Workbook (6/10/2015)

Phoebe and I finalized the poster so we can print it on Friday.
Although I edited the poster in RGB, I realised after the lecture by Tim, printed images should be done in CMYK.

The poster on the left is RGB and the one on the right is CMYK. Although I personally liked the CMYK one on the right as it had a more "Vogue" feel to it, Phoebe and I agreed the RGB image had more color and seemed more visually appealing. 

I have also been working on the website and made quite a few changes after the interim discussion yesterday:

The first 2 pages will go in this order --
The first image will be the "cover photo", and when the title is clicked it will lead to the next page - the home page. Only the titles will be visible on this page, and when the text is hovered over the animals will appear.
The next two pages (a third is to come) will be filled with the information as shown.
The pink page is about if we do not confront our pollution problem, instead of being able to swim in the sea we will be wearing it, just like some of our endangered species! It then says what we can personally do to fix this problem in different ways:

The next fashion statement?
We hope not!!

If we don’t start to take responsibility for our actions, instead of the rubbish being on our beaches, we’ll be wearing our pollution just like certain animals in our ocean such as the blue penguin, seagulls and even orca whales!
We need to confront our problem before it becomes the next fashion statement instead of working around the problem.
Like the first step to any dilemma, we need to admit that we have a problem instead of avoiding it any longer.

Certain ways of solving this include getting a small community together and simply doing a coastal clean by foot, boat or kayak you can prevent litter travelling out to sea and damaging our animals.
What can we do to decrease pollution:
- organize beach clean ups!
- reduce the amount of your own personal rubbish
- make sure only rain goes down the drain and take care of the local streams
- research your local beaches

C’mon guys, it’s your beach too!

The next page is explaining facts about New Zealand pollution and statistics about our beaches:

Wellington waterfront’s diving platform was closed because faecal contamination spiked nearly 500 times the safe levels. Majority of New Zealand rivers were used as bottled water (the water is taken directly from the river) majority of these rivers are now so muddied with sediment, algal blooms and pollution that they cant even be used for swimming Each year, plastic waste in water and coastal areas kills up to 100,000 marine mammals 1 million sea birds, and countless fish 95% of the world’s cities still dump raw sewage into their water supplies

Marine debris is a worldwide problem – every year approximately 7 billion tonnes of garbage progresses towards the sea.  46,000 pieces of plastic litter is covering the ocean, and only 30 percent has sunk. This will remain in the environment for hundreds of years.

“Almost a quarter of New Zealand’s beaches were and water ways were tested in Auckland, were unsafe for swimming” – NZ Herald

Water pollution in New Zealand is becoming and increasing controversy; one third of New Zealand’s beaches are contaminated with sewage, and 49 out of the 350 beaches in New Zealand are classified as polluted. 

The third page will explain the beach clean up day, details on how to find it and some more statistics about New Zealand beaches and how joining this clean up day could prevent these statistics from getting any worse!!

I am also making a sticker page for our extra item. Although it doesn't contribute to our grade I'll still print these out because theyre still fun to have!