Run Out of Inspiration For A Blog Title Already (Work Experience//Day Two)
My entry for Tuesday. I remember being especially tired when I returned home (probably because I literally spent the whole day in front of the computer screen).
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Today I arrived even earlier than last time- the traffic wasn’t as bad. Anyway, I initially began on the set task for today according to my handy dandy program- which was to research and brainstorm new and innovative ideas for templates and themes for potential yearbooks. I would then use this research to create mood boards for three different ideas/ themes.
Was looking forward to this part of the program, as I would be able to play freely around with Photoshop and other Creative Suite programs. So I sat at my workstation, and began pondering over some ideas. Haunted sites like DeviantART as well as the Rockstar website for inspiration; for little snippets that sparked a whole creative process. I was only able to get started on the mood board for one of them though (minimalism/ minimalist…didn’t really have time to come up with a better name), because Michael S. put forward an opportunity for designing the front cover of a school’s yearbook!
The beginnings of what could have been a nice-ish mood board.
Kind of ironic that I was bent on making a mood board full of ideas and information on the theme of ‘Minimalism’ though.
I’ll be sure to finish this off.
I really didn’t expect to be tasked with such a real and serious job on my second day. It was a pleasant surprise I guess you could say. No, an Epic Pleasant Surprise. Yes, it needs capitals. I very much valued the opportunity, and welcomed it on as a challenge, so thank you Michael! I was glad to help!
The school particularly wanted to emulate the cover of another school’s yearbook (really more ‘I want it to be just like this other yearbook but in *insert colour here*’), hence I had to work and reference from previously existing resources. I had a number of questions and queries while starting the cover (e.g. What’s the protocol for beginning a job like this?), which I believe were mainly fuelled by self-inflicted pressure of my new ‘responsibility’. However, my own instincts and Nathan’s words of advice carried over like some sort of omniscient narrator in my head (trial and error baby. He didn’t say ‘baby’ though) and I just tried working through it myself before voicing my troubles (if needed). It wasn’t too hard, just needed a couple of Google searches 
. My main concerns were setting up bleed and spine allowances so that I could keep track of them- which turned out just being a simple process of setting up guidelines. And here I thought there was some funky tool in Photoshop that specifically inputted that.
It is often said that taking the first step in something is always the hardest, and no matter how clichéd it sounds, it’s completely true (ha, even that part sounded clichéd). After settling my doubts of page size and quality, working on the aesthetic components of the cover wasn’t especially difficult. I didn’t get to use the Wacom tablet though (damn, and I’m pretty sure they had the Intuos 3 too…), so I had to rely on the mouse. Thank goodness I didn’t need to draw anything.
Working on the cover ended up consuming most of my time today, so I didn’t really get up to much aside from that. I did get to meet more Rockstar employees though, whom were all lovely characters. The people make the workplace, and just being able to be part of this amazing studio, though it’s for a week, tends to rid the nerves one can get with working in a new environment. I get to do something I love, and everyone is easily approachable, so I didn’t feel particularly uncomfortable about anything.
Looking forward to tomorrow 