[14/10/2013] 2 Dimensional Design - Create Your Own Monogram: Inspiration/References.

Miss Lisa asked us to go to the library and find books to gives us an inspiration on how to do our selected monogram. Especially the font selection.

So I found this amazing books in the library.

Me being the girl who loves vintage/retro, these books caught my eyes instantly!

In the "FIVE HUNDERED 45s: A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE SEVEN-INCH RECORD SPENCER DRATE AND JUDITH SALAVETZ" book. I found few I find funny and interesting.

Supergrass, KISS OF LIFE, Parlophone, 2004

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Ism, I Think I Love You, S.I.N., 1983. Designer: Jism/Sallese.

 As for the "CUSTOM LETTERING OF THE '60's & '70's"

It gave me more ideas for my monogram.

But sadly, I couldn't borrow it from the library because well to be frank, I'm not the type of person who usually borrow books from the library. So I only took picture.

When I went home, I remembered how my brother studied Architecture and well he likes graffiti art. So I went to the attic and find books that he has that could help me with this assignment and I did.

This book had a lot of amazing illustration works.

and this one stood out the most to me.

The typography choice makes it looks nice to look at. The quote itself brings out the beauty of it and of course the colour usage hehehehe I can not resist pale colours like this. Even the illustration next to it is amazing as well.

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[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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