The latest projects for my 4300 class at California State University, Los Angeles with Kimberly Rubal were a lot of fun. I feel like this class has been created for a person like me, and my skillset. My last three assignments (sans this reflection) have been on a production level that speaks to me (LOUDLY!!!), and could be the reason why I love my graduate program. I'm going to to express this reflection by providing the end result of what I had to do for this class for this reflection, with a summary.
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Assignment 1: Digital Audio
"It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good" –Paula Scher
Paula Scher, The goddess of graphic design, is one of my all-time favorite graphic designers. If you have ever seen her Abstract episode on Netflix, it really says a lot about her thinking and approach - typography. So amazing!
While finishing this blog post, I'm listening to the the Netflix episode, Just listening to the episode is mind-blowing, and super nerdy - I'm fine with that
Assignment 2: Screen Casting
This is a Computational Thinking integration to my lesson plan on Low Poly Portrait. Gareth David has a really great tutorial on Low Poly portraiture, but I think with the Grid Hack, a student in my class can really excel with this project.
Assignment 3: YouTube Close Captioning
I know what you're thinking, this is boring work. I definitely agree because eons ago, I had to add closed captions to a Flash project for a bullying campaign, and it was extremely painful. Like Comic Sans painful.
However, YouTube's tools for closed captioning is light years ahead of where I was at in 2010. If you are doing short, chunked, video production that could use extra articulation to enhance understanding, this is a really great tool. Even if you have the application close caption the video for you - I highly recommend it, especially if you live in an area where multiple languages are used. Last I heard there were over 120 language dialects in California alone. WHAT!?! Check the facts, please.
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Thank you for reading. And I hope you played the Paula Scher Netflix episode for background noise during this read because I'm still gushing over it. It's a great listen, even if you can't watch it.
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