Search
Now that we're deep into our curation, my searching has almost come to a hault. Of course I'm always going to be looking for other things to create and enjoy, but right now it seems to me that my main focus is creating my actual page. I want my page to look organized and inviting
I guess you could say that I have been 'searching' for other types of examples to see how they organize and arrange their pages. I don't want something that is cluttered or annoying or too hard to learn. I'm trying to find the right website/tool to really express my love for what I'm doing.
Evaluate
One thing that I've started to notice is that it's going to be really hard to make all of these projects myself. Everything is going to take a lot of time, which frankly, I don't have a lot of at the end of the year. Trying to find the balance of what to make is hard because some of these materials are a little more expensive than what a high school senior tring to pay for college can afford. So I've decided that instead of making all of them, I'm going to make very detailed instructions and pictures to go along with them. Even though individually these crafts might be inexpensive, all together they really are quite expensive together.
Organize
So since I've come to this relization of how much money I would've had to spend, I need to now think of an interesting way to organize my page so it's interesting and it doesn't look like I'm uneducated in this subject. I want to make this page impressive, and I really want to love what my outcome is. As I have stated before, I'm a fairly organized person, and even though I don't look like it, I kinda like the preppy way of organization. I love clean cut, straight lines, and or course... Pastels. I want a page that screams 'you're going to have fun' with a mixture of 'you're going to learn'. I love that combination and I want to make that apparent.
Design
From doing this curation I have obviously learned a lot about how to do a curation, but I've also learned a lot about myself. I'm learning how I like to design a project. For instance, I find that I'm a way better smaller assignments type of person. I suck at pulling things like this together last minute. It's because I feel like a curation is an on-going conversation or a progressive thought. I would understandably have trouble with putting a full conversations worth of thoughts and ideas into one night, but I can crank out a paper in one night. I can do that because a paper is one thought that you need to elaborate on. I feel like the reason I like this project so much is because I'm able to go a little bipolar with it. It really makes me go into deeper and cooler places I've never been berfore.
Narrate
My next 3 steps that I have to take include:
1. Finding out how much I am really able to spend(if any) on this project - Listen, I'm saving up for college on top of the fact that I'm a cheap person. I don't want to go broke because I have to do a project for school (no offense). And taking more hours at the movie theatre honestly sounds like hell.
2. Write out the instructions in a clear and interesting way - I don't want people to run and hide because I have some text. I need to make things clean, quick and if I can, funny.
3. Finding a way to design my page - I want my page to be exciting, fun and thrifty. I want it to be eye-catching and one of a kind. I want this to be a beautiful page, and a labor of love.
I think that maybe one thing that could work more smoothly is my brain. My brain underestimated how much this was going to take. Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the creativity here, but this is taking a lot more intensive thinking than I thought it would. I really love this project, and I want to make it into something that I'm proud of, I just want it to go well at the same time.
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