#interviewproject

I’m not that confident at the beginning of this project, mainly because I feel like none of the creatives that I love will respond to my interview request. However, I found out that these people are really humble and in the end I got two creatives replying to my request. 

Other than that, through this project I actually realised that there are a lot more creative people out there that I haven’t discover yet. I saw my classmates creatives and I think to myself how amazing these people are and I haven’t even heard some of them before. 

After doing the interview, another challenge arises. I don’t know how to present the interview. This is really frustrating for me since I’m actually really excited to showcase the interview that I did with my creative. In the end I decided that the best way to present the interview is by making a zine. This is because I want to show Nikki’s (my creative) works. Not just one but a lot of it. I find that making a zine will be most effective. I created a zine with vibrant colours and style that I believe represents my creative both as a person and as an artist. 

Another challenge that I face was within the last week when I showed my work to both Andy and Bronwyn. I got a feedback that my zine is to safe whereas my creative is actually creating stuff that are not in the safe zone in what she’s making (cakes, etc). Due to this advice, I change the layout of my zine and I played with scale and more pictures. Bronwyn also told me to remember that this is not a cake catalog since my first work mostly contains of a few small pictures of whole cake. 

This comment really opens up my eyes to how I look at my zine. I tried to go crazy and be more open in developing my zine. In the end, I’m really glad I tried to fix it. The zine that I’m going to submit this Friday is looking a lot more similar to what I had in my mind since the first time rather than my work before. 

So I showed my final product to Andy and Bronwyn at today’s workshop. I got a few advice to explore more and to take more risk in making my zine. Bronwyn also told me that my zine need to showcase the style and personality of the creative I’m interviewing more. Hence I decided to work more on my zine.

Here are some pages of the zine that I made after working on it some more:

More progress