Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Monday, April 10, 2017
Sunday, April 9, 2017
FINALE
I have finally completed my online magazine and the creative critical reflection. Overall the process was educational, informative, exciting, and entertaining. It was a long process that took hours of hard work and motivation but I am more than pleased with my final result. As someone who one day would love to create her own fashion magazine, this propelled me into the type of work I want to get into.
Friday, April 7, 2017
SO PROFESSIONAL
I've been so busy I forgot to stop by here!I cannot believe the success of the photoshoot! Going over the photo's with my friend Adeline (who modeled for the project) we realized how professional and Vogue-esque they really feel. I get chills just thinking how amazing they'll look on the final copy. I'm in the process of editing them and creating tone-specific colors so they can all flow throughout the magazine. Photoshop and Lightroom have been my best friends in this part of the project. All I'm missing is revising the whole magazine, possibly adding a few details, my CCR and finito!
All in all I am completely and totally satisfied with how the project turned out!
I'M DONE...BUT
I have officially finished my magazine...
BUT, all I am missing are my photos, so technically, not quite. Thankfully, tomorrow, Saturday, I have confirmed 10 times with my friend that we will definitely be shooting the outfits and "style book." She has picked out about 10 pieces from her closet and today after school I am going over to finalize them or change some things. To be honest, I have mentioned this before but this is so exciting for me, all my life I have wanted to be involved in the fashion industry and the fact that I can somewhat mimic it for a school project is amazing!
Tomorrow we will head down to Miami where my mom's studio is located. Set up and begin the process! Hopefully, when we finish I will run home and immediately begin to edit the photos on photoshop, upload, and publish. The next step... my CCR.
Tomorrow we will head down to Miami where my mom's studio is located. Set up and begin the process! Hopefully, when we finish I will run home and immediately begin to edit the photos on photoshop, upload, and publish. The next step... my CCR.
Thursday, April 6, 2017
SOMETHING(S) GO RIGHT
After the past two mishaps that I had, I finally had some luck.
Ever since I had written my two page spread article, I wasn't completely convinced with the title I had originally thought of, "Black & White is Always Right." It threw me off and I felt like it was young and immature. I told myself to continue working and get back to it later on (keep in mind this was extremely difficult considering I am a perfectionist).
Yesterday however, I had an epiphany. It's hard to explain it in writing but by new title will now be "Black & What" similar to the overused "Black & White." What I was planning on doing in order to be more creative, was in a regular font write out "Black & White" but on photoshop get a marker effect font and draw a line over the "White" and type above it "WHAT?" in the same marker font.
As mentioned in previous blog posts, my article is about styling black and white outfits yet adding pops of bold touches such as purses, makeup, and accessories. Since I am planning on crossing off the "White" I was also planning to just do black outfits with additions of color. I think this will correlate more to the title. For this reason, I guess I am lucky things turned out the way they did with the photoshoot raincheck... more time to plan.
Additionally, I finally found out how to upload my already created page onto Joomag to create the magazine, it was a simple mistake and clearly I wasn't looking hard enough. I simply have to download and "already created PDF" and add pages onto it afterwards. I am so excited to finally see the majority of my work all out together!
Yesterday however, I had an epiphany. It's hard to explain it in writing but by new title will now be "Black & What" similar to the overused "Black & White." What I was planning on doing in order to be more creative, was in a regular font write out "Black & White" but on photoshop get a marker effect font and draw a line over the "White" and type above it "WHAT?" in the same marker font.As mentioned in previous blog posts, my article is about styling black and white outfits yet adding pops of bold touches such as purses, makeup, and accessories. Since I am planning on crossing off the "White" I was also planning to just do black outfits with additions of color. I think this will correlate more to the title. For this reason, I guess I am lucky things turned out the way they did with the photoshoot raincheck... more time to plan.
Additionally, I finally found out how to upload my already created page onto Joomag to create the magazine, it was a simple mistake and clearly I wasn't looking hard enough. I simply have to download and "already created PDF" and add pages onto it afterwards. I am so excited to finally see the majority of my work all out together!
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
RAIN CHECK
Just my luck...
There's about a week and a half left into the project and this past weekend I had planned to get all of my shooting done for my images. What I was dreading the most became reality and the model that was supposed to be my center focus obviously had to cancel.
