Logo Sketching and Illustrator

For the past week, my e-Comm class has been working on creating our own personal logos. We started by sketching three different logos, and then chose one of the logos to draw again. After our drawings were complete, we recreated the drawings in Adobe Illustrator. This was kind of hard for me, considering I'm not very good at working in illustrator.

For my logo, I started with a pinkish-beige background. I then made the outline of the glasses. i chose this as my logo because I have huge glasses that cover like half of my face that I literally cant see without. I consider them a huge part of who I am so it just made sense to make my logo about them. After I finished the glasses, i made sort of an abstract version of my initials to the side. While i know it's not the best logo ever made, I'm overall satisfied with the final result considering how bad i am at the program.

Sketching and Illustrator

In e-Comm Graphic Design, our latest project was to draw either a tree, bird, house, or a flower twenty different ways. I chose to draw a flower. It was difficult finding twenty different ways to draw one thing without them being too similar to each other.  I tried to think outside of the box and drew a dandelion after it died and had those fuzzy white seeds, which is what I then based my illustrator project on.

In illustrator, I first made my background a gradient white to black, and then drew the stem. I then used the line segment tool to draw the stems of the seeds in a dark grey (which took forever) and then dotted the ends of the seeds with black. Overall, I'm very proud of this project, and i think i did a great job.

The Illustrator Experience

In graphic design, we use a program called Adobe Illustrator to make different shapes and designs. Our first assignment was to create different basic shapes like  a rectangle, circle, star, hexagon, and square using the different shape tools available. After the shapes were formed. we colored them in using the fill tool. From this assignment, I learned how to make basic shapes, and how to change the color of items.

For our second illustrator assignment, we could create basically anything we wanted using the tools provided. I chose to make a basic diagram of the solar system. From this assignment, i learned how to make the background a different color, and gained a better understanding of Adobe Illustrator in general
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Social Media Awareness

We read an article today in class we read an article about social media awareness. It talked about how some colleges look at applicants social media pages in order to see if they are the type of person they want to accept into their college. If a students media page is the reason they don't get accepted, they don't get to know that, which I think is unfair. Colleges also don't take they time to find out if they got the right social media page, so they may be basing your acceptance on an account that isn't even your's.

From this article, I learned that I need to be more safe with whatever I post, tweet, snap, pin etc., and make sure the content I have posted is the type of person I want colleges to see me as. If you wouldn't post it with your grandma watching, you shouldn't post it at all.

Elevator Pitch

     An elevator pitch is a carefully worded and short marketing message about yourself. It should be over in the time it takes to ride an elevator, hence the name.

     My name is Amber Morgan; I am an e-Communication student at ONW. I have strong creative ability, and great leadership skills. I am often complimented on my artistic ability and interpersonal skills. I’m looking to gain knowledge about all of the branches in e-Comm, and to see if I have a potential in any of these areas of study later in life.

Chase Scene

     For our chase scenes, we worked in groups of threes. We had to, as the title explains, film a video of someone chasing someone else for whatever reason. We started with coming up with our idea for the scene, drawing up the storyboard, filming and editing. 

     I gained a better understanding of the axis line, and how to work together to meet a deadline.

     If I was to to this project again, I would add audio and take more time filming so it didn't seem so rushed. I enjoyed working with my friends to complete the project.

Technical Blog

          The six shot system is basically the six different shots you can use to shoot a film. 50% of all shots should be close ups or extreme close ups.

An extreme wide shot/establishing shot is what typically gives the viewer the location of the film.

 

A wide shot shows the entire object or human figure.

Medium shots show the figure waist up.

 Close ups show the figure shoulders up.

Extreme close ups show just a certain part of a figure.

Over the shoulder shots (pretty self explanatory) are shot over the figure's shoulder.