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Project Charter Assignment 1

Assignment 1 Title: Printout Postcard for the theme “Malaysia, Truly Asia”.

Project Start Date: 23 November, 2008

Project Finish Date: 28 November, 2008.

Project Manager: Mohd Arief Sofian b. Mohammed Yusof

HP: +6013 850 3860

Email: arief.sofian@gmail.com

Website: http://mcg1016-1021126989.blogspot.com

Project Objective: Students are to create a multi-cultural event for a post card. The theme would be “Malaysia, Truly Asia” which is the official slogan for Malaysia Tourism. Students are to show the multi-cultural aspects of Malaysia culture or life as a positive feature to attract tourist into this country.
Approach:
Postcards are meant to be a memento for tourists who visited Malaysia. My approach in making this postcard is catchy, has deep meanings and also fun. Therefore, my idea is about a Malaysian made chocolate that shows various races in Malaysia on its wrapper. I choose chocolate as my main image since chocolate represents sweetness that makes everyone smile. The idea of Malaysian made chocolate came up after watching a movie (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory).
Images that are used in making this postcard are chocolate bar, pictures of four main races in Malaysia, a logo of Malaysian Tourism and hibiscus.
In making the postcard, the images that I have taken (credits to flickr.com) are edited; mainly using selection tools. They are used in highlighting and making paths for the woman images and the hibiscus. Some brush tools are used in coloring the wrapper and the chocolate bar. Filtering technique is also used and I used fill and adjustment layers to create shadow, bevel and emboss.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Phase 1: Ideas for the postcard is sketched. Images are searched through the internet
Phase 2: Each images that are found are edited, cropped and arranged in the clipboard
Phase 3: Consultation with lecturer (client). Discuss on changes that need to be done
Phase 4: Edit and final adjustments are done.
Phase 5: Final submission and print-out.

Comment:
For me, doing this assignments really test my creativity in making a postcard that is not only eye-catching, but fun. Doing this is indeed fun for me as Photoshop can create and edit lots of images with ease.
Even so, in doing this postcard there are some mishaps and problems faced during the completion of this assignment. Mainly pictures and images are very hard to find. High resolution images can only found in flickr.com, picasaweb.google.com and some photo hosting sites. This limits my range of search. Editing, arranging and modifying the images is also the problem faced as I proceed through. Applying filters, stylizing the image is problematic in order to achieve a realistic final result. Lastly, the most common problem that faced during this assignment is “creativity-block” where at some time I do not have any idea and my work is stalled.