Evaluation - Kai - Human Trafficking

What was the assignment brief?

I will come up with an idea for an independent piece of graphic art based on a theme of my choice and produce a proposal for my piece. Then I’ll need to develop and plan my work. I would then research inspirational graphic, photographic and Illustrative work and techniques which I could implement into my own work. Next I will identify the specific audience of my piece and use primary research to develop your work. Then I will create a piece of graphic art that reflects my skills, planning and research, which I decided to create 2 one graphic, one photographic. And to finish off I will create a 1000 word evaluation.

i chose human trafficking because:

I choose this topic to make the public aware that the more educated you are about human trafficking.

I want for more people to learn about human trafficking and its form.

I choose this topic because I feel that human trafficking is a nation wild problem and it needs to be known so that people in the world can come together and put an end to the crime.

proposal

I had an idea to create two posters of two different medias one will be digital and the other will be photography which i will be editing using Photoshop CC 2015

I was researching artists such as Tiffani Amo, Brian Ewing, Spencer Drate which create a wide range of posters using their skills either photography and graphics.

they all had a poster that seemed to relate to what my subject was, which was human trafficking even if they wasn’t fully aimed at human trafficking they still gave me the idea to use those features for my final piece. I decided it would be a lot easier if I was to draw my digital piece first and then scan the final drawing into the computer in which I would then open up Photoshop and edit my piece and break it up into layers e.g. for the hair and for the skin this is because it would allow me to edit the layers i need only and not affect the areas I do not need to and it just makes the process a lot easier and simpler.

i would then design my own logo so it would be recognized and people would be aware of this logo and the organization.

Primary Research i looked at

survey monkey

Primary research I collected was a survey I created on survey monkey and the main questions which helped me choose between making a graphical piece and a photographic piece was “Would a human trafficking poster be more effective if it was digital or photographic?” and at the time I got equal results and decided to create a digital and a photographic poster just to fit both sides because of how equal they are

Then another question I asked was “should It be depressing or happy and cheerful” and there was a high demand in making it sad and depressing so I decided to use this and looked at features of these types of posters and the features I got was: black and white to create a sad colourless image. Then some had features of an actor crying but I wasn’t able to make my actor cry so in Photoshop I used the burn tool to create the effect of the actor had been crying which adds more depressing feels to it. . I then used the smudge tool to make the actors mouth expressions more in detail by using it on the guy actor and putty and devilish look on him by smudging the corner of his mouth up creating the scary grin adding more heartless. And on the girl I did the opposite because I then smudged downwareds on the corner of her mouth making her more upset looking creating another more depressing image and mood when you look at my piece.

Swag Rock Posters of the 90's

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6109G6JQZCL._SX354_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

i looked at posters in this book for extra primary research and found a few and extra artists i was able to find although they wasn't based on human trafficking they was all artists who designed a range of posters for things such as bands and even computer games 

Sexondary Research i looked at 

Personal Project - Human Trafficking Poster

Facts:

1. Globally, the average cost of a slave is $90.
2. Trafficking primarily involves exploitation which comes in many forms, including: forcing victims into prostitution, subjecting victims to slavery or involuntary servitude and compelling victims to commit sex acts for the purpose of creating pornography.
3. According to some estimates, approximately 80% of trafficking involves sexual exploitation, and 19% involves labor exploitation.
4. There are approximately 20 to 30 million slaves in the world today.
5. According to the U.S. State Department, 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year, of which 80% are female and half are children.
6. The average age a teen enters the sex trade in the U.S. is 12 to 14-year-old. Many victims are runaway girls who were sexually abused as children.
7. California harbors 3 of the FBI’s 13 highest child sex trafficking areas on the nation: Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego.
8. The National Human Trafficking Hotline receives more calls from Texas than any other state in the US. 15% of those calls are from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
9. Between 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year.
10. Human trafficking is the third largest international crime industry (behind illegal drugs and arms trafficking). It reportedly generates a profit of $32 billion every year. Of that number, $15.5 billion is made in industrialized countries.
11. The International Labour Organization estimates that women and girls represent the largest share of forced labor victims with 11.4 million trafficked victims (55%) compared to 9.5 million (45%) men.

