When beginning this week, I was familiar with the basics of videos, movies, editing, etc. But, only the basics. After reading and rereading Roger Ebert’s How to Read a Movie, I was much more aware of the strategy and intention behind each scene and shot. Mentioned in the post was a book called Understanding Movies […]
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Design Blitz Gallery and Reflection
Going into this assignment, I thought that it would be much like the photo safari where we had prompts and just had to go and do. But, this proved to be a little bit more difficult than I initially thought. Instead of a time limit, this assignment required me to think about the set up […]
Design Elements Reflection
When thinking about design elements, there are so many different places in the world that they are illustrated. From technology to nature, art to fashion, the attention to how things are designed became more apparent to me as I looked at more and more resources. First reading the PDF about design theory, I got the […]
Reflection – Photo Safari
I was very excited for this assignment. It uses time restraints to create an environment where you have to go with the flow instead of having all the time in the world to get each shot (which is good for a person who tends to obsess over the perfect shot!). I decided to do my […]
Broadening Literacy
Art can communicate meaning just as well as words. Oftentimes, people read and analyze images more than words, therefore, most forms of visual media have been increasing over the past years. This week’s reading materials proved that… In the Visual Literacy video, it was stated that children have different reading experiences depending on the socioeconomic […]
Reflection – Building ‘The Great Berrier Reef’
After setting up my site and learning the basics of WordPress, it was time to start to build up from the basics! I started out by picking a theme, and ended up downloading an already created WordPress theme called Article Lite. It provides a header and open space and is very simple with room to […]
Reflection – What the heck is WordPress?
When beginning this class, I had very little knowledge of what WordPress was and how it worked. I had a general idea that it was a tool used to build websites, but beyond that I had no clue. I had also known about Domain of One’s Own since my first semester of school, but never […]
