WHAT IF...?

First boards:

Final boards for presentation:

Final book printed:

In our group, we decided with the words that we had together (happy, busy, people, buildings) to come up with a problem that was based around shopping in Leeds.

After throwing ideas around the table, we decided to look at Christmas shopping, and how busy it gets.

Through researching this, we found that there were fewer male shoppers than female shoppers, and that the male shoppers were usually with the female shopper.

After talking to male friends, family and shoppers, we found that many of them were usually dragged out with their partner to shop, and they don't enjoy the experience at all.

So we intend to come up with something that will keep the male shoppers entertained whilst their partner is in the fitting rooms or looking around.

Experimentation with colour, font and layout for front cover and other pages of the survival guide.

This is the final page that we have laid out. We decided to have a double page spread, just so there is more space and the sentences aren't so close together. Making it easier to read.

Below are the experiments for one of the pages in the guide.

We didn't want to have a straight list, as this is what you would normally see, and is quite boring to look at, so we decided to change the way the sentences are laid out.

Above layout is quite haphazard.

Just looking at using 3 colours to start with.. red, black and white, as these are the colours that really stand out when used together.

However.. after looking into this more, we decided that this has been done over and over again.. so looked into using other colours, that can also stand out just as well.

PHOTOGRAPHY

From doing our photography induction, these are a few of the photographs I took.

I tried changing the settings to create more vibrant colour, and wanted to look more at the shutter speed and possibly changing the lighting a bit more.

VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS: letter aaay!!

Photo's in the environment:

My partner and I were given the task to look for the letter 'A' around the building.

We made our own rules to go by, to make sure that we had a series of the same type of 'A'.

This system was that the 'A' had to be capital and a solid letter. (eg. on a poster/wall- not made up of furniture)

We also took the photograph at different angles, so the letter was not upright every time.

Once we had our hundred images, we cropped the photographs, so that the letter was close up and near the middle of the frame.

Some of the letters came out blurred, as this was to do with the size of the actual letter (when it was small, the camera couldn't define it as well as he larger 'A's')

But as it still has the same system to the rest of the images, it doesn't look too much out of place.

We had to print off the images for the lesson, but did this in black and white, which doesn't do the series justice, as detail was lost and in colour, the letters stand out much more.