Scannell: Fairly entertaining visual, though it seemed to drag on a bit near the four minute mark. Being a literacy narrative, there wasn't much in the way of describing a learning process of either reading or writing. Context of the video consisted mostly of the authors parents gloating, and describing how their daughter was naturally efficient in writing.When mentioning Reader Rabbit, the mother briefly mentions how the daughter learned to read, but quickly transitions to how amazing her daughter was. I found the miscued video and audio distracting. I feel that more of a personal input would have made the narrative more effective in that parents would typically always talk highly of their child, and I feel this didn't serve the purpose of the literacy narrative.
Andfull: The visual composition and transitions are used effectively and create a fluid movement throughout this literacy narrative. Though the authors redundancy of saying the title and a short opinion of the book became boring. This video seemed more like a laundry list of books that are for sale rather than a literary narrative. What I found effective was when she went in depth explaining the importance (to her) of the Berenstain Bears books. If she were to apply this method to a few other books, I feel that her narrative would become more enjoyable, insightful, and less redundant. Clarity of book covers was another issue with this narrative, making it look as though it was compiled at the last minute. Having clearer images would clean up and give the narrative a more visually pleasing experience. The overall concept was good, just needed to be more grounded and focus on fewer books rather than the whole library.
Trauman: Though this literacy narrative is done "in the field", the background noise is subtle yet at times is distracting. This approach creates this one-on-one feel with the speaker, which helps the viewer to connect and tune in to what is being said. His story helps to create this visual narrative that creates an interest in what he's saying. Using this back story assist the explanation of his discovery of the power, or in his case magic, of words. Coming at the narrative in this approach, for this literacy narrative, is easy to follow, and clearly explains the authors literary discovery.
Peyton: The visual concept is unique and interesting, though I don't think it was applied or done well. Due to the out of focus text, the texting sequences felt drawn out, almost time filler-ish. The issue he addresses about how texting has affected is writing skills is clearly expressed. He shows examples from english assignments that demonstrate the effects texting has had on his writing. What would tie this together would be to see the effects of is improvement which he stated at the end of the literary narrative. In terms of the texting visual, I found that it would have been more effective if there was some editing done to enhance the clarity. Having the text layer active while he's texting would have been a better approach, rather than after the text is written. Even though the main audience was probably an English class, I felt that not many viewers would know what DLN is when he writes, " I'm Trevor, and this is my DLN." Some minor fixes other than the visuals would be the text block at 49 seconds. It's unclear if he's trying to make a point by stating he didn't capitalize, or use proper punctuation, and actually have none of them done in the text this issue was stated in. Over all this was an original approach to this literary narrative.
Wooten: It's very simplistic, which in the case of the assignment is both good and bad. He has countering arguments which make following the content unbalanced. The flip-flop from general to specific statements is where I find most of the issues with this narrative. I enjoyed the visual story telling, it felt much like an automatic picture book, with a soothing, mellow soundtrack.
Grading Criteria: Fluid and understandable content, is the authors narrative easy to understand. Does/do the visuals correlate with the aural, textural content (within reason). Does the author address an issue and then resolve or explain ways of overcoming the issue. To Be Continued . . .
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Project #2 analysis
Web page #1 (Nick G.):
Camera shutter speeds is the focus on this multimodal analysis project. We look at various mediums: video, text, and imagery. Some the main criteria in having an effective text in teaching shutter speeds are clean and crisp presentation, fluid visual alignment, and informative text. For one text, poor layout and distracting images can cause the message to not broadcast properly to the viewer (Text 5). Alignment, framing, and text are, more, essential when looking at still image tutorials. Looking at Text 4, the viewer wouldn't be able to understand what they are looking at if the author didn't ad the shutter text at the bottom of the image. When looking at video, Text 1, having clear and informative narrative in correlation to the intended audience is crucial in having an effective text. Being an introduction to shutter speeds, the author, "goes into depth on not only how to properly use different shutter speeds, when photographing, but he also talks a great deal of exactly what is happening mechanically with the camera at different speeds (Text 1)."
In presenting an effective text to beginning photographers having a clear and organized visual space helps to retain the viewers focus if your planning on using text or still images. If using charts or pictures, alignment and spacing a crucial in conveying your information, and can be aided with easy to read text. When doing a video tutorial, speech clarity and occasional text captions help to reinforce the material. Having a clean and low noise visual space also helps in maintaining focus.
Web Page #2 (Katerina G.):
When we search for internet radio, we tend to gravitate towards those that are aesthetically pleasing, has easy to follow organization, and a user friendly interface, as well as quality music choices. Katerina touches on many of these attributes when looking at five varying internet radio sites. For the most part, each site template had similar qualities with one another. Color scheme between Pandora Radio and 8Tracks have the sleek white and blue, whereas Spotify and Grooveshark have a iTune-esque appearance. Having recognizable layouts allows users become quickly familiar with the program making music search and listening easy and enjoyable. Though what seems to be the one determinate in which internet radio source is used is the number of tracks that can be skipped which correlates to number of advertisements played after so many songs. This gives users many choices depending on whether they want to listen to more continuous music and have fewer song skips, or be able to have a larger amount of skips while having more frequent ad breaks. Currently it seems that the authors of this radio sites have keyed in on what the viewers are looking for in a radio site, and have created efficient yet personal sites for users to interchange with and have confidence in knowing what they are getting.
