What is Graphic Design?

When you look at an image of just about anything it is graphic design.  Graphic design is a way people can use to express something like emotion or a hidden message. Graphic design affects your life more than you probably know it. If it is simply looking around town at buildings and their logos you experience graphic design in everyday life. Graphic Design even helps you decide what to wear if the clothing has a design on it. It could even influence what you buy at the grocery store. If there is a container that you like then you my be more enticed to buy it. Graphic design is different in everyones eyes to some you just see everyday colors and shapes but to others you see a deeper meaning and almost a bond with some designs.

Links: 

http://www.aiga.org/what-is-design/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTi5SNgxE3U

3 Sites, Then and Now

LoL 2015

League Of Legends Website

LoL 2011

The League of Legends site has improved a lot since its first release. Navigating is much easier due to the more organized structure of the pull down tabs. Due to the increase of people and the community it helped the website become better pretty quick. To me it is also more visually appealing than the old one as well.

In the 2015 website less code is used in order for the website to work. The Code is also more condensed in the 2015 compared to the 2011. It almost seems as if there is more code in the 2015 because it is condense because the older one is more spaced which i can assume that because of how HTML has changed this is why it is different like that.

LoL 2011

LoL 2015

Pokemon Website

The pokemon website is the oldest website I am looking at and it looks very different. First the original website was called Pokemon World which is different from what is now just Pokemon. The site now looks better to the eye and is not a yellow blob with a blue background. There are more tabs and they are more organized that in the older one.

Pokemon 2015

In the source code the older one uses lots of tables and td in the code compared to the new one that uses divs more. The new code also appeared a bit cleaner than the older one but they may just have to be with different HTML versions.

Pokemon 2015

Pokemon 1999

Pokemon 1999

Hearthpwn Website

Hearthpwn 2013

Hearthpwn is a fairly new website coinciding with the creation of a game called Hearthstone. The new website looks much cleaner and has a more organized look with different pull down tabs to easily access the website.It has a feature that can help people using it visually when looking at decks. It has joined the Curse community which gives the website a certain look to it and all the Curse things on it. The new website has probably become more than it was intended for but still staying the same as the older one.

Hearthpwn 2015

Hearthpwn 2013

Hearthpwn 2015

Since this is a newer website I found that most of the coding looked very similar but in the new one it seemed there was not long code but more of it. There was more links in the new one and because it has the curse look to it, it has the some of the same code as other websites that use the Curse Client

The Wayback Machine

The Purpose of the wayback machine was to allow ANYONE free access to anything that is stored on the internet. This can be used for whatever reasons. If you are researching something than it can be used for finding things on the internet that may not be there anymore. It can even be used fr a project like this comparing old to new websites. I know I enjoy just looking at how older websites and be amazed at how much they have changed and improved. It has thing other than websites as well suck as different texts, audio, images, and software.

e9 Final Post

The scope of the project was to come up with a product and create a commercial an animation and a website with various things on it. Before we just started making some of the things we had to do before that was storyboarding our commercial and sketching our logo. I learned how to better work with a team during this project.

Something I would do differently is I would touch up some of the graphics I made so that they looked better. Something I would do the same is that I was able to get everything done on time so trying to get everything done is something I would try to do. From this project  I would take my experience as working as a team because in some aspects it was easier to have a team but I always worried that someone might not get something done.

e9 Final Project Commercial

Sorry that there is about 2 minutes of black screen at the end I don't know why.

In this commercial we try to show a story of Mitch who is all alone drink Friends in a Bottle. It starts off with Mitch sitting alone and obtaining friends. Then Mitch spending time with his friends. It ends with a Testimony from Mitch and "his father" (Mr. Isles). The hardest part about this project was getting Mitch to not smile because in the beginning he was supposed to be sad and lonely. I have never done a commercial type thing like this before and I thought it was fun. one thing i did not like about this project is since this was our first rotation the video was harder to do because I feel that the commercial needs more preparing than the animation or Graphic design.I think that some of the shots could have been better because my group spent most of Thursday re-shooting shots that were messed up the first time.

The Interview

I thought that this quarter was very interesting. I learned about the 6 shot system and how it is used on a lot of different videos. I also learned thins like not to put wide shots next to each other and how to film a chase without camera movement. I also learned that when you are filming something can go wrong and you might have to retake a shot several times. I do not plan on doing anything else with video. Sometimes it can be fun but it is just something I am not really interested in. Another thing I learned is that working with people you really don't know well can be hard. Also I learned that when we did the interview project it could be hard to get a place that was quite enough so that there wasn't much sound from anything else. I had a lot of fun.

The Chase

I learned how to make it appear as though someone is being chased even though there is no camera movement involved. I will use this to apply more movement into my next project now that I know how to capture movement better in the shot. The collaboration was different because you had to make sure that both people in the chase were doing something at the same time and not at different times. I can improve collaboration on my next video by being more clear about what everyone needs to do and at what time. Basically I just need everyone to have good timing when doing a project like this because I need to make sure this person starts moving once the other person gets to a certain point. The reason I say these things is probably because I was the director for this project.

AB Sequence Video

I learned how to make transitions from one scene to another. I will use this in my next project to effectively show how someone goes from one place to another. I had to collaborate with my group because you have to be very specific with what you say. For example If I wanted Brendan to go faster or slower than I would have to tell him. I also figured out it is easier to get a close up of someone face when they are showing a face they would probably have and not posing for one.