What I Did… Today I continued writing my content for the articles, specifically the “Coco’s Corner” article about Chanel No. 5. I had to move around some of my other articles in order to incorporate everything. I also added block quotes and gray boxes to my design. Why I Did It… I moved my articles…
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April 24th Workday
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• •What I Did… I added a third page to my magazine spread and started writing content for my articles. Why I Did It… I added the third page in order to incorporate more written content, as the first two spreads were very image heavy. I decided to cover two of the hottest fashion topics of…
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Peer Review
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• •Rough Cut of My Project: http://online.fliphtml5.com/pfxu/nvih/#p=2 Peer Review went well; it was really interesting to see my peers projects because they are all so creative. Grace and Caroline both liked that i’m using a combination of content from the 1920s but styling the magazine as a modern fashion magazine. The movie is a blend of…
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April 20 Work Day
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• •What I Did… Today, I set up the layout for my newspaper section in InDesign using my wireframe mockup as a guide. I set up all of the titles, image boxes, and text areas. I am also starting to choose what fonts I want to use. Why I Did It… Now that my layout is…
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Friday Online Workday & Documentation Plan
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• •What I Did… Today, I did a lot of research on 1920s fashion and I tracked down images from Pinterest and various websites that I can incorporate into my project. I also browsed through various modern day fashion magazines as well to see examples of both layout and content. Why I Did It… I want…
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Digital Remix Mockup
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• •What I Did… I created a mockup of my project using Balsamiq, a wireframing tool. Why I Did It… I think that Balsamiq is a great and easy way to lay out projects and create mockups. I have used it before to create mobile and web wireframes, and I think that it works just as…
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Remix a story project timeline
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• •What I Did… Today I began looking into what tool I want to use for my project. I am currently between using Squarespace to make it more of a fashion blog and using FlipHTML5 to make it more of a fashion section in a magazine. I also started looking up what sources I want to…
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Project 4 Research
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• •The story that I have chosen is a 2011 film directed and written by Woody Allen called Midnight in Paris. The part of the story that I am focusing on is a fictional character, Adriana, who is played my Marion Cotillard. She is Pablo Picasso’s mistress and has come to Paris to study fashion with Coco…
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Exploring Remix Examples
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• •What makes a good remix Putting a modern spin on an old story; for example, incorporating social media or smartphones into fairytales. Using events in history to talk about a modern topic; for example the Boston Tea Party and the Same Love Gay Rights Movement pieces. Mixing time periods together Strong visuals that are combined…
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Presentations Day 2 & 3
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• •The two interfaces that interested me from Friday and today are Thematic and Trello. I really like the visual aspect of Thematic and I think that it would be really cool to take my photos from study abroad and create a visual story for each country that I visited. I think that this would be…
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