The One Before the Last WK. 5 (4/3-4/7) #14
As this project comes to an end I see no need to change anything else and am so very proud of the work I have accomplished. I thank my subject and all my peers who aided me in this journey and know I could not have gotten through it without them. I think back to the most essential thing, in my opinion, that I learned during this journey was to be patient. I lost my creativity many times and often thought I would not be able to complete this project altogether. But lo and behold, I have created something that not only my mom can say she's proud of, but something I can be proud of myself. While I loved my initial idea, and hold within me in deep regards, I cannot deny how much more I like my new design. I guess that I listened to my inner bailaora and decided that the color-scheme, font, and design I had chosen originally was good, but not good enough. I concluded that thanks to all of those who gave me feedback, I was able to mold my idea into a more universal art piece. One that would not only be appealing to younger, bolder audiences, but to older, more reserved audiences as well. I think that in that sense, the person that helped me the most was my mom. As a flamenco lover, she loves learning about new styles of flamenco, upcoming flamenco events, and new dancers diversifying the world of flamenco. So I asked her if she would be interested in reading my magazine, with my original layout, and she very sweetly said that she would love to, but then I restated my question and asked her if she would read it not knowing it was mine, and she smiled coyly and said "absolutely not." The problem in that is that the audience I want to target doesn't come with an age range. I want to appeal to all the generations of flamenco paramours. So in order to do so I got to working on a whole different ball park of ideas and came up with what I have now. I decided to ask her the same question with my new and improved version and mid-giggle, with a cheeky little wink she said, "I signed, sealed, delivered my 2-year subscription."
As this project comes to an end I see no need to change anything else and am so very proud of the work I have accomplished. I thank my subject and all my peers who aided me in this journey and know I could not have gotten through it without them. I think back to the most essential thing, in my opinion, that I learned during this journey was to be patient. I lost my creativity many times and often thought I would not be able to complete this project altogether. But lo and behold, I have created something that not only my mom can say she's proud of, but something I can be proud of myself. While I loved my initial idea, and hold within me in deep regards, I cannot deny how much more I like my new design. I guess that I listened to my inner bailaora and decided that the color-scheme, font, and design I had chosen originally was good, but not good enough. I concluded that thanks to all of those who gave me feedback, I was able to mold my idea into a more universal art piece. One that would not only be appealing to younger, bolder audiences, but to older, more reserved audiences as well. I think that in that sense, the person that helped me the most was my mom. As a flamenco lover, she loves learning about new styles of flamenco, upcoming flamenco events, and new dancers diversifying the world of flamenco. So I asked her if she would be interested in reading my magazine, with my original layout, and she very sweetly said that she would love to, but then I restated my question and asked her if she would read it not knowing it was mine, and she smiled coyly and said "absolutely not." The problem in that is that the audience I want to target doesn't come with an age range. I want to appeal to all the generations of flamenco paramours. So in order to do so I got to working on a whole different ball park of ideas and came up with what I have now. I decided to ask her the same question with my new and improved version and mid-giggle, with a cheeky little wink she said, "I signed, sealed, delivered my 2-year subscription."
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