December 2011
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Client Project Reflection
I think a lot of us found the client project to be an experience much different from anything we’d done before. There weren’t really any set guidelines on what we’d produce or how we’d produce it. We were able to develop our own projects under the umbrella of the larger project. Obviously, this was a learning experience for all of us, and there were plenty of kinks along...
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Painting Story Production Notes
Working on the painting to life film was a different experience for me than the genre film. On the genre film, I was much more involved in pre-production, specifically writing the story and developing the concept. This time, because we each wrote our own stories, I had no part in coming up with the one we settled on, so I had to assume other, more technical responsibilities, which were more...
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October 2011
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Photo Essay Production Report
Though we took the photographs independently, the experience of the photo essay was quite collaborative in nature. Taking advantage of the technology available to us, we kept in constant communication and worked in innovative ways to come to a consensus as a group. At essentially every step along the way, the entire group had a hand in making the decisions, from the word chosen to how it was...
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Pulitzer Photo Analysis
Immediately, Stanley J. Forman’s “Fire at Malborough Street” elicits a visceral response absent of any real or perceived context. We aren’t sure exactly what has happened in the picture, and the face of the child does little to help. It is unclear whether this is a moment of terror or elation; whether the people are in danger or not. Still, the photograph is appealing not...
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Photo Essay Critical Analysis
The photograph of carrots is notable for its use of contrast, symmetry, and repetition. The dark, saturated orange and green of the carrots almost violently pop out from the flat white background. This contrast highlights the colors of the carrots in a way that makes them appear more bold and graphic than they would have had they been forced to compete with other objects for attention. Though...
September 2011
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Ad Analysis
The Pantene advertisement I chose is remarkable for its simplicity. It employs somewhat of a minimalistic approach, attracting attention by requiring very little of it. Perhaps the design element it uses most notably, then, is positive and negative space. As Robin Williams puts it in The Non-Designer’s Design Book, paying for less when you could be getting more is a seemingly...