Este é o Finale
So this post will be my last for the class and this one’s goin’ out to the next students to take Ezine. Now, the image above is intended to be an illustration of my time. So bear with me on this. The snow powdering the ground here is like the cloud of creativity and ideas that coats most things in Ezine. In order to get the best ideas you have to carefully brush layers away leaving just the perfect amount on top. The trees here represent all the obstacles and different parts of your magazine that you must overcome or create. As the trees here come together to form a forest, the pieces of your magazine must come together to form, well, a magazine. Like the sun here, these bits and pieces will be obscuring the final product. As you get closer to that tree the end may seem even more obscured until you peak your head around the trunk and catch the first glimpse of sunlight and if your magazine is successful you’ll get to bask in that glow. If not… well, I hear lots of girls are going for the whole twilight thing.
Well, that turned out better than I thought, if a little cheesy. Now some more stuff for next years students. Ezine in the end is fun. Now it may not always seem like it. You will do things that seem stupid or pointless and sometimes they will be just that. However, in many cases if you just take a minute to think about it openly, you may come up with a great idea for your magazine. I know that happened to me a few times. There will be points during the course where you’re really excited about the class and others when you absolutely hate it. Sorry, but there’s nothing you can do about it, so deal.
Group dynamics will play a big part in your experience in your class. You don’t have to be with your buddies, in fact, I wouldn’t recommend it. Try and get with someone you think has a sense of design or is very creative. I’d also recoment having someone reserved to help balance them out. Conflicting ideas force innovative solutions to be made which usually results in a new way of designing (which is cool). Its important for you to form both social and working relations with these people. You have to be able to laugh with them as well as be able to honestly criticise their work. Don’t take it personally if something in your design isn’t up to par with your partners expectations and certainly don’t get so wrapped up over a single point of design that the rest of it goes to hell. Finally, indulge in the eccentricities of your partners. You’ll be surprised what you find and how it might relate to your magazine.
On a final note, you just have to stick with this course and you’ll have fun. Don’t burn out on creativity at the very start and always voice your opinion (this means you should always have one). Let’s see. You probably shouldn’t shout about how hot your partners brother is, even if it is hilarious. Might also want to avoid using words like “fru fru” when describing a partners design, lest they take offense and design the opinion piece from hell. Don’t draw comics of Ms. Richey, her boyfriend will own you with a response comic strip. And, uh, yeah… Go ahead and take a look at the rest of the posts on this blog, they should give you some sense of the different twists and turns Ezine will take you on (also some of them are just comical).
Well, that’s it for now. To anyone reading this blog that’s not about to take Ezine, there might be more to come. Who knows? I’ve enjoyed writing these for the most part and I hope you’ve enjoyed reading them.
Until I write again,
Adjo
