Studio Brief 4 - Adapting Designs

Adjusting imagery 

When creating the bulk of the pages it was found that some would need to be adapted further. For 'research definitions ' and 'research synonyms' it was considered that the definitions in the dictionary could be circled to highlight them. Using a marker meant a thick line could be drawn around the definitions. Testing different ways led to various outcomes.

 Circling the definition allowed for the whole thing to be read as well as being highlighted, this was also the same for putting a box around it. Underlining the text int he pen interfered with the actual text as the pen ran into it. A similar thing happened when trying to just put a square around the word. However, the way the lines were drawn for some reason looked clumsy, this could be due to the pen which may have been more effective at an even larger size.With this in mind it was decided that the definitions would only be photocopied for the page. 

When it cam to placing the text on the synonym image it was found that there was no free space at the bottom of the image. Within the rest of the booklet the prompts were being placed in the bottom left or right corner, however the book was photocopied in a way that would make it difficult to place anything down there, whilst still standing out. Re-photocopying the image meant that the definition could be moved up allowing negative space to be created at the bottom of the page. 

For 'photocopy to reduce' the letter 'e' was made smaller. The new size was cut out and placed on the photocopier with the lid up to create a block, black background creating lots of negative space around the letter. 

The 'photocopy to distort' examples showed the fingers holding the letterforms when moving them. To get rid of this parts of the image around the letterforms were blotted out with pen. Initially this was done with a chunky pen however this bled into the letterform, so instead a fineliner was used around the edge of the letter and the rest filled in with the chunky pen. Re-photocoping this at a high density created a strong black background.