Photography 2 - Documentary Photography

My main subject was children spending time with their family. I went to the KL Park with my mum, my sisters and my mum's sister. I wanted to capture as many candid photos as possible, be it my own family members or others. I was really happy to see a lot of family that brought their children to the park, and all of them looked like they were having lots of fun!

My reference images on how documentary photography is:

 

I didn't manage to take a lot of photos of family more so the monkeys and flowers. These are some of them. sorry

This is the one I've chosen, before and after editing in Photoshop. I sharpen the subjects a bit more so they stand out from the background, but blur their outline a bit so they look naturally blended in. 

I tried a National Geographic cover design, these two are my reference.

Final look on the cover design.

Book Jacket Design

We were required to design a book jacket of our own, and I've chosen a simple Japanese novel as my base.

This is how the book jacket looks like:

Front Cover. The art is drawn using Photoshop. The title of the book "kono ai wa tsubasa ga nai" translates to "This Love has No Wings". The author of the book "suzukaze ai" is my Japanese pen name.

Back cover. Kadokawa is an actual publishing company in Japan that publishes all kinds of books from novels, to magazines and to comics. The summary is actually just dummy text.

The about author page that is printed in the inside flap. Author's profile image is drawn by me, Lapis Lazuli from the cartoon series Steven Universe.
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This is the spine of the book.
How the final book jacket looks like:

width: 50.1 cm
height: 20.4 cm

Digital Publishing - Editing is a stressful job

We have to create a magazine of our own, and we were supposed to choose a theme for our magazine. For our group, we included a mix of themes and subjects, which we then titled our creation - Swirl (read: Sworl)

It's tone is supposed to be messy, with more than one voice of its own. Regarding different themes, its voice changes, but we managed to keep our magazine whole instead of it breaking into bits and pieces.

I drew our group, and made us the front and back covers. The concept was similar to a gang trying to wreck havoc/change the world's values through secretive means. Loosely inspired by Bansky, no spray paint was involved, but I used hoodie as a symbol of seclusive and secretive.

I changed the yellow colour, and used the colour of each of our palette for highlights instead. Similar to a neon signs on a black background.

These are the pages I did, aside from all the advertisements I've put in.

The concept for these cut-in pages are train stops, going from one different place to another while giving someone time to take a breather before continuing with the magazine.

One of my group mates did the layout, in reference to my sketch. I later did some editing.

Inspired by bubbles and dreams, I design a simple and pure layout for the front page of this section of our magazine.

Due to it being a factual and educational article, the layout is a systematic and symmetrical, providing only an image or two as extra bits of details and information.

Below are the question and answer sheets for a particular interview from one of our magazine's column - Love 2k15. Due to them being unable to understand English, it was translated to Chinese for them instead. I also re-translated their answers from Chinese to English.

I used emoticons as stickers to create a space where we're all familiar with - social apps, with a subject that's usually sidestepped or ignored due to the severity and sensitivity of it. I tried to make the overall atmosphere clean, sweet, yet straight to the point.

I'm truly grateful for them being such an open-minded and generous friends.

Last and final stop.

This is purely satirical. Made using Paint. 

After much hours of eye strain while looking for typos, touching up, editing, making sure all the designs are aligned and images embedded, we finally went and print this monstrous creation out. 

Epilogue: We forgot the page numbers.