Krittaya Vutisivachatkul

•What is the Zine title?

My ZINE title will be Caterpillar as self love is about becoming butterfly from a caterpillar. It is about personal development, it is about an evolution. Self love is about seeing ourselves through our own eyes. “When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it doesn’t sit idly hopping to one day turn back.

What is the attitude / atmosphere?

I want the readers to feel empowered and know they’re worthy and that we all are beautiful in our own ways. I want the attitude to be confidence, positive and fun. Living the life you want, wear whatever you want, be you, do you and for you! The atmosphere that I want to capture is joyful, dreamy, personal space, chic and appreciate their own body.

•What is the message?

I want the message of the zine to be that we all should respect and be kind to ourselves, love yourself first. Even if it’s not easy but remember that no one born with confidence, thus we can take time building it and learning to accept all part of ourselves. Overall, the strength and power we all have.

•What sound can you use?

I think strong beats and lyrics from songs that are powerful and the sounds or quotes from a music video that is captivating. Such as Runaway – Galantis, One kiss – Dualists Lipa. Any songs that makes you want to dance and happy. Moreover, makes the film or moving photographs even more impactful and tells the story and sets the mood.

My concept is self-love, thus I want to capture the beauty in my own way as an asian woman who’s learning to accept her weak or unwanted part of herself. Furthermore, I also want to photograph portraits of myself looking confident and cool. I want to represent the fun, youthful, creativeness and colorful.

Moodboard

Editorial pages

Due to the last styling session, we were told to consider about using props in our styling shoot. I decided to use a net to represent the barriers to self-love. As you can see in the portrait, I am in the center of the image among the untidy net, which represent the society and surroundings. In addition to this, I want to convey that the society and environment you are or you were living in is really influence you a lot. They always expect you to meet their standard and that is kind of like you got tied up to be in a tradition or in a standard that a group of people set. Due to that, it’s kind of sad that people have to change themselves to fit the norms.

I also wore the AirPods because I want to show that there were so many times that people around me keep telling me your nose’s shape is so weird, you have such tiny eyes, you still have buck teeth after braces, you are so hairy why don’t you shave, look at your flat chest will you do the breast surgery when you grow up, etc. All those comments and questions that sometime they might take it as joke but for me it’s not funny. I feel like if you have nothing positive to say then stay quiet, please no one want to hear those stuff that going to make you feel frustrated. I used to be in a depressed situation because of toxic people. However, you cannot change them but you can change your mindset! When you start to accept yourself and giving more value to yourself, you will definitely like yourself more and others too!

Styling

In this class we were making self-portraits which is more like experimenting. In addition to that, we had to considered about lighting, props, angle, movement and products in the images for the direction of the editorial. I was very excited for this session to come.

I did everything by myself as usual, thus it was challenging to shot several outfits, edited and combined the photos together in an hour. However, I really enjoyed styling myself and finding different angles and spaces in my tiny room. I tried to fit myself into a suitcase and I also tried to play with an umbrella and the mirror. Even though the outcomes were quite nice and variety, I still can improve more by using more props and playing with the light and shadow.

In this session, we focused on the fashion advertisement and advertorial(advertise+editorial). Carlyn showed us some examples of ads that the images have nothing to do with fashion or clothing at all but they give the narrative and the story telling of the brand’s campaign, for example, it could be discussed about social issues.

For the task we asked to do during the class, I decided to use a picture of my mom and dad in their wedding ceremony. I love their wedding dress and suits so much and I felt that Chanel would goes well with this image. However, I also tried adding different brands and font types. Carlyn also reminded me to think about bringing something new and bringing my aesthetic to the brand. I strongly agree with her that I should consider more about this and make something fresh and creative, just like a manifesto. I’ll also try cropping the images to makes kind of a collection.

In this session we watched ‘the muse’ by Tim Walker. The narrative behind this film for me is about the mermaid tale, limerence, obsession, impossibility, sadness. I love the mysterious and dreamy feeling of the story telling. Moreover, the styling is amazing and they use a variety of brands and props. All the photos are gorgeous and I love the surrealistic vibes.

The task we did in the class was to creating 4 pages of editorial using the photos we already have. I managed to made 4 pages but they are kind of not relating to each other because the mood & tone of the first 2 pages was quite different from another one. Moreover, the first 2 pages layout was not very creative, so me and Suzanne we both prefer the second 2 pages more. However, Carlyn suggested me to try an alternative font, so will definitely experiment with different type fonts.

In this session we were experimenting with a variety of layout styles and fonts for our zine content. My target audience is teenage, so the layout and font type should be fun, youthful and colorful. I was also considering about my research magazine/zine: Polyester, Buffalo, Dazed and Love.

I was not completely done with my interview content yet, so these were just a draft content. I used some of the pics I created from last session which I realized that most of them were the zoom in or half top portrait that can’t be seen much of clothes and product. Therefore, I have to focus more on styling which is my pathway direction. I need to take more photos of the full outfit, clothes, accessories and products! Carlyn told me that the font I used is ok and appropriate for this type of zine.

From the last interview session that we had to interview our friends about their attitude towards art and fashion, I was quite satisfied with the result because the questions were quite various and not too easy. However, I can do better on conducting an interview and create more flow of content by asking the questions that are related or connected to each other. Furthermore, if the content are too long or too many paragraphs there, I have to find the way to make them still look interesting and make people want to read them. Thus, I can try different layouts and add some illustration or mark-making.

I think I can prepare more appropriate questions this time, due to it’s mostly based on myself and for people who have the same interest and have been in the same situation as me.

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