After studying a few Norman Rockwell paintings and seeing how he can tell full stories with just one picture that has a ton of detail, I wanted to try it out myself. I was challenged with taking 10 different/separate photos that I took and composite them together into one picture that told a story. SinceContinue reading “Visual Communication: Composition”
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Visual Design Basics: Abstract Art
Creating art isn’t just the use of random lines and shapes of all different kinds of color and size on a random canvas and calling it a day. There’s thought that goes into every little detail. What’s the focal point? What are my leading lines? What do I want in my background that will helpContinue reading “Visual Design Basics: Abstract Art”
The Boy Band Breakdown: Final Touches Before Upload
I can finally say that the videos are finished! I’ve uploaded them to Youtube with their completed thumbnails and polished video descriptions. This final week was definitely a push to finish. The projects at work picked up due to the upcoming holidays and felt most of my time slipping away that I wanted to useContinue reading “The Boy Band Breakdown: Final Touches Before Upload”
The Boy Band Breakdown: Final Hours of Post Production
It’s down to the wire, on this project I have one week left and have almost completed all of it. This past week I finished designing and animating all of my graphics and added into each of their corresponding projects. I also finished cutting down each 40 minute interview into the best few minutes ofContinue reading “The Boy Band Breakdown: Final Hours of Post Production”
The Boy Band Breakdown: Animating My Designs
These past 2 weeks have really been a great progress time for the series and for me as a creative person with in the project. I was able to fully record my narration and get a handle on the length of each video. Then I went in and designed my 3 separate thumbnails which helpedContinue reading “The Boy Band Breakdown: Animating My Designs”
The Boy Band Breakdown: Interviews & Production
Week 4 for this project brought interesting challenges even more interesting solutions. My goal for week 4 was to get all of pre-production finished, conduct the interviews that I had scheduled and film my intro and outro segments for each episode on camera. I knew when first planning this project out in Asana that postContinue reading “The Boy Band Breakdown: Interviews & Production”
The Boy Band Breakdown: Pre-Production & Writing
It’s week 3 of this project and I dove head first into planning, scheduling, more research and officially writing out the episodes. The process is always one of the hardest for me. My mind has a thousand ideas all flowing at the same time, but actually putting my fingers to the keyboard or pen toContinue reading “The Boy Band Breakdown: Pre-Production & Writing”
Planning Ahead for “The Boy Band Breakdown”
Once you have a project idea picked out and a creative direction planned, typically you want to jump right in. Creative minded people usually want to jump head in and start creating things, but very often don’t have a well thought out plan and that’s when things tend to get off track. “Apparently, people whoContinue reading “Planning Ahead for “The Boy Band Breakdown””
Exploring the Evolution and Psychology of Boy Bands
Ever since I was little I have been fascinated with music. It has gotten me through some of the worst moments in my life and has been right by my side for some of the best. When I was younger I studied the drums, the piano and went to vocal lessons. To this day IContinue reading “Exploring the Evolution and Psychology of Boy Bands”
The Effects of Color and Typography on Emotion in Branding & Marketing
Introduction People say the word color and you think of art or the rainbow. People say the word typography and you think of books and newspapers, but did you ever think that both words could have a profound effect on your emotions? And did you know that advertisers and marketing companies have been using thoseContinue reading “The Effects of Color and Typography on Emotion in Branding & Marketing”
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