SB4 Evaluation

Despite the fact that the brief was only two weeks long I have enjoyed the fast pace nature of it, I think the pressure has enabled me to work quickly as I was always conscious of the limited time we had. Over all I think the booklet fits the brief well as it provides information about five of the homeless people in Leeds. This isn't many but as this was only a quick project we decided to limit ourselves to a few people. It also makes the booklet more realistic as it is more likely that the freshers will be able to speak to all five of the people over their first year at uni than they would be if the booklet contained 20/30 people’s information.  

We managed to do a solid amount of research before we started the designing which benefited us a lot as we knew how to approach the situation of talking to homeless people and how to go about asking questions in a sensitive way.

 Looking Jan Banning also helped in terms of how to capture the people we spoke to as his photos captured homeless people in a very honest way. This helped me when doing my illustrations of the homeless people we spoke to, I didn't want the drawings to define them as homeless, I wanted them to just look like people as I thought this would make whoever was reading the booklet more likely to approach them. 

I really enjoyed doing the illustrations as I found it a much nicer way to add a visual of the person as apposed to taking a photo. It is much more sensitive and less intrusive as a lot of the homeless people we spoke to were a bit on edge when we spoke to them and didn’t want to have their photo taken. It was also nice to put my own stamp on things and mate it easier to allocate jobs in the group, I was in charge of the illustrations were as Bronte was in charge of designing the pages. This saw a collaboration of both of our styles merging together which was really nice. 

Overall me and Bronte both work quickly together therefore managed to get the booklet finished before we had schedule which freed us up to bring our blogs up to scratch and complete our design boards within good time before the deadline. I really enjoyed working with Bronte because of this and find her a very productive person to work with.