Week 15

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Website

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Week 14

Assignment: Our assignment for this week was to explore the program called iWeb and to work on our upcoming website.

Craft: I took the information from the site I had created for last weeks assignment and just shined it up and polished it. I changed the template I was using, deleted some of the things they had on the pages, and switched some of the original colors to make it my own. I also beefed up my passages with a little more detail and added my thoughts on he project.

Composition: When we meet for class last time we were told to set our sites up a certain way. We were suppose to have a page for about me, about vc, mash up 1, and mash up to. I posted some new pictures of the assignments we did and we then created a new page with something different about the assignment from my point of view.

Concept: Using this website was a way to organize all our work and to display is using the internet and the computer. Even though all of these pieces work done on a computer this program allows us to have all of our artwork and easily assessable for others. With our passages was where we were able to explain to the people what we were trying to say and do with our artwork.

Week 13

Assignment: This week's assignment was to now move our comic to the new program were using in class. The new program is called iWeb.

Craft: We are suppose to use iWeb to create a website that deals with us and our art. We want our site to show off our favorite art to our classmates.

Composition: For this project, I had to organize all the work that I have done for Visual Communications. This is very important to have the Art organize in separate folders so that it is easy to navigate. Then making a new site is important so that the other websites on my iWeb are not messed. iWeb is a program that makes it very easy to create a website. This program also have many different templates that you can choose from. Choosing a template and then creating the site is the next part of this assignment. Once all of that is done it is time to create the page about me and then the page with my art work on it.

Concept: Using iWeb I am trying to explain what visual communication is and to show all of my work to my classmates in a easy manner.

Week 12

Exempted

Week 11

Assignment:

For this weeks assignment it was now time to add color to our comics. It was time to make our comics “pop.” We discussed making things “pop” in the previous couple of classes and it was time to test them out on our comics. With making it pop we had to choose our two colors do this and we choose purple and yellow.

Craft:

This was a more remember the steps work then a difficult step. To make this work we changed the background to a normal layer, added a blank colored layer, and then added a new layer for each thing we colored. This is nice because say we wanted to change our colors all we would have to do is use the paint bucket on each layer on the colors we painted.

Composition:

I talked about making it pop in the assignment part and that’s basically what we did to arrange our elements. With choosing the colors we had to make one color the blank background, which was the purple. After that we had to use a yellow color because they are opposites on the color wheel so the yellow “pops” on a purple surface. In our pictures we decided to focus on the important things in the picture and color them yellow.

Concept:

With the comic we tried to tell a story. With the color we are adding an element to it, which makes it easier to read. With adding the color the less important information sort of fades to the background and we can pop the important stuff. Then with our story we added that suspense up until last class with having the last scene secret. Everyone thought it was a good story until they saw what our package was.

Week 10

Assignment:

What our assignment was this was simply continue our comic strip cartoon. Now, that we had our pictures and story line made we need to add the Photoshop touch to our pictures.

Craft:

For the cartoon assignment there were many different strategies taken by our classmates. For my partner and I we decided to do more work at the beginning so we had less work at the end. We decided to focus on our pictures to make sure our pictures really told the story instead of having to add to them. Obliviously there are a couple pictures we altered with Photoshop but for the most part we accomplished our goal with our pictures.

Composition:

Like I mentioned above we took a lot of time with our pictures and took many different shots so we could choose the best one. The ones that we needed to alter, we added things with Photoshop. For instance, the first scene we could not get a close enough picture of a plane so we decided to make a split frame with multiple pictures so there was not a bunch of open space.

Concept:

This project took a 180 when we had to pick a partner for our project. This was a good thing because my roommate and I decided to be partners. Seeing that we live together we get along pretty well. This helped out tremendously for our project because we were able to shoot ideas out all the time to see what each other’s ideas were. Having a partner that I got along with helped with taking the pictures to because he knew what we were looking for in the pictures so he knew how to model the pictures.