Introduction
For the Documentary projects, we were all challenged to go outside of our comfort zones and investigate issues or stories we were curious about while encouraging us to reach out to people in our community we weren’t familiar with beforehand. In English we brainstormed what subjects we were interested in investigating, and created questions which we would later ask our interviewee’s. In Digital Media we focused on creating a magazine design for our English text, which could hopefully be published in the Freestyle magazine.
English & Digital Media
In English, I first went through the process of finding a topic which interested me. Some ideas I had prior were: What is being an independent music artist like?, a biography on my aunt, and what is the purpose of the independent order of the Odd Fellows? Ultimately I ended up choosing cosplaying. I interviewed Jessica Gee and Denise Dulay, who own and work at Junbi Matcha in Mountain View respectively to gather their opinions on my subject which ultimately helped me further develop the problem I was trying to address.
In Digital Media we focused on creating a magazine design for our English text, which could hopefully be published in the Freestyle magazine. My process in Digital Media was relatively easy because I imported most of my work from Design. I used the photos that I took at Junbi Matcha, which I edited in Adobe Photoshop, and also imported some graphic design elements that I created in Adobe Illustrator.