Crit Feedback

Today's crit we had Kevin King from Secret Seven come up this afternoon to help out with our crit. We laid our work out and rotated round and gave written feedback. It was really interesting to see everyone else's work and how they interpreted the songs in completely different ways.Here is the feedback I received.

• I really like the mixed colours, different every time and people see different stuff also smells good... If you do this bright and colourful is the way forward?
• Could develop a colour pattern over the hand , photoshop.
• Scanning idea is good but using scanner is way 'overdone' and you could maybe develop this idea more. Colours are good too but maybe a little too colourful? Try a limited colour palette: Blacks/Greys/Reds? 
• I think marbling is a good idea, but don't just use by itself: try to put it in a shape or type - marbling has been used in record sleeves a lot, so if you want to use it, try to add your own touch to it. 
• Think of head idea is the best. Try developing this further.
• Think the marbling idea is great! also like the scanned hands, very good. Think the scanned one is your strongest.
• I like the marbling. How can you bring that back to your research. 
• I really like the effect of the two hands although overlapped it made me think of people holding hands- so security. Experiment with one hand and positioning or two hands spread (like a mime stuck in a box? - you know) Marbling produces a strong effect but perhaps experiment with dark colours. You don't relate bright colours to being trapped. Maybe a hidden shape or symbol in the marble print. 
• I really like the hand scanned in, its creepy and karmacoma sounds creepy. Also think the bigger black marbling looks really good, like a black hole and is a bit scary. Not sure what you like...but you know 
• Scan the marble effects in they are pretty
• I think the marbling ones look good. It would be interesting to see them layered together on Photoshop. But the hand is also really good design is has an interesting effect.
• I quite like the pixelation and the 'ming' colour shows that sometimes mistakes can actually produce ideas. 
• Texture idea creates some of the best visuals I have seen today. They fit with the idea of the song and overall the best response I have seen.

Overall, I felt the feedback I received was generally pretty positive! However, some people felt the marbling technique is pretty overdone, which I agree with. I was especially happy with the two last pieces of feedback - made my week! ha. I still feel I have a lot to improve and work on , I felt I spent maybe a bit too much time focusing on research into vinyl rather than DOING!

Kevin even posted a photograph of the crit on Instagram.