Centre Number: 14343
Candidate Name: Alisa Teterina
Candidate Number: 2220
Unit: G321
20 Apr 2017
19 Apr 2017
Evaluation Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
18 Apr 2017
Evaluation Question 6
What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
17 Apr 2017
16 Apr 2017
15 Apr 2017
14 Apr 2017
13 Apr 2017
Evaluation Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
12 Apr 2017
11 Apr 2017
10 Apr 2017
DPS: Artist Interview
After conducting my research on typical interviews and the style of questions and speech they use, here is my artist interview:
The hype is rapidly increasing for YEO YOONJIN as she makes a comeback with her upcoming 2nd complete album, SEOULFUL, that is to be released mid-April this year. The Kstar talks to Mi Na (미나) about the inspiration behind the album, her distressing, hard-working past and her “label-less” relationship with BIGBANG’s idol, G-Dragon.
Hello, Yoonjin! I am happy we are able to talk once again with our last interview being in 2015. First of all, congratulations for winning the MAMA (Mnet Asian Music Awards) for Best Female Artist last year! I have been following you since your first single back in 2011 and it is amazing to have seen you grown into the person you are today.
Nice to see you again, Mi Na, and thank you! It has been one of my biggest dreams to win a MAMA award for Best Female after winning Album Of The Year with Kwon Ji-yong (GD) back in 2013, as it’s another one of the biggest awards in the show; I’m honored!
Firstly let’s talk about the main event, your upcoming album, Seoulful. Now, you have made a couple of mini albums but this is your second complete album.. what inspired you to create it?
It’s dedicated to my past life. It occurred to me that I haven’t created as many songs about it as I’ve wanted so I then came up with the concept for Seoulful. I lived in a slum until my family managed to get enough money to finally move to the outskirts of Hongdae. However no matter how different those two places are, they both are in Seoul and they mean a lot to me.
Where exactly did you grow up?
I grew up in Seoul’s last-remaining slum, the Guryong Village, until I was fourteen.
Do you think growing up in the Guryong Village and then moving to such a popular area such as Hongdae has shaped you to the way you are now and contributes to your sound?
Oh, definitely. How could it not? You know of the Guryong Village; everybody does. People often look down on those who live there. The lyrics in a lot of the songs in the album are about me and others who have lived in the slums, as well as other towns in Seoul. And Hongdae is known for its urban arts, clubs and entertainment; that was what made me realize what I wanted to do in my life.
The whole point of ‘Seoulful’ is for it to be relatable and for the people of the slum to have a voice that is heard; I plan to put a lot of money from ‘Seoulful’ into the people of the Village.
That brings me to my next question: has the community of the Guryong Village reacted to the ‘present you’?
Of course! I often go back there to keep in touch with friends that are like family; they’re very proud of me and the fact that an artist from the slum has made the name that I have.
That’s great to hear! Let’s move onto one of the biggest stories behind your name: for years, you and G-Dragon have been very close and both of you have been single for a very long time, from what we know.. Is there anything currently going on between you two?
Oh gosh, the rumors have recently been impossible to miss.. It is a very private thing for the both of us and of course, people have wanted answers for years now. We have been very close friends for a long time and of course, have done a lot of work together such as my first complete album, BBBG (BAD BOY BAD GIRL) and many tracks like the single, A Piece Of Sun, in the past. After the past few years with the media constantly questioning us, we both have been really tired with the tags of “boyfriend” and “girlfriend”. All I can and will say is that we love our relationship that has no labels and we are not going to be pressured into changing that.
Now, you have collaborated with many K-artists.. GD, Zico, Jungkook from BTS, et cetera but you also have recently gained an enormous wave of international fans, especially from the UK and America.. How did you react to that?
I thought it wasn’t real, like they mixed up the names or something. That happened because of my most recent single, Stuck In The Middle. After gaining the name I have in Korea, Japan, China, so on I really wanted to push through and get known in more countries. Fans from all over the world have come to my shows and to my Meet & Greets to tell me how much my music has brought them joy and inspiration. So many of my international fans don’t even understand Korean and they still love my music; they know the Korean romanization off by heart! This rush of internationalism inspired the whole English-language songs on Seoulful.
Sadly we’re onto our final question, but what would you say to all aspiring artists?
I’d say work hard. It sounds so cliche but it’s something that is said so often people brush it off. When I started off, I didn’t do anything but stay in a run-down studio at the edge of the Hongdae region, or in my room back in the Guryong Village. I just wrote and wrote songs. I didn’t sleep, I lost so much weight from forgetting to eat because of my levels of determination and dedication. My family didn’t see me for days in a row. Back in Hongdae when I started to get attention and perform in small clubs, I would do a show, stay up all night because of the adrenaline, then go to school and fall asleep in my art classes. I came from such a poor family and dark place; if I can do what I have done, anyone can.
8 Apr 2017
DPS: Image Decisions
Before deciding my final images for my double page spread, I researched some real media texts from Korean & Western magazines featuring Hyuna and CL.
These photographs of CL inspired my image decisions the most because of the casual yet elegant sitting pose with her hand holding her head. I like the angle of gaze that she holds with the reader and wanted to translate that into my own image with my model, however I wanted my model not to have her body and head faced away from the reader, but facing the reader, leaning in drawing them in more and engaging them.
I then decided on this image, again inspired by CL, because of her powerful appearance and the positioning of the hands and arms. With the idea of some of CL's photographs of her looking down at the reader with the low angle and posing with her hands up, I came to a conclusion with this image.
6 Apr 2017
2 Apr 2017
DPS: Market Research
Whenever I see a double page spread with one page as a whole photo, I think it is very professional-looking and makes them look very important as the whole page is consists just of them. I love when double page spread also add the artist's first letter in the feature colour because it makes them seem so well-known that you would know who it is about just from seeing the letter; I would definitely like to add these features on my double page spread.
Another feature I think looks very original and professional on double page spreads is the columned text; it gives the whole other page character and structure and less like a book which goes across the entire page, making the columns relate to the context. However I do think that three columns are too much and makes the text look too much therefore I will most likely use two columns like in this example.
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