Hi Everyone! For this week's assignment I completed the Word Portraits Exercise and Activity #2 on p.56 in White Space. I created screencasts for my work in both activities. I hope you enjoy them!
Here is my Word Portrait Assignment:
Here is my White Space Activity with Photographs from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. I apologize for not shutting the screencast off in time at the end!
Hi Jess,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your taking the time to explain the assignment in detail for those who chose an alternative task to complete. I'm glad you articulated your thought process in deciding whether or not to have music accompany your slides -- it definitely helps the viewer to place themselves in your shoes as you were making design decisions! I particularly liked your Tall Pall and Australian Sunrise font selections, as we don't see them utilized very often in texts. I agree with your discussion about how the opposite descriptors work in some cases with each font. I REALLY liked this exercise because of the way it makes you think about text. Even the way the assignment is described...Giving "voice" to "characters" -- characters meaning the individual letters, but personifying them with the voice quality really makes you think about how powerful text can be!
In your second video, I completely agree that the badminton birdie in the foreground is a STRONG focal point and certainly provides an excellent example of contrast, in all of the various ways you articulated. You did a great job of detailing the ways in which the shot illustrates movement, perspective, and alternating viewpoints on unity as well.
I found it interesting that in the second photograph you discussed, that this dual-shot view of Mrs. Kendall was reminiscent of the first Mini Art School blog assignment where you were required to cut a portion of the piece to alter the view/redesign the picture.*** I agree that the picture definitely illustrates a variety of textures, even in the case of the borders of the shot.
***I actually commented on your video AS I was watching it, and I found it interesting that you hadn't noticed the variation in the two photographs until the end of your discussion about them, since I actually thought in part that you selected this piece because it was two different views of the same image!
For the final pyramid image, the reflection aspect of the shot was extremely powerful in my opinion, emphasizing the horizon line, illustrating balance, and magnifying the piece as well. I really liked your point about the image taking the focus off of the people, illustrating the impermanence of humankind -- GREAT sentiment!
Well done!