What is Graphic Design?

       Graphic Design is lots of things. G r a p h i c Design communicates a message. Graphic Design makes you feel emotion, it moves you. Graphic Design is a language for living. When doing Graphic Design, you must think like a consumer. Graphic Design is used to express yourself, but it doesn't have to be beautiful; it can quirky, awkward, funny, relaxing, etc. But Graphic Design must have a purpose. Graphic Design is creating a moment, where you instantly understand what the image is saying. Graphic Design is doing what you think is right, first, and foremost.

Graphic Design is the passageway to a person's emotion.

Pro Article Review - "They loved your GPA, then they saw your Tweets"

       In "They loved your GPA, then they saw your Tweets," Natasha Singer describes how colleges and universities can and will look at your personal tweets and other social media posts. Sometimes, bad posts can really hurt your application. Some students have been denied their applications to colleges and universities because of social media accounts and posts. Students think admissions officers are old and won't think to check your social media accounts. The truth is that they really are young and tech-savvy, and the first they will do is check your social media accounts.

       I did not realize colleges kept track of social media accounts of their applicants. Even though I knew there was no such thing as privacy if you have a social media, I didn't know colleges would actually check them. I also didn't realize employers would either. These things came as a surprise to me. Colleges actually have rejected applicants because of social media posts. Even if they did check social media accounts, I wouldn't think they would actually turn people down for them.

       It really confuses me how more and more colleges are checking social media accounts. Even though social media is very popular right now, why would so many colleges care about them. I also didn't know how college applicants have deleted social media accounts and posts so colleges wouldn't be able to check them. I think these people would be pretty smart to know to do that without much warning beforehand.

       Even though some of this information surprise me, it doesn't really affect my thinking of social media. I knew that as soon as signed up for any social media accounts that my life wouldn't be as private. I already know that anything I post on Facebook or Twitter can be taken by someone else and I shouldn't post anything I wouldn't want to say in person, online.

Cheese Chase

       The project was pretty small, with just two actors and 1 cameraman (or camerawoman I suppose). It spanned most of the west side of the school. We only used one iPad camera on a tripod. (Special thanks to everyone who was walking by and saw two random freshmen chasing each other down a hallway).

       I was gone the first two days of this project, during pre-production. However my partner did the storyboarding off of the Diary of A Wimpy Kid book, and we changed some of the scenes during production. We had to redo a lot of shots because of teachers telling us that we shouldn't run in the hallway (Lol). There were a few jump-cuts because of bad editing (by me) and not doing the shots like we should've. I had to cut out a lot of the beginning, where there was a conversation, but I should've kept some of the video instead of just deleting the audio. Other than those errors, I think it was pretty cool, especially with the security camera effect.

       After doing this, I think it'd be a good idea to show up for all of the pre-production. Planning where the scenes would be beforehand is a really good idea, which I didn't do (maybe has something to with attendance during pre-production, I don't know...).

       I think one of the things I would definitely do differently was do all the filming in one day, or have the actors wear the same clothing. Another good thing to do would to make sure there were no jump-cuts. Some camera angles weren't the best either. Sometimes I think I sped up the video too much.

       I really liked the fast-pace shots and fast-paced music. I also liked how the environment changed a lot. One of the best things was probably the people in the background because they all jump out of the way and the chase starts to look more realistic. 

       This is a chase sequence that is supposed to be like an action film. There are many things that could be made better, like color correction, but I didn't have time. Overall I think the video was pretty cool. I probably should've kept some of the conversation at the beginning, I just turned down the volume. Oh well. It was really fun, and I was an actor in it, which was pretty cool. (People were hurt in the making of this film [but not seriously]).