Following artist research and research on using projectors I had the chance to use the projector to practice projecting my media experiments on a section of the wall within the classroom I documented this by taking photos. I found it really easy to use and link to my laptop, and choose a variety of imagery to project on the wall in the classroom, I wrote about this within my a3 sketchbook in order to start progression in making another one of my final outcomes.

I had a lot of different ideas for this projection outcome and didn't really know where to start, I knew I wanted a still image to be projected and did not need to animate anything. I began just by sketching initial thumbnail images I wanted it to represent a green living wall without it having to be maintained like one. It was a potential decor idea to brighten up a space without being permanent like a living wall would be, I knew the cons of this would be that It takes electricity and power to project it however if I was going on to refine this outcome concept I would link it to renewable energy like solar panels at the pool.

From my 4 initial thumbnails I asked a group of people which one they preferred and put this on a tally of votes and added it to the page of initial ideas. It was clear straight away which two ideas were the favourites therefore I developed these first sketches by drawing them in more detail and adding colour, once I was happy with both designs I did some mini evaluations of both of them in order to decide which one I was going to create in my final outcome.

Using an A2 piece of paper was so much easier to create a design sheet full of all the different elements I would need to create it and the process I was going to follow. I kept this one in pencil as I was going to digitally create it and this would take some playing around with placement. Following my primary research to the Baltic in Newcastle and looking at Micheal Rakowitz' The Waiting Gardens of the North, he uses a collaging technique with recycled packaging to create this large scale panel. I was inspired by this style and wanted to have my own projection image link to his work by layering all the materials and images I had gathered to create a mural style piece that could be projected onto a wall.

From this I began to create my outcome with all of my media experiments I gathered and had created; this included my letterpress experiments, brusho, acrylic mark making, textile experiments and glass work. I did everything digitally to build this outcome together. I know my personal creative practice is to focus on combining my traditional media with digital software to create a final outcome. I edited each individual asset on photoshop tweaking the levels removing blemishes and backgrounds from pieces of work.

I took screenshots of the process

Following my A2 design sheet I began the digital process using illustrator and photoshop. I scanned in and gathered the photos I had planned to use. I took advantage of alot of tools within the adobe software to edit the piece together. I had a couple of different versions before creating my final piece and the main change I made was to the letter press colouring. At first I started with black but realised it wasn't clear to read over the top of the green background- I inverted this to white and I was much happier with it however I got some feedback from my tutor who suggested experimenting with an off-white o slightly different colour for the type. This was a good idea! I scrolled through the colour picker and ended up choosing some different greens that were brighter.

I had chance to practice projecting it at home again before taking it further, I was keen to use a projector in my final show as I felt it would be manageable and easy to use, as you can see the image was bright and a good size with correct distance to ensure it was not blurry