Krittaya Vutisivachatkul

I can definitely say that throughout the creation of my zine, “Caterpillar” , my digital skills and techniques have improved a lot and become much stronger. I really enjoyed experimenting with different filters and effects in several applications. At the beginning, I was quite unclear about whether I should do styling and production or creative direction because it seemed like you can do more things with creative direction, plus styling is also included in it. Thus, I had a conversation with Carlyn and showed some of my work progression to her, she told me that if I really have fun and like to styling the models, working with photography and presenting the products, then styling is the right course for you and I agree with her.

Seeing my development from the beginning makes me feel more confident with my interest. I also feel impressed that I did a lot of research and tried so many things that I would never do by myself if I didn’t asked to, for example, the street fashion interviewing. Therefore, I would say that I have overcome those challenges and become more brave with trying new things and be more confident with my ideas. However, I still want to improve my photography and video editing skill, I will experiment more with Adobe premier pro to create new and attractive fashion films. I will get myself to talk and working more with the photographers because I feel like in this fashion production industry I need to be good at communicating and have a good teamwork skill.

Overall, I am quite satisfied with the final outcome, I like the content that I created and the images that I made, especially the styling ones. The research that I have done behind this zine to develop and support my ideas, as well as the progress that I put into my blog will definitely help me succeed in my future career and when I progress to my BA course.

My final zine is complete and I am so proud to present my work. Obviously, my strengths are my artistic vision, layout and my content that is quite personal but I am more than delight to share my story to others.Once I combined and made them flippable, it looks more like a real zine and more attractive.

Click on the link below to see MY FINAL ZINE:

https://www.flipsnack.com/Rinkv/zine-3-hjlwpj14ot.html

In this session we showed our blogs and reviewing each other. It was so nice to see many cool works from others. There are so many people who have very organized blogs and who work very professionally with their zine. Some of them have an amazing photography skill that I wish I could have. Everyone’s work are very unique and I can tell from looking at their works whether they are interested in creative direction, styling or make up. I also like the way that we comment our opinion and suggestion into the padlet page.

Ideas

Press Release page

In this session we focused on our editor’s letter and the contents page. Suzanne told us that this is similar to the press release because it is a short communication that has been written about the zine topic which attracts the attention of readers. However, a letter comes at the beginning and press release comes at the end.

We were assigned to make 3 different pages with different layouts, pictures and font types. Firstly, I started by writing my letter about my zine contents and theme. In my opinion, my strength were the layouts, strong portraits and mark making. However, I didn’t experiment with different fonts as much as I should. Even if I felt like this font is nice and simple, moreover easy to read, I will definitely try the other fonts. I can also adjust the text position better, for example not too close to the edge or cover the face.

Then we tried to create a contents page and combined them together. I will probably change some bit like the page number, text size, or grammar later.

In this class we had to create short minimum of 15 seconds fashion video to promote our zine. I really enjoy playing around with video editing apps and adding filters and effects to my video. The music I chose for the first video is called ‘Mature love’ by Yellow days, it’s very dreamy like and suitable for my concept.

I tried making several videos and add the voice saying ‘self-love issue’ and ‘caterpillar zine’ as well. However, I think I can do better in editing and choosing the videos or pictures because now I kind of repeating the videos and images, only change the music and effects. Thus, I will experiment more with the apps/program and sounds to make it more relevant to my zine and concept. I could make them look more like an advertisement short video as well.

Draft ideas for PR directions

I tried to lay-outing the text and images together by considering of the font types, as you can see on the samples below, I experimented with several fonts and I also designed my own ‘Caterpillar’ title. I played with the contrasting colors and painted the background to hearts pattern. Furthermore, I tried to keep the color way and mood&tone of each pages relating to each other. Overall, I think the fonts work very well with the style of my zine However, I can improve on lay outing because some pages look a bit overcrowded. Moreover, the interview with mom pages still have neutral colors, so I would like to add some more colors like purple or blue into it. I also feel like the picture will probably look more attractive in an advertise format.