OLIO 11 Brief

From the start of University, we were shown OLIO's. On my first open day and interview for the Uni, I was shown OLIO's. Every year that I've been at the Uni I have seen OLIO's. To begin with I had no idea what it was or why they were showing me them. But after a while I realised it was a collective book of all the work of the current third years who would be graduating that year. When I realised this I was extremely excited and shocked at how fast it had come round for my turn to submit my own piece of work into OLIO 11.
I looked at previous OLIO's for pieces of work that worked well, and pieces that didn't work so well so that I could work out what would be most effective when I create my piece of work.



OLIO 9 - Francesca Williams

I think this Illustration works really well, although it is two separate pieces of work, they sit together very well on a double page spread. The two images reflect in a negative way yet respond to each other effectively. The colours that are used compliment the pages as they are used in opposite areas and the pastel shades set the scene of the images. The use of white flowers on each of the women's knees tie together the two images.



OLIO 9 - Hannah Isaacs

I think this image works well as a double page spread because the image isn't lost in the gutter of the page. It flows very well and the detail of the skeleton and hair makes the illustration eye catching and it stands out against the patterned background.



OLIO 9 - Jess Hinsley

Although the artwork for this illustration is very good, the piece is ruined by some of the image getting lost in the guttering which makes it less effective. This is something that I would like to avoid for my piece of work and to have all the important information of the image visible on the two pages.

After looking at previous OLIO's, I think I would like to create ideas that are double page spreads and not two separate illustrations. I feel that the images flow well across the two pages and you can get more information about your illustration across the wider area, therefore making it more interesting to view.

Our brief for OLIO 11 is to create 2 pieces of work with different approaches to the theme of 'The Eleventh Hour'.
My first response to 'The Eleventh Hour':

- Drinking tea...Optimum drinking temperature
- Check if you've got your passport/if it's in date before a holiday
- Cleaning/doing chores before Mum gets home
- Seasoning food
- Buying Christmas presents
- Washing up
- Writing essays or doing work
- Sort out cars MOT/insurance
- food shopping for dinner party
- Putting parsley on the dinner "God fathers we forgot the parsley" (an old childhood memory)
- Drying clothes before a night out
- Putting on lipstick/lip gloss
- Being born/giving birth
- Decisions in history - e.g. gun powder plot, Berlin Wall
- Suicide saviours - last minute of life
- Environment
- Last tree, in a pod - protecting it
- Mexican day of the dead
- The one that got away (romance)
- Bees
- Natural Disasters
- Decision making
- Consequences
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- Catching trains/buses
- Changing your mind
- Deadlines
- Fate
- Casino
- Gambling

This is an array of different ideas I have taken from my own research and thinking and a group tutorial where we spent an hour discussing loads of different ways we could interpret 'The Eleventh Hour.'
I found the group tutorial really useful as my ideas were quite static to begin with but talking about ideas as a group opened up my mind and allowed me to think down a number of different lines that I hadn't thought of before. This therefore helped my imagination and contributed to a much more diverse range of illustration ideas that I could create.

We had a few InDesign workshops which were very useful as I hadn't used InDesign before. An introduction into setting up a document and placing images on the pages gave me a clearer idea of how my OLIO work is required to be submitted. For example, page size (165mm x 235mm and 3mm bleed), number of pages (4), CYMK colour, press quality, a TIFF format file, a JPEG format file, our name, student number and contact details...We were also shown the specific requirements of saving our files to make a PDF for the submission.
I feel a lot more confident with using InDesign again in the future and for other modules that are approaching.