Part B Editorial Anthology Group Magazine Final Work

 Evaluation

For this Project, the subject I decided to focus on was depression within the creative industry and how as creative people, we are more likely to experience mental health issues. For my final pieces I chose to create almost a form of loose narrative. The title page is a long corridor with cell-like doors on one side, this gives the idea that you are being shown some sort of prison. The page neighbouring that is the first glimpse of who is being held within these locked rooms. It is revealed that this captive is a writer, with only a bed, a typewriter and paper to keep them company. The next double page spread introduces the viewer to the other two captives: an artist and a musician. These two creatives also only have access to their respective supplies and show different reactions to having these. The artist has decided to manically draw repetitive spirals over the walls and the musician has destroyed their instruments. I believe the strength of these pieces is the overall mood I feel I was able to achieve with the intense lighting. I also think I was able to successfully create the atmosphere that I wanted. Something I could improve upon is maybe adding more information from the article to the illustrations, the reason I decided not to do this is because I had made the drawings not with adding any text in mind, therefore, I left no room to add any. I feel that adding text would help provide more context to the audience.