I want to add so much to this portfolio so that it becomes a site that offers so much. LOL. I've already got tips/tutorials going, reviews and I was helping out Jezzi omma by giving her advice on her fic, and I was telling her that I should open up a graphics review section. I was reviewing Steph unnie's prologue for Exoplanet, and I was editing it for her after I found some typos - I felt like such a Grammar Nazi, LMAO - and I was wondering why I gave up reviewing.
...Then I remembered it was because I couldn't be stuffed reading some stories, HAHAHAH.
I'm horrible, I know ^^
I might open up some reviewing sections later on, but who knows. We'll probably have to wait until either after exams or after I graduate for it. It'll work out somehow, I guess~ I don't think I'd do too well with graphic reviewing though. Mainly because I'm not an amazing graphic artist, unlike the girls at InDesign. These old gen designers are absolutely amazing, and I'm even looking through their tutorials. They say you learn something new every day, and I sure did. I learnt more about the functions of Photoshop, which I've never really been much of a fan of since just recently. It's awesome! I'm going to go and have fun with a few more brushes - there are some brushes I want, but since I'm not too much of a fan of extravagant, flashy brushes, I wont have too many. It ends up lagging sometimes, hahah. I know - it's happened to me with GIMP. I went insane with brushes at the beginning of my designing 'career' ^^;
Process Commentary 2
I've written the content for the layout, and I just need to add details such as a list of 'schools' (missionaries/camps) and the list of Aboriginals that reside in the camps. I'll probably bring out characters from the book and create some of my own.
Why did I choose to write in the way I did? I chose to write in a similar way as to how they would've written in the 20s/30s, because it would've made it more realistic. To help someone else's understanding, I wanted the site to seem as if it really were written and created in the 20s so that they understand his thought process when he was Chief Protector of Aborigines.
I'm still thinking about turning the main page into a blog. It would fill up, because I could type short entries. I've had a look at Julia Gillard's website, and taking a look at her blog, her posts aren't too long either.
Trying to imitate their style of writing in the 20s is actually incredibly hard. Maybe it's because of all the changes in language that has happened over the last few years that make it harder, because their sentence structure and word choices are very different to those on official sites now, or those we use in every day life. I think I've gone through a few hundred sheets of paper just scribbling stuff down, haha!
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So who ever said you were confined to a desk when it comes to studying or doing assignments? Personally, I prefer the floor over a desk, because I like space. It's the reason why I'm able to see the floor of my room, and why my room is relatively neat, LOL. So right now, I'm typing up another 'tip', and I'm going to be typing part of my process commentary for my Lit assignment here (I mentioned that in a previous update).
I seriously need to get back into proper studying, I've got exams in a few weeks! My auntie suggested that I should probably deactivate Facebook, but I'm actually pretty good at keeping away from it, so I don't think it'll be a problem. I'm starting to not use Twitter as much too, so I guess that's all good? Hahahah~
I opened my files for OSMC and Abstract for the first time in a while! For those of you who don't know, or have forgotten, OSMC (Of Sex, Money and Cars) is a fic I'm currently writing on AFF. I kept telling people that I have a huge writer's block and because I'm revising the story, but honestly it's because I've had no time to write anything, or if I do, I'm lazy. So I've planned it in my head and took notes on my iPod instead. I've done some stuff for it! Sadly, the stuff I wrote on my iPod are for future chapters instead.. We'll see how it goes ^^;
Secondly, Abstract, it's the fic that I wrote about in my previous portfolio! The summary I posted up there was..
Abstract (adj.);
Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
Honestly, when we talked about the apocalypse, we never thought it would actually happen. They were all ‘what ifs’ and ‘maybes’, and they were meant to stay as ‘what ifs’ and ‘maybes’.
It doesn’t matter now, no one cares. Those who survived this ‘attack’ would be fending for themselves; and those who didn’t… Well, it’s not up to them to decide their fate now, is it?
We didn’t know if the whole world was in this state, or if South Korea was the only country affected. We didn’t know how much of this disease had spread throughout our country, but we knew that Seoul had been the first to get it.
Which is part of the forewords! This is an extended version of the extract I posted up on my previous blog, by the way. I'm not going to remind you guys on what it's about, you might want to take a guess though! There's a hint, but I doubt many will get it right unless they remember the post, kekeke.
Multitasking is awesome.
..And I need to vacuum the floor underneath my bed.
Process Commentary 1
I've finished the layout for the site, and I think it's okay. It might not seem like an official website, or it might not seem like A. O. Neville owned it (I don't think it will with the language I'm going to use), but I guess it's simple enough.
I wanted to go along with the colours of the Aboriginal flag (which are red, black and yellow), but so far I've only managed to incorporate red and black, but not yellow. I chose the Aboriginal colours instead of those of the Union Jack, because No Sugar is a protest play for the Aborigines of Australia, not for the British. By using the colours of the Aboriginal flag on a official British website, isn't that a protest in itself?
The assignment also says that it's to help someone's understanding (my own or someone else's)* of the text I've chosen. I've chosen to do a website for various reasons.
- It's an interactive - One of the ways people learn is through interaction, especially for the digital generation (Generation Z; those born between 1990 and 2010), who are able to skim read and absorb information faster.
- A. O. Neville is a real person - And this comes back to it being an interactive. If every historical figure had their own website that they maintained when they were alive, wouldn't that help kids researching? The aim is to give people an insight of what Neville may have been thinking during the time he was Chief Protector.
*It's not written like that in the question, but that's how it was explained to us.
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