Week 14- new webiste

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Assignment: Create an Iweb page about your projects and yourself

Craft: Iweb

Composition: After publishing my page last week, I went home and looked at it on my computer. I had some minor things to change. I created a new page for my photoshop projects. I touched upqasz my comic page. I added links to and from my blog and and Iweb page. Everything is finally up and running

Concept: Use Iweb to create a page about your projects in Art 100, Visual Communication. In addition, create a page that describes you

Week 13

Assignment: Create an Iweb page about ourselves and Visual Communications. Include our artwork and projects of the page

Craft: Use Iweb to create a webpage

Concept: Use a consistent theme throughout my webpage and truly manipulate the template to make it my own. Include info about myself and my projects. Make my page appealing and interesting as possible

Composition: I used Iweb and choose the "Free-style" template as my theme. I included my projects in from my class ART-100 Vis Comm. In addition, I loaded my comic life strip and pictures of myself, and my projects

Week 12

Image used in Iweb

Assignment: Finish Final draft of Comic/ start Iweb project.

Craft: Using photshop and comic life programs, finish a comic that portrays the story previously posted. / Use Iweb to make a page about myself and the visual communications class I am enrolled in. 

Composition: I changed colors to make my coming more appealing. / Use Iweb to tell facts about myself and what I do in this class.

Concept: Portray the story posted previously posted in a the form of a comic using photos that I photoshopped and "comic life" to create the story into a comic format / Use Iweb to tell a little bit about myself and this class

Week 11

Assignment: Create a Comic

Craft: Using photshop and comic life programs, design a comic that portrays the story previously posted.

Composition: After a Monday critique, I found that my comic needs a new color scheme that is more appealing to the eye. I decided to do a contrast of bright green and hot pink. Along with black and white slides, as well as a black background. This makes my comic POP more. I edited the ending slide to make it look like Vince is crying after his pregnant girlfriend is hit by a car. There are a few other colors that add info to my comic. I changed the format to better to make sure the story reads left to right. I also fixed a typo on page three. My comic is coming along nicely.

Concept: Portray the story posted previously posted in a the form of a comic using photos that I photoshopped and "comic life" to create the story into a comic format 

Week 10

Critique and continue working on my comic strip!

Assignment: Create a comic strip that accurately portray my story mentioned earlier with color thats at minimal 9 slides. 

Craft: Use photoshop and comic life to portray my story.

Concept: (Same as posted in week 9)

Composition: After a critique, I need some crop work to focus in on images. Color scheme is good and it focuses your eye on particular things in my story. I also need to add slides to better complete my concept of the story. I need to add a title page. One slide needs to be darker to bring out my models hair. If all is done, then story well be complete as well as portray my concept. 

Week 9

All week we critiqued our stories

Assignment: To have a draft of your story ready to be critiqued. 

Craft: Using photoshop, I made my make each slide look like a drawing. I adjusted the image into a chalk and charcoal scheme.

Composition: The feel of my story is dull with two twists. The package is that the woman is caring twins. The man is shocked and not excited about being a dad. The final twist is the women hits by a car. We can assume the man is no longer a dad and may have lost his girlfriend. My story accurately portrays these feelings. However, after critique I found that I need to place more words and hints to better show that the women is pregnant as well as returning from a trip. There is also some faces that need to be manipulated to better show the certain feelings I am trying to portray.

Concept: Portray a man and his girlfriend meeting after her travels. Show the woman is pregnant. Finally, show the women getting hit by a car

 

Special Edition: Lipstick & Dynamite

A showing of "Lipstick and Dynamite" was shown Tuesday at 1:15pm at Saint Xavier University.

The show was a documentary about Women Professional Wrestling focusing mostly on early Women Wrestlers. It was interesting seeing how women were portrayed back in the mid-twentieth century. Even in the ring, the women had to portray the lady-like image. Women Wrestlers were wearing dresses, had their hair fixed, and more while they wrestled in their matches. This is ironic because women were labeled as inferior, weak, belong in the kitchen, cook dinner, and take care of the kids while the men work. However, these women were the start of something big. These women did not follow the typically image. They were reinventing themselves. Some men called them "pigs" others had much respect for these women. Today, we see women wrestlers that look anything, but lady-like. If anything they look tough, but slutty. The image of women wrestlers have changed throughout the year. "The Great Moolah," was as some of the other ladies put it, "one tough broad." She was a women wrestling world champion for numerous years. She even eventually began managing other women wrestlers and training. She was a major competitor against Billy Wolfe, a women wrestler promoter. For the longest time, he ruled the sport. If you wanted to be big, then you had to go with Billy Wolfe. Billy seemed stereotypically manager. He took a giant percentage of the women's earnings, and even became sexually involved with many of them. This is because he had the power and used that to get what he wanted out of the women wrestlers. Eventually, "the Great Moolah" ran him into the ground. She even started the current WWF that we see on television today. Many of the women wrestlers back then got there start from being the "pusher" on a rollerball team or were recruited from the carnival. These women were not ordinary, they were much more. They were women wrestlers.

