i-D Magazine Proect – Evaluation – Ryan Tranter
I felt this was a really beneficial project and I fully enjoyed every aspect of it, through the project I’ve grown stronger and stronger with the camera where as I knew very little before about the basics so that was the first positive move to come out of it, Unfortunately.. research was never really my strong point, I would end up getting distracted if it was a topic I had no personal interest in, but the fact we were given the task to research music and musical fashion, which really excited me so I was able to put forth extremely sufficient research towards mine and my groups project.
There was three students in our group, me the designer and two photographers, and we started from day one with a different approach to the rest, instead of getting straight into the studio for photoshoots, I had already designed several possible templates for our magazine, while a lot of the groups weight was being put on my shoulders to research the genre of music we had agreed on because I had a few expertees in those fields so we struggled for photographs which I was extremely disappointed with,
Along with having my work cut out being the designer I had to take on a lot of the researching responsibility.
In the end our research appeared to have gone really well, and we got it out of the way quite early, while I was finishing on a few front cover drafts, we were given scheduled time in the studio to photograph a musician or make-believe bands, which to my disappointment our managed to get neither so we had to pull together some last minute make believe music artists including myself so everything seemed a bit rushed so we had to make do with very few pictures and models, as I set out to work with the photo’s I managed to finish a metal style rock front cover and a bright indie summer style, along with a double page spread interview that I made up and wrote myself. We weren’t able to meet the originally set deadline date because we physically weren’t able to get our work printed off and organised, that was probably our main issue.. organisation.
Despite the experience I gained from working with this large photography assignment, it turned out to be somewhat stressful in the end. Space and time were very limited and with Graphics and Photography merging the work environment was very hectic and it was difficult to work under those conditions, especially with the one printer.
In conclusion, there were a lot of positives but more negatives than I would of preferred, I am more familiar with branding and advertisement layouts, along with the photographic elements that can be included into my work, so hopefully I will be able to take what I have learnt from this assignment into my stride.
