Ideas Generation

For my ideas generation, I have mind-mapped through all the sort of ideas that I could make my typography and what sort of meaning I want my images to portray. Throughout my project I am mostly focusing on the language in my text and that my images will be supporting my text, whereas many people would do it the other way. Due to me thinking like this, I had to make my project individual and different from all my other pupils, so I thought more about my typography than how my pictures would come out.

My mind-map of my most important categories that I had to focus on when creating my idea of what I wanted to do for this project:

These four areas that I have focused on, I have written lists of questions that I could see for what sort of feelings would be more effective to the viewer, so from this I can see which would suit my project the best. Here are my ideas for all four categories:

Typography:

• Involves humour.
• Can come across very serious.
• Can become emotional when being read.
• Can be sensitive/insensitive.
• Can be comfortable or uncomfortable to read.
• Would the text look obvious with the image or would the text seem a mystery when read?

Portraits:

• Would the message of the typography come across more powerful if the image was a mug shot or just a natural image?
• Would the message be portrayed more if it showed just the models's head and shoulders or if the whole body showed more of the message than just part of the boy?
• Will just the face emotions come across more powerful for the text to get it's message across or will the full body or mug shot do this a lot better?

Still Life:

• Would I use a big object?
• Would I use a small object?
• Would there be many objects in the frame?
• Would I want to be comparing objects to one another?
• Would I have just one single object?
• Would I have a very meaningful object or a not very meaning object at all?

An Object With A Model:

• Should there be a a comparison between the model and the object?
• Should we be feeling a history between the model and the object?
• Could we possibly feel and see the five senses when viewing the images?
• Could the image feel mysterious and a bit uncomfortable between the model and the object?

From doing these questions, I did finally realise that I wanted to focus more on the typography that I will be placing onto my images than the images itself as I ave already quoted, but suddenly when I thought about typography I thought for how I can use different ways of language to show a different approach. Thinking through a long period of time, I came started to think how different cultures use different sorts of slang, however when I researched slang words most of them were quite predictable and you could know what it meant as soon as you heard the word. From this I wanted to use words that sounded quite humorous but also quite mind boggling, so that my audience would look at my work differently and not be judgemental by saying that the words are 'typical' and 'obvious'.

Thinking into different sorts of slang, I randomly started to look back in history to see how words have changed. I came across funnily enough some slang words from the 1920's that were very effective and damn right different to anything I had ever seen before with any type of slang I had ever seen.

Here is the website for where I got my slang for my final four images:

http://local.aaca.org/bntc/slang/slang.htm

These are the slang words and their meanings that I have chosen by randomising different words together:

• A Flapper And A Giggle Water - A stylish, brash, hedonistic young woman with short skirts and       short hair, with an intoxicating beverage; alcohol.
• A Bailed Up Bimbo - A messed up tough guy.
• A Dumb Dora And A Handcuff - A stupid girl and an engagement ring.
• Stuck On A Rag-A-Muffin - Having a crush on a dirty, disheveled individual.

The reason why I thought of using these slang words was because the more I randomly mixed up many, many different words, and the funnier the word, the funnier the outcome was. During mixing and matching my words up, I came across these four different sentences that I wanted to use and the reason why I have taken these four to be used in my final images to match my typography was because I wanted to show what the text meant in imagery and not just in the typography. The way that I am going to do this is by making the image look so obvious it's unreal, but when capturing these pictures, I wanted to have as much fun as I possibly can when I started to shoot my photo shoots.

Typography:

The first way that I wanted my typography to come across was to be quite unique, in the way that my typography would be different to any fonts that you could ever find on any Microsoft Software programs. I visited the website http://www.dafont.com/, to see if I could find any fonts that I might of decided to use for my final four images. Here are a few examples that I have been able to find that I might have fancied to use:

Font - Fashion Victim

 Font - Laff Riot NF

Font - Little Lord Fontleroy

Font - Upper East Side

These fonts that I have as examples, I now feel that looking at them I wouldn't be able to use any sort of font like these for my final images, because I find that when viewing these fonts, the font for the slang sentences, are going to have to be used for the meaning of the sentences. I feel that this will bring too much attention to the text, but I want to feel like my text compliments my images, but not in the way that it stands out in your face too much. I  also find that these types of fonts, would look a hundred times better if there was just one word describing the image rather than a sentence and the meaning. However I feel that by doing this investigation on experimenting with different fonts, I have now been able to think more in depth about my font, than I thought that I would of have to, but i find that I have learnt something new by doing this and I will be able to take this knowledge through to any other projects that will involve typography.

Furthermore I have been thinking of using a completly different layout than I thought that I would of used but I have gone with the layout of a Dictionary.
Here is an example of what I mean:


The reason why I have chosen to experiment with a dictionary layout for my text, is because I feel that because even though I am describing a sentence through a meaning as well, it feels that just having a sentence and then a meaning in an ordinary, simple layout, would not be as successful as I would wish it to be. So due to this, I thought of a way my text would be at it's most effective when the whole piece of imagery and text put together. The way that I managed to come to this final outcome, was by experimenting different ways that I thought that a layout for a sentence and a meaning could come together as.

Here are some examples that I experimented through:

No.1    A Flapper And A Giggle Water = A stylish, brash, hedonistic young woman with short skirts and short hair, with an intoxicating beverage; alcohol.

No.2    A Bailed Up Bimbo: A messed up tough guy

No.3   A Dumb Dora And A Handcuff - A stupid girl and an engagement ring.

No.4    Stuck On A Rag-A-Muffin:

• Having a crush on a dirty, disheveled individual.

No.5 ( Final ) :  

I thought that this dictionary layout was the most strongest way to show my text because due to the unique and different layout, this makes the viewers more aware of what the text says. The reason why I have added the ;n. ,  ;n. ;Pr and the (British) language slang within my text, was because I wanted to make the whole layout look quite different compared to a normal dictionary layout. The ;n; and the ;n; Pr;  really just makes the look of a dictionary, however it does have the meanings of a 'Noun' and a 'Pronoun', but really in my text, it means totally nothing. The (British) language slang, just shows what the sentence means, in the sense of genre, but it does not tell you the meaning of what the sentence means until the next point. I think that it was quite a good idea if having this as a part of my text because I think that it gives the viewer a guide into what I wanted to particularly stick to the language from the 1920's and this is how I was going to show it off in my final pieces.

I had to think about what sort that I wanted to have for my final pieces. To decide on what sort of font I wanted to use, I typed into the internet on what sort of font is used in dictionaries on the web. The sort of fonts that I found out were, classic serifs like Baskerville, Garamond, Minion, Century Schoolbook or even the good old one such as Arial. 

Here are the examples of all the listed fonts:

The reason why I have done this was because you can see that because I have shown all of the fonts altogether, I could easily choose which font I mostly liked to have on my final images due to the easy way of comparing all the fonts together.

I chose the font Baskerville due to the fact that because it was quite an easy comparison between all the fonts together, the Baskerville font looked most professional. The reason why I think it looks most professional compared to the other fonts is because the font has a natural boldness to it, unlike any of the other fonts. However, the font Arial does have a boldness but the individual letters, are too big. Whereas Baskerville's letters are quite small but they are capable to read and they are a nice size.

So as you can see here, I have done all my sentences and their definitions, and I feel very happy with all of my outcomes that I have achieved to get: