Final Movie

sound

After completing this project, I became much more aware of sound. I now hear it it in places I never noticed before. While watching tv the other day, I noticed the choice of background music they were using to enhance tension, even though the tv show was a reality one. Before this exercise, I had never really given sound a chance, because I am not a musically inclined person. It is refreshing to know that sound does not have to relate to only musical instruments, or those with a good sense of rhythm (not me!) I liked being able to create sound out of everyday objects, and still have it work to create mood in an animated piece.

The project where we swapped sounds in class was very helpful. It is interesting to see how random pieces will still sync up to your images. This helped me realize points in my animation where I could work at making the sound sync up and add more depth. I also noticed the use of a steady beat in two of the works (both the male members of the class!) and the importance of using a variety of sounds.

My challenges for this project were finding sounds that would work with the mood of my piece. Some sounded too happy, and others were too machine sounding. I think that in my piece I made use of background mood, selective sync, object movement, and allusion. A flower dying would not normally have sound, but it was added to emphasize the pain and sadness it would experience.

sound!

More Connotative Images

The story has taken a turn! Before the flower dies a lonely death, it is seperated from its family, and can only view them from a distance. These new connotative images depict the point of view of the flower, as it is ripped from its home, and can only stare from a distance at where it longs to be. Oh the heartache!

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not...

The narrative that I will be doing will be of a flower (Zinnia) that slowly loses its petals. The petals float down to the ground, while the flower hangs its head, and writhes in pain. You can sense the despair the flower feels, as it loses itself. 

Digital Design

The new blogs will be in reference to the class Digital Design.

articles week 6

How Green is Your Brand? - Allison Arieff

The blog discusses what the author learned at a sustainability conference.

Main points include: 

-It was refreshing to see companies such as Dow Chemical invited, because it shows that they are willing to think progressively, and the audience is broad.  They are paying attention to packaging, distribution, and authenticity. 

-Consumers make decisions based on price and convenience. 

-companies, however, still use "Greenwashing" and jump on the marketing bandwagon without actually offering ecofriendly products. 

-Making more stuff, no matter how green, will not reduce global warming or the carbon footprint. We have to consider behavior and innovation. 

-Water as example - In San Francisco, rather than promoting plastic water bottles, a thesis project of a student, offered the solution of installing public drinking fountains (none were previously available outside of parks and buildings.) San Francisco has excellent tap water, and this was a better way to deliver it to the consumer.

The Good Design Plan - Mark Vanderbeeken

good design = sustainable design

1. business and public service innovation

2. public and community service innovation

3. design skills development

4. design policy and promotion

5. organizational and operational efficiency

Cuil Search Engine - Colin Barras

Former Google employees have a new search engine. Claims that it is bigger than Google, and that it ranks its content not by popularity, but by content. Also says that it does not use user IP information, so there is more privacy. 

Web Filtering Moves to the Cloud - Brad Stone

Companies can hire Web filtering and security that works on the cloud to prevent or limit employees from looking at sites like You Tube and Facebook. Relieves companies or costly burden of managing it on their own, and intercepts inbound and outbound http traffic. Gives reports on traffic - which departments are spending the most time on social networks. 

They say they don't want to stop Web 2.0, but to manage access because all day access is not good.