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-human-trafficking

Ideas i might think of doing?

i could use one of the females and a male in the class because i want to create a striking image of one of the lads pinning the girl against the wall and make the image more striking by having the girl have make-up running down her face and have a look in distress. the guy is going to be looking aggressive and is going to be holding both of the girls arms behind her back and is going to be very close to her just over her shoulder. there will be a dark setting and maybe it would be good to show it in black and white to give the effect there is no emotion and black and white can make an image look more upsetting.

+ I could add a chain to make it more aggressive and painful looking

I have chosen the theme because there is nothing really positive about human trafficking so a dark and gloomy look will be perfect i can create this by taking my shot in a gloomy room with a limited amount of light and to get the best quality i can with this i will be setting my camera settings to have a low ISO so i can let in the right amount of light and still have the sharpness. I will have a relatively slow shutter speed because there isn't going to be any movement which will blur the shot so a slow shutter speed should do so i can collect all the natural light i need. (More detail)

I will use a camera to capture the image of my actors creating the depressing picture. i will create this by using a dim light setting and i will be using a slow shutter speed because there will be a lack of movement so there is no need for a fast shutter speed. i will have a low apature because i'm not going for a background picture and trying to capture the background i just want my shot focused on the the actors tho i could have a really low aperture so the background has less sharpness and the actors are in high detail.  

I would want my work to look depressing, disgusted to look at and a feel of terror for the girl and make people think about the image and how it relates to human trafficking

I did a drawing of how i want my image to look. with the right picture i can then edit this image in Photoshop and create a dark and gloomy effect by editing the curves and playing around with the contrast and brightness and maybe the hue/saturation.

http://www.allianceagainstmodernslavery.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/content_image/images/LAHT%20Event.png

I like the extreme close up shot of the eye which is the center point and the most capturing part of the image and also capturing the tears running down which give this image a sad setting and abusive feel so in my piece i would like the use of tears running down and maybe use mascara so it will give the tears more boldness and stand out more and i could also use the burn tool on the tears and create that effect without using the mascara if i don't manage to get my actor to use some.

http://www.myfloridalegal.com/legalcontrols.nsf/images/human_trafficking_posters.jpg


https://media.dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Toppagepic.jpg

i thing i had in mind while creating this is the lettering font and color scheme i'm going to use and from looking at all of the posters they all use red because red means danger,stop and evil and with the right background e.g. black just like above it makes the lettering eye catching and bold and also the images using real actors are more effective than if i was to do a cartoon version or from scratch on Photoshop which i think will be time consuming and wont be as effective.

tho i will be using Photoshop i will be using it to make my poster stand out and create a message and inform people that this is happening around the world and even in their country

I liked the second one more because it looks terrifying and the black and white makes this look heartless and the bold red parts around the lettering show a sign of danger so in my piece i will be using a dark colour scheme so i can make my poster look effective and powerful.

From looking at the posters they all have facts which i was going to use myself and place facts around and even put in personal stuff what people have said so stuff like their opinion or quote so i could put "I was only 12 when i started" something like that which makes the poster more personal and makes you feel you have a connection and sympathy for that person, so anything that will touch the heart and make my poster more effective and makes you think more about it.

I will present my work by printing out my piece onto maybe A3 or A2 paper the put a colored card for the background to make my poster stand out and the colours i could use for my background card is red, black, white or grey. if it stuck onto wall i could even pin objects around that area e.g. handcuffs, blood splats cut out. silhouettes of a woman standing, a girl crying in black and cut out the areas like mouth and mouth and i could use bits of ripped clothing and pin it to the wall around my piece as i relates all to the subject i'm doing. 

