Assignment 5: Greeting Card (theme: LOVE)

the seventh tutorial (25/03):

my greeting card was more or less 90 percent complete before this tutorial. there was one problem pointed out - the text.

as the heart needed wide spaces, the words should not stretch too much across. in addition, the spacing between the lines were rather compact. so i've made some modification to it by expanding space between the lines and shrinking the size of the words. below is my final work:

hope you like it. =)

Greeting Card (theme: LOVE): Draft

the sixth tutorial (19/03):

over the weekend, i was surfing the website for inspiration. looking out for quotes and all. finally, i decide to do on: CONFESSION and LOST LOVE.

i guess it will be interesting because love confession should be innocently sweet. so the color scheme used is pink (of course!). also, because of the innocence, i used white color to trace out the silhoutte of a man and a young lady. i want to do a silhoutte because it is rather easy (since i don't really need to worry about the facial expression) and that is SECRET love (so personally, i feel silhoutte give such feeling).

a confession i have to make: i traced the man and the young lady from online picture. but i did some modification like the rose was add on and the man's stomach was flatten (hee..). hope you like it..enjoy~



comments from the class:
1. the pink color made them tired. i guess it was too overwhelming (hee..) so i need to change the color. most probably make the pink lighter.

2. the quote is rather long. i will most probably make it smaller. another classmate also mentioned that the quotation didn't have any love meaning in it. i'm not too sure about it but i thought it is quite sweet. i guess i feel this way because i watched the movie.


as mentioned, this is my LOST LOVE card. it is kind of weird because i'm sure this card would not sell in the market. however, i designed it just for fun. to be honest, when i was working on the card, i was kind of sad. well, not that i've just lost my love, it's just some unknown causes.

the girl in the card was also traced and i've also made some modifications. in the original picture, the girl was sitting down. she was not crying and the butterfly was actually flying towards her.

since i am trying to express a lost love, it is rather ironic to have the butterfly flying towards her (well, i hope i successfully "make the butterfly = love"). thus, the butterfly is flying towards the window, away from her.



comments from the class:
1. nobody will buy this card (haha..) i kind of expected they will say that because i guess i won't buy it either.

2. one of my classmate mentioned that the butterfly did not look as if it was flying out. so he suggested i should place the edge of the butterfly to the back so as to make the connection.

3. the window should looke more like a window. i'm thinking of adding shadow so making the feeling as if the light source from outside is brighter than the interior.

4. the tear drop: it is quite redundant because the whole card already suggested it. it's either i should enlarge the tear drop or remove the tear drop.

that's about it.

Greeting Card (theme: LOVE): Draft II

after thinking for some time, i decide to take the CONFESSION design as my final. not because i've lost my love, it really makes me feel sad when designing it. though i really like the concept a lot, i don't really know how to do the effects (casting the shadow from the window, making the room a bit brighter).

well, actually the Confession design not too bad, just that the concept is simple and everyone is doing lovey-dovey card (so not very outstanding). but oh well, this card is too Swweeet.. =)

my second draft:


i've change the color of the circles and the arrangement of it. also, i've decreased the font size.

Assignment 4: Save This/That

after looking through the last posters, i feel that the red colored words can't be seen. i guess i'll just stick to white colored wordings. and YES, THIS IS THE FINAL. (haha).



this is the most updated poster i've made because i find the previous copy quite "crappy". i'm seriously not sure what nice phrases can be used to link piracy and the fist together. so hopefully, somebody will be nice to help me out with this. thank you so much. =)


the final poster that i'm planning to submit:

there are a couple of changes from the last poster:

1. missing laptops: since i'm planning to focus on just pirated cds, i'll keep to my cds and "discard" the uploading/downloading idea.

2. the copy: as mentioned, i will change the heading and the body copy. i wanted to make the words simple and outstanding. i thought that by using slang may somehow catch attention and it is rather in a local context. it says: "you cheapo! stop piracy, stop starving your favorite idol, stop being such a cheapskate."

