NM3217 Zheng Yanling Blog

The topic I am doing on is depression, which is a silent killer in many countries, including Singapore. Therefore, there is a need to raise awareness about the prevalence of depression in Singapore, depression in youths, what symptoms to look out for as well as how to treat it. My infographic is a form of statisitical, informative infographic. My first sketch is as shown below.  I have taken into account the feedback given to me during critique 1 that there was too much information that I wanted to put into my infographic and to think about what target audience my infographic is for.  I have decided to concentrate on Singapore's statistics and not compare to other countries, and to target youths in raising awareness about depression among youths. Thus, I removed information regarding the elderly, and highlight statistics about youths. After removing the information, I have come up with another sketch on how I would like my infographic to look like (Picture below). ...

The story I have chosen for this assignment is something that many students, including me, would have experienced in their academic journey. It follows a person who failed a test which caused her to feel extremely defeated. A close friend comforts her and teaches her, and helps her to get a good grade eventually. Picture 1:  The person receives her results in test 1. She sees that she has failed her test, getting a 3/20 and an F grade, and a note to see the teacher.  Over the shoulder shot is used here to emphasise the bad grade that she has gotten.  Medium close up shot is also used here to show the details of her hair and clothes Picture 2: The reaction of the person towards her grade can be seen here. She looks defeated, which is shown on how shes staring at the test paper looking very down and upset A long, high angle, reaction shot is used to emphasise how small and weak she is, portraying her loneliness, and that there is no one to help or comfort her...

The item chosen to abstract is a yellow Kanken bag, and I used Adobe Photoshop to adstract it.  Stage 1 I extracted out all the details of the Kanken bag and drew the bag out on Photoshop, so as to retain the organic look of the bag. I also used yellow to colour the bag, and used its shades to display the shades/shadows on the bag. This gives a realistic illustration of the bag, making it easy to recognise that it is a yelloww kanken bag, like the one in the picture at Stage 0. I intentionally left the logo of the kanken bag white as I wanted to draw the attention of the viewer to the logo, and highlight that it is a Kanken bag Stage 2 To abstract it further, I chose to draw the bag in a 2D form, and drew the bag in a rectangle shape with rounded edges, as a Kanken bag is rectangular in shape. I did not colour it yellow, as I wanted to remove the details of the differing shades of the bag. However, I retained all the details of the bag, such as the zig-zag crosses on t...