Additional
Here is an artist Tiffani Amo who is all against human trafficking and she uses art to express her feelings on human trafficking and she takes shot of powerful images which make you think and creates and image in your head of the trauma and distress that is happening around the world
http://tiffaniamo.com/art-against-human-trafficking.

images that i like:

I like these because they send off a powerful message and at the end there is a name so these have been experiences from others who have been in the human trafficking and there are the quotes and Tiffani has put these on what look like blood stained pieces of wood which help the black lettering stand out.

Background info

I’m a small-town American chick from Ogdensburg, NY who grew up in St. Petersburg, FL. For more than two years I traveled abroad in search of myself, and now I’m back in America exploring the great U.S. of A.

Pipedreams include becoming a Nat Geo staffer, a Picador author, a newspaper columnist, a private business owner and a reptile whisperer.

My personal goal is to earn a creative living in the field of journalism via photography, writing and multi-media story-telling. I just wanna find my groove and boogie.

http://tiffaniamo.com/about/

More artists



Extra Primary research

Brian Ewing

“Quitting my day job in porn to freelance as an artist full time,” says artist Brian Ewing of the decision that sparked his career watershed. “[I was] working for Hustler on the magazines handling scheduling, prep houses and printers. I also freelanced for them by doing illustrations for their publications. I swore that’d be my last day job.” Although Ewing has transformed into one of rock music and pop art’s most prolific, iconic image-makers, remaining down-to-earth and staying inspired are key elements to the growth of his rebellious art empire.

While he’s become a sought-after household name for record labels and agencies, Ewing has stayed true to the independent spirit of his art, and his style has developed over time. “At first I was just happy to get a chance to draw and work with my favorite bands,” he says of his early punk-rock posters. But with his growth from poster artist to full-blown fine artist, he’s followed in the footsteps of his heroes and mentors--Frank Kozik, Coop, Tara McPherson and many others--building an instantly recognizable stylistic empire.

Informed by everything from art nouveau to ukiyo-e woodblock printing, from the full-throttle art of SoCal’s “kustom” car culture to the dynamism and self-assured lines of comics, Ewing’s work fuses his own creative explorations of perspective, color and space with classic, beloved imagery from rebellious American youth culture: hot punk girls, totally rad skulls, and fields of color aflame. In this way, his work embraces a particular playful naďveté, which he then continues to champion even as his style refines itself and as his technique develops. Ewing reminds us we never have to give up the imagery that fired our imaginations as teenagers; his own success is a signifier for how dearly we hold our own trappings of rebellion, and how they can become a vehicle through which one can mature. With a roster of clients ranging from Metallica and the Warped Tour, to The Strokes and Death Cab For Cutie, and even The New Yorker and a number of advertising agencies, Ewing’s resume is a testament to what we love most about music, art, the allure of drama, lust, danger and darkness.
http://www.brianewing.com/about-1/

i could use the effect on this e.g. the blue face and i could use this on my actors and colour coordinate the actors i could put the guy with a red face to show anger and danger and for the girl  could use white as white means surrender and peace.

.i like the urban look on this is has quite a club style to it but what striked me the most was the the vibrant colours of the red of the hair and the ball. it also seems to relate to my project as well because its a picture of a girl preying or begging which stance i could also use in my own work.

Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz are award-winning creative directors, designers, authors, curators, and packagers specializing in music and pop-culture books. Their many published works have covered diverse subjects within these genres: film animation and special effects, movie and rock posters, rock photography, graphic and Web design, and typography. They have designed for artists such as U2, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ramones, Talking Heads, The Pretenders, Joan Jett, and Bon Jovi. Drate was a four-time judge on the Grammy music packaging committee, co-designed the Grammy Award–nominated album package Talking Heads: Fear of Music, and wrote 45 RPM, the first visual history book on the 45 record sleeve. They both live and work in New York City.

