[9/10/2013] 2 Dimensional Design - Create Your Own Monogram: Inspiration/References.

So I was researching for types of typography/fonts to use in my monogram.

These are examples of fonts that gave me inspiration.








I also did my own one. Which I will upload by this week.

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[9/10/2013] 2 Dimensional Design - Creating Your Own Monogram.

Last Monday (7/10/2013), after the "What's Your Square"exhibition. Miss Lisa lectured and briefed us on our next major assignment. Which is to create your own monogram. This assignment is going to be 3-4 weeks due. I'm very much excited for this assignment as I've done a logo of my own back when I was in high school. Where I had to create my own company, which I did a karaoke company called "Star". My teacher told us to paste the logos onto your products, since mine was a karaoke company, I brought my radio from home to school and pasted it on the radio itself.

As you can from the picture below, you can see my works I did throughout high school.

The one below is the one I mentioned about, the "Star" logo I did. Alongside my business cards, envelope and letterhead.

Monogram focuses a lot of the type of typography we use. It is just a combination of two or more letters for your company. By creating a simple but bold monogram, it can create attention to your clients. Monogram can be created in 3 different ways.

Therefore, Miss Lisa told us to think about and research more on monogram and come out with 12-20 sketches on how you would want yours to turn out like.

Since I am excited for this one, I started sketching in the KTM train when I was on my way home. I sketched 12 ways of how I want my letters to be position as. Then I'll be focusing more on the type of typography I want to use.

I hope when I show my sketches to Miss Lisa tomorrow, she'll be happy about it.

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[08/10/13] Contextual Studies: Production 02 - Report.

Last Sunday (6/10/2013), we filmed the scene where I was involved in at my house.
We were worried that we won't be able to finish the whole scene on that day, but we actually did! So we were very happy and treated ourselves with pizzas!

Now I'm going to talk about what happen on Sunday and how well did we film it. We finally used a few filming techniques that we were excited to try out.

I told them about how I wanted to shot the talking scene in this way.



Me being the Korean lover. I showed them a drama called "Can We Get Married" where I showed them how they filmed the talking to each other part.



See the similarities in both dramas. The only difference is that  they shot in a different angle.

We did the same way too.



I was talking in this scene, therefore Elle's (Eka) face is blurred out while they focus on me instead.
I personally think that this will attract the audience attention. This is my favourite part of the film because of how we interpret professionals way of shooting the talking part.

With the help of my IKEA lamp. We got the perfect lighting I wanted to try out.




It looks like this. I like how the light shine on Elle's (Eka) hair. In photography, hair light is important. It creates a contrast towards the photo.

This is an example of a before after photo when using the hair light.



Next scene was when the "suspect" (which I won't reveal who) killed Adauza (me) in my house.
Due to circumstances, I won't be talking about this scene as I don't want to spoil the suspense.
I'll be showing a BTS we did before doing this scene ;)

Annabel being the expert she is in faking blood. I finally got to experience having this on my body parts.
So she paint and paste on my arms.





So that's it for this week's report. Stay tune for more updates on our filming reports.
and as a treat! Here's our teaser trailer for our short film.

We may be doing a new one. Since we're still not finish filming EVERYTHING. We are 70% done for now.

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[7/10/2013] 2 Dimensional Design: "What's Your Square" Exhibition.

Originally we were supposed to exhibit our work last Wednesday but due to circumstances Miss Lisa had, we moved it to today.

but before we got the message from Miss Lisa, we were already setting up our work. So here's picture of my classmates' works.

Eka's

Annabel

Fariz's

Sarah Jane's

Jamie's

Farah's

Zaina's

Nicholas'

May's

Maegan's

Ching Hsin's

Afiqah's

Hidayah's

Jean's

Angie's

Mathuri's

Raymond's

Lisa's

Kashwini's

Today's one was we had to exhibit it outside the class because the class was very untidy. So she asked us to think of a way to exhibit it and we used the tables and chairs to display our artworks.

and it looked like this.

A lot of students walk along to see it. I feel happy and proud that we got to display our hardwork with everyone.

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[2/10/2013] 2 Dimensional Design: What Is Your Square? (Part 3)

I'm going to tell you the story behind these 2 masterpiece.

Title: You and Me.

Basically, it's based on my current relationship. I play the piano and he plays the guitar. Hence, the title "You and Me". He sometimes sings his self-composed song for me with his guitar. So, I was hoping I could pay back by playing something for him with the piano. Other than that, in the future, I hope that me and him can play the instruments together and create a subtle atmosphere. So he inspired me to use the theme "music" for this assignment.

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[2/10/2013] 2 Dimensional Design: What is Your Square? (Part 2)

I decided to just cut it instead of colouring it, because I feel like I need to get out of my comfort zone and just try to cut it out even though my fingers were in endless pain.

So I theme was "music" and I was thinking of doing piano keys and guitar.

I was just trying out on the piano keys like how it would be when I cut it.
So this was how it look like.

When I showed it to Miss Lisa, she said expand it more. Don't make the piano looks flat within the square.

Therefore, I added the music notes and cut like the whole piano piece and arrange it accordingly.

For the symmetrical one, I had a hard time figuring how to cut it. Miss Lisa told me there's no such thing as hard. Then I realised, maybe because I didn't think hard enough. So I came out with this guitar, with the help of Annabel. 

This was just a trial, like cutting in class and see the results.

 Then I decided to make a new one and used a different colour.

 

And this was the final result of both of my asymmetrical and symmetrical paper cut outs.

There's a meaning behind these two cut outs which I will tell in another post.

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