Client Exercise

March 30th Class

Today was a short class. Beth talked about her design on Photoshop as a sample for our final research project. I thought the design is pretty cool. We talked about the classes final project apart from the research project. She also gave us an assignment about how to design for a client.

Fluid and Fire

Any idea inspired by the word Fluid?

A few. When I think of Fluid, it think of smooth flows, subtle motion, powerful as energy giver, beauty and importance. I could incorporate some of these ideas to my final project. Giving my final project a consistent flow and subtle changes could make my final project easy to view, to read and to understand. Embedding a little of attractive graphics could get my audience attention, and adding some videos and audio could enhance my audience experience.

Third Day

My word (FLUID) came to my mind a couple of times today. I first thought about it while designing a website for a client at work. They mentioned something about text flow of the website, and I thought of fluid. Another thing, I choked on my snack and I thought of fluid. Nothing too creative really, just normal stuff. :)

Day 2

Today I woke up, took a shower and look through the mirror and saw my word. I reminded myself to write down something that brings that word to my mind. While at work today, I was a little a bored so I took a stretch break and went online to see what's going on today in the news. Well, FLUID came to my mind when I saw what is going on in North Dakota. Record Flood.

Fluid: Day 1

Honestly, the FLUID didn't even come to my mind at all today. I've been thinking and stressing about looking for a new job. My current job blows. Yeah I like what I do, but with the economy like this, my hours has been cut drastically. I guess I should say, it's the Fluid of the economy.

FLUID in my pocket

and the Word is...

FLUID

March 23rd class

Today we went around the class to talk about our experiences with assignment that was given before the spring break. Unfortunately, after my last class the week before spring break, I decided that I will not check my email and/or look through oncourse, and caused me to missing the assignment. Beth decided that since a lot of the students couldn't turn in the assignment, to give us a chance to experience the randomness assignment.

After that, we spend the remaining of the time with a group to create something random and crazy.

March Ninth's Class

Today, Beth is sick so we get the time to do all our projects from different classes or basically do what we want for the rest of the afternoon. Im a bit stress out from all the assignments this week from different classes so I am going to spend my time and working on those assignments.

Thanks!

What if, final project.

If you read the previous post I decided to change my idea for Final Project. and here are 50 what ifs for that.....

What if I decided to use 50 pictures for the entire presentation?
What if I decided to use 1000 pictures for the project?
What if I do not use music for this project?
What if I don't have Photoshop to manipulate the images?
What if Adobe Premiere was harder to learn or use than I thought?
What if I create a slide show?
What if I use my friends voice for voice over?
What if the entire presentation is about 5 minutes?
What if I didn't have high resolution images?
What if the project didn't make sense?
What if I added the name of places on the pictures?
What if I added a map, showing the way we were heading?
What if I include a picture of my me and friends in the road trip instead of just scenery?
What if I have hard copy images that I wanted to use?
What if I desaturated the images?
What if my entire video is in black and white?
What if I don't use a voice over?
What if I use Bon Iver song as a background song?
What if I made half of the video in black and white and the other half in color?
What if I don't include the location of the images?
What if I ask my roommates for some ideas?
What if I create a story?
What if the story is not accurate?
What if What if instead of video I create it using flash?
What if I manipulate each images in photoshop?
What if the background music is louder than the voice overs?
What if I create a frame for the video?
What if I animate the car?
What if I created an image gallery instead?
What if I just talk about the images?
What if I use the music of MGMT?
What if it takes me a very long time to create this project?
What if I create a fun video?
What if I create a sentimental video?
What if I use a lot of bright colors?
What if the theme is not about the trip?
What if I use some unfocused images?
What if I scan some hard copies of the images?
What if put the project online?
What if put the project on a CD?
What if the project didn't turn out how I wanted to look?
What if I sync the images transition with the music?
What if I don't use any background music at all?
What if I use looping music?
What if the final file turn out to be an extremely big file?
What if the resolution is small?
What if my peers didn't like my idea?
What if my professor didn't like my idea?
What if my computer broke while working on this project?
What if my computer crash and lost all my files?

Final Project - change of idea

Originally my idea is to create my personal portfolio website integrating all the different types of media i've learn. I decided to change my final project idea when I tried to clean up my computer, and I realized I've taken so many pictures during my road trips without destination. I've never really seen the entire collection of pictures, so it gave me an idea to share the images and stories of the images to this class as a final project presentation.

Basically, I am going to collect images from the trip and kinda create an animatic version with some voice over comments as well as some background music, which hopefully will enhance the experience of my final presentation.

Another reason for this change of idea for final project is, I wanted to learn more using the video software that I am not quiet familiar with (Adobe Premiere), I hope this project will enhance my knowledge of the software.

March 2nd

Today I couldn't come to class due to my schedule,
I hope I didn't miss a lot today.

If you are reading this and you were class today,
please let me know what you guys did so I have an idea.
Thanks.

The Republic

Two semesters ago, I took a philosophy course and I remember talking about this particular subject. I could not completely understand the entire dialogue but I remember reading about this.

The Republic, is Plato most outstanding work from what I was told. The dialogue discusses and deals with questions of virtue, justice, wisdom, courage, and government.

Plato was student of Socrates and is heavily influenced by him and with his writings and ideas.
In this dialogue, he questions what is good and what is bad, what is moral and not, what one ought to do. This dialogue also explains Plato's concept of FORMS.