Neel Color Wheel

This is my color wheel

What is Graphic Design?

From the video, I learned that graphic design is a way to convey who you are as a person and how to get inside people's minds with what you make. Covers for different products as well as what words work like affect what people see in the product. Learning how to attract people's attention with your message on what you've designed is essential to the idea of graphic design. I listen to a variety of music that have very interesting album covers that attract me to wanting to find out what this album could hold.  Graphic design also applies to me because I'm very interesting in both psychology and game design. Graphic design is essential to making video games. Video games need to be able to attract people's attention with what the gameplay looks like graphics-wise. If I ever design a game, I would have to know what people would be interested in looking at as well as how to attract people to the game with it's cover.

This cover art for the both short story and video game "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" applies to me since it's cover attracted me to buy the game to see what it was about. The cover was able to make me interested in what the author wants to convey and made me want to further explore what the game and story could hold.

Professional Article Review

"They loved your GPA, then they saw your Tweets" Review

The article "They loved your GPA, then they saw your Tweets" was about how students should be careful about what they post on social media. Some colleges look at students' social media to determine if they should be accepted into the college. Many students have been denied acceptance into colleges for what they have posted on social media.  

One of the things that surprised me in this article was the fact that some colleges keep a track of students' social media. I hadn't realized that colleges may be able to track their online media and even deny acceptance into their college for their posts. Another thing that I hadn't thought about was that some colleges may deny some students for false accusations if they find a social media account with the same name but not the same person. 

While reading the article, I was confused on why would some colleges think that looking at a student's social media account might lead to unfair treatment. Wouldn't colleges want to deny students that look like they'd be troublesome? Wouldn't it benefit them to accept only those that seem to behave appropriately? I was also confused on why some colleges don't think they should use a student's activity online as apart of their admission decisions. What if the student was threatening others or was very rude to people online? Without knowing what the student is like online, some colleges may accept very troublesome students that may hurt their reputation.

After reading this article, this does not at all impact my social media usage. I don't go on any social media, so I wouldn't have any problem with being denied by colleges for those reasons. This article did make me want to keep my ground and stay away from social media just as I have been. I do not plan to join any social media websites any time in the future. I still think that social media is a waste of time, but it is a good way to stay connected to others. Colleges shouldn't deny students for things they posted in the past or little inappropriate comments. They should only deny students if they have consistently shown online that they cannot control themselves and have a horrible attitude towards others. 

Dinosaur Chase Scene

The scope of my project was to create a dinosaur chase scene similar to one you would see in Jurassic Park. I wanted to make it suspenseful but a bit ridiculous at the same time. I decided to use a toy dinosaur in order to make the scene seem funny rather than intense.

The idea started with ideas being thrown around with my partner until we agreed on a dinosaur chase scene like one from Jurassic World. We then started working on a storyboard in order to get our ideas down. In order to express our ideas fully we explored the school and showed each other what we wanted rather than trying to tell them with words. When we agreed that I should be in the video, we started recording. Along the way we changed a couple shots in order to make the video make more sense. After all the shots were taken, I decided to add a couple different scenes in my video in order to spice it up. Editing took a while due to the different coloring and variety of scenes I had to organize as well as finding sound effects and music. Editing took a while, but I finally finished and published it after I saw what I wanted.

Along the way, I learned how to correct coloring between shots. Even though the coloring isn't perfect, to me it seemed the best I could do. I also learned that expressing ideas with partners isn't easy. We had to go around the school and show what we meant rather after we had trouble trying to express our ideas with words. Working with a partner is very beneficial since you get a variety of ideas between each other and can discuss and edit different ideas.

If I could do things differently, I would try to get closer shots of the dinosaur since it was very small. I had to zoom in on a couple shots which made them blurry. I would also try to get all my shots on one day and stick to those shots instead of thinking of more shots after a couple days or so. The continuity between a few shots wasn't exactly great.

If I had to do this again, I would still get as many close ups as well as wide shots as I did. I think I got a variety of shots that complemented the video. I would also keep how I edited the video seeing as how it flows well and edits parts where I may have faltered.

In later projects, I will keep the experience of being on-camera in order to enhance my video. I hadn't ever been on camera that frequently before. If I can learn from being on camera and apply that to future projects, it could further enhance the quality of the video acting-wise.

All in all, I really enjoyed both filming and acting in the chase scene. This video was very fun to make and I hope later projects could be just as enjoyable.