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My Bloody Valentine 

This video made me the most uncomfortable of the three. The video is extremely white. I can barely see the people, except for the one guy wearing black. I can tell it was made in the 90s, because of the poor coloring and looking like some parts were at half speed. Most of the video was close-ups and some of the girl dancing and that just really made me uncomfortable. I also cannot tell what the lyrics are, it just sounds like moans.

Cocteau Twins 

This video invoked the same feeling as the My Bloody Valentine video. It contained the same type of close-ups only the video was much darker. Much like the My Bloody Valentine video, I cannot understand the lyrics.

Lush

This video has the same kind of weird close-ups but done in a better way. It has a lot more color, which I like, but there’s too much going on. It’s like it has two different feeds on the right and left sides of the screen, and there’s like a fire overlay and graphics being displayed in the background. Then there’s the lighting of those graphics. It’s just a crazy video, and the graphics made me think of Captain America, but only because of the star symbol.

 

All in all, they are old videos so the poor quality does not help them, but I did not like the videos. The Lush video was definitely the least bad of the three, but if I saw any of them I would probably turn it off.

Sequence Inkjet Print

I had a lot of issue with this printout and was unable to get my whole book to print. Only the first two odd pages would print, and the lab assistant at the time could not help me figure it out. In my document, I changed the position of the text on the back cover so that it feels more like an ending, I plan to make the text on the front and back cover a little larger.

Blog Post #11

Part 1

Robert Byrant – Bob talked about his life within games. I had heard this before in Bob’s History of Games class. Bob started as a QA tester and worked his way up, and this will probably be the way I get into the industry as well.

Alexandra Robinson – Alex showed her kid’s photos and at the end her recent work with morse code. I really liked all the morse code work she showed, it was very interesting.

Joe Vitone – I found Joe’s family photos very interesting. I really liked the story behind it all, and that there were people who appeared over multiple years.

Part 2

This semester went pretty well. I enjoyed this seminar. I thought it was good to talk to people about their work.

Blog Post #10

Part 1 

We had Nate and Anne from the team making the indie game Wyldermyth. Nate is their programmer and Anne is their artist. I knew the process for developing a game takes a really long, but they put into perspective how much longer it takes for an indie team to develop their game when they said something you expect to take 3 months could take about five times as long.

Part 2

Why did you begin working as a professor?

Blog Post #9

Part 1

Alejandro Ura – I liked Alejandro’s presentation and his story of his introduction to the gaming industry.

Anthony M. Zubia – I think Anthony’s designs used humor really well. He displayed important information in funny and attention grabbing ways.

Edith Valle – I really liked how Edith had a personal connection to her work. Her work frequently involved around her own culture and it resulted a lot of colorful work.

Part 2

Gameplay Engineer Intern

SXSW Exhibitions Intern

Rooster Teeth Video Editing Intern

Sequence – Nov. 6th

I plan for my book to be in landscape format. I’m going to be putting text on each page, and each line is a different line from multiple Twenty One Pilots songs that I put together to form a short story. Originally, my book was going to be about openness, but after putting the lyrics together I’m making it about hope. The story starts out grim and as pages turn the story turns out hopeful, that is why I decided to have the final page be the sun through the tree branch.

I do not know which of the three fonts to use, but I chose these fonts because I want to go with a handwritten look to make it look slightly like a handwritten letter. I also included examples of what the cover would look like with each font

The pictures in the contact sheet are in the order they would be in the book.

Blog Post #8

Part 1

I thought that Bill’s images were very interesting and liked how most had circles and used a sort of heat map. I liked how Kim conducted her work by actually becoming interested in what she was doing. I liked all of the work everyone has done, it was interesting to see the differences in everyone’s work.

Part 2

After college, I think I would get an entry level job in the game industry. This would most likely be QA testing. I’m not really sure what I actually will end up doing, but I currently would like it to involve video games.