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Advanced Typography 08/10/2018 - 15/10/2018 (Week 7 to Week 8) Afsah Faheem (0334242) Project 2: Typosexual Typographic Exhibition LECTURES Lecture  15/10/2018 This weeks lecture was about type design methodology. The topic talked about the steps it takes to design a typeface, glyphs, special characters and kerning. 1.1 Presentation slides INSTRUCTIONS PROJECT  Week 7 15/10/2018 The first collateral we had to design was a poster. 1.2 Key artwork 1.3 First Attempt 1.4 Second Attempt 1.5 Third Attempt 1.6 Fourth Attempt 1.7 Fifth Attempt 1.8 Sixth Attempt 1.9 7th attempt I then shortlisted the design I liked the most and added colour to them. 1.10 Final Design 1 1.11 Final Design 2 1.12 Final Design 3 1.13 Final Design 4 1.14 Final Design Chosen and approved. I chose this design because because I liked how the box contained the artwork and the text together, holding it together in...

Video and Sound Production Week 1 to Week 14 Afsah Faheem (0334242) Video and Sound Production: Exercises LECTURES Week 6 05/10/2018 This week, Mr.Martin showed us a french short film called The Piano Tuner. He told us to pay attention because we would be doing an exercise where we would be locating the three act structure of the short film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyN7E6VYfbA INSTRUCTIONS EXERCISES Week 6 The exercise given was to identify the three act structure of the short film. Act 1: -Character is introduced. -He is playing the piano and he states that he is blind. -He cannot perform in public anymore because he was once a prodigy but failed at his life goal of winning the prize and now works as a piano tuner. Plot point: -The character performing for the bernstein award but failing and loses all his confidence. Act 2: -His new approach to life is to pretend to be blind since it gains more benefits such as sympathy and people thi...

Video and Sound Production 28/09/2018 - 26/10/2018 (Week 5 to Week 9) Afsah Faheem (0334242) Video and Sound Production Project 2 LECTURES Week 4 21/09/2018 This week we were given a lecture on film production since our task for the next week was to recreate a production. Film production is the process of making a film from the start to the end, including the casting process, shooting, directing and scriptwriting. There are three steps to film production: pre production, production and post production. INSTRUCTIONS Shooting Practice Week 4 This week, we were shown the short film we would be recreating and were split into three groups. Mr.Martin explained how we had to be split up the necessary roles and see which group member would be responsible for which job https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehc52wBiUqE 1.1 Screenshot from original short film and the youtube link. Cast and Crew List: Producer:mIsaac Director: Jin Assistant Director: Afsah Art D...

Research Methodology 25/09/2018 - 16/10/2018 (Week 5 to Week 7) Afsah Faheem (0334242) Research Methodology: Critical Review LECTURES Week 5 25/09/2018 This week, we had  lecture on critical review and were given the task to find 10-12 articles which research or had some relevant material to our research topics. After that, we had a lecture in the library where we were explained and shown how to retrieve our information and where to find our information from. Dr.Hayati recommended to use academic journals and research journals instead of online articles. Week 6 02/10/2018 This week, we were given the guide to start our critical reviews and Dr.Hayati explained the different type of research methods. She told us about qualitative and quantitative experiments. The quantitative experiments usually produce statistical results such as numbers and don't give a lot of detail into why the sample chose their options. Qualitative research, on the other hand, gives a lot of insig...