Evoke and Express, two words that both revolve around the topic of emotions and feelings, but have you ever looked at the words closely in the topic of storytelling. Both words are very similar and can sometimes be misused and substituted out for one another, but in reality they both mean very different things. ToContinue reading “Mixed Emotions: Evoking vs Expressing our Feelings”
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A Visual Representation: Sadness
When someone says the word emotion, most people immediately think of happiness, sadness, and anger. It’s our 3 base emotions and it’s the ones we can categorize most of daily lives into. Someone cuts us off in line… anger, someone close to us in life dies… sadness, we get that promotion at work that we’veContinue reading “A Visual Representation: Sadness”
Module 2: Mixing Motion
Storytelling & Storyboarding: Storytelling: Whether you’re animating something or writing something you’re telling a story. This means you have to think through and plan what you’re putting together. In the Animated Storytelling book, storytelling usually follows a 3 act structure and. Act 1 is where you set up the characters, setting and main conflict, ActContinue reading “Module 2: Mixing Motion”
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
The art of storytelling has been around forever. It’s the easiest ways to pass down traditions, lessons and to just give pure and simple entertainment. Unfortunately, most people think that storytelling has to be written down and have dialogue, like a book, a movie or a television show. In reality anything can tell a story.Continue reading “A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words”
Module 1: Animated GIFs
Basic Motion: Animation is an incredibly versatile art medium. It can be used in all types of movies, television shows, social posts, info graphics and so much more. Unfortunately when someone says animation the first thing people think of is a complex kids movie or out of this world VFX animation. In reality anyone canContinue reading “Module 1: Animated GIFs”
Data Narrative: How Do Indie Films Survive vs Blockbuster Movies?
To get the full immersive chart click the Datawrapper Link here. To get the full immersive chart click the Datawrapper Link here. To get the full immersive chart click the Datawrapper Link here. To get the full immersive chart click the Datawrapper Link here. If you want to read more about independent films or wantContinue reading “Data Narrative: How Do Indie Films Survive vs Blockbuster Movies?”
Data Visualization Reflection
Dear Data Wrap Up: Each week that I created a Dear Data postcard I purposely tried to do different time gaps for the data collection so I could see how much the collection period affected the data set. For the first one it was over a period of 3 days, two of the days IContinue reading “Data Visualization Reflection”
Dear Data #3
For my final Dear Data I chose to track an entire days worth of my fake responses. Through out my life my friends and family have always called me out for using a very fake voice when I’m talking to people I don’t know and professionals who are usually older than me. So I choseContinue reading “Dear Data #3”
Narrative Data: Storytelling and Aesthetics
This week’s brainstorm was one of the hardest projects I’ve ever had to think about. It took me an extremely long time to figure out 1 topic let alone 2 different ones that I think I could research well enough to make a comprehensive visual data narration. After reading Visual and Statistical Thinking, I beganContinue reading “Narrative Data: Storytelling and Aesthetics”
Maps & Charts: Learning to Create Visual Datasets
Last week I collected and refined datasets. The first one was from the NJDEP and was all about the number of different shoreline structures in each of the New Jersey Shoreline counties. This chart was by far the easiest to pick and create on Datawrapper because the NJDEP had already spilt everything into its correctContinue reading “Maps & Charts: Learning to Create Visual Datasets”
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