Visual Narrative Pham Minh Anh GDH16065 Zine Project Online dating Statement of Intent template WORKING TITLE Online love? Wise or Blind? SOCIAL ISSUE AND STORY What social issue have you selected? Online dating and its drawbacks Why? It is now one of topical issues of modern life as more and more girls and women (or men) are becoming victims of intentional online dating What is the problem? Bad guys take advantages of the Internet to defraud money and love from innocent women, especially ones from developing countries What is the solution? Be aware of unclear online dating sites and suspicious profiles Do not give too much identify information when filling your profile Make sure what they are telling you is consistent Develop a close and truthful relationship before meeting in real life How are you going to make this an interesting story for a young adult age group – high school, university etc? By creative and attractive illustrations When, where and how would you distribute your Zine? My Zine would be published on June as it is the beginning of summer vacation when young adults could finally spend more time than usual staying online The best places for my Zine to be distributed are medium to big cities where Internet is used with high frequency WHAT METHOD AND TECHNIQUES ARE YOU GOING TO USE? Style I will go with Illustration as it is one of the most creative way to transfer the context of the Zine to my audiences Layout/ Composition Pictures combining with textes Colours Dark and bold colors as these ones own strong visual effects Also, my Zine is about a negative topic so I want to use bold colors in order to emphasize its bad consequences to the social Typography Clear and active san serif fonts because of the modern technology related topic Methods and techniques Drawing SEMIOTICS AND GENRE Heart is long believed as a symbol of love Grey is often associated with loss or depression, which represents for emotionless love also intentional love 0101010101010101010101010 0101010101010101010101010 1010101010101010101010101 1010101010XOXO1010101010 1010101010101010010101010 1010101001010010001000011 The binary system using two symbols and reminds us of Information Technology, the enviroment which the problem happened One is giving the money and one is receiving it In this situation, the action represents for deceitful offerings, a really bad consequence of the problem Mask often represents for mystery, as a person who wears mask want to hide his identity The worst consequences of the problem relating to kidnapping, rape or murder 0101010101010101010101010 0101010101010101010101010 1010101010101010101010101 1010101010XOXO1010101010 1010101010101010010101010 1010101001010010001000011 SEMIOTICS AND GENRE BLIND MOODBOARD VISUAL REFERENCES STORY ANALYSIS (MOODBOARD AND VISUAL REFERENCES) There will be two characters in my Zine The first one is a young girl who is an introvert and always stays away from the crowd because of her fear of being judged by others As a result, she would like to stick with her laptop all day in order to communicate with others by typing not by meeting face to face Also, because of her lack of communication skills, she is quite trusting of people She has an ordinary apperance, often wears big casual clothes The background will be taken inside her bedroom, the most safety place to her Other is a bad guy who scams young girls and women via online dating sites for money He is covered by black and he has no face but to has evil intentional expressions Props are a bunch of roses which is used to take advantages of the girl, and a money bag which he has got from her Color schemes include black, dark blue, dark red and grey, which purposefully stands for love and darkness SEQUENCE OF EVENTS An introvert young girl meet a man in a online dating forum He has got a truthful profile image He gained her trust by sweet words and presents She fell in love with him One day he want her help, it is big money because he want to invest in a hopefully project, he said that he is building a bright future for them Without any doubt, she send him all money she’s earned After receiving the money from her, he disapears from her life She is deeply depressed By chance, her family and friends knows her story They care about her and encouraged her to call the police She feels happy and grateful Finally, the bad guy is caught by the police ROUGH SKETCHES FOR ZINE PROJECT