PUBLISHING DESIGN - TASK 2: CONTENT GENERATION

04.03.2023 - x.x.2023 (Week 1 - Week 14)
Christie Angelica Bakhary (0350655)
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Publishing Design
Task 2: Content Generation 

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INSTRUCTIONS

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LECTURES

All lectures 1 to 5 have been completed in Task 1: Exercises

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TASKS 

Story Content

On this task, we're to generate a 3000 words story for our book, either by writing it on our own or taking an online source, and even using AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools.

To help me write a story, I use the current trending AI tool, ChatGPT. I then search on the internet on how to create a chat template, and I found one from a website.

First story draft:

Fig. 1.1: First Story Draft

However, after a few attempts, I still didn't like how the story turned out. So, I look up a short story on Wattpad and found one that I like the most, "It Was Fate" by Sofia Ramirez.

Fig. 1.2: "It Was Fate" Wattpad Story by Sofia Ramirez

Fig. 1.3: Final Story 

Visuals

For the color scheme, I opted for a warm tone and monotonous colors. Below are the palette I used for reference. 

Fig. 1.4: Color Palette #1

Fig. 1.5: Color Palette #2

For the word “ The thread beside you on the table was your life thread.” , I’m using an ancient Egyptian symbol, Ankh, which represent the word ‘life’.

Fig. 1.6: Life symbol

Final Submission  

"Fate means that everything happens for a reason - but what happens when Fate makes a mistake?"

"her slender fingers working to untangle a knot"

Fig. 1.7: Visual 1

"Charlotte stood up slowly as she untangled herself and began looking around'

"Charlotte stepped into the open palm of Fate"

'"Fate glanced towards her shawl, lying in a heap on her chaise,"

"Fate was sitting again on the chaise underneath the window, her eyes closed against the gentle golden light filtering through the flimsy window coverings."

"You are dead now"

"The thread beside you on the table was your life thread."

"held up the heap of blue cloth that had been on her lap when Charlotte first saw her. She pointed to a frayed edge."

"Charlotte cried."

"That candle is the Everlight. It has been burning since before I existed"

"your life will shorten; time will be taken from the end."

"She saw bursts of colour and faces flashing through her mind's eye."

"She felt a warm presence next to her"

"light swirling in her eyes"

"there was a small cut on her finger, leaving a crimson trail dripping into her palm. She smiled.  “I'm Okay.""

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REFLECTION

This task is a hard and challenging one, as it required us to create illustrations according to our story. I found that this task do took a long hours and days to completely finished it. However, this task taught me to think outside the box, where I was required to drew and express my feelings.

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FEEDBACK

Week 6

General Feedback: 
Focused on the flow of text first and not the imagery/visual. Then explore different layouts, grid systems, and typefaces.

Specific Feedback