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Work from before re submission Cont. 2

-Started putting all the drawings and writing the text into an Indesign document

-Although I had a general idea of what I wanted, I'm not gifted at graphic design, so it was hard to know what to do with myself

-Shouldn't have used indesign, I can't make fun designs on it

-Made this tester on Photoshop, looks much better

-The skinny format was hard to work with

-Coloured all drawings

-Used opacity pen to make the shading look 2 toned, when I just used 1 shade

-Spent 1 day on each in order to have a chance of reaching the deadline

-Although I finished these by the schedule, everything else I did not.

-Still no idea what to do for film

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Work from before re submission

-This project did not have a good start, as I was focusing on the unit 6 extended submission deadline whilst the encyclopedia task was on

-This project is short, so losing even a week puts you far behind

-I also had no idea what to do as my topic, educating others and showing something in a new way, that others haven't done before, is hard to decide on

-I also despise film in fine art/artistic sense

20/02

-Time flew and before I knew it, it was the 20th Feb and I hadn't started the project yet

-Although my film review session wasn't until the 23rd, I snuck into the one on the 20th too just to get an idea on what we're supposed to do, by seeing what others have done

-I went to the library to do the method of looking at random books and seeing if anything would inspire me, it didn't

21/02

-Went to 'cute' exhibition

-Went to CSM library afterwards in hope to find more inspiration

-Started thinking of doing lolita fashion, as it's something I already know a lot about

-Looked at books on Japanese fashion

22/02

-Put more thought into lolita as a topic (look at mindmap on the right)

-What can I say that's new about the topic?

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23/02

-Supposed to show my film in film review group

-Did not have film

-Did the same as the 20th where I watched as reference on what to do

-Managed to talk to tutors about my topic, decided on lolita

25/02 + 26/02

-Worked on encyclopedia task

-Lolita is a very broad topic, so helped to organise the themes a bit more

-Found pictures from old blog posts, pinterest, google, fashion magazines, Instagram, archived websites

27/02

-Had the publication workshop, so started focusing on publication first, instead of film

-One of the tasks was to take 5 images or so from your encyclopedia and make it into a mini publication

-Helped me identify the key points I must include, as I was struggling with focusing on how broad the topic was

-Was thinking of having my film be informative, so started finding clips

-Went through Japanese archive footage on NicoNico Douga (Japanese version of Youtube from the early 200s)

28/02

-Started working on drawings for publication

-Had a vague idea on what I wanted my book to look like, knew I'd have to draw lots of lolitas from different time periods

-Had to produce all full colours within a week, it usually takes me 1 week for 1 drawing

-Had 5 drawings, took a week to finish them

-Colour style is simple, pose is simple for this reason

-Though the pose serves it's purpose better than something elaborate

-I would put the sketches underneath each other to make sure they all follow the same proportions

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01/03

-Had book binding workshop

-Learnt how to book bind in unit 6, so didn't help too much

-However we got to look at example publications, which made me think of alternative methods

-Just wanted to do a normal zine format initially

-I liked the screw binding, the long booklet, lolita encyclopedia?

-Format Ideas

-Went with big book, skinny pages idea.

-1 lolita on the right page, information of each time period to the left

-Of Japanese magazines design style