Process: To brainstorm and ultimately find a theme, I began by looking through the photos I have taken on my phone and wrote down ideas as they came to me. Then I developed a basic idea of what I would include on each page of the zine and sketched different ways they could look once I created them. I narrowed down the photographs that I would like to include in the zine and started there. I faced some roadblocks along the way with page placement because I wanted my zine to be put in chronological order by the date the photos were taken, but I planned on putting one specific panorama photograph on the 4-5 full page, so I had to make sure I included just the right amount of photos from dates before and after that panorama.
Reflection: Selecting a theme for my zine was one of the most difficult aspects to the project. Because it had such open ended criteria, tons of ideas raced through my mind and I honestly wanted to do them all. However, most of my ideas had overlap such as photography of sunsets, and vacations. So, combining a couple themes seemed to make the most sense. I ended up with the theme, the last 5 months in sunsets, where I’d have the picture of the sunset, date, time, and location, and write a little journal entry about that specific day. Although the open endedness caused me to struggle at first a bit with sticking to one specific theme, that broad freedom to choose what we were passionate about for the project was the part of the project that I liked the most because it gave me intrinsic motivation to put effort into the zine. There were very few requirements which allowed us to branch out into our different zones and as a result, nobodies zine in class was remotely the same. Through our different themes and processes, each person was individually able to show their personality through the pieces in the book. Throughout my zine, I attempted to utilize the graphic design principles wherever I could. Framal reference is the used on the title page with the 3 gold tattoos that roughly represent a sunset by their continuous overlapping descension and the fact that they’re getting smaller as they get lower on the page. On every page of the zine, I added a gold tattoo to further unify the pages. On the majority of the pages I overlapped the tattoos with the photographs and played with overlay edits so they weren't all the same on each page. As a designer, this project greatly increased my ability as well as comfort with the computer programs Indesign and Photoshop. At first, I had great difficulty finding my way around editing photos, selecting tattoos, cropping, and virtually most of the tools necessary to make my project visually appealing. After much practice and tons of help from Ms. Stratton, I now feel as though I have a largely better grasp at techniques and tools used through the programs, as well as problem solving
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