3. copy color: i've decided to make it red because it capture attention (again). i thought red goes well with black background. it stands out but not so much that it is "separated from the background"

as compared to the draft, it is much more simpler. there are lesser items in the poster and reduce messiness. there are lesser items to clutter the poster and have more spaces. hopefully, there will be more comments whether is it an improvement from the previous one.

Save This/That: Draft

the fifth tutorial (12/03):

oh, if you're sensitive to the dates, by now i guess you've realised that the date is on a Wednesday, instead of the usual Tuesday. due to some unforeseen circumstances, i can't make it for my usual tutorial slot so i went to a Wednesday morning class as a make-up.



this is what i'd presented to the class. basically, the idea was PIRACY (i hope you can see that..haha..). the message that i wanted to appeal to people was to stop (demonstrated by the fist) piracy and buy original; also stop sharing files. as for the heading, i was finding a word to link the whole idea of piracy and fist. to be honest, i could not find that one word and the body copy was just a rough idea.

comments from the class:
1. mixture of concepts because piracy is one issue and downloading is another issue. it is hard to portray both concepts out.
- actually, it is quite true. as in when i was designing, i was so much into thinking what to put in and neglect what does piracy really mean. thus, i'm planning to change to either anti-piracy or stop illegal downloading.

2. the words cannot be seen because of the background. i've to admit that i've tried using a contrasting color. However, it stood out so much that it seemed to me that it was two different entities.
- in my final changes, i'll take note of it and may be i'll try to play with other colors so that the words do not stand out but also on the other hand, not to the extent of blending into the background. of course, i'll change the words because it is really meaningless.

3. besides that, i think my motion blur was not very well done. i felt that it was more like the hand sprinkled some flakes rather than breaking the cds. so hopefully, someone will help me with the effects and answer to my call for help..

one thing that i should mention is that i want to give credits to my father for participating enthusiastically in this project. i really like the idea that the fist break the pirated cds..hee..and so glad that he is involved =)

Assignment 3: U C What I C

after two weeks, i finally finished this assignment.

oh yeah, the man in the picture is my father (*wink) cool huh, he didn't reject my request when i asked him to be my model. he was super sporting and cooperative when i asked him to do such action. though he was kind of camera shy initially, he still managed to hold his laughter and froze there till i snapped the picture. my mother and sister had a great laugh when my father was "modelling".

U C What I C: Draft

the fourth tutorial (04/03):

this is what i had presented in class.

oh well, the story goes like this:
"i was crying bitterly over something and i had the "intentions to commit suicide". thus, the stool and rope. instead of the rope, a fishing net was of better use. the story ends with the fact that i was actually trying to fish out my dead fish and i was sad because of the dead goldfish."

my classmates commented that:

1. the first two frames should be removed because the 3rd frame already depicted my sadness. they also mentioned that if i insisted on putting up the first two, i should use either the fish tank as a background instead of facing it.

i agreed to what they said because personally, i felt the first two frames were quite out of place. the initial idea was that i was so sad over something and i happened to cry in front of the fish tank and lean against it. however, i guess it was rather hard to portray that out.

i guess i will remove the first two frames to create more curiousity and re-take the 3rd frame from the top. as mentioned in class, this might portray a different feeling than just taking it at eye level.

2. i should not use 'cross' or 'tick' to convey the message that the fishing net was of better use than the rope.

i also have to agree to it. one of them suggested that i should ask my mother or sister to show me that the fishing net is better than the rope. again, the initial idea was that i wanted to capture a hand throwing the rope away. however, it was quite difficult to capture that moment. so i was thought of "crossing" the rope.

i plan to remove the two frames and change them to something like probably my sister taking the rope away and frowning at my silliness to fish out a dead fish with a rope. in the next frame, she will pass me a fishing net while i stand on the stool.

that's about it. the next post will be a final copy of this assignment.

Assignment 2: Level of Abstraction

there..my final product for Assignment 2:

the purpose of this assignment is to make the images talk, developing skills in controlling visual message. So the process of abstraction is to reduce of mulitple visual factors to only the essential and most typical features of what is being represented.

initially, i didn't want to draw the button. however, looking at it for a while, i feel that it is kind of essential to make the abstract clearer that it is a camera.