Steven Keith

Visual Communications B

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this is the pattern that I made in photoshop, its pretty simple but it overlaps every few squares.

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This illustration from the article: “How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life”, has a very simple composition, but is very clear with it’s meaning. The bird logo from twitter is being used to symbolize the people that have been affected by others humiliating them through the use of Twitter, calling out their tweets as being insensitive, racist, sexist, etc. The bird is sitting on the center of a large target telling us that these tweets are being targeted by people around the world for whatever reason they see fit, whether they get a sense of satisfaction from publicly shaming these poor tweeters, or they just think that they can make the world a better place or something, I just don’t understand personally. It helps enhance the story because it gets the point across that the people that send out the tweets are being targeted by other people out there. The illustrator of this image is Andrew B. Myers. His style is a strange combination of 3D objects combined with flat images. I would think that this combination would be jarring to look at but he has found a good balance between the two to make it look somewhat realistic but at the same time cartoon like. 

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This is my creation of what we did in class, I chose to illustrate the story, “Who Controls the forest?” The answer to that would be the Duck Dodger looking duck thing. After him it goes Kung-Fu panda, the dinosaurs, a regular duck, and then a moose. In this forest the moose isn’t very powerful. I also did “Where have all the owls gone?” In cups. They are hiding inside cups.

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Before I even saw what the data was or the picture, the title was the first thing that caught my attention because I wanted to see what kind of person was in charge on the internet, (not thinking it was strictly gender based). But I found it really interesting to see the different types of websites that each gender goes on. I am not familiar with the majority of these sites, but from what I can tell it seems that the males are more active on the sites that are audio related and connecting with others with your same interests (not that the other sites don’t do that as well), and the females are more active on the websites that are blogging or picture based. This may be because women can voice their thoughts better and have a stronger voice when it comes to speaking about things that are happening in the world or in their lives, and men are just looking for an entertainment website, nothing they have to commit to (no creating an account). The information presented is clear because you are able to tell which gender more popularly visits that site just by looking at it, but you can also get the detailed information by taking a closer look at the other side of the image. The colors also help with associating which gender is the top and bottom, without being super stereotypical about it (blue-boys, pink-girls), yet you still are able to grasp the idea of which is which.

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I decided to use this as my screenshot, I'm still working on coloring some things in, but I feel that it is a good representation of my project because shows how I feel after I complete a really tough sequence of frames, and it also portrays the rough, sketchy look that I am going for along with the flat color.

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Took me a little while to get these off my camera and on to my computer, but here are a couple of my favourite shots from Victoria that I took.

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These are some shots of my car that I took, with only adjusting the levels slightly this was the turnout.

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This is my photo for a portrait of another person, since it could now be dramatic, I figured that this was fitting. This is an oscar winning performance by Bruce.

While Still Using three point lighting:

Focal Length: 88mm

Exposure: 1/25 sec.

f/5.6

ISO 200

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I used to be a model for the Gap as a kid, but then I got ugly and blew all my money on cars. But I still know how to work it.

ISO: 200

F/5

1/30 s

Focal Length: 88mm

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Focal Length: 48mm

f/4.5

ISO 3200

1/200 s

I had to re-do my photo because it was too dark to see properly before. This shows good depth of field because the front post is in full focus, but as you move farther back, they become gradually more out of focus.

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Lens length: 18-135mm

f/3.5

ISO 400

5 Second Exposure

I started the photo while zoomed all the way out at 18mm, then over the exposure time I slowly zoomed in 

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Books:

1-The Theory of the Photographic Process

2-How to Create a Font

3-Graphic Design: Now in Production

All I did to create this collage was combined the two books with the black backgrounds, and then blended in the graphic design book into the background to give it a busy yet clean appearance.