Level 3 Creative Media, I am undergoing a project to do work with a client. After two years of studying Creative Media I have developed a variety of skills in the field of graphic design and digital art, and produced a varied portfolio of work that I would be happy to show you if you were interested.

 I am interested in developing a piece of graphic design work for your company; I will work for free, as the opportunity to work with a client would be of a massive benefit to me and would be extremely appreciated. If you did agree to this, I would have to ask that you be able to give a certain amount of written feedback on the work I produce, as this is a crucial part of my course, but it will not need to be a great deal of written work.

 However, I hope that, for your help, I will be able to repay you with a piece of graphic design or digital artwork that you will be able to use for your business. 

Thank you,

Scott Harrand. 

I have contacted The Milkshack, a York-based Milkshake business.  

Portfolio Building 2

In this portfolio building session, I continued to add more of my video game unit work on to my media portfolio. In this case, I added in a page that included two different pieces of work that showed different versions of the same character. The first image was a comparatively more detailed pixel art concept art piece of a stand-in example for the protagonist, who, in my game project plan, could be created in a Character Creation menu and therefore look however the player wished. The second image was of the same example character, but in this case, in a pixel sprite format with much less detail and pixels being used. I spoke about both of them, explaining what they were and stating what qualities I liked about them. In my upcoming portfolio building sessions I would like to still add a few more pieces from my video game unit, as I believe it was my most successful unit, for which I generated the most work that I was especially satisfied with. I would still, also, like to add pieces from my other units, as I think I created some effective pieces in these units as well, and it will be of a benefit to me to show a range of different types of work in different techniques and styles.

Portfolio Building 1

In this portfolio building session, I began to add work I had previously done in college to my Media Portfolio. Initially, I had only put in one piece of work, which was a slideshow featuring my Cinderella story. Looking through my old work, I decided to begin putting in my work from the Video Game Unit of our course. The first pieces I began to put in were various examples of work showing the Noblelady character, including the digital concept design of the character, the pixel sprite version, and a moving gif of the sprite which included a sword slashing motion. Under each piece of work I explained what the piece was, and said what I thought worked well about it and what I liked about it. After finishing this, I posted the pieces as one post. I then went on to create a second post following a similar format, only this time using the resources I created for the character of Queen Isolde, which also included a digital concept design, a pixel sprite, and a moving gif version of that pixel sprite, only this time the motion was of the character fanning themselves. I then went on to elaborate in the captions what the images showed, and what I thought worked well about each one and what I was most happy with. My media portfolio is not yet completed, and there are many pieces of work I would still like to put on to it. This includes more pieces from my Video Game Unit, as well as pieces from other units we have done throughout our course, including examples of photography, and other digital graphics projects. I would also like to put on pieces of my own work that I have done in my own time, as I have done many that I am very happy with and that I believe are a good reflection of what I am able to do.

Link to my current Media Portfolio:
http://mediaportfolioscottharrand.blogspot.co.uk/