Week 11

[UTCF] Greenscreen 8.1B Meat, Seafood, and Dairy

Completion status: Started Nov 14, 2022
Staff guidance: Yazz Fawaz
Description/plans: STA is to find images for each word in the list and create a PowerPoint with accompanying french text on the slide.
To be completed: Nov 15, 2022

Making this PPT was actually very enjoyable because it included new vocab I learned just last week in my French class (FR 406)! Many of these words were familiar which aided me in finding the appropriate images for each slide. I imagine these PPTs are shown to the in-person French courses since I don’t see these and my class is web-based. Also, since most of the vocab was everyday food items, there were many options of photos to choose from (in contrast to 7.1B Fashion where the vocab was very culturally/geographically specific). I really like communicating with Yazz about which images accurately represent the word’s meaning. it’s almost like a mini-review session for French.

Basic Training: Learning the Principles and Elements of Design

This training was a flashback to all of the elements and principles lessons I’ve had over the years in my art classes. It was fun to be able to source images that I thought illustrated each element/principle. Oftentimes, multiple elements are at work to create an image, not just one. For instance, color can be used to emphasize objects, and lines can create movement, etc. Since all of the art itself was pretty colorful, I kept the PPT text and background color fairly simple and neutral.

PSY 306 Course Graphics

Completion status: Started Nov 29, 2022
Staff guidance: Maddy
Description/plans: Recolor the “Quiz” stinger to purple, and swap out the text for “Bonus Question”. Originally we wanted a lighter purple, but the legibility of it against the white was not very compatible.
To be completed: Nov 29, 2022

project: GOV312L animated Intro
Client /Prof: Jason Brownlee
completion status: Started Nov 8th
staff guidance: Maddy, Suloni
STA team members: N/A
description/plans:

Create an animated intro for this course that is a cohesive design with the other digital assets that are created for the course.

Steps:

Motion Array Template

Animation Proposal

Animate

Edit

To be completed: December 5th

Template:

To simplify the process for creating this project, I took out the time to locate an After Effects template to use for the intro instead of creating one from scratch. I came across the sight “Motion Array” that has a wide arrange of animated templates.

This is the current template we will use for this project:

https://motionarray.com/after-effects-templates/free-adobe-after-effects-templates-932/?listing_position=40&subcategories=free&page=2

Everything is broken down into their own compositions. From the individual images used, to the text and the different scenes. This keeps everything organized and easy to navigate.

All the different scenes are put together to create the final composition with the correct timing.

In each scene, it contains all the elements that make the animated intro. Everything is editable so that you can make adjustments if needed.

What is really good about Motion Array is that the template gives you a strong foundation that you can grow upon or keep as is. There are endless possibilities.

Animation Proposal:

Next, I have been working on creating the animation proposal for the different images we will use, the words that should be included, and the color alterations:

Beyond Sweatt & Painter Presentation

For this project, I assisted in re-formatting a slide presentation about the History of Race, Science, and Segregation at The University of Texas. We had the original slide deck and needed to add some visual aesthetics to the project. Here are a few slides I worked on:

Week 10

Project:  BEYOND SWEATT V. PAINTER
Client: Olivia Mena
Started: Nov 7, 2022
Staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Leilani, Carrie, and De’sha

Description/plans: Researcher, Olivia Mena, needed our help with data visualization/ presentation design for a PPT: History of Race, Science, and Segregation at the University of Texas
Completed: Nov 11, 2022

This firstly involved choosing an overall color palette/scheme. Then we reorganized/composed pictures with their respective paired bodies of text in a more visually pleasing manner. Most of the pictures were provided by Oliva in the draft PPT, but some pictures had to be sourced or edited to match the aesthetics/dimensions of the presentation. There was a combination of historical documents, photographs, and text that needed to be cropped and blocked on each slide into a cohesive narrative for Olivia to present.

From what I was told about the presentation from Maddy, (I wasn’t able to attend the meeting with Olivia herself) it sounded very interesting! I always like to hear more about the history of UT, especially if it is clearing up misinformation about the history of our school:)

Election Videos

Not much was going on this week besides working on the Olivia Mena PPT, but Mike sent out these finalized videos for the Election Day PSAs Maddy and I worked on. So cool to see how our work crosses over with the Audio team!

Week 9

Project: French Connexion

Start: Oct 21th 2022

To be Completed: N/A

Staff Guidance: Maddy

This week I was mainly working with Marianne, our developer for this new site, about how to implement the design into the real site.

Here is what it looks like right now: https://frenchconnexions.net/

I also designed another page for a new added-section:  Culture and Language.

Project: CTX Retold

Start: September 21th 2022

To be Completed: N/A

Staff Guidance: Maddy

Changes:

• Fonts: Dr. Gordon likes the CTX title in bigger title and the subtitles.
• The quote placement: No darken color on top of the image but try to find a way to ensure the readability
• Site color: The black background instead provide enough contrast or energy.

Previous Version:

New Version:

Link for prototype

Project: UTFC Green Screen

Start: Oct 31th 2022

To be Completed: Nov 2nd 2022

Staff Guidance: De’sha and Yazz

For this project, I was assigned to find pictures of fabrics and materials images from from N’Djamena, Chad or Central Africa.

7.2B Fabrics and Material-Final Version