Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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Gate 5 – Project 2
For this project you were suppose to tell a story or show something you are thankful for. I chose my mom since she survived breast cancer and I am thankful for that everyday. I used all the editing techniques we have learned so far and chose which ones looked best.
Surviving Com 220
For this project I wrote a script answering questions about my opinions on Com 220. After the script was written I then recorded the answers and went to Premiere to upload them there of course once they were saved to my hard drive. I had to shorten and change the order of what I said in order to make it make sense. I found music and created a lower title. I added those into Premiere along with the title slide for the video and, adding b-rolls.
Gate 4 Project 2
Audio Journey
My audio journey had some ups and downs. It started out bumpy because I was getting use to the new material as well as adjusting to online learning. It has been hard I am not going to lie but I have been putting forth the most effort. When getting use to using Premiere it was like a foreign language. Soon, I became familiar with the different screens and buttons. After I learned about those it was just a matter of using them and learning what they do. I overall, think I grasped the concept well. I picked up on how to adjust audio, levels, and even add photos to it. I can say I am a pro at picking where I want my audio to begin and end. I struggled most with the sound-waves just because we had to put together so many sounds and mix the audio. The easiest task/project for me would have to be the tell a story. While tedious it is similar to previous tasks making it almost muscle memory of what to do and which buttons do what and add what.
Kardashian infographic
I decided to make a infographic of the Kardashian/Jenner kids and how the family is related because there are a lot of different moms and dads in that large family.
collage
My other favorite color is blue, not even kidding my room is pink and blue and I love it. In this version I included more fashion including, more Vogue covers. I included one of my fashion idols Candice, and one of my favorite singers Billie.
Digital Designs
The first image I chose was from the Florence Institution of Design International. I picked this image because it reminded me of some of the tasks we have done on photoshop and illustrator. The creator of this uses, it looks as if, one shape to create the whole tiger, triangles. The artist also creates a contrast between all of the colors of the triangles in order for us to clearly see all of them but spacing them close enough together that there is no empty space. This reminded me of when I had to make a cat using only shapes and it was very hard to do. I can appreciate and admire how tedious and how much dedication and time this must have taken the artist.
https://www.florence-institute.com/Summer_Digital_illustration_Courses.html#
The next photo I found which I think is considered a digital design is, City sunset by Elebea
Designed by, Sabrina Brugmann. I chose this photo because of the colors she uses to contrast what looks as if a city sunset. The different colors also allow you to see the intricate pattern that Braugmann decided to use. Furthermore, she even included some of the buildings to be the color or the sunset, which took me a second to even notice. Brugmann even made parts of the buildings to be different shades of grey, making them look 3-D. To portray the population of the city Braugmann put the buildings clustered, with little to no proximity between them, making me think that this could be NYC, Chicago, Miami, etc.
The last is Andy Warhols Velvet underground, I chose this one which is a well known classic because, I love this digital design. I have it hanging in my dorm room, where I cant get it from until May 31st lol. I love how the design uses repetition in order to appeal to the eye. The photos start with the mouth closed and each one gets wider until she sips her soda. This design tells a story that is easy to read, and while it is using repetition, of the mouths, none of them are the exact same, some similar. In addition, the boxes are placed to create the same amount of space on both sides. The top and bottom are not the exact same but leave little white space. The photo all in all though does have a lot of white space. This allows contrast which I think makes the design pop.
Ruth Ansel
A very established graphic designer is Ruth Ansel. Ansel made her debut as a designer in 1962 and became the youngest and first female to achieve, in order: co-art director of Harper’s Bazaar, director of the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Vanity fair, and House & Garden. Ansel has also received The Gold Medal for Design, Design Award for Continuing Excellence in Publication Design by the Society of Publication, and was an AIGA medalist. She pushed the boundaries of magazine design and created covers for almost 5 decades, that are era-defining Ruth Ansel and the magazines and newspapers she worked for appealed to me, because of the different elements of her pieces and strange props and surroundings. Working with photographers, illustrators, and, artist. Ansel has worked with some very famous people such as Andy Warhol and Bruce Weber. Another achievement of hers is she also designed Alice in wonderland the book and then adapted into a movie. In the 90s she created her own design studios where she kept creating notable books. I have actually admired pieces that belong to her, not knowing who created them or even wondering. In my Mema’s, aka grandma, Florida house she has paintings of large versions of some of these works.
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