PPP - STUDIO BRIEF 1 - Screen Print 505 Fail

As part of our 505 module we have to create a manually printed A3 poster, as the selected the method i preferred to use for this is was screen printing, this as it capture detailed and reproduced the intended details whilst also the ability to recreate glow in the dark and floruensent inks. As the Event i've selected if the Magic Lantern Festival these light reflecting and specialist ink could be used to visually reflect this part of the events aesthetic.

After using this method for an earlier brief this year to screen print the type for the cover of the publication i felt quite confident with this method as it worked very successfully for that brief. Due to feeling confident with the method i set 2 days, to do this. I intended for 4 layers including the glow in the dark section.

THIS WHEN VERY VERY WRONG. After design the print full bleed A3 size this causes a range of issues as well as a few other issues, (i picked a screen someone had covered in glue by accident which left a print in my print) the print range when very very wrong. I set out to print 10 different posters but after studying these there are 1 if that i'm happy i could submit for the brief, but even this isn't as perfected as aimed for. This was a disaster overall, due to my confidence i left only a few-days available for this slot which now mens to complete the brief i will have to come back to leeds eailer for easter than imagined. Rather than focus on the mistakes, i've decided to learn from this process, to highlight the gap in the process where i went wrong to avoid this in the future with other briefs.

things learnt / things i did wrong in this attempt i need to learn from-
-don't add to much detail
-don't made the design fill an A3 pages this is heard to equally pull though, leaves ink in the screen which then dries or over leaks
-keep the layers simple
-drawn over the laser jet printed design in back pen if it's not printed probably before exposing the
screen
-wet the screen straight after exposure, mixes with ink and create runny design
-measure the paint to medium ratio better
-wait for the screens to dry before changing colour
- dont not pull the ink thought twice
-use the correct size squedey
-glow in the dark ink goes off
-use power for sliver ink, paint does not work

due to full bleed images it was hard to print the full background, small arms/weak, my fault

 

Glue on the screen causes a print to have the last user print still on, this meant the print looked textured and printed incorrectly, this happen to a few different people at the time

coloured pull thought he blue level equally, had to do it twice which made the ink over spill and leak or not print
also, these prints have the glow int he dark in on, but as it had gone out of date this layer didn't worth either 

as the glow in the dark layer didn't work i tried to ad silver, this was done with sliver acrylic rather than the power and therefore left a very opacitic finish which make the prints look messy/unfinished