Class 4.2 - Putting Together Our First Full Draft

PROTOTYPE     l     TEST
During this class we realised that the final brief was A2 spreads and not A3 spreads as we were initially working with. I have no idea how we got this idea but I think we may have got confused/automatically assumed after the homework set for one A4 image and one A4 page of text for each topic that that was how we were meant to have our final. This meant that most of this class we spent reformatting what we had already done onto a larger document (which took a lot longer than we thought).

By the end of class we were able to get some feedback from both our tutors which gave us a lot to work for our final print stage. One thing we had noticed that was picked up by both Tulia and Jason was that the imagery that we had each done, even though was in the same style, didn't quite fit together due to different pen thickness. After the feedback we got we decided the best way to go would be a mix of both thin and thick pen in every drawing. This way the cohesion between spreads was maintained throughout the entire document. It also helped develop the individual images as well.

One last decision we had to make was which type of heading we were to go with. Before this class we had each generated some concepts for how we were to draw the headings with choosing one to feedback to each other. This was a bit harder to decided as, me personally, didn't have any strong preference to either one. However, one good point that Jason bought up about the headings was that since they are loose an unstructured like the imagery, compared with the body copy, the way its placed on the page should reflect that as well.


EX-CHANGE
Since a lot of our group members didn't turn up we ended up merging with another which I ended up quite enjoying. It was interesting to talk to more people about their projects and see how people from the same discipline approached their task. One thing that did let me down though was that most of the people in our combined group didn't really have anything to physically show at this point. I understand that with most other majors its not as easy to visually show ideas at such an early point in a 12 week project but even then, a couple people didn't even bring a mood board for their idea and where they want to take it.

However, this was made up from the feedback I got for our visual brief. It was nice to see people outside of our specific VCD brief to understand our concept and enjoy the imagery and style we were taking our idea. A few things that were said in feedback in terms of how to improve were tings that Emma and I had already established that we needed to work on/change but this just reinforced our decisions. One girl did say that she preferred Emma's linked font as it was more friendlier. As I looked at our draft brief more and more I was beginning to lean that way too.