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Month: November 2017

Sequence Reflection 5

So in the past 3 days, I’ve spent roughly 24 hours working on different elements in this book. Most of what I’ve done have been failed experiments that will never be seen in the book, but the attempts are my way of trying to figure out better ways to design my book and the photos that will go into it. I’m realizing that the book seems noisy because my pictures are noisy, but I’m struggling to figure out how to reduce that noise without destroying the integrity of the photo. I originally wanted my book to be a 10″ square so that my pictures would be big and my they would fit horizontally. Then I printed out a 4″ test book and I kind of liked the way it looked, so I’m thinking of making a smaller book. Now, I think I should reduce the noise of the photos by cropping them, which means most of them will become vertical, so now I’m thinking  of making my book portrait. I’m including one of the crappy photoshop experiments that I spent time on that shows that I did actually do work, even though I think it’s horrible. In addition, I’ve inserted my text elements to all the pages. I think the reason I’ve been putting that off is because the recipes don’t fit well onto the pages (especially with how small they are), and I’ve realized that I suck at writing. I’ll probably continue editing the farther along I get with this. Overall, I still think that this doesn’t really have a flow or anything overly creative and unique about it, so I’m continuing to brainstorm ideas to make this stand out more, like hand drawn elements or printing on a textured paper.

Sequence Reflection 4

My mind is incredibly frazzled right now so I’m having a hard time making coherent thoughts, so I apologize in advance if this reflection seems a either more informal than usual or just entirely gibberish. I’ve realized that as I continue with this project, I feel less confident in what I am making. For some reason it just feels like nothing is working well. I’ve been trying to give myself a day or two in between each edit I make to brainstorm again and figure out why this feels so forced and lack-luster, but that’s only made it worse, because then at the end of the work week I’m scrambling to get stuff done (like today). In total, I have gone to 2/4 restaurants and made 3/4 recipes. I have figured out the fonts, general layout, and dimensions I want, and now I’m second-guessing all of it. I know what I need to do and in the grand scheme of things it’s not that much, but I still feel like I should have had it done by now and the fact that I don’t have all the content, let alone any idea of how to construct this thing is really making it hard for me to move forward. I am struggling to remind myself that knowing how to design well takes time, but right now I just feel incompetent. I’m hoping that once I print the whole book out I will get a better idea of what I want, but I haven’t had time to yet, and I’ll update this once I have.

Sequence Reflection 3

First of all, due to my computer malfunctioning, I haven’t had time to add things in and properly make a contact sheet like I was hoping, so it doesn’t have the drawings like how I wanted and it’s set up to be read in three vertical columns left to right. I have figured out the proper dimensions of my book, finalized my font choices, and taken pictures of 2/4 places. I still need to add the recipes I’ve created and take pictures of my version of the food. I have about 4 extra pages that I have no idea what to do with, but I think my book will suffer if I get rid of all of them, so I guess I’ll leave them blank for now. I’m definitely going to not use PC indesign anymore, because it feels and looks like I’m using a completely different product. I’m feeling behind and rushed right now, so I guess I need to be more proactive, because this is more taxing than I anticipated.

Sequence Reflection 2

So this reflection probably lacks the substance that was expected of me. I had all these plans over the weekend to really move forward with this project and instead some other large life events took place. I’ve still gathered up a substantial amount of ideas and have planned everything out, however I don’t have a whole lot to physically show at this time. I have my plan for what the content of the book is going to include, like the restaurants, the food I’ll get from each restaurant, and the food I’ll try to recreate. I also have some of the recipes, I just forgot to write them down to include in this post. Nothing from the contact sheets will be used in the final, I don’t think. They are mostly just abstract representations of how I see Mozart’s and the surrounding area. I chose some possible fonts to use as the title, subtitle, and text (respectively from top to bottom), however I’m not sure if they are really cohesive or if I will change them later on. I want to go over some of the more technical elements like font and paper type outside of class with the professors, but for right now I’m kind of clueless in those areas.

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