I will be taking from this class the foundation of CRAP principals and the importance of thinking about my creations before I create them. For example thinking about who is my audience. The study of my audience is very important because if I don’t know the culture behind the audience they will miss the message of what is being conveyed thru my work and or artwork. Also I found very interesting the significance and importance of images. Images make more of an impact that just text alone. In the use of webpages it makes a significant difference to use images in addition to the text information provided.
The comic assignment was a good exercise to teach us about storytelling and the order in which we tell things. The translation and emphasis on certain scenes to add focus and what we as the author thinks is important.
Photoshop lessons have been great! I know there are more lessons to go thru and things I would love to learn about. I would like to know how to work with vectors. It would be helpful and beneficial to work on job/project based scenarios as assignments.
I needed to check sodium count on rice krispy cereal in order to make sodium free rice krispy treats. I went to caloriecount.com on their main page I see links throughout the page. The ones that grabbed my attention the most were the advertisements. These advertisements influence to click on them the most perhaps because they have images and or video and sound and color. The link that I choose to click on was free coupons. This link is described by Burbles as “Part of something used as shorthand for the whole”. (Burbles) The relationship between the two is the word (items).
Then after I click on the coupon link I see a tab that says exercise. I click on it and it takes me to a page with more links and choices about exercise. Burbles calls this type of link a sequence cause and effect because this link "indicates real relation, not allusive ones”. (Burbles)
Cited
Burbules, Nicholas. Rheotrics of the Web: Hyperreading and Critical Literacy. 102-120.Print.
http://caloriecount.about.com/?utm_medium=redirect&utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=caloriecountcom
