Final Blog

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Assignment: create a website about us and visual communications

We used I web to create our website.  We did a page about ourselves, and then a page highlighting our mashups and finally a page with our comics on it.

I made my pictures, some text, and a headline all hyperlinks linking to my blog or bigger versions of my pictures. 

I also added a link on my blog and in this post to my website so people can easily navigate back and forth. 

 

Assignment 12

Brittany Jones

Assignment: final comic

Craft: I made another box in order to have a box of a magnified view of the phone in the water, so that people could understand that he dropped his phone in his water.  I also added text boxes like captions.

Composition: People were having trouble understanding what was in the package, and what the point of the story was.

Concept:  This helped alot of people understand that the ups guys laziness ended in the death of someone, without the ups guy knowing it... It is infering that people should not be lazy and careless because we are not aware of all the consequences of our actions.

Week 12 blog

Assignment: Comic Life

Craft: I put my finished pictures into comic life and adjusted the background color, and the shapes of my rectangles.  

Composition:  I then added speech bubbles with text, and thought bubbles with thoughts.  Lastly I added expression statements such as splash and crash. 

Concept: The speech bubbles help the reader to understand what is going on, but I learned from our critique that I need to also add captions to give a better understanding of my point that I am trying to get across, which is we never know how our actions effect others. 

Week 10

Assignment: Comic color

Craft- By using layers and multiply we were able to use color over our pictures without covering the background details. 

Composition- I used a bright blue for the suit of my main business man character, a brown for the uniform of my UPS guy, and an orange that represented the cell phone which later became the package being sent.  This highlighted the 3 aspects we needed for our story/ the person bringing the package, the recipient, and the package

Concept- My concept is that the UPS guy is taking his time and goofing around not really worried about getting the packages out in a rush, while this laxidaisical quality of his results in a man crashing and not having a phone to call an ambulance and his inevitable death.  The irony is that the UPS guy does not know that he indirectly could have saved a man's life, and will never know the consequences of his actions.  It makes people think about how every thing they do can effect others in dramatic ways.

Week 7

Assignment:  Write a story including a traveler, someone waiting, and a package.

Concept: We go about our daily lives with our lazy habits not having any idea how our decisions effect other people.

Traveler: UPS man.

Waiter: Business man

Package: Cell Phone

Story:  A business man is impatiently waiting because his cell phone was broken and he was waiting for his replacement that he needed before he drove 20 hours for a business trip.  Unbeknownst to him, UPS is taking there time with the package, putting it off and thinking it is not that important.  Finally the day arrives for him to leave for the trip and he has no choice to do so without a cell phone.  As the man is driving at night of the first day, the UPS man is ringing his doorbell with the package in hand.   As this is happening the business man is startled and goes off into a ditch and down far into a forest and is trapped in his car.  The UPS man hops back in his truck and tosses the "unimportant" cell phone in the back, clueless that that cell phone could have saved the man dying in his cars life had it gotten there a little sooner.  He drives away whistling along to the radio as the business man says his last prayers and closes his eyes. 

Week 7

Assignment: Write a story that includes someone traveling, someone waiting, and a package. 

Concept: We go about our daily lives with lazy and laxidaisical 

Extra Credit

Assignment: go to Lincoln Birthday Exhibit

Alysha, Alex, a friend who is not in an art class, and I all attended the 200 pieces of Lincoln Art exhibit. We thought it would be a cool experience to see our pieces of artwork hanging in an exhibit and also to see the ideas others have come up with to represent Lincoln.

Although I was bummed that my piece of art was not hanging up here, I did see some other peices that I enjoyed.

My favorite Lincoln Piece was a lamp that i found in the back corner of the exhibit. I was very interesting because it was not hung on the wall but instead could be displayed as a piece of art and a piece of furniture for a room. I liked their use of different pictures to not only see Lincoln in one way but instead in many ways.

My least favorite Lincoln Piece was a poster of a collage of naked men with lincoln's head simply cut out and pasted over them. I thought it was tasteless and would love to talk to the creator and ask them why they did this. The craft of this piece wasn't even good it was childlike, and childish and I really did not like the way they portrayed this American icon.