Activity - In words and pictures demonstrate your own, individual design process from brief to conclusion
When I am given a brief I find it very important to come up with a lot of ideas so the first thing I’ll do to get my mind into the state of working is to plan out my ideas using a spider gram or a list of everything possible that comes into my head. Then I like to define my ideas or develop some further, and look at what I actually have to produce and see a range of them and annotate the piece in detail so I can try and understand every aspect of it.
This is an example of what I would do when I am set a project for the first time, I straight away make a spider diagram of any ideas I have at that current moment and as the project develops I go back to it and add more to show how certain ideas may have developed or not. This image is taken from my RVJ for this project.
I also find making a collage of images very helpful as they are an immediate reference point that I again can go back to refer at any time. I read magazines and newspapers all the time so this way of putting my ideas is very helpful to me as it is quick and all the things I have taken from a publication have now been put into one place for me to go back and look at. This will be something I do from right at the beginning right until the end of a project as I just find it so helpful and I also think the use of collage fits really well with what I have chosen to look at in this project. I also plan on using collages as a way of making a creative background for an article piece as you can easily show what the article or magazine is about from using a range of images in this way.
This page has been taken from my RVJ at a point where I have been looking at what is out there and how we could perhaps re-invent an idea and use it in my own work, and to give it an appropriate twist to my project. I find looking at what is out there and finding something you like a very helpful tool as you can find out what you love and what you do not like, and if you even find nothing you like at all, at least you know what you do not want your project to look like.
The booklet on the left is the mock up for the magazine for this project, I made the magazine in a week and learnt so much from it, I realised how I wanted the magazine to change and how even if you think all your ideas are really good they may not flow too well together. It is really important to make a few mock ups or tests before you start making the final product as you have not experienced what it is going to be like when making the actual final piece. Ideas may not flow as well together or may not be as good as a product as they seem as an idea, or the idea just might not be appropriate for that piece.
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