Critical Photo Essay

The video I created was for the purpose to explain a little bit about typography. Throughout this class I have really come to appreciate design and especially font design. How is possible that one font, like helvetica, could change a generation like it did? How did someone come up with idea to make language look so good? All these questions I have been thinking about through this class and I hope it motivates us all to think about it when we see fonts. Because those fonts were designed for a specific purpose. I urge everyone to find a font that they like personally and discover why it was created. It might express certain things in your own personality that you did not know. I know I really enjoy helvetica because it is simple a sleek. After watching the documentary I was really impressed by the science that goes behind font design. Look into it! I hope you enjoy the film, it was fun making it! 

Critical Essay Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNVdcTyfxAs&feature=youtu.be

Nice Comments Only Please

There is a reason that when I post videos on youtube and vimeo that I make it impossible for others to leave a comment. People are mean! I feel bad for movie stars, music artists and athletes because the comments left under their videos could make an adult man cry. I blame Simon Powell from American Idol. The second he started trash talking the kids on live tv and making people laugh the world started leaving ridiculous comments! I completely agree with the articles when they say,"It is a practice which must be completely stopped. Every article, even in a newspaper, should be accompanied by the name of its author; and the editor should be made strictly responsible for the accuracy of the signature." People would not be so nasty if they had to post their names on it! 


So many TED videos! I LOVE them! I thoroughly enjoyed Anderson's and Pariser's TEDtalks, they were so insightful. It is so true the "Crowd Accelerated Innovation" idea. He describes it as" a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print!" Wow so true. Dude I love youtube videos. I have been taught to do so many things from just watching them. This is embarrassing but I just got a new waitressing job and I super suck at balancing the tray so I youtubed better ways to hold trays! I could not have lived without all this world-wide-web knowledge like my mother did! You can truly learn anything because of the web. Pariser's talk also blew me away but in a scary way. How crazy is it that Google can monitor everything you search and then modify your searches when you go on next. Ahhh, I feel like I have no privacy now. I want to try it though. I am going to google Egypt and have my friend do it too to see our results. Mine would probably be the ones on vacations, I am kind of shallow that way! 


Funniest quote of the day: "How to Write a Poem Like Walt Whitman...Think about an event or experience you are passionate about or brings about a lot of emotion...Your best writing will come from events, experiences and knowledge you are passionate about."–You don't say. Bahahahaha this is so true. You can eHow how to make a pbj sandwhich or how to tie your shoe. The stuff people are eHowing is ridiculous! These things called Content Farms are killing us and yes they are making Google look like trash. 


Overral, this week on Network Argument and Invention was great. I was blown away by how much the internet really does affect our day to day lives. That people need to take credit for their mean comments, that content farms and google need to stop stalking me and that youtube needs to put out more videos! 


Watch this video for laughs about Tina Fey yelling at all her mean commenters, hilarious...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4bFDgMUj7I

Surface Reader

            I always kind of thought I was a skimmer until I read Sosnoski, and that alone made me feel guilty. But now I have discovered I peck! So so wrong. I have robbed so many writers of the structure and coherence they have tried to create! By me jumping around the text I have created something completely new. Which is crazy to think about! I am ashamed to be a surface reader! Just had to confess that. So this weeks articles were amazing. My mind right now feels like mush. After reading the McCloud comic/articles I feel like I have been living 22 years without noticing things.  Somehow I have been creating voices in my head without even noticing. Like the guy who is narrating the comic, I gave him a distinct voice in my head. This is messing with my mind. Because how many other times have done that and how much power does it have to manipulate my thoughts and actions? Also now I am going to play this game where I draw a picture of something and ask people want it is. Like a picture of a leaf. The Icon game. It’s a leaf> no> it’s a picture of a leaf> no> it’s a drawing of a picture of a leaf. This game could go on forever! But it shows you just how effective visual pictures are in communicating.

When it comes to multimodal texts I have learned so much! The artist is trying to convey some form of meaning to the audience. By no means do I believe you must have multiple modes to entertain but I do think it helps. In so many of my classmates videos, when they combined a song to their photographs, there was so much more meaning. For example, in Sarah’s project the photos but the music conveyed to me how much she adored those children. Maybe I could of picked on it by the cute photos she chose but adding the music made me actually feel it. The same goes for Carson’s project. If the music would not have been there I probably would have thought elmo was going to kill that gear haha. But through the texts, video angles and music I knew he was in love! Very clever video by the way. Now Sam’s video made me think about the McCloud comic and the voice in my head. When you the text a whitty Canadian voice is created and you don’t know how it happened. But a job well done in capturing my focus. By the way I am half Canadian so I feel ya! In Molly’s video I could totally understand the poem and how much she appreciated it. She did a great job combining the music, video and texts to make she appreciate too. If I would have just been reading the poem in a book never would I have felt it like I did watching her video. Then last but not least Kara’s video. I must confess at first I was like, “Oh, these must be stars she likes.” But then after reading the obituaries at the end I could see she was complimenting her friends for living well even though it was short. It was a great way to really capture your audience at the end, making them feel what you were feeling!

To be effective in communicating to an audience use multimodal texts, it really does work to convey our emotions so much more. In my own personal video I just wanted to show how much I loved Bozeman. So I composed music, video and a little bit of text. I wanted to see what would happen if I added color filters and unique editing techniques and coregraph the music and video together how the audience would feel. Would they think about their favorite locations in Bozeman or would they remember how great this city was. Overrall I am very impressed with my classmates editing abilities. I got what you were all trying to say! Great job! 

A/V Project