Referencing Lecture

Referencing

Due to receiving our brief on our second essay of the course we were given an extra on referencing as students needed a recap on how to reference and also some questions clearing up , i believe i have a average knowledge of referencing , this lecture proved extremely helpful and answered a lot of questions i held back in my mind.

The lecture started off by identifying why referencing was used , we collectively said it: Prevents Plagiarism , Adds extra marks to your work , Shows valid research , Supports the original text , Makes your work easier to follow and identify and helps your work flow better. I feel that the main two points from this is to show research as without research everything you write could be fictional and not support your question in a professional and organised way. The other reason being that Referencing helps prevent plagiarism , passing other peoples work off as your own is strictly forbidden.

We were given a leaflet at the end of the lecture to guide us when referencing in our essay , referencing help is also available through tutors and through the library.

Software such as Medley is also used to help keep a bibliography when writing our essays.

Self Publishing 3 , Year 2

Zines

"Zine" is short for fanzine. For all intensive purposes, a zine is a cheaply-made, cheaply-priced publication, often in black and white, which is mass-produced via photocopier and bound with staples. Most zines revolve around a music scene of some sort, but others are dedicated to artwork, poetry, cartoons, editorials and short stories. Because zines do not have any sort of corporate backing, and have a very DIY aesthetic.

Our zines that we created consisted of 5 pages , when we opened the zine the designs got larger until you reached the final piece. I thought this was a good idea as it showed variation instead of creating a book format. On each page we had different tasks to complete which mainly involved manipulating self portraits.

Our first page involved cutting up our student identification image and turning it into something unique , i chose to cut out my eyes as they were very heavy due to me being very tired , i replaced these with lines across my eyes that kind of looked like stitches , this gave my image quite a creepy feeling to it. 

My second task was to draw myself , i dont class myself as a strong illustrator however i gave it a go , i don't think it turned out too bad but i wouldn't say it was a very accurate drawing. however i do like the style that i drew it in , instead of trying to get in mass amounts of detail i tried to capture the key features and shapes within my face. I defiantly prefer creating portraits digitally.

The third page was my favourite , this involved a picture of us with out face smushed against the photo scanner , this was then printed out and stuck into my zine , i liked this task as it looked almost surreal , i also uploaded this image individually to social media which got  a lot of attention due to how unique it came across. i feel it worked well as the high quality scanner really captured detail on my face.

I feel that i struggled with this page the most , mainly because i couldn't think of idea that went well in the amount of time we had. This portrait had to be created in the style of Emojis , we had to cut and stick the emojis in a certain way to create a portrait of ourself. i chose to make a stencil on this sheet of emojis and layer a separate sheet behind to provide the colour however this didn't turn out as good as i hoped and looked rushed and unfinished.

My final task was to create a self portrait out of different weights of dots , this gave a halftone screen/Ben Day dot kind of effect , similar to a pop art / Roy Litchensutein kind of effect. I enjoyed creating my portrait out of this as i felt that it was easy to get across the different shades of colour in a persons face and also enjoyed building different parts together to construct more complex shapes , i feel my final outcome was successful and identifiable as my self portrait.

I feel that overall this zine project opened me up to interpreting different styles of working , something which i would like to try in my later projects this year is a more hands on traditional styles of graphic design such as physically making something before turning it digital.