1) Where are you in your hours that you declared earlier in the semester? Looking at your work now, are your current accumulated hours enough?
I don’t think I wrote a specific number of hours that I was supposed to get to this semester. Maybe I didn’t fully understand the assignment, or I spent too much time talking about what the whole thing meant. Either way, I don’t think my current hours are enough. I have begun to start more creative projects on the side recently so that is a plus. It’s important to do creative projects on my own, especially when I only have one creative class this semester.
2) Has your definition of “sophisticated” work changed from last year? If so, how so? Can you visually document it on the blog entry what is sophisticated in your Power Report?
My definition of sophisticated graphic design work has changed this semester to include motion. Motion is a very important aspect to graphic design, yet it’s often overlooked. Now, it’s easier for me to notice the quality of motion in videos or other web content because I have a better understanding of how it is made. Not only is it is much easier to critique things that I see out in the world because I have a better understanding of how typographic choices and systems work together in movement, but I can also appreciate good examples of it more and be inspired by them.
In this example, I moved the text as a system. It is moved in easily-digestible parts, the motion is eased in/out and blurred, and the placement makes sense in relation to the other text. After I learned how to make all of these conscious choices, it became easier to understand and be inspired by graphic design in motion that I see out in the world.
3) Describe how the new things you’ve learned so far connect to what you already had known coming into the semester.
The things that I have learned this semester in After Effects connect to my existing knowledge of video editing. I love editing videos, but I never understood or even gave After Effects a try. I just stuck with Sony Vegas or Premiere Pro when adding/editing text into videos. I think this knowledge is useful because it allows me to utilize more advanced techniques with text in videos and gives me the confidence to try out more visually complex ideas with text in videos.
4) What are somethings you are still unsure about in this project that you would like to know more about?
Where I am right now, there isn’t really anything that I am unsure of. During the process, I was really unsure of how I wanted to arrange the information in both the hierarchy section and the time section. After being stuck for a while I finally came up with something after just sitting down and making myself work on it. The only thing I’m wondering now, is how I can make it more visually interesting or complex. Should I try some more complex transition techniques? I don’t know. I think it’s fine being clean and simple like it is, but I still want to make it look a bit more impressive.
5) Assign a level of value to this project. Identify two favorite projects in your creative life and place this Power Report project relative to them. How close or far are they from one another? What qualities did each project have that the other’s didn’t, that would rate them higher/lower? If this project rated low, did that mean you could have spent more time on it? What did you spend your time on?
Instead of discussing my two favorite projects, I’m going to discuss the two projects that I found to be most relevant to this one. The length of this project draws similarities to my logo making project in Studio 1 and my brand-making project in Studio 2. Both of those projects were very long, and I didn’t have very much prior knowledge on the process of making those types of things, similarly to my current project– the LATCH Power Report project. If I were to assign values to these projects, I would put this one in the middle of the two. It is below the logo making project, because I believe that logo making is SUPER essential to understanding graphic design. It’s one of the most important and easily noticed things that graphic designers make– so it’s super important to understand the process of making one. However, I place the brand making project below the LATCH Power Report because for the amount of time I had to do that one, I could have gotten a lot more out of it. Out of the three projects, I think I worked the hardest on this one, but it’s value resides in the middle of the two because it’s such a specific skill to spend such a large amount of time on. It’s not as broadly useful as the other two, but I am at least more proud of my work on the LATCH Power Report than the brand-making project.
6) Break down the percentages of what entities are responsible for creating growth within the creative you. Am I part of it? Part of it is on you, right? Do you consider your classmates/friends as influencers on the course of your trajectory for success? At the end of the semester you will be evaluating me, but right now within your own pie piece, how much have you brought to the game? How did it end up that you brought that much?
50%- Myself
35%- Instructor
15%- Other students
I am responsible for most of my growth because it’s super important how I choose to take in the input from my Instructors and fellow students. Some people can receive lots of creative criticism and do nothing about it. The instructors of my classes have a larger impact on me than the students, because I take the Instructor’s comments to be more personally while I use the other students work around me to gauge where I am and where I need to be.
7) Ask me or express something, you feel like you can’t in class or even my office: tunarice.tumblr.com/ask
I was going to ask this a while ago, but I figured that it was too late and not relevant anymore. On the assignment that we did before the power report, I got kind of behind on it because I had to do a lot of traveling that week. Due to this, my projects weren’t really uploaded on box on the critique days. Is this going to affect my grade in the class? Can I go back and add them now or improve them?