Professional Article Review: Creative Anarchy at Its Very Best

This article was about what it takes to embrace creative anarchy.  It explains that rules are meant to be broken but you have to know them first.  Also, that there are many problems that occur in design but the thing is that there are even more solutions to them.  Finally, the article explains that it's okay to take risks and divert from the conformism of others. In this article, the author Denise Bosler tries to explain that it's okay, and many times needed, to break the rules.

Design has many different components that make it as creative as possible.  One of these being rules which are needed in order for us to be able to do what we need to.  While they are very important to help us stay on track, it also is important to break them at some points.  They provide guidelines and basic information to make creative pieces but also can block us from being truly creative in our own ways.  Design is something that needs to be pushed and so does our own creativity.

This is especially true when there are problems with the pieces you're trying to create.  "Every design problem has multiple solutions," as said by Denise Bosler.  Even problems need to happen in order to succeed.  Design does not have shortcuts; it's either do it fully or not at all.  No matter what happens, we will always be learning new things whether they be new ideas we come up with, new solutions to a problem, new techniques, or new rules.  There is no way to escape rules, but there are many ways to break them.  The key is to break them but in  a way that it will benefit you instead of hurting you.

Denise did a great job about supporting her key ideas with a lot of detailed evidence.  She also used good examples in order to further her opinion about what she believes is needed to be a successful designer.  She could've worked on using less words but just as much detail to explain her main point so that it wasn't as confusing as she made it seem.

Professional Article Review

This past Thursday in Roseburg, Oregon a gunman opened fire which killed at least nine and wounded at least seven at Umpqua Community College.  One student was live tweeting about the travesty while it was occurring.  Kayla Marie tweeted "Omg there's someone shooting on campus," at 12:41.  This caused many reporters and TV producers to attempt to get into contact with Kayla to get as much information on the shooting as possible.  While reporters were trying to interview her, some journalists considered the consequences of their actions and one even thought of them as "Absolute human vultures."

The author of this article is trying to say that journalists can be rude when attempting to interview others.  They show this by including quotes, pictures, and videos of the president, bystanders, and people who were affected by the event.  The author is very good at explaining the travesty and quotes that are included.  They aren't very good at getting to the point as much as explaining it however. Their conclusions are that reporters and journalists can be evil when it comes to interviewing and getting information on important news.

This article explains the points the author is trying to convey very well by using exact tweets by Kayla Marie and Emmanuelle Saliba, quotes by other reporters from various news stations, and also pictures taken at the scene.  The evidence convinced me that reporters can be conniving and rude when trying to interview others.  The applications are the photographs taken and the speech recorded Barck Obama gave to the college.  Overall, this article was put together very well to get the point across about reporters.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/vultures-or-reporters-after-shooting-witnesses-hit-with-media-requests/2015/10/01/c7c53a86-6871-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html

Audio Interview

This video is an interview I did with Will Vestal about a knee injury he had wand how it affected him playing baseball.  It was really interesting to do an interview without video because it really helps you focus more on the actual story itself instead of thinking about getting the shots exactly how you want them.  Some things I learned were how to create a cover so that you couldn't see the actual video, also how to adjust the volume levels so that they're in between -6 and -12.  Another task I was taught was how to key word your videos so that you know where they need to go in the story and what content is in the video.  Some things I would change were the soundbites of him answering my questions.  I would've had him restate the question so that it would be more useful in the video.

Ceiling Tiles: Patterns and Motifs

There were many problems I had with my motif.  Some of these were sizing; figuring out how to get the proportions right between the different circles and the inside squares.  Also, getting the size exactly how I want it and fitting it perfectly in between other shapes was very hard.  Some ways that I figured out how to fix these problems were using the shift key, showing the grid and ruler, and also using the snap to grid effect. It was really cool to be able to use my own creativity along with ideas I saw from henna tattoos.  That's where I got most of my inspiration because henna tattoos are so unique and each one is different so that's how I decided to use the type of pattern I did.

Basic Procedures

This is a video we did in A/V about the correct ways to do basic procedures here at ONW High School.  The video above, particularly, shows what you need to do if you are late to your first hour class.  I hope this is informational and can help new students know what do to and where to go in case they are late to school.

Professional Project Review

This past week in class, we have been focusing on making professional videos.  So to help us understand the concept of a professional video, we were to watch a video called Michaela.
https://youtu.be/7DyjEYbz8gg
This video was about an average teenage girl who has an interest in weightlifting.  The video shows all different types of shots during practice with her dad and also a competition she went to.  Throughout the video, however, the two main shots that appeared most were close-ups of the face and also extra-wide shots.  The close-ups showed us emotions and specific details of her method of lifting which is very informational during s professional video.  Wide and extra-wide shots help create the environment where the lifting is happening and also tells you who is in the scene.

If I were to change anything in from this video as if it were my own, instead of using as many close-ups and wide shots, I would've split them up between the others or at least not used as many.  If I were to keep things the same, however, I definitely would've used the sequence of shots that were used during the video.  Some things I can use in my own projects are to not use too many of some shots but also to make sure that I spread them out without using one after the other.  I can also use the idea of the shots like the close-up of the feet/hands while she's lifting and getting her grip.

There were many good things and also many not so good things that can help me in future projects down the road.  Overall, though, the video was very helpful and had a lot of information we can use during out projects.

The Beginning

Basics

This past week in Graphic Design we've been learning how to get back into the norm so we made a pencil.  After we made a plain and simple pencil (with matching can) we made a personalized version of it.  On my pencil I used my favorite colors; mint and grey, then for my can I used a fun and colorful.

New

Once we created our own pencil and can we were told to create something new.  What I did for my new object was tissue boxes.  I made abstract shapes and patterns to help myself get used to illustrator again.  It was really interesting to see how much I remembered from last year and to already be learning new things.

Some new things I learned are how to use the pencil tool, how to use patterns instead of colors, and also how to use the paint bucket tool to fill in shapes.  I really liked to use my imagination to create something completely out of nothing.

Reflection

If I were to change anything in this project I would've tried to make a shadow on some of my objects and also made my boxes look more 3D and a little bit more abstract and distinct from the others.