When water droplets started falling with increasing intensity, hundreds of participants at TPRAWKS prayed it was just a passing drizzle, lasting perhaps, for all of five minutes. The rain, however, had a mind of its own, and as if in defiance to their thoughts, droned on furiously against the roof of the Sports hall where TPRAWKERS sought refuge in.

One of these hopeful hundreds was Group Leader, Serine Tan, 17.
“The dragon boating activity was supposed to take place now! This was one of the highlights of TPRAWKS!” Her voice, evident with worry.

However, not everyone was feeling as forlorn at TPRAWKS, a three-day non-residential camp held from November 17-19 for secondary school students to experience life at Temasek Polytechnic.

Inside the Sports Hall, was a sight to behold. The hall, brightly lit, was jam packed with Rawkers juggling balls of a myriad of colours while cheering loudly.

They screamed till their lungs were sore, refusing to be terrorized by the rain. “TP ROCKS TP ROCKS TP ROCKS MY SOCKS”

Their voices could be heard throughout the school as it bounced from walls to walls, to the chagrin of teachers and students alike.

With the Dragon Boating Activity pushed back, the mass dance was brought forward in its place.

The dance routine, led by the Temasek Poly Dance Ensemble(TPDE) captivated the audience. Their complex moves were broken down for the Rawker’s sake.

Swaying no further than an inch, the Rawkers attempted to execute the dance moves to no avail, resembling nothing of the dancers’ fluid movements.

Next stop. Tour round the school to learn more about the various courses offered at Temasek Polytechnic.

Media Biz was a stop for the Rawkers as a select few got a chance to experience being a news presenter.

“Good afternoon, today, we bring you the news here from Media Biz. Behind me are fans of the celebrity we are meeting today!” Nicholas boomed articulately with ease.

Secondary School leaver, Nicholas Yap, 16 was chosen at random amongst the terrified crowd of faces to try his hand at news presenting.

His voice, so clear and baritone that if you dismissed his youthful appearance, no one would fault you for mistaking him to be a real news anchor.

“News presenting seems scary at first, but it wasn’t as hard as I thought and I might consider CMM next year!” He exclaimed enthusiastically, face flushed as he bubbled from excitement.

Afterwards, TPRAWKERS were herded into the Convention Centre for MediaCorp’s Meet and Greet session.

If you had seen the celebrities at present, you would not fault these teenage girls for their hysterical screams upon sight of the handsome Darren Tan, Star of Mata Mata.
His boyish good looks paired with his charming smile were enough to make any girls swoon as he signed autographs and photographed with them compliantly.

How did the organisers gauge the success of TPRAWKS?
Serine Tan replied ,“If we were to judge by the volume of their cheers, I would say this event has been a huge success”

From my newsletter, I have learnt to create stickers. I never knew it was that easy, just adding stroke on the image gives it the sticker feel. And if I want to go the extra mile, I can use the warp tool to make the sticker have a peeling effect. But of course, it's not needed, though I did use it for my post it notes.

 real like.

Also, changed my background, because of Ms Teh's suggestions. I realised that we did not have a constant theme, and initially. the background was a roped texture in blue. In the end, we changed it to an wooden texture to match all the other backgrounds, which were either the colour

Almost completed part of my haze precaution page. Changed the font as per miss Teh's suggestions. Also, added a mask sticker. The orginal image of the mask looked like this 

Edited all parts and added a filter to give it a cartoonish look. The colours brightened everything and matches perfectly. The sticker was for our scrapbook idea

From the picture, you can see the SAY NO TO BAD AIR stamp. That was actually easy to make. All i had to do was choose a font and add a border around it. And use an eraser with different brush to give it the grainy stamp effect.
And voila, off to go.

This is an in-depth explanation of my post it. First, you have to create a rectangular shape using the marquee tool, and colouring it using the paint bucket. Next, duplicate the image and change the colour to black, and lower the opacity of the rectangle.
After, use the warp tool to drag out the rectangular black part to let it resemble a shadow and I added a gaussian blur to make it seem blurry. Then I used the warp tool on the post it tab to make it look more real like.

This is my 2 different cover proposals. I still find them both very plain. However I was ensure which building to use as the wood building would reflect our newsletters wood theme. However the wood building will look too Matchy with the top of the wood part. Hence We decided on the normal building. I never realised how difficult it is to design a cover page that will look professional. Also used back the word waitrose that I designed for my previous assignment as I felt I was a wasted design. I created a more sticker like effect so it would not look that awkward and also reflected the sticker scrapbook theme. 

For my newsletter, I drew out this boy so that the book can hold the achievements of the residents living in the area, which is my plan. it fits in with the scrapbook design, and gives it a cute feel. However, I am still in the process of fixing him up, using photoshop to make him appear more cartoon like. And I think his legs are too long.

During egd lessons, we drew out our template for the newsletter. We have decided to group a few of our similar topics into one page with the suggestion of Ms Teh. We also went online to free fonts to download fonts for each headings that is appropriate for our topics. Overall it was a productive lesson .

For our wednesday tutorial lesson, we learnt that an A4 size paper is 29cm by 21cm. In ratio, it meant 1.414:1 . When the paper is folded into half, it becomes an A5 and the dimensions although smaller, maintains the ratio of 1.414:1. Likewise for the A3 paper. This ratio is the international standard for papers. We had to fold our paper and unfold it until it resembled the photo above. the boxes you see are although of different sizes, maintains the same ratio of 1:414:1. I had a hard time folding it and gave up after a few attempts. 

At the end of the activity, Ms Teh explained the purpose of learning this grid system. It is to help us understand important design elements like flowlines, all to aid us while designing our newsletter and magazines.

For our EGD lesson on thursday, we were to copy a sample cover page of a newsletter on indesign. At first I felt lost as I thought indesign would be very difficult to use. However, I realised that it is really much more simple than it seems. All the borders were created with the box tool and essentially, the majority of the work was to create boxes, lines and ensure the words were where they were.

The biggest problems I faced was the words. It was difficult to space them out the way the sample cover was. However, practise makes perfect and I got the hang of the exercise pretty quickly and actually managed to complete the exercise on time.

After the exercise, Ms Teh went through with us more about the Golden triangle and the Villard's diagram. 

I learnt that the golden triangle has a spiral which indicates the place where the eye of the audience will be drawn towards when they see the advertisement. This is an essential concept as many advertisers make use of this triangle to ensure the most important points will be understood. 

I have always known there was a certain science to advertisements, however when learning it, I felt amazed. Also, I thought that this exercise could have been more engaging if Ms Teh had asked us where our eyes were drawn towards when we first looked at the picture. Then it would have been mindblowing when she explained to us the science behind the golden triangle.

The Villard's digram, as shown in the image above, is for 2 page layout.  To create it, we have to first draw lines across a 1/2 page diagonally and draw a line across the entire page diagonally and do the same for the opposing side.

This diagram acts as a guide for us to place important pictures and helps our layout look better.