http://www.harpercollins.com/cr-106484/spencer-drate

Personal Project Schedule Name:                                                        Chosen theme/ Title:
Week / Date	Activity	Independent Study
W/C January 18th 2016	Introduction to Brief Proposal Initial Research and planning to begin.	.
W/C January 25th 2016	extra info on my blog scan in my drawing and create an poster from that to get a better idea of what i want to create.	booked out the camera for next week so i can start shooting my project picture started to develop my animated design of what i want to create. i edited the curves so the lines on my piece are darker allowing me to shortcut around coloring it in freely and able to use the paint bucket tool. a picture of my progress is below.
W/C February 1st 2016	i am going to be carrying on with my digital peice trying to finish it  then i will be using the camera i hired out and i will be trying to recreate the shot in which i can create a real looking poster based on my project (human trafficking)
W/C February 8th   2016	Expo Week	. Make sure you document all activities on your blog and note how this could help you with your project and future work.
W/C February 15th    2016	Half Term	i will be looking at more artists from the book i rented out from the libary the book i have is called swag and it looks at rock posters from the 90's
W/C February 22nd    2016	i will be carrying on with my digital peice and also my digital photo peice  and will be planning a summary	Friday the 26th January is an Interview day and you will not be in your media classes.
W/C February 29th     2016	finalisation of peice present work	finishing my blogger off and extra detail on research
W/C March 7th  2016	organise all my work and make sure ive got everything	organizing all my work neatly onto a usb
W/C March 14th  2016	evaluation and individual presentations	complete my evaluationg
W/C March 21st 2016	Deadline week-Complete evaluation and hand in project Group A Deadline 21st March by 12pm Group B Deadline 22nd March by 4pm.	Thursday the 24thMarch is an Interview day and you will not be in your media classes. Friday-Monday the following week are Bank Holidays so ensure you hand in your work by the deadline!

creating my real looking poster

i decided to change this because it didnt feel as intimidating than i wanted so i decided that emma had to take off her coat and oscar had to put a coat on with a hood because that felt more mug looking and makes you feel more unsafe

i ended up using the first one because it seemed to look the best as i had a bit of oscars facial features while also emma looking really sad creating a good emotional effect for my human trafficking poster 

i wanted to add a grime effect over my poster so i took a picture of the floor in which i will the change the opacity of the floor when layering it over my poster giving my poster a dirty look and not very nice looking because my poster isnt meant to be nice

unfortunately i couldn't break down in print screens how i did this because my Pen-drive corrupted and lost the screenshots i saved. 

Anyway firstly i imported the picture onto photoshop and then firstly i change the image into black and white making the image look dark and gloomy and depressing and colour and emotionless. 

Then to give it a grime feel i took a picture of the floor in which i will then decrease the transparency and place it on a new layer and use it as an overlay giving my picture the dusty and grimy look.

Then i used the smudge tool on the mouth of the actors to create more emotion and it gives the man a devilish grin and making the girl look even more sad

Unfortunately  

I seen on a few 

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i made a logo because from looking at all the other posters they all have a logo so from inspiration i decided to make my own themed on human trafficking.

My human trafficking survey : https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/G5LD58C

from looking at this i can see that people think that it would be more effective to have a my poster digitalized rather than photographic so from looking at my primary research i know what type of poster i need to make tho for the best of both worlds i have created two posters one digital and from one of my drawings which i scanned in then went over it in photoshop adding text, colour and changing the whole style and concept of it and the way the characters looked, and a photographic piece which i used two actors one male pinning the other who was female up a wall and having the girl with a sad expression on her face.
 

here is some more primary research but from my classmates aged between 16-18 and it was fairly one sided and they thought sex shouldn't be legal to sell.

I have changed up the poster and added a few more bits and bobs such as... Firstly i added something to the top of the poster because it seemed a bit empty so i added text saying human trafficking in a fancy type of font then in straight original text and did a play on words and put There is nothing fancy about it.

Graphical wise i added what seems like the actor has been crying. i made this effect possible by using the burn tool which i would generally use for shadows but i also knew i could have used these to show lines of mascara that have followed the contours of the face and shows tear have fell creating and upset mood.

I also thought id add my SOLD FOR SEX logo to add a bit more info of what the poster is about.