Portfolio Website
http://allykarasik.wix.com/akarasik
I made a website that presents an interactive version of my resume
Final Video Project
This is my final video project. For this project I used Adobe Premiere and took interviews of students at Furman University and also students from other universities about their TV watching habits specifically highlighting the wide spread use of instant TV and how it has become a norm in the lives of Americans.
Billboard Design
Billboard Design 101
One of the best ways to make almost anything easier to grasp in a hurry is to follow already existing conventions for example the stop sign. All around the world they are shaped the same way and no matter what the language written on the sign is in everyone will know what it mean. Also then comes the color. Stop lights are all red, so are stop signs, off buttons, do not enter, pretty much to stop doing anything is the color red, making it easier for people all around the world to understand what is meant by that symbol.
Don’t Make Me Think
“Don’t make me think” Krug’s first law of usability. This means that when a user goes to open a page there should not be any questioning involved, everything available to the user should be self explanatory. The essence of this rule is just to eliminate the question marks, as the creator you should take into consideration all of the questions a user might ask and make all functions on the website or app applicable so that the user is never confused as to what to do next or how to do what they got on the site to accomplish in the first place.
The Aesthetics of Editing
Editing is a very important aspect of all kinds of videos and is very straightforward to learn. Anybody can edit footage and images to make videos, and it just takes time and practice to make all kinds of videos.
Some things to keep in mind:
Finding Vectors in my Classmates Slideshows
These are some pictures that I took out of classmates slideshow project that utilize vectors to help convey meaning in their respective slideshows.
In the first photo the lines on the ground create a good z vector giving the photo a lot of dimension and the appearance of being in 3-D.
http://homeawayfromhomebyval.wordpress.com/2014/11/16/furman-womens-golf-slideshow/
In this photo there is a motion veto portraying movement throughout the photo taken downtown Greenville.
Slideshow Project
This is my slide show project. With this I am highlighting the dependency and frequency that instant TV is used in our daily lives. I start out with pictures in black and white before screen were there to distract us. First we hang out with friends and play cards, read, sip coffee on the porch, and play games. This it transitions to color and all we do is stare at screen and get the answers that we want instantly. Through the morning news, using youtube to facilitate understanding in the classroom, watching Netflix with friends on Friday night, watching recorded TV, using Hulu as a study break, watching sports live even when you aren’t near your home teams broadcasting area, youtube for homework help, HBO GO etc. I also included a pic of how now how TV is interactive and included the live tweeting hashtag for the Shonda Rhimes shows on Thursday nights, also buying TV, music and movies instantly on iTunes.
Forces Within a Screen
The Two Dimensional Field: Forces Within the Screen
When looking and analyzing pictures there are 6 major types of field forces that the artist had in mind when taking the picture and something that is interesting to have in mind when looking at photographs. To find examples from real life I went to my favorite Instagram page and looked at some of the pictures keeping these field forces in mind.
Ads
Viewers Make Meaning
Advertisements
Going into advertising after I graduate has always been an options I have kept open. The advertising industry intrigues me quite a bit. I high school one of my favorite class if not my favorite class was psychology. I decided that psychology specifically was not what I really wasn’t to concentrate my studies on in college but I still think that it is very relevant when discussing most other fields of study, for example, advertising. The company/people constructing the ad have to get into the heads of the consumers and figure out what will have the most impact on the general population. In this chapter article it elaborates on this ins and out of advertising and ways that advertising seeks to interpellate viewer-consumers in constructing them with in the “you of that ad.”
An Image is Worth 1,000 Words
Images, Power and Politics
Looking is what gives humans the ability to interpret the world. The world is so strongly organized around visual and spatial cues and meanwhile the culture we live in is increasingly permeated by visual images with a variety of purposes and intended effects. Sturken & Cartwright in the book chapter “Images Power and Politics” that images can be used very effectively to portray devastating aspects of violence through a sense of voyeurism and fascination with the violence. In a sophomore year film class I learned about Laura Mulvey’s theories surrounding the male gaze and voyeurism within film and we are revisiting with idea in this semesters Media Criticism film class. Mulvey uses the already established studies of Freud and Lacan concepts of the “political weapon.” She argues that the typical narrative used in Hollywood films, namely classical Hollywood cinema, inevitable positions the audience or the spectator in a masculine point of view, with the women on the screen as the subject of desire and the “male gaze.” The women were cast in films to be the object of the male gaze referred to as to-be-looked-at-ness.
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