Assignment 6 The Story Book

Phew... that was a lot of work this week. But i'm glad i'm finally done with my portfolio and my storybook. hmm about the story book.... I must say this is almost the coolest things i've helped to create in my entire life in NUS.




Thought I'd like to share with you all how we came about with the storybook, it would be quite a folie to write it all here. After all the documentation is 33 pages long!!... the screenshots would just eat up all the space.

So instead of writing about my work. Maybe I'll write a lil bit about my team. I've especially enjoyed working with all the members of my team Ann Soon (Writer), Chris (Colouring), Mel and Val (Background) and Mun (Characters). Well if you're wondering about my role I was mainly here for emotional support when everybody was going crazy over all the work. Doing the typography and documentation was not easy either. I'm glad I met all of you in this module, hope we get to see each other again (not in the same module, of course, I hope I don't fail because the printer wrongly binded one of my portfolio pages upside down >__<)/

Then we had to come up with all the scenes... omg we realise we only had 3 weeks to do the whole thing!!!... we'll that sounds like a lot of time... but when the errors start to pop in, you realise that your characters don't match the background then you go "O..... M.... G......"

Anyway I'm glad all of this is over.


The most memorable experience in all this will be how me and ann soon rushed the documentation at the last minute after our presentation >_<

I was delayed at the printing earlier and so one chunk of the document was still unformatted... hahahaha but it looks awesome now... I wish i could upload it but that would be a copyright infringement ;)

Assignment 5 The Chosen One

Pink is gay? No I don't think so... even though i wouldn't associate myself with the colour. But for the purpose of this assignment, it is important to take the users into consideration. Who would use postcards and to whom will they send it? With that it mind, if all my postcards were on a shelf, the best seller (if I manage to sell any, ok lah don't be so pessimistic, can? ^^) would be this one. And the reason is simple. Postcards are rarely used nowadays... yeah who needs postcards when there is email??

Anyway, postcards is a sign of effort and is sent from deep within a person's heart. For this reason, I believe the love theme suits the postcard the best and that is why I chose it for my final (and not because I'm gay!!! I'm NOT gay btw...)

Front


Back

Assignment 5 Music Festival

Finally, the last assignment. Made a bit of changes here and there including the font cuz my friends say the original one was unreadable (well, it was!... in small size). Anyway, I go with the majority although it lost a bit of its 'classy' look. Well I think, it's still as good.

Assignment 5 Postcard Prototype

After some fiddling with the shapes, this is what I was able to come up with. Not very glamourous but it looks quite good with the colors added.



And it also seems like I misunderstood that one of the requirements was that we could only use basic shapes pretty much like the abstraction assignment we did earlier. I guess it was my misunderstanding cuz all my classmates used more than 2D pictograms >_<.
Choice of colour themes
Now, the colours that I used aren't just random colours in the colour palette >_< !!! I carefully thought about what theme/feeling I wanted to convey and then decided on the colors based on the palettes of these themes. (no... honestly). So let's describe them one by one in detail.

Death - Black, dark brown and dark green colors represent somber music. It can be used to represent slow and appeasing music, and also slow R&B.
Fire - Warm colours represent fire and anger. Can be used to represent summer music and hard rock genres.
Love - Pink colours to represent love. Can be used to convey affection and passion; romantic songs.
NUS - Blue and orange colours represent hipness and create good contrast. Can be used to convey funky music such as groove, dancepop, .
Matrix - Black and neon green give off a modern and serious feel. Can be used to convey action, coolness; for trance, techno and riff rock music genres.
Storm - Modern and cold. Dominance of silver represent neutrality. Can be used for modern and sad music, piano instrumentals and mysterious.
Ice - Dominance of bright blue to create a gentle cold feeling. For winter songs.
Gaia - Green and brown to represent nature. For environmentalist themes.

Assignment 5 Design Elements

In order to make the postcard, there are some design elements that I want to incorporate into the postcard. Since it's about music, I thought I might wanna include some musical instruments, now here's something i found on the net that might be helpful.

Assignment 5 Postcard

I can't imagine my life without music speaking of which i'm dying to buy an B C Rich Beast electric guitar. If only I had the money.... sigh.... hopefully with the coming holiday season, prices might drop a bit... There's actually a store somewhere on Singapore where my friend says they're selling electric guitars at 40% off. I need to check this out. Living without music would just be unimaginable.

Anyway, let's talk about the postcard. Even though the main theme is about music, the purpose of the assignment is 'colouring'. At the same time we're limited to a maximum of 4 hues. I found this requirement to be quite vague. Did it mean 4 colors? Cuz red and pink are different colors but have same hue. Or does it limit the use of gradients? cuz a gradient between different hues will span across all the hues in between them. Now that's a confusing requirement.

As for the postcard itself, imho postcards should be striking and cute at the same time, although cute is not really for me. But postcards are usually sent to someone dear so people want it to look good and at the same time portray their emotions at the time they wrote the postcard. Now.. that's a load of bs i'm talking here but i mean it >_<

Finally for the size we were given some specifications such as R2 or R2, I can't even remember. Anyway, there's this website that is quite useful for determining postcard sizes.
(http://postcard-size.com/default.aspx).

Assignment 4

Hi folks, here's the final version of assignment 4. Based on the feedback that i received, I changed the MSN window to make it look more like MSN window and also moved the logos below the bottom line. Added a few more logos for visual balance and the address (which was missing from the original!).





oops... I almost forgot, wanna thank my friend Jason for letting me use his pictures (jason, if you're out there, thanks a lot man, u saved my life... erm... maybe that was a lil bit overdramatic, anyway thanks for being a good friend and a good person, in general ;)