Name : PHAM MINH TIEN Student ID : GCH17015 Subject : Visual Narrative Titles: The thing control us Social Issue and Story : - The social issue: “nowaday, human playing to must their time for phone” - Why :The reason why I chose this problems is when I receied topic from lecturer, I was using my laptop so I realized that most of my time is spend to using laptop.After that I look at my friend who always look at her phone for nothing I thought that technology have almost our time in a day so actually her phone control her instead of being used by her, and I made my zine’s name is “The thing control us” - Solution : I let my zine have an open ending to remind my audience that This problems still there and you have to care about your habit Method and technology: - Style : I used Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to made my zine I wanted to made My main character by Adobe Illustrator and an other program for others character, It made by main character different from others character so my taget audience able to realized for who is the main character to playing his or her attention - Colour: Because it not only made by one programe so my zine have many colours between what I draw by Illustrator and pictures in Photoshop Multi colours and character draw by illustrator make my zine look funny and attractive - Typography : my hand writing Semiotics Phone : Phone is main semiotic in this zine, I made Smartphone instead of nomal phone when I was young so it easier to touch my audience Social media iconic : No matter whom I asked the answer I have is “I spend most of my time for social media” so social media iconic is a good example for using phone habit Alien : In “Alien vs predator” Alien was an insect control victim by cling their’s face That made victim can not see anything and be controled by Alien, It could made the problems more scary Story Analysis -My story talked about a nomal girl, she could be anyone ( so my taget audience able to see the similar thing between she and them ) She goes to school, she have a friend, she good at study At her birthday, she received a smartphone from someone as a gift.After that She seem like became a different person, everythings in her mind is her phone In a day, she run into a guy stand on her street so she look at him That guy have a face cover by an alien, she so scared and run away When she is runing across a road, a car run on that street so fast At that moment, a stranger save her life from that car.Finally, she returned to herself one more time Sketches for Zine project 6.Moodboard 7.Difficult and Strength : - Strength: from all feedback, my zine is easy to understand.My audience interested in my style when I draw my character so cute and attractive Other side is they will pick up my zine in somewhere because it have cover’s colour look strange - Difficult : The bad thing is typography is quite hard to read, I will print out text of conversation next time The second is my zine was faster than they expected so I am going to make it longer in my next time with other zine project The final is printing, I printed my zine with low qualities so my zine have colour not like I expected 8.Improve self : - After this project I am going to improve my handwriting, more be careful when print any assignment and make my story slower a little bit I also study more about improve the meaning of story because I not want to stop in “let them understand the social issue” In future, I get my story a really ending in stead of open ending I will arrange my presentation’s idea before it happen - I got a lot of experience in making zine such as “how to brainstorming” “how to draw in Illustrator from sketches” “how to print assignment from Adobe Illustrator to any paper” I have learned to see the big picture, I knew that everythings happen to me probaly not happen to other people and the opposite 9.Feedback Analysis: - The relationship between my audiences with my story, I got feedback from person, man and girl Their age from 18 to 23 years that age would like to and understand everythings quickly so they love somethings easy to see, understand, familiar as well - Most of my feedback is possitive, all of them understand my zine and told that they would careful with the relationship between them and technology not only smartphone - My audience interested in simple character and colourful things, that is the reason why I made my character look simple and funny with many colour in zine I successed in catching they attraction and make them thinking about the social issue However, my story was to fast although everyone understand the meaning One more thing is my handwriting so bad, I have to improve it right after this project ... between my audiences with my story, I got feedback from person, man and girl Their age from 18 to 23 years that age would like to and understand everythings quickly so they love somethings easy