Web Page #3 (Allison H.):
Simple is better, less is more, when looking at instructional work-out modes, be it a magazine, online article, or clip from a work-out routine video. Visually the viewer is looking for the steps, proper positioning and procedure of movement and results (or commented results using the routine). Effective modes tend to have clean page layout, clear concise textual or aural descriptions of how to perform a particular exercise, and varying routines based on skill level of the viewer. Allison looks at a few text related to working out, the 300 routine, a text from Men's Magazine had the right content, yet the visual organization and spatial alignment was cluttered "with all the ads and distractions. . . making it confusing and hard to follow." Similar to the 300 text, the Interval Training Chart had similar visual and aesthetic issues.
The last two texts, Woman's Body Transformation, and Kermits Stretches had simple layouts and color schemes. The latter was a page with evenly spaced and aligned images of Kermit performing different stretches, which were titled at the top of each image. Clicking the images brought the viewer to a page with a description of how to do the stretch located under an enlarged version of the clicked image. Having a white background created a clean and soothing look to the page, and also provided contrast with the images of a green Kermit.
It seems that content is not an issue with any of the text analyzed, the determinant of an efficient text relied mainly on the visual format and organization of the page.
Favorite Web Page:
Sarah Johnston's web analysis page is amazing. Choice in color and graphic layout made the viewer (me) feel as if I were looking at an actual dove web page. Balance of text and imagery is used well, along with easy usability of the web page. the image strip link bar is visual appealing, at first I though it was just an image banner, but as a read the text,realized that each picture was a link to that text analysis. Navigation flow of the web page is smooth, I don't find myself loss or confused of where I'm at or where i'm going which is sometimes lacking in web pages. The border helps in focus the eyes to the content held within, which is aided by the contrasting white background. This was a well developed web page.
Camera shutter speeds is the focus on this multimodal analysis project. We look at various mediums: video, text, and imagery. Some the main criteria in having an effective text in teaching shutter speeds are clean and crisp presentation, fluid visual alignment, and informative text. For one text, poor layout and distracting images can cause the message to not broadcast properly to the viewer (Text 5). Alignment, framing, and text are, more, essential when looking at still image tutorials. Looking at Text 4, the viewer wouldn't be able to understand what they are looking at if the author didn't ad the shutter text at the bottom of the image. When looking at video, Text 1, having clear and informative narrative in correlation to the intended audience is crucial in having an effective text. Being an introduction to shutter speeds, the author, "goes into depth on not only how to properly use different shutter speeds, when photographing, but he also talks a great deal of exactly what is happening mechanically with the camera at different speeds (Text 1)."
In presenting an effective text to beginning photographers having a clear and organized visual space helps to retain the viewers focus if your planning on using text or still images. If using charts or pictures, alignment and spacing a crucial in conveying your information, and can be aided with easy to read text. When doing a video tutorial, speech clarity and occasional text captions help to reinforce the material. Having a clean and low noise visual space also helps in maintaining focus.
Web Page #2 (Katerina G.):
When we search for internet radio, we tend to gravitate towards those that are aesthetically pleasing, has easy to follow organization, and a user friendly interface, as well as quality music choices. Katerina touches on many of these attributes when looking at five varying internet radio sites. For the most part, each site template had similar qualities with one another. Color scheme between Pandora Radio and 8Tracks have the sleek white and blue, whereas Spotify and Grooveshark have a iTune-esque appearance. Having recognizable layouts allows users become quickly familiar with the program making music search and listening easy and enjoyable. Though what seems to be the one determinate in which internet radio source is used is the number of tracks that can be skipped which correlates to number of advertisements played after so many songs. This gives users many choices depending on whether they want to listen to more continuous music and have fewer song skips, or be able to have a larger amount of skips while having more frequent ad breaks. Currently it seems that the authors of this radio sites have keyed in on what the viewers are looking for in a radio site, and have created efficient yet personal sites for users to interchange with and have confidence in knowing what they are getting.
Web Page #3 (Allison H.):
Simple is better, less is more, when looking at instructional work-out modes, be it a magazine, online article, or clip from a work-out routine video. Visually the viewer is looking for the steps, proper positioning and procedure of movement and results (or commented results using the routine). Effective modes tend to have clean page layout, clear concise textual or aural descriptions of how to perform a particular exercise, and varying routines based on skill level of the viewer. Allison looks at a few text related to working out, the 300 routine, a text from Men's Magazine had the right content, yet the visual organization and spatial alignment was cluttered "with all the ads and distractions. . . making it confusing and hard to follow." Similar to the 300 text, the Interval Training Chart had similar visual and aesthetic issues.
The last two texts, Woman's Body Transformation, and Kermits Stretches had simple layouts and color schemes. The latter was a page with evenly spaced and aligned images of Kermit performing different stretches, which were titled at the top of each image. Clicking the images brought the viewer to a page with a description of how to do the stretch located under an enlarged version of the clicked image. Having a white background created a clean and soothing look to the page, and also provided contrast with the images of a green Kermit.
It seems that content is not an issue with any of the text analyzed, the determinant of an efficient text relied mainly on the visual format and organization of the page.
Favorite Web Page:
Sarah Johnston's web analysis page is amazing. Choice in color and graphic layout made the viewer (me) feel as if I were looking at an actual dove web page. Balance of text and imagery is used well, along with easy usability of the web page. the image strip link bar is visual appealing, at first I though it was just an image banner, but as a read the text,realized that each picture was a link to that text analysis. Navigation flow of the web page is smooth, I don't find myself loss or confused of where I'm at or where i'm going which is sometimes lacking in web pages. The border helps in focus the eyes to the content held within, which is aided by the contrasting white background. This was a well developed web page.
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