Week 15 Final Part II

Alex Barone

Craft: Using blogger, create a blog that grabs the viewers interest. Clean well formated design. This blog is easy to understand, striking, but without being overpowering. Composition: Black background with red, white, and blue lettering. The lettering stands out among the black background allowing for clear and visible words. Some other blogs the background overpowers the dialogue. The black also allows for a blank slate with which her images can be viewed. Concept: Lure people into viewing her blog and staying. To boldly grab attention and subtly direct it toward the image.

Mandy Schwanitz

Craft: Create a simple blog using blogger detailing the assignments covered throughout this semester. Composition: Plain white background, with a faded image at the top. Red black and blue lettering. Clean crisp well segmented Concept: This is a light companion to the art pieces created in class. It is a no frills bare-bones website designed to compliment and support. It is easy to look at which is important in a website. The only thing I wish there was more of were the artists pieces but they are linked onto the website so it works.

Week 15 Final

My Choices for Best Viscom Blogs

Chona Mangubat

Craft: She gathered twenty five Lincoln era pictures and twenty five modern era pictures to create a mashup. She the took Lincoln's head and layered it over the body of another person looking out onto Chicago. She then removed the color from the image. This was done in photoshop. Composition: This picture grabs my attention through the use of colors on the website. On the red background the image of a modern Lincoln pops. If this image as placed on any other color template it would not have the same effect. Art is not only how one makes a piece but how one displays said piece. Top marks. Concept: The modern Lincoln! I love how he is not looking into the city but staring out over the lake. For me it seems the lake is the same as it was in his time. For me the lake is a symbol of where we were and where we are going as a city and a nation. It seems apt that the modern Lincoln would gaze over it. He is gazing both into the past and into the future.

Zach Kekelik

Craft:
Used blogger and various applications to create the best laid out and engaging blog in the class.

Composition:
Bold colors that feed off one another, open light layout that pulls the viewer through, fun and creative images that capture the attention and make a viewer want to stay on your site.

Concept:
Create a fun and dynamic blog that would attract people to his artwork and display it in a inspired way. It kept me engaged the entire time I was on it.

Katie Dupree

Craft:

Used blogger to create an engaging website. Composition: Cool colors create a mellow backdrop which allow for the images on this site to pop. This is the only blog that uses this template. The blog could use more images. The comments about her pieces were very helpful and in-depth. The blog creator displays a solid knowledge of design. Concept: Create a blog that would enhance but not overshadow the artist's work. This blog is a nice compliment to the pieces.

Week 14-New Website

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Assignment:

We had to create and publish a new website for our art work!

Craft:

I used as plain black design as a background. This I feel makes my work stand out better than on a cluttered busy webpage.

Composition:

I placed each piece on its own page. That way the image is the center focus of the viewer.

Concept:

To complete a website for VisCom highlighting my artwork. Most everyone else in the class created busy webpages that look awesome but their work gets lost in the page. I wanted to create a plain webpage so that my work is at the forefront.

Week 13

Assignment:
To create a unique website using Iweb application in the computer lab.

Craft:
I got the first page done. The second page I was not able to complete. So my work was way below par.

Composition:
I chose the black background because this is an art website and as an artist you want your artwork to stand for themself. I wanted nothing to distract from my pieces as some of the more brightly colored templates would have done. I am attempting to make the site as plain and easy to navigate as possible because as more junk that gets added to a site, I have found the quicker it is for people to lose interest.

Concept:
I have conflicting intrests. For the class we are supposed to create a site that is an individual expression of our personallity but as a designer I want to make a site that is more distant yet clearer to understand and makes my work pop. To do that I need to make the site as plain as possible and mearly use the site as a frame for my work. I have the rest of the week to play with the site to figure out specifically what I want to accomplish with it.

Week 12

Last frame of Comic

Assignment:

Put the final touches on our comic.

Craft :

I added some dialogue to the last panel on the first page. I deleted the panel explaining my character waiting's actions since it just seemed to add confusion to the story and I couldn't find a way to make it work.

Composition:

I still like the green and red color. I feel that the paneling worked best the way it was originally. I tried to streamline the flow of the piece.

Concept:

Same as before. Girl gives a boy her heart. He breaks it. She still loves him anyway.

Week 11

Assignment- 

We had to create a comic strip using a program called comic life from the images we drew.

Craft-

Monday we had a critique. I am not really sure what to change. I had about half of the comments tell me they love it and the other half told me they didn't understand the story. They did not tell me what they didn't understand in the story though so I have no idea what needs to be fixed.

Concept-

A girl wraps her heart to give to a boy she likes. (The heart she wraps is patched because it has been broken in the past like most people's hearts have.) She travels to the boy's house to give him her present. He is waiting for her. She gives him the present and he is excited. He runs off to give her a present from him. He has a choice between his box(a mutual exchange of feelings) or a mallet which represent the destruction of the relationship. He choses the mallet and destroys her heart.

Composition

I am going to try and make my story more clear to the audience. I believe I will take out a scene which I believe adds to the confusion in the comic. I will add dialogue to the earlier scene to make the comic move more smoothly. I don't want to change it to much however because half the people liked it as is and to be honest so do I. 

Week 10

Assignment: 

 We have to show and work on our comic strip of one person traveling, one person waiting and the package for the other. Also had to find an example of a comic we liked online. 

Craft:  

My story is eleven frames long. It was determined by the group that I need to add more detail to the background on three scenes and to change the title scene. The colors I used were red,(female present) yellow,(male's present) and green( for the background). I found they stood out the best and worked for my story. 

Composition: 

Everyone understood my story. It flowed nicely. I do agree with needing more detail on the three scene's.  I liked my coloring but the audience wants more tonal change so I will have to add that also.  

Concept:  

The concept was to try and add the details to the story that were missing from my rough draft. I believe I succeeded in that. Everyone understood what was going on and why  I choose the colors I did for the story. I am going to take the groups advice and follow through on adding more detail and tonal changes in color.