Welcome to part 2 of this project (you can check out part 1 here)! This is the part of the project where I attempted to lean how to take amazing photos that communicate different emotions. This was a very fun, interesting, and different way to answer our driving question of “Why is it important to use technology to further improve our ability to communicate and to think creatively?”
The first thing that we did in this project was a lot of work with getting used to some of the tools that we’ll be using. We also revisited some of the things from past projects, like the rule of thirds from our advertising project (you can check out the work that my group did here). We started taking photos and building on more skills like background/foreground and photo editing.
Another thing that we did, that was probably one of my favourite things, was manufacturing mood. This really got us working with more angles and got us using filters and editing to really start enhancing our photos. The mood that I had to capture in this image was joy. To do this I really tried to show the most joyful time of year using an extreme angle and making bright, happy colours pop.
The last, and best, thing that we did was making a gif. We learned how to use some simple apps that we have been using all year in a new way. We learned the transitions, animations, and editing needed to turn a bunch of pictures into a gif.
In part 2 of Constructing Creative Communication, Herzog, I really started to learn how to express myself in different ways. I started learning that the angle and the editing that you do with a photo can really make you feel different things when you see it. I think that I have started to learn how to do all this. So it’s time to answer the driving question of “Why is it important to use technology to further improve our ability to communicate and to think creatively?” To answer this you need to know that it is very possible to communicate without all of this fancy technology, but to really improve it you can use filters and other tools that you can only get to use with all this.