Made in Britain

The film ‘Made in Britain’, by Tim Roth in 1982 showed the world through the eyes of a juvenile skin head boy of the 80’s. The moral throughout the film was obvious, the fact that no one can overthrow an organisation in a higher position that you is a universal issue people face. I found it interesting how if I was watching this film 5 or 6 years ago I'd of looked at it in a completely differently way. Then I was still an adolescent who thought I knew best, I would have idolised the brash rebellious character, thinking the things he was doing was fun and right in telling the ones in charge where to go.  In contrast to this however, now I just found his actions frustrating. Knowing that he doesn't yet understand the consequences and the regret he will feel in the future irritated me. The use of dramatic irony, knowing the road the character is going down is not a good one, is only apparent depending on who’s watching. The reaction of this film all depends on the audience.

Relief Printing

Relief printing was a new experience for me and I was excited to begin. Rather than just cutting one lino and sticking to that design, I moved onto a further 2 linos. This allowed me to experiment further and gain a variety of development processes. I found it easy to get my head around the fact the concluded print would be the opposite way round to the lino cut, this meant that any text I was to add would be backwards. Although this wasn't challenging, I found it extremely challenging trying to understand how to add various tones to the print. After buying my paper that would be used for the final print, I started to plan what colours will be used first. I realised that this was easier said than done as I began to realise more needed to be added after I had cut the design away. This, for me, was distressing however I worked around it and the outcome wasn't that bad considering. The fact that I can't digitally manipulate the print as that would ruin the whole idea of old fashioned broadsides, I had to face the fact that that's as good as it's going to get. On the bright side however I found that the smudgy finger prints and the lack of some detail and high colour tones that would of defined and concluded the design, all relates to the simplistic designs of the first ever broadsides. Overall I admit that my final was not the most professional finish in the world, however I am confident that practice makes perfect.