ix Tutorial Responses
Emphasis
1. My attention is drawn to the notepad. The clutter around the notepad is a bit distracting, though, and the camera could've been more zoomed up on the sketchpad. However, the text, dark on a blank canvas, is effective because it stands out from the clutter.
2. This is "emphasis" because the moment of stillness allows the audience time to digest the first page. It effectively emphasizes the content and thus the theme of the project.
3. A.) The choppy, upbeat tempo emphasizes the choppiness of the stop-motion.
B.) The techno sound lends the clip a robotic feel that ties into the sketch on the 2nd page.
Contrast
1. The brighter text contrasts with the dark background; the dark, static background contrasts with the moving, colorful cartoon; the narration contrasts with the background music. This creates a choppy effect that grabs the viewers attention. If they did not contrast, the message would be lost/ignored.
2. The music and narrator still contrast, and the text contrasts with the background, but now the main focus is the message represented linguistically. I think the cartoon was deleted to emphasize the text and make it more important and impossible to miss.
3. My flyer would have a figure (or 2) from the cartoon on a black background, with the text in lighter color. This would make both the cartoon and the text stand out, while putting the most emphasis on the message so people could clearly understand it.
Organization
1.
In the beginning of our lives, we are born alone into society/the world, shown by the bar code on the man's foot. The woman exiting through the door signifies how humans embark on their life journeys alone, and struggles are perceived and overcome individually. The picture of the cake toppers signifies how society allows humans to find each other, to join up with someone and experience the journey together. The picture of the crowd exemplifies the joy found in sharing life with others. But in the end, the cemetery reminds us that the journey ends as it began: alone. (Sorry if that's depressing, it isn't to me :D)
2. There are many different arguments! I could have talked about society taking away our individuality, for example.
3. To make my piece stronger I could use sad, classical music for the slideshow. I could also use text to enhance the meaning; captions would help, and including my story would make the message clear.
Alignment
1. 'Murmuring' is aligned left and 'insects' is aligned right. The unusual alignment gives the whole piece a strong feel of being outside, by a lake, at twilight. It makes the message clearer as well as more interesting.
2. The words are now aligned middle and right, but still reflected in the same way. I can tell that these scenes are linked because of the alignment and this helps conveys one message. If the scenes shared nothing, I would be confused and probably lose interest in the text.
3. The alignment enhances the effect of each element represented: earth, horizontal like the horizon and flat like the ground, air, coming out of the sky as air does. The words are falling like the 'debris' mentioned in the audio.
4. The curvature of the words is like a tear, which aligns with what the man says (something about a tear, I couldn't quite hear everything in the audio).
5. I think the three menus are not aligned because it does not matter which one is viewed first. They are all separate but together. They form one piece commemorating the 9/11 disaster.
Proximity
1. I grouped them by placing them closer together.
2. The most important pieces are the title and the picture; both give information about the novel. I made the title bigger and bolder than the rest of the text. I also placed the image in the center of the blank space to separate the title/subtitle and the author's name and to showcase the seagull in flight.
3. I would like to have the seagull flying off the page, but that makes the whole thing off-balanced, which is not traditional. I find that, although visually balanced, traditional layouts can be boring. I would like to spice up the cover by placing things in odd places, like perhaps having the title tilted to create the illusion that the words are flying with the bird, etc.
