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Task Two – Week 11

SELECT In week ten, I had collected some feedback about my logo drafts, which can be seen down below. For logo one, the scaling of the type compared to the bike was too extreme. It was suggested to have the bike smaller than the type and also to make the ‘riding tours’ text smaller thanContinue reading “Task Two – Week 11”

Task Two – Week 9

This is the beginning stages of Task two for this subject and I’ll be discussing all the steps of my creative process, starting with the define stage. DEFINE For my website that I’ll be creating it will be about motor bike tours, named ‘Open Road Riding’. It fits into the outdoor adventure theme and willContinue reading “Task Two – Week 9”

Creating Instagram Illustrations

For our project Culture Canvas, we wanted to use Instagram for promotions. We thought it’d be a great platform to engage with our viewers and get them excited for each culture week. I use Adobe Illustrator to create each image. To start the process, I would look for inspiration, mainly on Pinterest. I gather drawingsContinue reading “Creating Instagram Illustrations”

Prototype Process

Since the ideating stage of this DA, our group Culture Canvas has completed two more weeks. We have done African week and Japanese week. African week was successful, but we did come across some complications. Reflection We had created a YouTube video and composed two interviews for African week. But our plan was to createContinue reading “Prototype Process”

Culture Canvas BETA

Culture Canvas Website https://sites.google.com/view/culture-canvas/home?authuser=0 Culture Canvas Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe14pW3cRVgzjO2ZD_SMzRw At this stage of the DA, we have completed two culture weeks; Chilean week and African week. We have gone through some successes but also some mistakes and fails that we are now trying to reflect and work on. We have noticed that we have attracted mostContinue reading “Culture Canvas BETA”

Select, Implement and Learning Stages

Week 5 Being far behind in the production stages for my poster I made sure to catch up with what I needed to do on Illustrator. I also looked into more data and research to broaden my topic, which I have decided to change from ‘water conservation in Australia’ to ‘water scarcity across the world’.Continue reading “Select, Implement and Learning Stages”

Cultural Appropriation and Katy Perry

Within the creative and performing arts industry it is encouraged to acknowledge and celebrate different ideas and practises. It creates an effective flow of communication and connection between artist’s, but sometimes forms of appreciation can be done incorrectly and in an offensive way. Within hip-hop and pop music, appropriation is a reoccurring issue that isContinue reading “Cultural Appropriation and Katy Perry”

Ideate and Prototype Stages

Week 3 This week I was still looking for valid sources of data that would be useful enough to transform into a graph of some sort. During the tutorial I had learnt that there was a download option on the ABS website which converted all of its referred information to an Excel document. This heldContinue reading “Ideate and Prototype Stages”

Ideating Process

The first stages of the creation of our DA, Culture Canvas, started with a lot of brainstorming and discussions about our interests in learning about the cultures of our family and friends. Before connecting with my beautiful team, Georgia Gye, Ankita Som and Lydia Irankunda, I had started brainstorming my hobbies and possible ideas aroundContinue reading “Ideating Process”

The Korean Wave and The Villainess

For this week’s task to understand the role of globalisation in films, I sat down and watched the movie ‘The Villainess’. ‘The Villainess’ is a Korean based movie that was directed by Jung Byung-gil who has previous cinematography in the ‘Action Boys’ (Vélez 2017). This movie had heavy use of violence and gory graphics dueContinue reading “The Korean Wave and The Villainess”