I'm making a book?!

Valentina Nenkova
Oct 8, 2018
4 min read

Updated: Oct 9, 2018

Today I felt very low. Even though I had spoken to Steve about my work, I had so many inspirations, so many influencers, so many ideas and what to do with them, .... but I was very tired. All I wanted to do was go to bed and take a 15 minute nap... until I had my spicy chicken tanmen. Wasabi you saved me.

Feedback!

In the morning I wasn't sure where to go from what I had made the previous days. So, I when around the room and showed the three experiments that I had made. Everyone agreed that the comic style was the best one because they has a better idea and better reaction to what was happening. From there I had people actually sending me influencers and ideas of how I can make it more popping and eye catching.

THANKS GUYS!

Influencer #1

David Guetta - shot me down

I though WOW. That's fantastic I could straight away see how I can twist and turn this into my creative side of what I wanted to do. First of all, the music was going so well with the movement which was really getting me pumped even though I don't have music... for now? Maybe/// Who knows..

What really got me was the fact that the whole thing was into a comic style while it was moving. It gave me hope that maybe I can even create a short movie for Instagram. I think that would really get people's attention because in my eyes that's very anti-stereotypical for Instagram - usually on there you see a lot of 'satisfaction' videos, make-up, small try on hauls etc. but there isn't really any comics or short story telling.

My next step was to find out who created this video..// That's when my day turn upside down as I had to spend HOURS & HOURS looking for someone who was actually of front of me the whole time.... I looked into the description box below, Googled it about billions of times, I read the comments if anyone knew who it was, I even started asking people around the class if they have seen this work done before or if they know creators that do similar work.

I HAD NOTHING. I was getting so annoyed and irritated until - the magic happened.

I found another video in this style.

David Guetta & Showtek - Your Love (Lyric Video)

And another one.

David Guetta & Showtek - Bad vs. Vassy (Official Lyric)

ANOTHER ONE!

Major Lazer & Showtek - Believer (Official Lyric Video)

So I was like what does all of these videos link them together, first of all of them were lyric videos? So I though hmm okay. Then I realised in every video there was someone called Showtek.

Infuencer #2

Showtek

https://www.showtek.com/# (their website)

Showtek is a Dutch electronic dance music duo consisting of two brothers from Eindhoven Sjoerd and Wouter Janssen. The duo regularly manages to reach the top of multiple music charts and work with artists such as; Tiestom Chris Brown and David Guetta.

Once again I only found about them as they do a lot of collaborations. So I started Googling as many possible things to find out who was the creator behind this lyric video. The I found this.

When I clicked on the GraphicRiver thinking this was what I need, I might have been wrong.

https://graphicriver.net/?_ga=2.186957677.419388564.1539086551-836810607.1539086551

and then I had this

https://graphicriver.net/user/memoangeles/portfolio

This was as close as I could get to the person who has worked on the video of this comic style.

Influencer #3

Memo Angeles

Memo Anegeles is an illustrator and a vector artist. One thing that was very interesting wherever you when and saw his work, it would be written "I'm very sorry, but I do not do freelance work". This is questioning me big time whether he has done this video or not.

https://www.facebook.com/memoangelestoons/

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/memoangeles

https://graphicriver.net/user/memoangeles/portfolio

https://twitter.com/memoangeles?lang=en

I'm making a book?

So after all day of hunting this bloody creator I though right.. that's it get your sh*t together and do some creative work! (That's when I had my spicy chicken tanmen! - btw really recommended it if you love spicy!)

I had a little chat with Steve to how this is going to go down. I though I need to start from the beginning with him and talk through the whole project to make sure I have this correctly understood.

so.

Topic -

Misogyny

Reactions -

Most people think it's bad

One sentence -

F*ck me, I am..

(e.g. F*ck me, I am a DJ)

Reactions -

Surprised, shocked that men say this?

A Steve saw what I had started making we started talking about different plans and ideas of how this can be developed. We talked about things such as; comics, films, videos, stop stories and then we though why not make a book targeting young female adults. We though WOW yes that will be so out there.

Possible names;

1. The Master

2. Benefits of Misogyny

3. The misogynist way

4. The slut maker bible

The last one is personally my favourite because when Amber Rose did the interview with Jesse Lee he actually said that men are the slut makers. So, what I'm going to do is make the women slut makers and the men sluts. I then started sketching random ideas of what the cover can look like;

After I did some sketches for the possible logo and book cover I decided to ask people around which one caught their eye the most - most people chose the one with the legs open.