Catching Bullets

  9/12 After showing the video during the critique I took on board the points about the moving images and faded them in and out.  I also decided to modify the final message to leave it on the screen for a bit longer. 1 hour As a bit of background to understand my parent's life. My dad joined the army in 1940 and fought in Italy and Northwest Europe.  When he returned to Canada he mined uranium in Northern Ontario for a while and then became a police officer in Toronto.  He got married and had a son.  His first wife was killed in a car accident when my brother was less than two.  He changed careers and became a security officer for External Affaires, and set out the travel the world as a single dad in the 1950s.  His first posting was in London, then off to Moscow.  My mother was born in Orkney and after high school got a job as a clerk with British security and then a communicator (teletype operator) with the British foreign office....

   25/11  Scanning the photos were fairly straight forward.  Getting them out of the old photo albums after 50+ years was not, but I got it done without any full thickness tears.  I lost some material off the back of the older ones but no images were damaged.  I decided to colourize the parts of the photos where my parents were and included them as backgrounds in the text reveal.  The images are not directly associated with the letters, but show how they both traveled extensively, both separate and together. 5 hours 2/12 to  8/12 Once the letters and message were scanned, along with the photos I put them through Photoshop to colourize the photos and cut out the relevant parts of the letters.  Once I had those files organized I started up with the After Effects project (see image above).  I made the image full HD but in vertical because of the format of the letters.  The AE project involved a lot of masking, line by line for the lett...

27/11 Over the weekend I worked on the logo and variations.  I settled on a monogram (DSD) and a secondary or alternative one of a sheep formed from the DSD.  Here's my ideation from that weekend, it also includes some work on the concept that Ian gave me of tilting the Ds (this came in the next week). I also researched the typefaces.  I stuck with the two Royal Mail fonts (Banks & Miles Doubleline and Chevin), and selected ITC Kabel Book as body text.  Work was also done on the colour blindness considerations of my pictures. I also built the grid during this time. I wanted blocks of text and a asymmetric layout.  There are three  different column widths, and four large horizontal blocks.  This resulted in some discussion later, especially about my intolerance with people who will not read the guide. 5 hours Weekend of 29 Nov-1 Dec I wrote up a lot of the guide.  I added Tahoma as the accessible font for products.  I researched the colour...