The general focus of my work is snowboarding and right now i'd say that the title is, 'A guide to...'.
2. Identify specific areas of research that you intend to investigate and methods that you will use.
As i want to produce a form of guide to boarding, not only as a sport or hobby but lifestyle i want to research into all areas of it, this means looking at boards themselves, the range and style of graphics, the sizes, the technology, the anatomy and type of board and what its made for, different brands of boards etc
The research for this will probably be in the form of lists, collected images from magazines particularly Document Snowboard,
photographs and figures, figures mainly coming from searching into sizes and the technology.
Other areas that i plan to research into include resorts and places to go boarding, again this most likely to be lists, this also being easy to apply to the '100' idea.
From here i can go to look at the fashion of snowboarding, similar to looking at the boards, focusing on range of styles and brands. The somewhat do's and don'ts of being a boarder, focusing on the culture. This however may be tricky to search into as its uncommon to find and well i don't know of any made guide to being a boarder. You'd just have to take my word for it!
Then there's more list producing looking at the number and varying tricks you can do on a board, looking at professional signed riders making a living and turning it into a profession.
3. Identify specific practical methods and technical processes that you intend to use in order to visually develop your ideas.
One method i intend to use is to create images on illustrator using live trace on top of photos and drawn sketches and images, this can become very useful as they can become relevant and can used in different ways, whether being put into a larger image or on its own as the focus of a page or something of less importance.
I also want to include drawing some perspective typography, maybe just the numbers 1-100, as i've just recently learnt how to correctly draw this way it appears to be a good way of practicing it and it also looks pretty sweet.
Another method i want to use to visually develop my ideas is the use of slr cameras, from this i can get decent photographs of my board, all the parts to it etc and my clothing i have for boarding as well as practice using an slr camera.
4. What methods will you use to evaluate the progress and success of your own work?
The main method i'll be using to evaluate my work will be the ongoing group crits, which i've found useful with previous work projects, being able to have other people input their own ideas and opinions concerning my work and whether they see and understand what i try to convey within the work. I also plan to just refer to tutors as they seem to ask the right questions and give general advice on where to go next.
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