- To present the final prototype
After collection of the prototype, we were required to present our storybook to everybody in the lecture hall. Well is quite exciting and demoralizing also, in the sense that you get to show others your hard work while there are many people who had very nice storybook too! As expected, Evan their group won the best storybook award. I am really happy for them as their storyline is really very captivating with nice illustration. Able to capture both adults and elder children attention. Applause for them!
After the presentation, we proceed to get some comments from our friends and also from the lecturer. Some feedbacks received:
- layout is not simple enough to attract young kids
- Should remove the title from every page
- Should make the colouring style more consistent
With this in mind, our group decided to make amendments for our storybook. Even thou we are not the best among the cohort but we seek to improve ourselves and take pride in our work. Hence we think since it is within our capabilities we should improvise on our work.
Ammendments that we made:
- To make the front and back cover design to have unity.
- To make the colouring style of each picture to be more consistent. As previously, it was coloured by two person. Now i will make amendments for the colouring of the monster, grass, sky, king and princes. For the crowns amendments will be done by liling.
- Yawen will be in charge of the layout, cloning and stamping of the pictures. We have amend the layouts to 2 types to make in more simplified for the readers.
- We also add on lamination for the covers to make it more durable from wear and tear.
Intial Front cover:
Initial Back cover:
Revised Front Cover:
Revised Back cover:
Some pictures that we revised:
Difficulties faced while revising the prototype:
- For some ideas, some of the group members are unable to compromise resulting to double work.
- The lamination of the book came out on the very day of submission. This is due to the poor lamination done by the binding shop.
- Modification of the prototype is done during Study break. We have to juggle between revision, preparing portfolio for submission and modfication of the storybook. Lots of time consumed.
- On my end, i have to rewrite the design document as we had made modification which is an additional workload for me within the given time frame.
Lesson gained from this Assignment:
- To understand the culture and mindset of your target audiences
- Need to know what is important and appealing to them and be sensitive towards their needs.
- Be creative and think out of the box in order to outshine from other storybooks in the market.
- It is vital to prepare design document prior prototyping, it will enable other designers who take over the project to know what do the previous designer had in mind. In addition, it enables the printer to know the exact arrangement of the layout, typography and paper used.
- It is crucial for a group to compromise and talk things out. Failure to do so will only results to double work which is a waste of time especially in the real working environment.
- Ensure the printing quality by test printing selected pages to ensure everything is on the right track. Besides that, it is important to ensure that all typography is being used correctly. As there is no space for error to be made. Once the printer start printing, we cant make modifications anymore. ( Especially true when doing mass or offset printing as large quantities are involved with high cost implications.)
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