Last week we had our final tutorials for FMP, I wanted to be prepared for this tutorial to ensure I can move forward into the final stages of my project. With time against me, I decided to layout a magazine spread which I intent to use for my final outcome. I wasn’t able to layout the whole final magazine as I am still waiting on some disposable cameras to be returned. I put together a spread for my narrative finding joy. This is clearly shown in my sketchbook. Before commiting my time to producing the full magazine I wanted to get feedback on this sample spread. My tutor gave me great feedback, saying what went well, which was the image layout but also told me to reconsider my typography. Typography was distorted and we thought it may be going too extreme and may complement the visuals more if it was plainer. Moving forward I will be experementing with this paired back layout to ensure my final piece is consice.

I have revisited my inital magazine media pack where I outlined my aims and objectives for my final outcome. Through this process I managed to construct and solidify my intentions, put clearly in writing which will help me to create a consise outcome. I have included this updated media pack in my sketchbook to help develop my journey in content creation and lead me in the right direction to fufil my brief.

I have found myself creating magazine narratives throughout this project without knowing i. As I started to put together a list of content ideas to explore I noticed that I had already created many in my experimentation. This puts me in a good position to start laying out my magazine.

Content ideas:

Challenging beauty – Needs developing

Doomscrolling- Done

Performing arts – Done

Disposable camera collaborations – Done

Finding Joy- Done

Styling pages- Needs doing

Page breakers- Needs doing

Advertisements- Needs doing

I have decided to look over my creative research project as I have started to reconsider my original ideas. I think this will help me build a strong concept for my outcome, blocking out any feelings of being overwhelmed by narrowing down my work. I want to ensure my sketchbook and research are concise and clearly show a journey to my FMP. As of yet I have considered many outcomes, leading to a varied sketchbook full of ideas. Now is the time to bring that work together, coincidently I have reverted back to my original outcome idea of a publication. This is the only outcome I have explored where I can see progression to lead to me a fully investigated outcome.

Overwhelmed

I think I have come to a point in my project where I need to simplify and condense my ideas to form a strong outcome. At the moment I have so many ideas but haven’t moved forward with any of them because I feel overwhelmed. Interestingly, I am drawn back to my original idea of a magazine, this is the only idea which I can feel progression with.

I started to form a magazine spread out of some of my images and found a real love for this process. I think it reflects my concept of embracing life’s little luxuries, removing too much digital interruption and reverting back to simpler times. Throughout this project I have created a few narratives, including doom scrolling, behind the scenes of ballet and finding joy in lockdown. I couldn’t see a way to merge these together without looking random. I am working towards formulating a solid concept for my final outcome.

Throughout my FMP I have been developing disposable cameras through the website Filmprocessing.co.uk. I have admired their customer service and quick turn around times. Today I received another disposable camera back from a girl I found on Instagram who is well known for producing positive prints to inspire women. I asked her to document her day with consideration to take pictures of things that she usually wouldn’t in hopes that this would produce raw imagery.

Due to her personal complications she could not devote enough time to this project as we would’ve hoped. This is shown in the images, she has simply documented her finished prints with little insight into her life being a woman working through hard times. On the other had, the images I took to fill the remaining film are some of my best shots from disposable cameras. The colours turned out amazing and truly captured the essence of a lockdown walk.

Today I finally received a disposable camera back which was sent out in January. There were some personal complications with the receiver and therefore the process was delayed. I sent it off to get developed immediately and am hoping they will be useful in these late stages of my project. The camera came back only half used so I decided to fill the remaining film with personal day in the life shots. I took the camera on my walk (being in lockdown its the only interesting thing to do) and snapped interesting/ colourful close ups. I wanted these to reflect the new found appreciation for smaller things in life due to the pandemic. This relates to my previous research into little luxuries, finding beauty in things we usually would overlook and setting expectations low.