Week 8

Assignment: Take pictures that'll visually communicate our story posted in Week 7. Take those photos and story and transfer them into a comic strip art format.

Concept: Use the story posted in week 7 and make it into a comic strip art with 9-12 panels that'll effectively communicate my story.

Craft: Using photoshop, I'll create photo images and manipulate them into a comic strip art format.

Composition:I took a some photos of two friends. I took a lot of close up shots to capture their emotions because my story using a lot of emotion. In addition, I went around and took some action shots to portray the crash slide, where the woman gets hit by the car.

Week 7

Assignment: Create a story 

Concept: Based off of these three points create a story using your imagination.

1. One person waiting

2. One person traveling

3. One person has a package for the other

Gate 2

The man waited eagerly at Gate 2. It was a bright sunny winter morning. The man checked his watch it was 11:43am. He placed his hands back into his black leather jacket. Fifteen more minutes till her plan arrive.

The woman was listening to her ipod then noticed the fasten seat belt light went off. A smile came across the brunettes face as she took the ear plugs out of her ears and fastened her belt. The woman looked at her silver watch. It was 11:43am. The plane began its descent.

The man looked over his shoulder and seen an old man and old women in their electric wheel chair roll up. The old man yelled at his wife asking her if she remember to lock the door and turned off the oven when they left the house. The old woman replied, “What!” The man repeated himself followed by the old woman replying the same word. The man went back to checking his watch. People began walking down the main hall.

The woman got off the plan and grabbed her one carry on. She walked faster and faster as every second went by. She was looking up and noticed she was close to Gate 2. She continued walking faster. The excitement was flowing in her body. She saw her man. It has been two months since she saw him. “Hey,” she yelled. The man looked up. She began running and jumped into his arms. “Hey,” he replied slowly with excitement. “It’s been so long I missed you, she said. “Me to. I am happy to see you,” he stated.

The women reached into her bag. “I got you the leather jacket you wanted” The man eyes widened. “AWESOME!”

“I have a second surprise too.” The man’s eyebrows rose with curiosity. “I am pregnant. Were having twins,” she laughed with happiness as she jumped into his arms. The man didn’t move. He slowly hugged her back. “Oooo, cool,” he said. There was not much excitement. The man quickly smiled an attempt to save an argument next to the old loud woman and man due to his lack of excitement after hearing his woman was pregnant. He said, “This is so exciting, I am going to be a dad.”

“Yeah, you are. Let’s get to the car. I could use a shower” She began skipping ahead as he slowly walked. The exit door opened. She skipped out to the street then turned around at him while walking backwards. “It’s beautiful out. I love being back home,” she looked at him. “Come on, lighten up. Aren’t you,” a yellow Volkswagen beetle suddenly hit her.

The man’s face went blank and eyebrows rose. “OOOO,” he said softly as he ran to her.

Week 6

Assignment: Continued our 2nd Mash-up. Finish our final draft for after spring break.

Composition: Using photoshop, I cropped, copied, pasted, erased several photos of family members of Sarah Szafranski. I adjusted the brightness and contrasts of each person to make them stand out more. In addition, I took a larger image of Sarah and fading her face into the sky, giving her more divine feel to the image. I also added a cross to give the impression that Sarah had past away.

Concept: This a dedication to my friend, Sarah Szafranski, who was murdered at Lane Bryant last year. This image may focus on Sarah, but the photo is meant to show that life goes on and people can live through struggles/obstacles in life no matter how hard they may be. There is always hope somewhere. You will see this through the family members in the pictures. This photo will also touch upon the pointlessness of domestic violence and how much pain it can cause to not only one, but many. 

Week 5

Assignment: Start our second mash-up. Take 25 new photos and mashed them up similar to our previous assignment.