As soon as she texted me the news I had a panic attack, there's only a week and a half left! I tried contacting all of my other friends but it was too last minute, she let me know literally two hours before we were planning on meeting up.
Before breaking down and ending up changing everything, I tried to make the best of the situation. I saw this as more time to plan and coordinate what poses I specifically wanted and the exact looks I wanted modeled. Although it felt as more weight on my shoulders to not mess this up one more time, I told myself to remember previous experiences... how I usually work best under pressure.
There's about a week and a half left into the project and this past weekend I had planned to get all of my shooting done for my images. What I was dreading the most became reality and the model that was supposed to be my center focus obviously had to cancel.As soon as she texted me the news I had a panic attack, there's only a week and a half left! I tried contacting all of my other friends but it was too last minute, she let me know literally two hours before we were planning on meeting up.
Before breaking down and ending up changing everything, I tried to make the best of the situation. I saw this as more time to plan and coordinate what poses I specifically wanted and the exact looks I wanted modeled. Although it felt as more weight on my shoulders to not mess this up one more time, I told myself to remember previous experiences... how I usually work best under pressure.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
LOADING... FAILED
For the past two days I have been playing around with different applications and platforms that allow me to upload my documents as magazine pages. The original platform we were recommended, Joomag, is a little confusing to work with. I created my magazine pages on Photoshop and downloaded them as PDF's and JPEG's to see if either format would be able to upload. When I log into Joomag however, there doesn't seem to be an "upload" option.
I thought that maybe Photoshop was creating designs that were too large and heavy to upload so I went over to Canva, another design creating website. Here I re-did my magazine pages and although they didn't turn out exactly how I originally had them, I wanted to see if it would be able to upload from here.
Identically, there was no "upload" option once again. I am still relatively new to the Joomag site so it is possible I still have a little learning to do but for the most part it has been rather difficult working around the editing tools found of the site.
I thought that maybe Photoshop was creating designs that were too large and heavy to upload so I went over to Canva, another design creating website. Here I re-did my magazine pages and although they didn't turn out exactly how I originally had them, I wanted to see if it would be able to upload from here.Identically, there was no "upload" option once again. I am still relatively new to the Joomag site so it is possible I still have a little learning to do but for the most part it has been rather difficult working around the editing tools found of the site.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
FINALIZING
Throughout the day I finished writing my article. I chose to write the whole thing on Microsoft Word and then copy paste it into whichever platform I decide to use when I'm done revising it. It was a little hard to visualize the article in photos without having the clothes I'm styling nor models in front of me. For this reason I don't want to finalize anything until I finish my photoshoot and can make any changes as needed.For the time being, I had my mom and my aunt revise what I had finished. They recommended me to make the tone of the article more informal. In the majority of fashion magazines such as Teen Vogue, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Allure, articles are written in an informal tone making the reader feel as if their best friend was talking to them personally. I took their advice and changed what I could throughout the writing. For the most part, it was complete and I was extremely content.
Monday, March 27, 2017
ON THE MOVE
I have finally decided to begin writing my two page spread article. I simply sat down in my room and began writing what came natural to me. I began looking at the article as more of a blog post rather than the overall product of my AICE exam.
Since I am writing an article that I relate to and it is something that is quite personal such as my style and my aesthetic, my ideas and thoughts flowed easily. Today I am planning to write as much as I possibly can and revise it when I finish. In case I don't finalize it today, I will hopefully come back to it tomorrow and have some of my friends and family peer review it. My overall goal is to be finished with the piece of writing by this coming Wednesday.
Hopefully I will have my article finished with this week, my table of contents completed from last week along with minor details and captions throughout the magazine, the only major point I am missing are my images which I will be shooting this weekend if everything goes as planned.
To my surprise the process of creating this online magazine took much shorter time than I had expected. Although I wish I was given more time to create an even better one, I think my magazine covers all points asked for and will be very successful.
Hopefully I will have my article finished with this week, my table of contents completed from last week along with minor details and captions throughout the magazine, the only major point I am missing are my images which I will be shooting this weekend if everything goes as planned.
To my surprise the process of creating this online magazine took much shorter time than I had expected. Although I wish I was given more time to create an even better one, I think my magazine covers all points asked for and will be very successful.
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