Professional Article Review Post

How to Keep Your Short Film Small 

     The summary of the article is how to make a good short film, short, and still being able to keep your viewers attention. Good short films keep the scope small, but they must have emotionally resonant endings and boil down your characters, setting and story to only whats absolutely necessary. 

     The authors main argument is "The most philosophically invigorating or emotionally captivating shorts are the ones that are the shortest and the most subtle. 

    Since the authors argument is to keep the film basically "short and sweet", you always want to "leave your audience with something to chew on; even better, leave us with something more." The author also says "the most effective way to make your short memorable is to inject as much pathos as possible into the ending... if you do this, your audience will feel for your character right as "the ending" fades in." 

    While reading this article the authors strengths are giving good advice on what to do and how to make it easier on yourself, for example "make a list of everyone you may think will be able to help you out in any way possible- even if its something as small as donating a meal." also, "don't shoot your self in the foot and empty your bank account to get it done". Throughout the article i did not see any of his weaknesses with this article but there are probably some article out there that shows his weakness.
     While reading this article, the authors general conclusion is to make sure you always have your readers attention because if you don't then they will lose their focus and drive to want to watch your short film. 
   I do believe that the authors argument does support the main points.
     The authors evidence is convincing because he shows and talks about very good reasons why and why not do things that could make or break your short film.
    

End of the year final

Throughout the course of this past year in graphic design, I have learned information about new topics that I haven’t learned before. In Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, most of the skills that I have learned, I learned it from using illustrator help and Google. Mrs. Lofquist did sometimes teach us new information but most of the time, we were told to use Google, Illustrator help, YouTube tutorials and our peers around us. The project that I am personally proud of the most is my magazine cover because it shows use of type face, simplicity, and color.

How I learned new information this year is by using Illustrator help, Google and my peers around me. By using the resources that I listed, I do not believe that I have learned everything that I was supposed to know to its full ability. However, when Mrs. Lofquist did teach us new information it was as if we were suppose to know it already and that she was “Going over and reviewing” what we were suppose to already know by using Illustrator help, Google, YouTube tutorials and our peers around us. Mrs. Lofquist was not doing her job by teaching us the foundation of the programs that we have used for the past year for our possible future careers as being graphic designers. Although, what I did learn is how to make product packages that could be used and presented on today products. The type of items that I have learned to make is business cards, post cards, patterns, and how to make a template to make a package design.

This is important information to know because I feel as if I was not given all the information that I was needed to become successful the future. With the information that I received to complete the tasks that was assigned, I put in all of my knowledge that I had, to fulfill the project that was given.

The strengths that I have towards graphic design are being a collaborative individual towards my peers around me, always trying to absorb more information about the programs that we used and how to become a more efficient leader.  By being in graphic design for a year, I have noticed that my personal weaknesses have been project management and turning in assignments on time. My attitude toward Mrs. Lofquist has not always been the best and I admit it. However, the reason for my negative attitude is  often because I get frustrated with the way Mrs. Lofquist teaches and when I ask for help she sometimes answers my questions and walks me through it, but most of the time she told me to use illustrator help, Google, YouTube tutorials and our peers around us.

I hope to use the information that I have learned this past year to help me with my future classes in the E-Communication program in the future.

In conclusion, I believe that I didn’t learned everything that was suppose to be taught to me to its full potential but I did learn more coming out of graphic design than I did coming into it. I believe that Mrs. Lofquist is a good person but I don’t think her teaching technique is as effective as I would hoped it would.

group project

Individual Project

What I learned while doing this project is to prioritize the time that i have wisely.  Even if you are doing 3 project at the same time at one point and you don't know how you're going to complete all of them when they are due, you have to do it anyway. 

E-magine

Magazine Cover

What I learned while making my magazine cover is that you have to be very creative when coming up with different topics that have to do with your magazine title. I would not do anything different if I had to do the assignment again in the future because I liked the way my cover turned out and the way it looks.

Poster

What I learned while having to create a movie poster for an assignment is to make sure you have an idea of what you want your poster to look like before you start to make it. I also learned that image tracing is not always the way to go. What I would do differently if I have to do the project again is that I would make the words more readable and not have the colors as dark.

My business card

I do not think that my card that was printed looked different than my card that was on illustrator. The only difference is that one card is bigger than the other.