Craft: Use photoshop to digitally illustrate photos to create a new piece of art.

Compostion: I have taken several photos of friends. I will use these photos to mash them together. I have taken several other photos and use these photos to crop over those friends bodies like a t-shirt. In the end, the final piece will be a group of friends with cropped photos on them. The cropped t-shirt photos will be of symbols of events in their life the made them into the person they are today. In a way, this piece will show things that normally people couldn't tell from looking at.

Concept: This piece is meant to show people's insides in the form of a t-shirt. People will be able to see ones stories with a glance at what they are wearing.

Week 4

Assignment: Finish the final draft of my mash-up

Craft: Using photoshop I touched up my picture. I made Lincoln and Tads hair darker and face lighter. Their skin was touched up lighter to better fit there facial expressions. I played with the brightness. I made a shadow effect behind both Lincolns. Also, I tweaked their facial expressions to make them look like their both having a good time.

Compostion: I mashed three photos together. The picture of a younger Abe, Tad Lincoln, and two friends playing guitar hero create a great photo that shows the concept I was going for.

Concept: Like I said in week 3, Abe Lincoln looks so serious in all his photos, but when with his family I found little smirks. I wanted to show that Abe is a great family man and a good father. A good father would be seen doing things their son would do. In todays era, guitar hero is a big trend for teenagers. I named this picture "AbeHero" because Abe is an American Hero during the Civil War, a Hero as a father, and is playing guitar Hero.

Week 3

Assignment: Mash up a minimum of two photos selected from last week. One photo must be Lincoln era and another my this era.

Craft: In order to mash up these photos, the program "Photoshop" was used to complete this goal. I kept playing with different photos. I found on I like on a friend playing guitar hero, however, I decided to retake the shot, which I'll explain in composition. Also, via the Internet I acquired a photo of a younger Abe Lincoln and his youngest son, Tad.

Composition: I retook my gutiarhero shot. I decided to include another friend. Now there are two people playing guitar hero. They well be replaced by Abe and Tad Lincoln. I took the shot in a dorm room. All these elements help reflect my concept after what I was recommended to do after my first critique.

Concept: While finding photos of Abe, I noticed when Abe was with family his smile was different. Abe looks so serious and professional in his photos, but with family I see a smirk. The photo with Tad and Abe in unique because no matter how hard Abe tried to keep a serious face, you could see him smile at his boy. This leads me to think that Abe was a family man and a good father. This is what I will show in my photo.

Week 2

Assignment: Collect 25 Abraham Lincoln era photos and 25 current era photos taken by myself.

Craft: I collected Lincoln era photos through Google, wikipedia, and other websites. I found many pictures of Lincoln, a couple of photos from the Civil war, and one photo from Ford Theater where Lincoln was assassinated. I looked through my archives and found a few photos of I took of friends and family. My other photos came from residents around my dorm.

Composition: (Lincoln photo to the left) This is my favorite photo of Abraham Lincoln because it shows a lot of Lincoln and his sons personality. Most of Lincoln’s photos are of him looking serious. In this photo, Lincoln looks like he is trying to stay serious, but about to crack a smile or burst out in laughter. I feel like this photo shows what kind of father Lincoln was. The son looks like he is telling a joke or being sarcastic with “his pops.” Their father-son relationship looks strong, fun, and admirable. The Current Era photo is fun. There is a lot of activity. This photo shows a lot of friendship. One person likes to drink and the others just ignore him. However, the passed out friend is still part of the circle around the table.

Concept: I choose these photos because Lincolns facial features are very clear and Lincoln is smiling. This is a typical shot of Lincoln, but the other photo would make a good mix. Guitar Hero is big trend right now. The Guitar Hero commercial always have interesting celebrity sponsors and Lincoln would look good rockin; out to Guitar Hero. Lincoln would look very hip despite his old age and presidential status. This picture makes Lincoln look like he can relate to the young American generation.

Week1

Assignment: Set up blog

Craft: Step 1- found picture via facebook

Step 2- Create Blog

Step 3- Post picture and answer questions
Step 4- Publish completed Blog

Compostion: Why this photo? This is an exciting picture of myself. The picture shows my adventurous and risky behavior as well as my love to live life to the fullest.

Why this template? This template's dark background and bright lettering is appealing to the eye. Also, the template is simple to follow.

Concept(the idea): If I were in a soap box, what would you yell? "Take a risk and don't look back"