Blog #4 class Evaluation

This past semester taught me a lot about the basic fundamentals of film and media. Learning skills that range from production work that goes into film making, and the different techniques that can be used to portray different meanings in films, to the media side of learning about advertising techniques such as websites and print work, and how much work that can be as well.

         I thought the Lecture classes were the downside of the class however. There were a few lecture classes where we spent the entire class learning about a subject then finding out was wasn't relevant to the tests, Such as the binary lecture. It seemed as if we spent a lot of time on learning un-important information and not enough time on the important.

         Learning about HTML was a really interesting section of the Lab. I particularly enjoyed those couple of classes where we worked on Text wrangler. It really showed how much work goes into creating a website and how complicated it can be. Dealing with all the codes and link systems it can be very tedious work and the simplest mistakes really instantly change the outcome of the website. One subject I wish we would have spent more time on was learning about the film camera and the different parts on how they work. We only got a few minutes in one class to really take a look at it. And one subject which i was surprised  we didn't learn about- since the class was about new media today-  was the techniques of  working with professional digital cameras and all the different parts and settings that involve those cameras.

Overall the class really sparked my interest on what is to come next semester. It should binteresting to see how much hands on work we will get.

Design i like

From your first look, its obvious to see that

this design by Forum snowboards breaks pretty much all of the rules involved with advertising concepts. This collage has absolutely no balance in it whatsoever, it uses at least 10 different fonts, and has pretty much every color possible along with numerous different patterns all mashed together. And yet all of these concepts seem to be the reason why it I have it as my Wallpaper and cant stop staring at it everyday.

With so much going on within the picture, i think this forces the viewer to observe the image even more. Instead of one quick glance and simply seeing there product, you have to continue to stare at it because your always finding new images and colors and designs within the same picture. And in the advertising business, the longer you can get someone to look at your product, the more likely there going to use it. The extremely bright neon colors along with the hypnotizing design tells a little bit about the company and the team itself. The image seems to look like a party on its own, which can pretty much describe the mentality of the forum team since it consists of pot smoking, party going, rebellious snowboarders. This also resembles Forum's style of snowboarding clothes as well, with jackets, snowboards, and pants consisting of bright colors and mixed matched patterns, its definitely a company that attracts a younger more outgoing crowd.