Month: October 2019

Draft Audio Story

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What inspired this story was that I wanted to create a platform that represented and reflected my topic of healthy lifestyle changes and perspectives of others and what they think about this topic. Because of this, I decided to do an interview story because this topic, especially going vegan can be pretty conflicting for some and not everyone agrees so I thought it would be interesting to get the perspective of my friend shea who is not vegan and what her viewpoint on this was. In the process of this creation, I wanted to tell the interview just how it was and not make too big of a change since everything that was said in the interview was relevant and valuable to the story. Initially, the two segments of this story were divided and I wanted to merge them through adobe auction to create a clear storyline of what was going on. For my final draft, I plan to add additional sounds and effects to the beginning of the story, in between the pauses, and at the end to give it a more finished story plot. I collected the sounds from my friend shea who has different lifestyle habits then me so my idea was to interview her in hopes that it would give more insight to this topic since she expressed interest in possibly attempting some sort of change from what I told her about my topic and how she thinks it could benefit her personally. Some technical challenges that I came across when trying to edit was how to create one smooth audio story without a transition that made it seem obvious that something had been done to it. To fix that, I plan to add in a smoother transition and then overlay a sound to mask that.

Raw Audio Footage

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This is the interview of shea getting a different perspective on the topic, I plan to use this towards the interview portion of my final and tell the story with a narrative and interview follow-up.
This is the beginning narrative of my story, the preview to my interview.

Logo Project Final

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At the beginning of this project, my idea was to create a logo that represented my topic clearly and in two separate ways; visually and through the words that are displayed. I started with wanting to create some sort of banner, I chose this because my topic is about repressing a healthy lifestyle and more specifically, going vegan. This type of logo reminded me of the logo that initially prompted me to begin my lifestyle-changing journey. The logo represents a banner of accomplishment since going vegan is a major lifestyle change, and the colors I chose are green because it is commonly associated with health and natural factors. I also included the leaves to be an eye-catcher since I decided to leave the outside banner white.

I started by drawing my banner and knowing I wanted to include both sayings into my logo while still keeping it somewhat simplistic. After creating my draft, I got feedback that I agreed with and decided to change before submitting my final draft. Initially, I had two different fonts within the logo because I thought it gave perception of the different words and differentiated them showing that they both represented different things. But after receiving feedback, I saw that it made the whole logo look less cohesive, so for my final I decided to keep the same font throughout the entire logo. I also had included two leaves on the outside of the banner to add additional attention to the logo, but looked less high-quality and took away from the words. I changed this by using the vector tool and creating my own leaves with contrasting, vibrant colors that brings the whole piece together. I added color to everything by putting a green in the middle center where the main focus words are; I chose green because it is eye-catching and easily connected to healthy and natural perceptions; I decided to leave the outside portion of the banner white because I did not want to add too much color and take away from the logo. After adding color by using the fill tool, I created a gradient to make the color look less blocky and more official. After changing the font to all match, I used the straight line tool to create two matching lines to put underneath the words “Go Vegan”, then I used the invert tool to curve them and put them to underline the already cursive fonts on the banner. 

Draft Logo Project

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I decided to create a graphic that looks like a health advertisement logo because my main topic is about lifestyle changes and improving your diet, which is why I put “lifestyle changes” in the middle to emphasize my topic. What inspired me to make this logo was the health brand that I used to follow at home that includes tips to improve your habits and easy to make vegan meals and how to keep it up. Some research I did to verify this logo was looking into the brand and their logo meaning and what it means to them, since their intention or how the logo is portrayed can be viewed differently by the consumer if they are not careful. For that reason, I decided to add leaves to my logo because they are commonly viewed as natural and I associate them with health and a vegan lifestyle. To create this draft, I used the tools from the adobe illustrator tutorials since the entire logo is shape based besides the inserted text-boxes. I used the selection tool to draw the rectangles inverted edges so that it matches the rectangle width. Since this is a draft, I haven’t added much color yet but I plan to add color with the gradient process to all flat colors. I also used the direct selection tool to adjust the outside corners of the banner to give it the appearance of being more natural. I also bolded the text in the outside of the banners and made the center text cursive to give it depth. A problem I ran into while creating this draft was that I had trouble finding the reset or erase tool, which isn’t much of a huge issue but was frustrating at first since it is all line based it took me a few times to get it correct and every time I would have to restart.