Sunday, December 14, 2014
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
fair use blog post
The Avengers/Breakfast Club trailer
mash-up is clearly transformative because it takes the audio from the classic
movie, The Breakfast Club, and overlaps it with the visual part of the movie
Marvel’s Avengers. This element of the
trailer mash up is what leads into the next part.
The trailer was very
proportional. It was almost comical how
a twenty first century action film about super heroes could accurately be twisted
to give the viewer an idea that the classic movie The Breakfast Club audio
depicts the super heroes in The Avengers trainer. The audio and visual elements match up almost
perfectly. Not only is there enough characters
in each of the movies for the description to match up numerically, but the
characteristics of each comic book character matches up to the description of
each high school teen even though the movies are years apart.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Friday, October 31, 2014
This American Life and Radiolab Blog Post
The podcast from This American
Life, entitled, “I Was So High” is about the ins and outs of understanding that
there may and probably are people around you that are constantly under the
influence of a drug and you may never even realize it. It begins by talking about a man named Sean
Cole who had heard rumors about people working under the influence of cocaine
in the bars that he regularly attended in Toronto. They were curious to know more, so they set
up some anonymous interviews with people that fit the category. At the end of the interviews of the anonymous
people is when the music starts, and during speaking breaks and transitions
from interview to narration for example, the music continues and also continues
while the narrator speaks. During most
of the interviews of the anonymous people, the music cuts out completely in
order for the listener to be able to hear the response. The radio station interviewed people who
worked at bars, probably in their mid twenties, and asked about their
habits. The narrators also talked about
their own personal experiences with their own friends, stating that they had
found out years into a friendship that their friend was always high when they
were around them, and were shocked to find that out, because they were
convinced that their habits were just attributes to their “personality.” They also interviewed professionals about
drugs such as cocaine and marijuana to get the inside scoop about their
effects. They touched on all areas of
the topic, examining the people would display these habits.
The podcast from Radiolab,
entitled, “Haunted” started off differently than “I Was So High” from This
American Life. “Haunted” started out
with a very attention grabbing jingle and appropriate music to set the tone of
the topic. The narrators also introduced
themselves after that, which I liked because in This American Life, there was
no introduction of who the narrator was and I just kept hearing different
voices throughout the podcast. It’s very
important to inform your audience, especially when you are in radio for the
audience cannot physically see you, who is speaking so that they can put a name
to a voice. In terms of music, there was
none during the interviews at first, but then some was introduced at a light volume. It came in and out and was not continuous,
but I think they used the music in a natural, comical, and clever way. They fit the theme of the music with the
theme and tone of what was being said at the time. They told the story in a good, personal,
emotional way that grabbed my attention.
They introduced the interviewee and asked him about his past and did not
just jump into the story of the haunted house.
They made a real connection with the interviewee, which gave the
interview more substance. I also really
liked that the interviewer at one point appropriately brought a new feeling of
hope into the interview when the interviewee was talking about his deceased
parents. He picked up the mood and got
the interviewee back on track, but included just enough emotion to create the
powerful message that it did.
Friday, October 10, 2014
Friday, October 3, 2014
Pathfinder Indesign
1
I added a circle, a 10 sided polygon, a
square, and a star (10 sides with 45% star inset) to my document.
2
I pushed the square and 10-sided polygon
together, selected them, and used the “add” effect on them.
3
I then pushed the circle to my new shape, selected them, and used
the “subtract” effect to create my new shape.
I
I then pushed my new shape to my star, selected them, and used the "intersect" effect to create my final shape.
4
I then gave my new shape a stroke with a weight
of 8, a meter limit of 4, and a white diamond border, and a fill of a light blue swatch.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Brochure Color Scheme and Fonts
I decided to use the colors green, pink, and yellow because they remind me of spring. They are happy, vibrant colors and they also remind me of the clothing designer, Lily Pulitzer, who uses light hearted colors such as these! I will be using the font, Times New Roman.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Hayley/s 2nd blog post
Originally, I was going to do my photo story on Greek Week,
but since the due date of the photo story is September 15th, and
that is the day that Greek week starts, I had to pick a new event. So I went on my high point email and looked
at my weekly email from the campus concierge to see what fun events were
happening this week when I came across the build your own fish tank. My story is significant because it is an
event that gets people together to take part in an interesting, unique
affair. What will make the scope of my
story coverable in the space and time available, is the fact that it is a high
point event happening Wednesday night at 9pm in the Wanek Center and it will be
done well before the due date of the assignment so I can have a large amount of
time to edit and photo shop my pictures if necessary, therefore the event will
be scheduled so that I can complete it in a reasonable time. Considering I have never attended a build
your own fish tank event before, I am not entirely sure what will be involved
or the visual components of my story, so those are yet to come. If I cannot get enough relevant and useful
photos from the build your own fish tank event (can’t get an interaction shot,
can’t get a closer shot), I will try my best to utilize photo shop, and if that
still fails, I will resort to starting on a new photo story topic. Unfortunately, I think that I will really
have to prepare for this event and plan out my photos before showing up to the
event, because I will not be able to return for additional shooting. I will have to take a tremendous amount of
photos to cover all of my bases. I don’t
believe I will run into any technical problems, for I will most likely be using
my phone to take these pictures.
Friday, August 29, 2014
Hayley's first blog post
My name is Hayley Pettengill, born on July 10th
1995. I am a sophomore here at HPU. I would describe myself to be an outgoing
person. I grew up in a very loud home
due to the fact that my father is a radio broadcaster and my mom is a very loud
typical Italian woman, so growing up in that kind of environment has really
molded me into the person I am today. I
have realized recently that I am interested in entrepreneurship, mainly
creating and coming up with creative inventions, hence why I am a Strategic
Communications major with a minor in Entrepreneurship. I had a very important event happen to me in
my past, which has made me into a very humble, very grateful person.
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