Evaluation

Evaluation

Overall I loved completing this unit as it covered the area of the industry I am most interested in and gave me insight into what I enjoy most and may like to go in too after University.

I am happy with the theme I chose of skin and my decision to produce a trend feature focusing on current trends because this gave me the opportunity to create make up looks that I would personally wear as well as finding my research for the project really interesting. My idea developed from an interest into metallic make up, which actually ended up inspiring my idea for another unit. I researched current trends and found I could combine these with my initial interest in metallic, high shine looks and came up with my 'Get the Gloss' concept. I wanted to create a feature that took catwalk trends and made them wearable to the everyday woman.

It took me a long time to find models for my feature and made me appreciate how challenging collaborative projects can be. That said, this has given me confidence in approaching models and photographers and although I was unable to find a photographer that was free at the right time, I have made some contacts that could help me on future projects. Having to shoot and edit my images myself was a challenge but one I really enjoyed and I now realise I am capable of taking good enough photographs and retouching my images if I am unable to find anyone to collaborate with.

I enjoyed developing my practical skills in class and as a result of this I now feel more confident in techniques needed for creating make up and hair suitable for the Fashion industry and editorial work. These techniques really benefited me when creating the four looks for my feature and article and have taught me how to create make up that looks as good in person as it does on camera.

I chose to lay out my work like a magazine as this is the style in which I had written my trend feature and article. For this reason I decided to upload the two double page spreads I created into one post so that it flowed like a magazine. I also designed a header using my colour theme in the same style as my feature as I wanted my project to maintain a theme throughout. If I were to do this project again I would have liked experiment more with my page layout to best display my work.