Technology Reflection
In this unit we learnt about the variety of things which included different rules like Rule of thirds, Rule of Hierarchy, Rule of Contrast, Rule of Repetition, Rule of Alignment, Rule of Proximity, and Rule of Fonts. We learnt about the Color wheels, and we experimented a lot with all these rules, and created posters on using these rules. I learnt a lot about all these rules, things I never knew before, and never cared of before. While watching movies or looking at pictures, I never really realized that the person with the most power is always either on the left or above/in front of the other person, now a days when I do watch movies; I look out for such stuff, even though I really don’t want to.
Through these rules, I have learnt how to create appropriate posters using right colors, and techniques. I learnt that most of these rules that we have learnt about, in some way of the other has to do with bringing out what matters most in the poster, weather it’s a picture, or a word, or a background.
In this assessment we were asked to make 3 posters using the principles and rules we have learnt in designing so far. We were asked to experiment with different formats, and I did experiment, A LOT. For about 2 classes all I did was play around with formats and designs. I was pretty scared I wouldn't be able to finish in class because I wasn’t making any posters. The ones I wanted to do at first was quite hard, and frustrating to do, so I gave up in a few tries, but finally I found one online that was simple and cool at the same time.
My final design was based on an Ice effect, but I changed it a bit, so it doesn’t really look like an Ice effect, but it uses some of the same techniques. At first I searched up a background, and changed the gradients and brightness levels to make it a dark background. I wanted to have a dark, black sort of background because I wanted my message, and words to stand out. On the background I used the rule of Repetition to emphasize my main focus. In these 3 cases, my focus was on the 3 Learner profiles: Care, Risk Taker & Reflect. I used a serif format to keep things simple. I faded my repeated words because I didn’t want it to be the main part of my poster, but I didn’t fade it out completely because I wanted people to notice it, because it adds on to the design of the poster. I used a thin border around my texts to add a bit of details and extra ornaments, but if you look closely, the borders are different on every poster, so that was one of the factors that changed in my poster, where as my background and fonts were exactly the same. The final thing that I did was do my main texts, the texts turned out to be different than I hope, I wanted a more 3-D effect, and that is when Mr. Holmes said, “Keep it simple.”, so I decided to make me main text more simple, but still make it stand out.
All in all, I am quite happy with the product I made, in such a short time. It looks quite cool and considering it’s the first actual poster I produced using a computer, and PHOTOSHOP, I’m quite satisfied, though I feel I could have made some things slightly better, like used better fonts. I’m using Photoshop for the FIRST time in my whole life, after I came to Stonehill, and I think it is a great site for editing photos and other things, but it can get quite annoying and frustrating, because it keeps getting stuck! Im sure I will use Photoshop in the future, in tech and probably outside, to edit photos and try out more cool stuff, because it’s quite a good pastime and it’s kind of fun (apart from the freezing of the program). Even though I like Photoshop, I don’t want to use it to make projects, because that will just put pressure on me, and when the Photoshop freezes and annoys me I will start to hate it more than ever, and I don’t want to hate Photoshop, so I’m hoping that we wont have to use it too much in the future for assignments and BIG projects, but other than that, I will probably be using Photoshop more outside of school.
Grades
Investigate : 4
Design: 4
Plan: 4
Create: 4
Evaluate : 5
Attitude: 5
Grades
Investigate : 4
Design: 4
Plan: 4
Create: 4
Evaluate : 5
Attitude: 5
